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PokerStars sponsored player Lee “Final Table” Nelson warned the entire day 1A field that they should stay out of his way. Unfortunately for Lee, things didn’t go as planned as on just on his second hand in the tournament all the chips were pushed in on a board that ran Q-4-5-7-4. Lee held pocket sevens… Read more »
The Asian Pacific Poker tour has made its scheduled stop in Auckland and the festivities will run from October 10th and extend until October 18th. The tour is hosted at the Skycity Casino in New Zealand. The main event will start tomorrow – the buy-in is $3,250. Other tournaments that stand out are a ladies… Read more »
PokerStars is hosting a tournament that will have players fighting for thousands of dollars in online tournament freerolls. All players that enter the tournament and finish in the top ten positions can submit an original video that will be reviewed by PokerStars and if it’s chosen the player will get to face-off against a few… Read more »
Poker players around the world have made the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure a regular stop in their live tournament schedules. Spending two weeks at the beautiful island of the Bahamas at the beginning of the year in something that most people will gladly do, and even more if they have the a chance to win millions… Read more »
The EPT London final table got underway today with American player Aaron Gustavson heading into play with the chiplead at 6.5 million. The shortest stack belonged to Karim Bennani who only had $306K. The other players at the table where: martin Gudvangen, Nikolai Senninger, PokerStars Pro Raymond Wu, Dominic Cullen and the reigning WSOP champion… Read more »
PokerStars pro and 2008 WSOP main event champion Peter Eastgate nursed a short stack through much of day, but he seems to be playing outstanding poker and has managed to survive to day four. There are sixteen players remaining and seven of them are linked to PokerStars. Out of the seven, three of them are… Read more »
The EPT London built up a lot of excitement in the poker world, hundreds of players made the trip from all parts of the globe. A new world record for number of players in a UK poker tournament has been set with the main event – a total of 730 players participated in the event,… Read more »
Even though football season has started in US, poker players are still taking the time to play at the biggest online guaranteed tournaments. This past weekend was no exception, as a total of 6,940 players registered to play at the PokerStars Sunday Million, which had a guaranteed prize pool of $1.5 million. As play developed… Read more »
The WSOPE had a remarkable field that included players like Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, PokerStars pro Joe Hachem, Greg Raymer, and Jason Mercier among many other poker professionals and poker celebrities. At some point on day 3 Doyle Brunson was in 21st place on the chip count and it looked like he was in excellent… Read more »
The high roller event at London had 75 entries and the field included some of the best players in the world: Phil Ivey, PokerStars pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker, Carlos Mortensen, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, and Barry Greenstein just to mention a few. Overall it has been a great tournament with the extremely… Read more »
American poker player Jason Mercier is not new to the European Poker Tour – in season four he won the EPT San Remo and won $1,372,893 for his effort. Also in 2008, Mercier won the High Roller event in the EPT London, taking home $944K. Jason won his first World Series of Poker bracelet this… Read more »
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies is an unpredictable player, and his aggression at the poker tables makes him a much respected opponent. He is mainly an online poker player and specializes in Omaha cash games but he can be seen occasionally in live tournaments. His live tournament winnings exceed $320K. His online earnings for 2007 were more… Read more »
The last few days have been busy for all PokerStars pros as there are plenty of live tournaments going on in London and players have been quite busy representing their teams. At the WSOPE main event things have heated up and there are down to twelve extremely experienced players. The chip lead is currently held… Read more »
The European Poker Tour London events kick off today with a high roller tournament that boasts an impressive list of players including PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson and Ashton Griffin. Day one of the high roller event looks quite promising for all the PokerStars pros since six of the first 15 positions… Read more »
Canadian player Daniel Negreanu is among the best poker players in the world, with live tournament earnings in excess of $11 million. He currently holds four World Series of Poker bracelets, and has won back to back events in the World Poker Tour for a combined $2.8 million. Negreanu has been around the biggest live… Read more »
The WCOOP event series ended a few days ago and this past weekend PokerStars had more than $2 million in guaranteed prize pools, but that is not enough for the biggest online poker room. They are now offering a brand new Porsche and cash prizes to the top 100 players in an exclusive tournament. New… Read more »
PokerStars has some of the largest guaranteed prize pool tournaments each week. Today, PokerStars will be offering the following big guaranteed prize pools: the Daily Thirty Grand at 2 pm, the Daily Eighty Grand at 3 pm, a $60K guaranteed $11+R No Limit Hold’em tourney at 4pm, and a No Limit Hold’em tournament with a… Read more »
The EPT Barcelona ended just a few weeks ago; the field had 478 players and included twenty three poker stars pros such as Marcin Horecki, Noah Boeken, Thierry Van Den Berg, Jason Mercier, Johnny Lodden, Katja Thater, Peter Eastgate, Marcel Luske, Lex Veldhuis, Pieter de Korver, Vanessa Rousso, Ivan Demidov, Dario Minieri, Daniel Negreanu and… Read more »
PokerStars is once again innovating with their new Baltic Festival packages. Players will have multiple chances to qualify to the event, which will take place from October 28th through the 31st. There will be satellites running every day for as low as $1.10, those satellite events will award seats to the tournaments that will give… Read more »
The first big guaranteed tournament of the day is the Daily Thirty Grand that starts at 2 pm ET, the buy-in is $10 + $1 and late registration will be open up to 60 minutes after the tournament starts. The Daily Eighty Grand will start one hour later, the buy-in is $50 + $5. Extended… Read more »
The entire series of events at the WCOOP was a complete success; players from all over the world wanted a chunk of the groundbreaking prize pools, most of which exceeded the guaranteed prize pool. The last events were held this past weekend; event 43 was a No Limit Hold’em tourney with a prize pool of… Read more »
The World Series of Online Poker has come to an end at PokerStars, and it was a complete success. A high percentage of the tourneys had more players than expected, which led to bigger prize pools; at some tournaments the prize was doubled, even tripled. PokerStars pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier had an outstanding performance in… Read more »
Having live tournament earnings that exceed $6.9 million says one thing: PokerStars pro Barry Greenstein is a tough competitor. His poker career has been very successful – for instance, he has had forty-four money finishes at the WSOP, and three of those earned him WSOP bracelets. Barry Greenstein has also had plenty of success at… Read more »
PokerStars is the leading poker room worldwide and their tournament schedule for the weekend is quite impressive. The biggest and boldest events are the WCOOP tournaments. September 18th will have a one million prize pool that will be played out in a No Limit Hold’em tourney at 2:30 pm ET. In the evening, a $400K… Read more »
PokerStars is the proud sponsor of the European, Latin American, Asian and Australia-New Zealand poker tours. They have done an outstanding job with the live events and have offered hundreds of satellites that have given players the satisfaction of playing in some of the largest poker tournaments in their part of the world. The Italian… Read more »
