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WCOOP 2012: Vlad_Radimov the victor in Event #53 PLO Hi/Lo
Sometimes it's your day and everything at the virtual table goes your way. It appeared as though the sun was shining extra brightly upon Team PokerStars Pro Ana Marquez. She got off to a sizzling...
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Vivian Im leads the ladies in Macau
Ladies events can be a controversial topic in the poker community. Some established female players avoid playing them altogether, while others see great value in competing in a field where they believe...
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WCOOP 2012: McDonald, Middleton and Dietrich chasing gold in WCOOP-52
Mike 'Timex' McDonald, Tom 'hitthehole' Middleton and Mike 'pipedream17' Dietrich are among the final 16 players battling for a bracelet and $69,248 in WCOOP-52 ($215 NL Hold'em, Big Antes). Finnish...
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Going mobile with talonchick
Written by Rebekah Mercer As you may have heard, Team Online's Adrienne Rowsome is playing a lot of tournaments during the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), and she's taken up the PokerStars...
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WCOOP 2012: nanonoko and Talonchick working out their plays
Two members of Team PokerStars Online have posted in their WCOOP videos to us today. Randy 'nanonoko' Lew last night went deep in WCOOP-52 ($215 NL Hold'em Big Antes) and recorded a video talking...
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WCOOP 2012: Joy for jobetzu with Event 52 win ($215 NLHE Big Antes)
It's rare that a player has a lead going into the second day of play and actually wins, but jobetzu beat the odds and did just that. The Finn headed to the final table behind Timex, but a steady stream...
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WCOOP 2012: Ned_bg wins big in Event 54 ($320 NLHE)
Ned_bg was not the chip leader going into the final table, but close. Every time a player would take over first place, Ned_bg wasn't far behind. It wasn't until the table thinned to the last few...
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WCOOP 2012: youaremelon, you are the champion of Event #55 ($530+R NLHE)
At 11:00 ET this morning, several hundred players were dealt in to the first hand of Event #55. They'd all put in $530 for the privilege, but several of them were about to put in a lot more since the...
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WCOOP 2012: Darreta knows better in Event #56 ($2,100 PLO 6-Max)
Pot Limit Omaha is often looked upon as an action game. It's a game of aggression, equity and pushing thin edges. For most of us at the low limits, that usually means finding a big combo hand full of...
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LAPT Panama: Sam Razavi looking for PokerStars hat trick
Many people have spoken of poker's Triple Crown, the achievement of one player winning WSOP, EPT, and WPT events during their career. Fewer people have spoken of something tourney grinder Sam Razavi is...
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LAPT Panama: Leo Fernandez and his green arm
Leo Fernandez's arm is sticking out like a sore thumb. A green sore thumb at that. For the past three days, the Team PokerStars Pro has shown up to play with a green band around his bicep. Speculation...
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LAPT Panama: Patrick Mahoney, Leo Fernandez lead final table
Patrick Mahoney is not a vacuum salesman. We know this because moments ago when filling out a bio questionnaire, Mahoney wrote "vacuum salesman" down as his profession. And then he scratched it out. In...
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LAPT Panama: Six on two as final table begins
American Patrick Mahoney and Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez hold half the chips in the play as Latin American Poker Tour's first event gets underway. Consider that for one moment. There are eight...
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Venezuela wins Americas Cup of Poker
Venezuelan voters will soon decide who they want to lead their nation after one of the most hard-fought presidential elections in that country's recent history. Before that happens however, the entire...
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LAPT Panama: Diego Sanchez, Sam Razavi, Isaac Malca eliminated
Twenty-eight year-old Diego "diesanser" Sanchez has been playing poker professionally for the past five years before making his first LAPT main event final table. Though he had great success in the...
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LAPT Panama: Three more eliminated, heads-up play begins
In just a matter of an hour, three more players have been eliminated, setting up the least surprising heads-up match we could've predicted. Patrick Mahoney and Leo Fernandez began this final table with...
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Battle of the Planets: Path to victory shows 5pathic standing alone
By now you have heard the story of the mystery man who turned a handful of Frequent Player Points (FPPs) into a WCOOP Main Event victory. The $1,000,907.26 haul is perhaps the best ROI at $25,022.68...
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Coloccini20 crushes Women's Sunday for more than $2500
The month of September was a busy one, mainly due to three weeks of the most exciting online tournament series of the year. The 2012 WCOOP wrapped up last week, and the winners' stories emerging from...
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LAPT Panama: Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez wins inaugural Panamanian title
It had been two seasons of the Latin American Poker Tour since a Team PokerStars Pro won a title. That year, Argentinian Jose "Nacho" Barbero won two championships back-to-back. For two seasons, he...
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