The World Series of Poker are rolling out a series of online qualifiers for the Colossus II for customers based in either New Jersey or Nevada, and the WSOP World Champion Joe McKeehen gets some poker media beef off his chest.

PokerStars plant their Red Spade flag into New Jersey cyber soil, and two weeks later they are the market leader. I mean, what did everyone expect? They are the largest online poker room in the world after all, and they have everything at their disposal. Well, nearly everything.

Online poker players resting their weary wrists in either New Jersey or Nevada will soon be able to qualify for the 2016 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Colossus II – something that you can’t do on PokerStars.

In 2015, the $565 buy-in Colossus shattered the world record for live tournament attendance when more than 22,374 entrants created a prize pool of more than $11m. This year the WSOP intends to raise that bar to pole vault like proportions guaranteeing the $7 million in prize money and over a million bucks for the winner. Last year, Cord Garcia walked away with $638,880.