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PokerListings Recap of 2022

PokerListings Recap of 2022
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PokerListings Team Editorial Team
  • Fact Checked by: PokerListings
  • Last updated on: August 19, 2024 · 3 minutes to read

Hi everyone!

It’s been a whirlwind 2022 which has flown by – despite this, we have had so many exciting moments throughout the year.

As we look at the whole of 2022, PokerListings are proud to have passed on over $1 million in free value for our audience!

We gave away seats to huge poker tournaments, held our own poker tournaments too which exceed massive guarantees, held giveaways and raffles for poker merchandise and we massively appreciate the subscriptions we were able to give to our audience from our poker school and coaching partners.

We have held two widely successful poker tournaments in the form of the Festival Series events, which had over €800,000 in guarantees, and an online Festival Series which had guarantees of over $750,000.

We loved every second of the live Festival Series events we held this year in Tallinn and Bratislava, and could not have been more ecstatic with the turnout of the poker players for these events.

Whether it was the 552 entries for the Tallinn main event, which was won by Eirik Kristiansen for €56,100, or the Bratislava main event which had a huge 1,271 entries and was scooped by Michel Molenaar for €126,650, we cannot thank you enough for this support.

We created The Festival Series with the mind of giving something back to the fun poker player – the person who gets bored with the high buy-in and low social atmospheres of a lot of live tournament series in Europe. For €550 you can play in a massive tournament and take part in fun side events, whether your itch is scratched by Open-Face Chinese poker or a bit of Pot-Limit Omaha.

We are equally excited for the 2023 Festival Series to stop in Rob Yong’s Dusk Till Dawn venue in Nottingham, UK. The poker room is often dubbed ‘the home of UK poker’ and for good reason – the venue has hosted some of the biggest tournament series in Europe, and will add to the list with The Festival. We hope to see many of you there this February.

The year 2022 was a brilliant year for collaboration, as we paired up with some of the biggest and most exciting names in poker.

We joined forces with Swedish poker pro and former WSOP Main Event Champion Martin Jacobson, which is going to see PokerListings pairing with his top-level poker mind to create more educational and strategy-based poker content for those of you looking to step up your game.

PokerListings Head of Poker, Mauritz Altikardes, called Jacobson the “perfect match” as he commented on the collaboration, saying: “Martin’s achievements, years of experience, and understanding of the poker landscape will provide a unique perspective to our audience, and I am thrilled for this partnership.”

As well as pairing with an exceptional poker player, we have also partnered with one of the most well-known poker brands in the WPT Global. The collaboration is focusing on their new real money poker platform, WPT Global, which was launched earlier in 2022.

The exclusive partnership with this new player in the online poker provider industry only adds to our buzz for 2023 – we can see so many exciting opportunities that can come from this and hope that as WPT Global expands its jurisdictions, more and more poker players can enjoy what they have to offer.

Ultimately, none of these incredible developments would have been possible without your support throughout 2022 and beyond – we are privileged to create poker content for you and continue to strive to make the best poker news and strategy content that we possibly can.

We are looking to push on with our poker offering, with 3-4 live poker series, 2 online poker series, and multiple ranking and leaderboard poker series with boosted guarantees and value for all players.

We are going to be making wide pushes on our poker content too, writing more that focuses on the poker industry in both land-based and online poker developments, where we pay more attention to those people who continue to help the poker vertical grow.

We hope you have a prosperous 2023 and run well at the green felt no matter where you are in the world,

The PokerListings Team

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