TCOOP 2014: Riverlan_88 runs through Main Event field, blaaesh banks top...
It seems like January was gone in a flash and so was the TCOOP, the veritable speed demon of PokerStars' tournament series. The third annual Turbo Championship of Online Poker boasted a $15 million...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1b: Celina poised to steal the spotlight
It's hard to not get excited when big names pros such as Esfandiari, Antonius, Seidel and Negreanu roll into town and plonk down 25 large to play a poker tournament. It's also easy to get caught up...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1b: Is Anita Le the next Aussie Millions champ?
Several months ago the Crown Poker Room held an audition. They wanted to find three people to be the faces of the 2014 Aussie Millions campaign. It was a big responsibility and Crown waded through over...
View ArticleIMS DURNK wins $231K in super 2/2/14 Sunday Million victory
This year's Super Bowl might have failed to live up to the expectations of all but the Seattle faithful, but the Sunday Million that ran simultaneously here at PokerStars was anything but a...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1b: Watch out for the Panda
The Crown Poker Room is certainly a hive of activity this evening with three side events, the Main Event, the promotional sit and go, and an enormous Phase 3 satellite filling every table in the poker...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1b: Mercier up for the challenge
It's certainly a long way from the United States to Australia. It's a good 14 hours to the West Coast and even further if you're out East. Flying all that way, landing in a completely different time...
View ArticlePokerStars reveals EPT Monaco schedule
Monaco may be the lap of luxury where the hyper-rich go to play, but the European Poker Tour is ready to roll out a red carpet for you. Today, The PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1b: Schneider and the shenanigans
If you thought the first eleven days of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship were big, then I'm here to tell you they were dwarfed by comparison to the Day 12 schedule that greeted us today. We just...
View ArticleHey UK! Turn on your TV and watch some EPT
You probably know a little something about the European Poker Tour (EPT). You may have followed our updates, reports and interviews; you may have watched the award winning live stream; you may have...
View ArticleTCOOP crowns Main event champ, Triple COOPers, Player of the Series
When it began, the 2014 Turbo Championship of Online Poker promised its players it would give away at least $15 million in prize money. By the time it was done and dusted, TCOOP paid out $23,322,941....
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1C: Beginning of a new era
Compared to yesterday there is a completely different energy in the Crown Poker Room. It's not that yesterday's Day 1b of the 2014 Aussie Millions Main Event wasn't exciting. It was, but there were...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1C: Frequent Flyer Miles
Frequent Flyer Miles. Millions of them. Maybe billions. I would venture a guess that there could be more international players in the Day 1c field than combined internationals from Day 1a and 1b....
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1C: The pressure of poker
What would you think is a higher pressure situation? Your standard run-of-the-mill day at the poker table or a long 12-hour day as a disability nurse? I daresay every player reading this would say...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1C: Spotlight on Rossiter
In the last few years poker hasn't received too much mainstream media attention in Australia. The one yearly exception is this very tournament. The face of the Aussie Millions Main Event champion is...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1C: Red Spades Down Under
"The security said you can't stand there," quipped Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu to his table as he casually flicked out a raise to 1,175 from the hijack. "So I moved, but was still standing...
View ArticleGet your hand analysed by Tyler "frosty012" Frost!
Playing ring game tables can be a scary place for a beginner starting out on their poker journey, but as you clock up table hours and experience these tables can become the most lucrative for a...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1C: Rowe on top of Stars
The beginning of a new era. That's what Day 1C of the Aussie Millions Main Event was. There were approximately 328 entrants and added with the 329 from the first two Day 1 flights, a total field of 657...
View ArticleElena's PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
At the beginning of 2014, I have to admit I was feeling kind of pessimistic about poker. The online options here in the US have been steadily deteriorating, and playing in casinos takes more effort and...
View ArticleA break for baby Cody
So far this year, I've already been to the PCA and EPT Deauville. The PCA is kind of a special place for me as it was one year ago that PokerStars announced there in the Bahamas that I was a new Team...
View ArticlePokerStars named 2014 "Online Poker Operator of the Year" at International...
PokerStars received the 'Online Poker Operator of the Year' award for the second consecutive year at the prestigious International Gaming Awards held in London. "Run it twice! We're proud to take down...
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