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Eureka3 Croatia: Day 2 is moving day
Hello and welcome to Day 2 of Eureka3 Croatia, 103 players from the 283 who started have made it this far and all of them will be hoping to still be around when Day 3 shuffle ups and deals 24 hours...
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Eureka3 Croatia: Last shorter and last longers
Poker tournaments come in all shapes and sizes but if there's one thing you can guarantee about them all it's this. At the start of Day 2 there will be carnage. No matter how many levels you play on...
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Eureka3 Croatia: Stacks and exits as bubble approaches
The bubble is in sight here in Croatia as just 59 players remain, 40 of whom will get paid. So all in all that means at least two-thirds of the players who remain will make the money. The actual bubble...
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Eureka3 Croatia: The €64,000 question, who will win?
Hot off the press is the prize pool structure for the main event here in Croatia. A total of 283 players entered the main event of Eureka3 Crotia creating a prize pool of €274,510. The winner, as you...
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Eureka3 Croatia: Day 2, level 14-18 updates (blinds 4,000 - 8,000 ante 1,000)
11.35pm: Day 2 is done And that's the end of Day 2 of the Eureka3 Croatia main event. We're down to the final dozen and a full wrap on how we went from 103 players to just 12 is on the way. Play...
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Not all poker players have beards and smell bad
The image that people have of the average poker player is far from the reality. I did a little test. I walked around asking people how they think the average poker player looks. I received the funniest...
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SCOOP 2013: Richest online series ends with a bang
This year's Spring Championship of Online Poker saw Team Pro Daniel Negreanu win his first ever online title. It saw Team Pro George Danzer win two events and put forth a Herculean effort to win the...
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Taking initiative
It's not too often that I get to play a poker tournament in my home country, so I was super excited to make the short drive to Middelkerke for the Belgian Poker Series. I bought in to a few events and...
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I skipped SCOOP (and that's okay)
My last days in Monte Carlo were mostly spent fielding the question "Where are you playing SCOOP?" The question is never "Are you playing SCOOP?" or "Do you think you'll play SCOOP this year?" or "Do...
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VIP Club Live making four stops in 2013
How does an open bar, non-stop food, games, prizes, and entertainment while rubbing shoulders with Team PokerStars members and fellow grinders sound? That's what the PokerStars VIP Club is proposing...
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Eureka3 Croatia: Greek chipping magnet leads final dozen in Dubrovnik
Just 12 players remain in the hunt for the Eureka3 Croatia title, the €64,000 frist prize, the trophy and the right to call themselves a champion. Leading the final dozen when play resumes tomorrow...
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Straight to first for stato_1, 5/28/13 Super Tuesday champ
It has been a wild couple of weeks around here, with the 2013 Spring Championship of Online Poker setting records as the richest ever online poker tournament series. The Super Tuesday took a couple of...
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Eureka3 Croatia: Day 3, level 19-22 updates 10,000 - 20,000 ante 3,000
5.35pm: Break time The players are now on a 15 minute break, you'll find level 23 updates in a new post. 5.25pm: Double elimination! After the lull in play we were well and truly woken from our slumber...
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Wow! Could you EVER make this play?
We're used to seeing some extraordinary plays in our major series like SCOOP, but sometimes a player does something that takes our breath away. Step forward Sami 'Lrslzk' Kelopuro, who pulled off a...
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$130,000 Asia Millions crests 70 players
With one week remaining until the $130,000 GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions (GDAM) at PokerStars LIVE at the City of Dreams Casino in Macau, organizers have announced that they already have seventy...
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Eureka3 Croatia: Day 3, level 23-25 updates (20,000 - 40,000 ante 5,000)
10pm: Achilles Bozso wins Eureka3 Croatia (€59,100); Boris Kuzmanovic second (€48,200) There was simply no way back for Boris Kuzmanovic, something had to give and finally it did. He moved all-in for...
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Road to 100 Billion: Your map to $5 million in prize money
It's been a long road. It's taken eleven years to make the trip. We've stopped at waypoint after waypoint and milestone after milestone. Now, our destination on the PokerStars Road to 100 Billion is...
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Workouts, willpower, and the World Series of Poker
I've spent a lot of time in London lately. I was down there for the UKIPT and the EPT, but didn't end up doing well in either event. Well... there was the matter of the media tournament. It was a...
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