Sunday Warm-Up: _slowb0y_1 catches on quickly for $87K win
"bought in with FPPs today (not bad roi)" stated Cod Meharly right after the three-way chop talks gave our final three players over $70K a piece and yet another story of those little Frequent Players...
View ArticleTeamWispy defeats parrish09 to win Sunday Million and $201,962
Did you miss us? The Sunday Million was on hiatus for the majority of the month due to the World Championship of Online Poker. The 2012 series set records, awarded more than $55 million in 65 events,...
View ArticlePokerStars weekend review (10-1-12)
Poker is a game of improbable comebacks and incredible capitulations, so to most online poker players the resurrection of Europe in the Ryder Cup after a languid 10-6 Day 2 display to win 14.5-13.5 at...
View ArticlePCA 2013: Join the 10th anniversary party, qualify for $10
This January we'll be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) with the best 10 days of poker you'll find anywhere on the planet, sunken mythological city or not....
View ArticlePS Women in September: Women Star in WCOOP and Macau Poker Cup
Women play a starring role at the poker tables. Whether they are capturing mainstream attention at a live final table like Ana Marquez at WSOPE or enjoying online action in WCOOP without revealing...
View ArticleEPT9 Sanremo: Lauri Varonen leads the €990 PLO side event, bubble near
Every stop on the European Poker Tour is now a full blown poker festival of multiple events (we're talking 20+) with buy-ins ranging from €220 satellites and €330 turbos all the way up to the main...
View ArticleEPT9 Sanremo: Rock-stars Raskin, Raskin and Raskin come to Sanremo
What with the dazzling lights, scores of groupies and enormous sums of money, poker has a good claim to the title as the new rock 'n' roll. But as far as Micah Raskin is concerned, there's no need for...
View ArticleRandy Lew (not a robot) to defend championship in Macau
Randy Lew is about ready to celebrate his first anniversary with the companion he loves the most. They've spent the past eleven months together. It's a relationship like you've never seen. Randy Lew...
View ArticleEPT9 Sanremo: The unfinished story of Mr Bojang
In the middle of the pack right now is Ismael Bojang. It's a name that should be easy to remember, and yet not much is known about the German who is notching up his second cash of the EPT season....
View ArticleThe Game of the Moment: Open-Face Chinese Poker
They may be in Sanremo, Italy, for the PokerStars European Poker Tour, but quite a few players are occupying their time away from the felt with another card game. Earlier this week, Daniel Negreanu,...
View ArticleEPT9 Sanremo: Ludovic Lacay shares his thoughts with Lynn Gilmartin
Ludovic Lacay has been spending his mornings this week playing tennis and his afternoons and evenings at the poker table, steadily moving up to within the top three in chips in the main event. At the...
View ArticleEPT9 Sanremo: Balazs Botond barges to €10,500 win in 'Antes only' event
Balazs Botond is finding Italian tournaments to be happy hunting grounds. Following up from his fourth-place finish at EPT Campione for €157,000 in Season 8, Botond last night took down the €330 'Antes...
View ArticleEPT9 Sanremo: Behind the scenes at Pagano events
The European Poker Tour event in Sanremo is one of a number major poker festivals in Italy organised by Pagano Events, the family business of the Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano. Luca and his father...
View ArticleEPT9 Sanremo: High rolling to the final table
The contrast between the main event and the high roller is pretty stark. While the main event rumbles on in the theatre, with beams of bright light illuminating the central stage and the final table,...
View ArticleEPT9 Sanremo: Jason Lavallee leads Ludovic Lacay into final table
EPT9 Sanremo has reached its final table, the eight players who will return tomorrow to decide the winner of the €800,000 first prize. The tone for the day was set early, when the life-force of Inge...
View ArticleACOP Ready to Launch
Nearly a year has passed since the PokerStars Macau announcement of the 2012 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) and the official Macau leg for APPT Season 6 is now only 2 weeks away from its October 26...
View ArticleEPT9 Sanremo: Final table player profiles
EPT9 Sanremo is at its final table, the final eight from a starting field of 797. The winner will receive €800,000, plus an exclusive Slyde watch, and become the second champion of EPT season nine. The...
View ArticleEPT9 Sanremo: Lavallee leads main event into final day
And so to the final table. After five days of play just eight of the original 797 players remain to contest the final of EPT Sanremo. At stake is a first prize of €800,000. Yesterday we saw the...
View ArticleEPT9 Sanremo: Introduction to the final table with Lynn Gilmartin
If you had seen Rick Dacey at about 3am this morning/last night, you would have had no idea that he would be capable of getting up this morning and providing an introduction to the final table video,...
View ArticleEPT9 Sanremo: Seven return in the high roller
When play stopped last night in the high roller just seven of the field of 84 (including reloads) remained. And leading them was Sweden's Joel Nordkvist. He stands to double his career earnings if he...
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