Ted Wang wins Event 2 at Macau Poker Cup
Monday's action at the Macau Poker Cup (MPC) saw one event finish while another tournament got started at thePokerStars Macau tournament room. The challenging Event 2: $4,000 Mixed Max was won by...
View ArticleAndrea Montini bags PokerStars IPT title
PokerStars online qualifier Andrea Montini has won the Italian Poker Tour Season 4 event in Campione, pocketing CHF 200,000 (about $215,000) in the process. He beat a field of 385 players at the Casino...
View ArticlePCA 2013: Dreams come true, charity shines in Women's Event
This year's Women's Event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure was filled with fun players, interesting stories, and poker action at every turn. The tournament brought 66 players to the tables in the...
View ArticleMartin Liang wins Event 3 at Macau Poker Cup
Tuesday afternoon saw 22 players return for the Event 3: $2,000 Deepstack title at the Macau Poker Cup (MPC). The tournament, hosted by PokerStars Macau, originally began with 199 runners but played...
View ArticleRonny "1-ronnyr3" Kaiser is king of 1/15/13 Super Tuesday, earns $95K
This week's Super Tuesday saw the first 500-plus player field of 2013 with 502 coming out for the weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em tournament. That meant the $502,000 prize pool well exceeded the event's...
View ArticleTetsuya Tsuchikawa wins Event 4 in Macau
Late Tuesday night, Japan's Tetsuya Tsuchikawa won the HKD $3,000 NLH Turbo side event at the Macau Poker Cup (MPC) hosted by PokerStars Macau. He beat the 158-player field and collected HKD $101,400...
View ArticleEverything changes everything
Right before Christmas and almost six months after filming ended, the final episode of Benelux Survivor aired and I was at last able to reveal what I'd been holding back for so long... I won! I'm...
View ArticleTCOOP 2013: Players, start your engines
Don't blink. Use toothpicks to keep your eyes open if you must. But just don't blink. The PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker begins tomorrow, and the action moves so fast, you might miss it...
View ArticleAndre Coimbra sets out on $100 to $100,000 challenge
A lot of poker players might well think Andre Coimbra is crazy. The 2009 Magic: The Gathering world champion became a member of PokerStars' Team Online a couple of years ago and has since shown himself...
View ArticleMPC Red Dragon Day 1a: Levels 1-4 (Blinds 100-200, Ante 25)
10.55pm: Level Up, Blinds 150-300, Ante 25 10.45pm: Who's Flying and Who's Dying It's still early days here on Day 1a of the MPC: Red Dragon Main Event, but some of the players who have seen their...
View ArticleMPC Red Dragon Day 1a: Level 5-8 (Blinds 300-600, Ante 75)
1.35am: Marvanek is the Man... To Catch Someone had to get there eventually and we can report that Michael Marvanek is the first player to reach the illustrious six-figure chip stack. The hand that saw...
View ArticlePokerStars Women: TCOOP advice from the pros
Today is the first day of the second running of the Turbo Championship of Online Poker. The next 10 days offer 50 tournaments and a cumulative guarantee of $15 million. TCOOP is appealing to a crowd...
View ArticlePreparing for a road trip
Whether you play poker for a living or just travel to play tournaments for the enjoyment of it, I assume your goal before getting on that airplane is to win the tournament. The question I have for you,...
View ArticleUKIPT Edinburgh: Day 1A, level 5 - 8 updates (blinds, 300-600, ante 75)
9.05pm: Done for the day Play has ended for the day, a wrap of the day's play is on the way. Day 1B starts at noon tomorrow. -- NW 8.50pm: Last three hands The tournament clock has been paused and each...
View ArticlePCA 2013 in review: Selbst tops off a fantastic PCA as six bank more than a...
There aren't many festivals about where you can find six players banking more than a million dollars each. The PokerStars Caribbean is one of them. Scott Seiver and David 'Doc' Sands kicked off the...
View ArticleKroko-dill up for PokerStars Grand Slam, nearly 30 set for Triple COOP
As the Turbo Championship of Online Poker kicked off this afternoon, we started looking at some numbers, and we realized something. In the history of the World Championship of Online Poker, Spring...
View ArticleMPC Red Dragon Day 1a: Level 9-11 (Blinds 800-1,600, Ante 200)
4.05am: Day 1a Concludes with Approximately 75 Remaining The final hands have been dealt and the surviving players have bagged up their chips. At this point it is looking highly likely that Vyacheslav...
View ArticleGerald Foo wins Event 5 at Macau Poker Cup
For most of the players at the PokerStars Macau tournament room, Thursday was all about Day 1A of the Red Dragon -- the Macau Poker Cup (MPC) main event. However, for 20 others it represented the Day 2...
View ArticleKuzmin Cruises to Lead on Day 1a of the MPC Red Dragon
At 5:00 a.m. most people in the world are just a short while away from waking up and starting their day. Not in Macau and certainly not poker players. It's a city that never sleeps, where the lights...
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