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UKIPT4 Edinburgh: Level 24-29 updates (50,000/100,000, 10,000 ante)

6.25pm: Liv Boeree eliminated in 2nd place (£59,180); Dean Hutchison crowned UKIPT Edinburgh champion (£93,900) The dream of a second major PokerStars title is over for Liv Boeree after all her chips...

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PokerStars Weekend Review (20 January 2014): Liv Boeree final tables, Ike...

There's been heaps of big money action live and online this weekend, but let's cut to the chase. Team PokerStars Pro and fan favourite Liv Boeree carries the second largest stack into the final table...

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The Arctic 30

On 18 September, a group of twenty-eight activists and two journalists traveled by inflatable boat from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise to Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya oil drilling platform. In a...

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PCA 2014: Cast of Hundreds

It happens all the time during the PCA. Somebody comes up to me, shakes my hand, and says, "This is amazing, Lee - I've had a great time; thanks for all the hard work you do." Needless to say, it's...

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The Bonus Cut: The EPT jinx lives on

Mike "Timex" McDonald was so close. Just one player stood between him and breaking a tournament hoodoo that has lasted almost 100 events. Since the European Poker Tour launched in September 2004, there...

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MPC20: Teng leads as Fan looking to make history

Five days and 986 eliminations later and we have reached the final table of the MPC20 Red Dragon Main Event! That's right, what started as 995 is now down to just nine players and boy is there a big...

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MPC20: Final Table Player Profiles

Seat 1: Buyanjargal Bold, 32 - Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - 2,700,000 in chips Mongolia's Buyanjargal Bold lists his occupation as "private business", but there was nothing private about his business at the...

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UKIPT 4 Edinburgh: Dean Hutchison denies Liv Boeree second major title; wins...

When Max Silver demolished the UKIPT Dublin final table in just four hours it was a record that we didn't think we'd see broken. But today Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boere was just one card away from...

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MPC20: Final Table Live Updates

11:25pm: Percy Yung Eliminated in 2nd Place (HK$1,159,000), Buyanjargal Bold wins! The record-breaking MPC20 Red Dragon Main Event is all over! The final hand of the tournament saw the short-stacked...

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My goals for 2014

I'm not necessarily one for New Year's "resolutions." People tend to make grand declarations with good intentions and then fall off the wagon by February 1, and I want to avoid that trap. Setting...

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Putting in your 22 cents worth for TCOOP

What can you get for 22 cents and two hours of your time these days? You could play really tight in a penny-ante game, and paying only the blinds, you might make it for two hours. You would have to get...

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MPC20: Bold victory for Mongolia

Mongolia. Poker. The two words aren't exactly synonymous with each other. In fact, we are quite certain there have never been any major tournament victories by a player from Mongolia. At least not that...

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PCA 2014 in review: Panka and Schindler freeze out McDonald and Selbst, Quoss...

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure proved to be another huge success in 2014, despite the best attempts of a freak weather system that hit the United States grounding flights in the lead up to the Main...

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Party hard with PokerStars! VIP Club Live 2014 dates announced

Come and take part in the amazing PokerStars VIP Club Live experience this year. We've been given the times and places for the hottest party destinations of 2014 that you can buy with FPPs. The...

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Lots of dollars for PureCash25, 1/21/14 Super Tuesday champ

The third Super Tuesday of 2014 was the first one to attract more than 600 players, a feat that was accomplished 11 times last year. There were 602 runners tonight, making a $602,000 prize pool that...

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The second-best thing in life

People know I'm not much of a whiner when I get knocked out of a tournament or take a bad beat in a given hand. I've always joked about how the last time I ever complained about losing was when I was...

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My PCA Main Event: Count his stack first

There were just a handful of tables left in the $10K PCA Main Event, the highest buy-in tournament I'd ever played. "Why don't we both look away and figure out who wins by the table's reaction?"...

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Rafa advances to Australian Open semi-finals

The world's No. 1 tennis player had to play four sets and win two tie-breakers to do it, but now Rafa Nadal is on his way to the Australian Open semi-finals. Today, Nadal beat Grigor Dimitrov 3-6,...

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Ready, set...TCOOP 2014 starts tomorrow!

Don't close your eyes. Don't blink. In fact, you may just want to stay awake for a while so you don't miss anything. Why? Because these tournaments are going to go by pretty quickly. The 2014 Turbo...

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Ready, set...TCOOP 2014 starts tomorrow!

Don't close your eyes. Don't blink. In fact, you may just want to stay awake for a while so you don't miss anything. Why? Because these tournaments are going to go by pretty quickly. The 2014 Turbo...

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