Commerce Casino in California is the new sponsor for the Card Player Player of the Year, and the early leader in the 2017 race is Bryn Kenney. The Global Poker League, New York Rounders manager, won the $50,000 Single Day High Roller at the PokerStars Championship in the Bahamas.

Card Player has a new sponsor for their annual Player of the Year (POY) race. The Commerce Hotel & Casino in California will slap their bourgeois brand on the tin for the 2017 campaign.

Boasting 160 tables, Commerce Casino is the largest poker room in the world (The Rio smashes it once a year), and news of the hook up comes in the build up to one of their busiest times of the live tournament calendar.

Commerce will host the LA Poker Classic beginning January 13th with a $175 buy-in LAPC Kickoff No Limit-Hold’em Double Stack event. The opening event has a $100,000 guarantee, and the action takes place over two days. The festival runs until March 2.