PokerStars Strategy: Negreanu, Nanonoko, Veldhuis, Hellmuth and Laak open up
Have you ever watched one of those big televised hands and wondered what was going through the player's head? We had, so on The Big Game we made sure to ask. It's all well and good watching Phil Laak...
View ArticlePokerStars Macau announces Macau Poker Cup: Red Dragon for 2013
PokerStars Macau today announced that the 17th installment of the popular Macau Poker Cup (MPC) -- Red Dragon series will take place at the Grand Waldo Entertainment Complex January 11 to 20. The MPC...
View ArticlePokerStars hosts Jonathan Ross charity tournament
Bed-ridden and feeling pretty sorry for himself, Jonathan Ross needed cheering up. The chat show host, one of the biggest names on British television, turned to his millions of Twitter follows and...
View ArticleEureka Prague: Day 2, Level 15-18 updates (blinds 3,000-6,000 ante 500)
9.10pm: Day two is done A frantic Day 2 has seen the field reduced to just 36 over eight levels of play. It really is too close to call right now with chip leader Daniel Havlik ahead by less than one...
View ArticlePCA 2013: Liv Boeree's lies
My boss just went to the PokerStars staff Christmas party. This would be a very good time for me to sneak out for an early pint. I could always tell him my internet went down or that a marmot committed...
View ArticleEureka2 Prague: Havlik has slender lead with 36 left in main event
If the first two days of play at Eureka Prague was about watching the number of entrants rise (to a record breaking 652 no less) then today was about seeing how far that number would fall. We knew it...
View ArticleEureka Prague: Day 2, Level 19-22 updates (blinds 8,000-16,000 ante 2,000)
4.30pm:Robert Vukovic doubles through Petr Targa On the last hand before the break a big hand played out between Robert Vukovic and Petr Targa. There was a raise under-the-gun, Targa three-bet to...
View ArticleHomebrew heaven
Over the last month I've been playing the high-stakes mixed games on PokerStars. After many months of not finding anyone playing above $50/$100 in the 2-7 section, the action came back all of a sudden....
View ArticleJonathan Ross' PokerStars Charity Special - live blog
6pm: Thanks all round from Jonathan Ross Jonathan Ross wrapped things up by presenting Team PokerStars Pro Vicky Coren with her trophy. "It's been a fun evening and it was close. It looked like Adam...
View ArticleEureka Prague: Day 3, Level 23 updates (blinds 10,000-20,000 ante 2,000)
6pm: Greg Livshits eliminated in ninth place (€9,500) On just the second hand of nine handed play Greg Livshits was eliminated and the final table is now set. He moved all-in from the cut-off for...
View ArticleEureka2 Prague: Vogelhuber leads final table of Eureka Prague
The final table of the record breaking Eureka Prague main event is set. In what was a lightning quick day the field of 36 was reduced to the final eight in fewer than five levels. That's not to say the...
View ArticleLights, camera, poker
Between live tournaments, doing commentary for German TV, and coaching players, it's been a crazy year. But the highlight for me was becoming a father for the second time. My older daughter is 22...
View ArticleEureka Prague: Day 4, Level 27-28 updates (blinds 30,000-60,000 ante 5,000)
6.50pm: Menikos Panagiotou wins Eureka Prague (€137,100); Robert Vukovic second (€75,000) Robert Vukovic was always going to have to take a bit of a flyer to get back into this heads-up battle and...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: Micro-Millionaire Marcin Horecki checks in
Team PokerStars Pro Marcin Horecki knows how to grind. He can grind big tournaments, as shown by 3rd-place finishes at EPTs London and Prague, and he can grind small. Horecki has twice won the...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: William Davis, loose cannon blasts into Prague
As a poker fan, you have probably seen at least a couple of episodes The Big Game, arguably the best televised poker show of recent years. And if you've seen The Big Game, there's a good chance you'll...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: Get yourself fighting fit!
Get up, soldier! Pull that duvet down and get your sports socks on, there's a cardio kickboxing session to go to tomorrow morning. EPT Concierge is laying on a free hour-long training session at 10am...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: Perfect conditions for a week indoors
It's now snowing in Prague, which is hardly surprising given that it's minus two degrees outside. It's enough to make your face go numb, which is tricky when it comes to things like shaving after a...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: Rumen Nanev wins the Eureka PLO Championship
PLO specialist Rumen Nanev has won the €600 Eureka PLO Championship beating Ben Martin heads-up for the title and €15,000. This isn't the first PokerStars trophy that Nanev has picked up and you only...
View ArticleEureka2 Prague: Panagiotou wins Eureka Prague and €137,100
The champion of Eureka Prague, the biggest ever Eureka poker tour event, is Menikos Panagiotou. The 29-year-old Cypriot had already outlasted 644 players to reach the final eight and he absolutely ran...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: Poker's Eureka moment
If you had been sitting in Prague's Jama Bar and Grill last night, just off Petrska on the edge of the Old Town, you would have seen six poker reporters fresh off the plane. They were quaffing ale and...
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