Matt Waldron

Matt Waldron

iGaming.org Poker Specialist
Matt Waldron is an international journalist, writer, home brewer, poker player, and (when he’s not busy with all that) a professional in the product and brand development world.  “Waldo” has covered the WPT, WSOP, EPT/NAPT and online poker since 2006 in some form or another and well – he hasn’t gotten tired of it yet. 

EXPERTISE

  • Poker
  • Online Poker
  • Live Reporting

Matt's latest articles


PokerStars Doubles their Guarantee for the 800 Million Celebration

Sunday Majors Continue Their Upward Trend, PokerStars Doubles their Guarantee for the 800 Million Celebration, “tupac_sje” Takes It Outright A special tournament unseated the Sunday Million this week for the top spot on the Funday Majors  One of the largest non-series Main Event prize pools in recent history, the PokerStars 800..
12 years ago

Elite Eight Sees New Names, Isildur1 Levels Out, Big Names Lose Big

One of the nicest things about high stakes online poker is that it is always being played at its highest level as long as a game is being spread  There is no pre-season or international friendlies, no early season mistakes getting to mid-season form, no bye weeks, no playoffs to see who’ll play the “big game”  Nope,..
12 years ago

This Week in High Stakes Online Poker (10/3 – 10/9)

Got a lot of great feedback on the Elite 8 format and quick briefs, so let’s get you to more of what you love:  #1 – Isildur1 – Viktor Blom had a “Swedish swing” that shot him up over last weeks (and month’s) crippling losses a week with total of  a $15 million dollar positive upswing in the last 10..
13 years ago

“Pokerl)eviL” gets a second chance, “Berkyy” double taps it, “Runninggreat” breaks through in the Million

Welcome back to your Poker Sunday Funday Report here on iGamingorg  This week shows us a WSOP bracelet winner cashing in for Sunday’s biggest MTT prize, a WCOOP Main Event final tabelist still running good and one virtual grinder going back for seconds at final tables while so many others go hungry  Here’s the break down of..
13 years ago

This Week in High Stakes Online Poker: Ivey Crushing

Welcome to iGamingorg’s new weekly roundup of Online Poker’s biggest high stakes winners  Here, I will be recapping some of the biggest action of the week either as part of, or in supplement to, a list of the “Elite Eight” grinders of the week  We’ll be taking the week from Wednesday to Wednesday in order to..
13 years ago

WCOOP Main Event: PlayinWasted Wins $1.49 Million!

The multi-day battle for online poker's biggest prize kicked off with 2,133 runners blasting past the $8,000,000 guarantee to put $10,665,000 in the prize for the $5,200 buy-in World Championship Event Online Poker's big show netted over $62,362,757 in prize money for the series (which also smashed the $42,000,000 series guarantee) Day one..
13 years ago

Sunday Funday – WCOOP Ends and Other Major Results

It was a busy day last Sunday in the digital card rooms as the WCOOP wrapped up its final tournaments and kicked off the main event Quite possibly because of the "can't miss" series championships, numbers were driven higher across the board in nearly all of the Sunday majors Here is your "Sunday Funday" recap of the big wins of the weekend $2,100..
13 years ago