EPT10 Prague: Ole Schemion pips Daniel Negreanu to GPI Player of the Year title
Ole "wizowizo" Schemion has snatched the Global Poker Index Player of the Year title away from Daniel Negreanu with a heroic last-gasp performance in the EPT Prague Main Event. The German wunderkind...
View ArticleEPT10 Prague High Roller: The hunt for a second final table of the day
It would be extraordinarily difficult for any tournament to have matched the Main Event today, at least in terms of all-out high-octane action. But the High Rollers are perfectly happy going about...
View ArticleBig payday for Chris "Big Huni" Hunichen, 12/17/13 Super Tuesday winner
This week's Super Tuesday, PokerStars' weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em tournament that routinely brings out online poker's best and brightest, saw another big field of 546 participate, thereby creating...
View ArticleEPT10 Prague: Back to the Future again as final table commences...soon
Screwing with the space-time continuum is always much more fun in films. Here in Prague, owing to the regular security delay on the cards-up broadcast of the final table, a quick trip down the stairs...
View ArticleEPT10 Prague: Eight to a winner
Eight players come back to the EPT Prague final table and one player will win €889,000. Not bad for a week's work. You can check out the full profiles for each player by clicking here. PokerStars.tv...
View ArticleEPT10 Prague: Caffeine and breakfast breaks with a long day ahead
There's an enormous feeling of anticipation today, reluctant perhaps, in anticipation of the marathon session expected and what could be the longest day in EPT history, following what was probably its...
View ArticlePokerStars LIVE Macau announces 2014 special events
Today, PokerStars LIVE Macau announced the special event dates for 2014 which qualify for next season's Asia Player of the Year (APOY) race. As previously announced, the new year will kick off with...
View ArticleWin a seat in the $5,000 PCA Last Longer freeroll
Would you like a seat in a $5,000 freeroll? Of course you do. All you need to do is to back one of the ten Team PokerStars Pros below and watch as your horse gallops ahead in the PCA 2014 Main Event....
View ArticleMy crazy image
I've been grinding a lot lately, pretty much staying in what I call "full on vampire mode" while working towards SuperNova Elite. I'm ahead of schedule for that now. I did get out of the house for a...
View ArticleEPT10 Prague: Fading into memory as the fat lady sings
In the world of Opera, Puccini's Madame Butterfly must count as having one of the more memorable "departures" from the stage. At the denouement "Butterfly" commits suicide as her lover Pinkerton...
View ArticleChristmas jumpers and PokerStars holiday fun
PokerStars has an eye for tradition, for noting and repeating activities people enjoy. There's the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure every January, hand milestones whenever a significant number shows up,...
View ArticleEPT10 Prague: What's the secret?
EPT10 Prague has been a monster, and its success raises a very important question: why? Although the EPT remains exceptionally healthy across the continent, it is rare to see such sustained growth. The...
View ArticleEPT10 Prague: The festival in pictures
There's been a whole lot of action here at the PokerStars Prague Festival. We take a look at it all through the lens of Neil Stoddart's camera and the number-crunching of EPT Media coordinator Mad...
View ArticleEPT10 Prague: Spaniards laughing about something. It's better than crying.
As mentioned on the EPT Live coverage, it's true--the rail is made up predominantly of Spaniards cheering on their man Ke Kwan Lau. But watching from the rail, I couldn't spot a single one of them...
View ArticleEPT10 Prague: Surviving an epic final table
They say that poker is a marathon, not a sprint. Well, that is the case unless you're playing heads-up hyper turbo sit-and-go's. Today's EPT Prague Main Event final table looked like it could be a long...
View ArticleEPT10 Prague: Ivan Soshnikov on the ultimate spin-up, parlaying side event...
The European Poker Tour has a new €10,000 High Roller champion, and in keeping with all the tournaments this week in Prague, he had to outlast a mighty field to wrap it up. Ivan Soshnikov is a new name...
View ArticleEPT10 Prague: "Sick" Julian Track wins Main Event in 14-hour thriller
There was a moment today, actual several moments spanning about nine hours, in which most here at EPT Prague believed that the final table would be a two-day affair, squeezed into the hours of one....
View ArticlePokerStars Women wants to grant holiday wishes
None of us at PokerStars Women pretends to be Santa... or even Mrs. Claus or Mrs. Kringle for that matter. However, we have some holiday spirit bottled up at the office (no, it's not liquor!), and we'd...
View ArticleWCOOP Challenge Series starts Friday with $10m guaranteed
What are your weekend plan? Perhaps some egg nog slurping, chestnut roasting, over-and-hills-and-through-the-woods sleigh riding? None of that? Well, perhaps we can be of assistance. How does $10...
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