PokerStars weekend review (04-08-2013)
Turning $100 into $20,000 over the course of three months is impressive (see Andre 'acoimbra' Coimbra's charity attempt of reaching $100,000 in a year) but $11 into $107,874.08 in one tournament?...
View ArticleESPT Valencia: Daniel Boender wins Estrellas Poker Tour Valencia and €104,550
Dutchman Daniel Boender beat a field of 483 players to win €104,550 beating Iberian hopes of a home win. Boender was the only player at the final table who wasn't Spanish or Portuguese while another...
View ArticleKicking back with my sick setup
With the #sickestsetup PokerStars promo arriving, I decided to show you what my setup looks like. Being an ultimate grinder, I find the setup and work organization very, very important. I cannot...
View ArticleBudapest: Europe's must-see destination
For the last 10 or 11 years I've lived in Budapest. It's probably my favorite place on Earth. Everyone talks about Paris and Rome and London. I've been to each several times. They're fabulous cities,...
View Article£275 UKIPT Series launches this Friday
The UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) has been a runaway success since it opened its doors for business back in December 2009. Three seasons and multiple record-breaking fields later the UKIPT is on...
View ArticleBehind the scenes with Rafa Nadal
You must have seen the new Rafa Nadal video by now.* The king of clay is in a bath getting aces cracked by a former semi-pro pillow fighter who's too wrapped up in beating the 11-time Grand Slam...
View ArticleLife for lulu.pk70 as a mother, partner, Serbian Supernova
She was born in the small town of Prokuplje and never played cards as a child. But in January of 2013, she traveled 49 hours to get from Serbia to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas to...
View ArticleAnother Super Tuesday win for mypokerf after four-way chop (4/9/13)
Another big group took to the virtual felt this week in the Super Tuesday, the weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em tournament at PokerStars. A total of 585 came out, building a $585,000 prize pool (nearly...
View ArticleLiv Boeree and Jake Cody confirmed for UKIPT Series
The inaugural UKIPT Series event starts this Friday and both Liv Boeree and Jake Cody have confirmed that they'll be playing the £275 tournament. We told you yesterday how great the event was and it...
View ArticleTable manners
Everyone who has played poker knows the feeling: the feeling when you want to jump over the table and knock the other guy's teeth in. I don't get that feeling often. Actually, I haven't got it in...
View ArticleKeys to a grind station
What goes into a sick online poker setup? Sure, the winner of Team PokerStars Online's Sickest Setup competition will probably have a super balla grind station, but does super balla work for everyone?...
View ArticleWatch the EPT Barcelona Super High Roller
If you had a spare €50,000 at EPT Barcelona you could have played the EPT Super High Roller and it could have been you calling the Chris Moorman five-bet shove with seven-high. But, alas, for the time...
View ArticleDon't miss APPT Cebu
Over my seven year poker career, I've had the privilege of visiting some unique destinations. Cebu is one of my favorite places with a picturesque tropical area towards the south of the Philippines....
View ArticleEnvy: your biggest limitation or your biggest drive
Over the years I have turned my passion into a job. I've gotten results and satisfaction. I have a major sponsor. I have created a successful business. Inevitably, this has put me in a position to...
View ArticleEPT9 Berlin: Lundmark and O'Dwyer chasing bountiful Bendik for EPT Player of...
There are just two EPT stops left in which to score Player of the Year points and Barcelona champion Kent Lundmark and back-to-back London final tablist Steve O'Dwyer are going to have to be firing on...
View ArticleUKIPT Series 1, London: Day 1A, Level 1-6 updates (Blinds 200-400 ante 50)
5.45pm: Halfway there That's six of the 12 levels done and dusted. You'll find the second half of today's entertainment in a new post. 5.35pm: Someone's going to hit a set So said Robert Panayi as the...
View ArticlePS Women Live wants to send ladies to Monte Carlo
I'd like to see a show of hands. Who would like to receive a €2,300 prize package to go to the EPT Monte Carlo and play in the Women's Event? Maybe the better question is this... Does anyone NOT want...
View ArticleStars shining over WSOP APAC
Last week, the first ever World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific kicked off at Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. Plenty of Team PokerStars Pros flocked down under to battle it out for one of the five...
View ArticleOlympic swimming
These days it seems like everybody is trying to get in shape in some way. People are exercising. People are changing their diets. More people are beginning to understand that even though poker is a...
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