The 2020 UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2020) is currently underway, capturing the attention of much of the sports world. As one might expect if you have played on or followed PokerStars over the years, the poker room has launched a promotion to celebrate the occasion. As it has done in past years in conjunction… Read more »
An article about PokerStars usually means one thing: another online tournament series. And sure enough, this is one of those times that fits into the “usually” category. PokerStars has released the schedule for its next big tournament series, the Bounty Builder Turbo Series, slated to run May 23 through June 6. The Bounty Builder Turbo… Read more »
Keep on SCOOPing The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) may have just ended, but apparently that does not mean that the festivities are actually over. On Tuesday, PokerStars kicked off the SCOOP Afterparty, another, shorter tournament series for players who are jonesing for more SCOOP. The SCOOP Afterparty will run through Sunday, May… Read more »
PokerStars finally has competition PokerStars’ online poker monopoly in Pennsylvania is about to be broken up. On Tuesday, BetMGM Poker and Borgata Poker initiated their soft launches in the Keystone State and should be up and running in full later this week. BetMGM Poker and Borgata Poker are skins of the partypoker US Network (at… Read more »
Everyone in the poker community figured it would be big, but I do not believe that anyone thought it would be this big. Two Day Ones are in the books at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, and the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown is certainly one for the record… Read more »
There are two things that I have learned about time: it is undefeated when it comes to a human’s lifespan and opinions and it continually marches forward. Ten years ago, the poker world was tossed into turmoil by what became known as “Black Friday,” or the shutdown of the most powerful poker rooms on the… Read more »
We are in a distinctly new era of online poker than we were in just a decade ago. During the poker boom, online poker rooms – Full Tilt Poker, especially – raced to sign as many poker pros and poker celebrities as they could to represent their sites. Black Friday killed most of that (and… Read more »
GGPoker is coming for PokerStars GGPoker has made a lot of moves in the last couple years to establish itself as one of the premier online poker networks and this latest is certainly one of them. Just days after top dog PokerStars released its schedule for the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), GGPoker has… Read more »
Just when you think a case is over, it comes roaring back to life. This time, however, we are not talking about the Mike Postle situation. The Kentucky Supreme Court denied a motion on Thursday from Flutter Entertainment regarding their court case that dates to 2015. The motion would have opened the case for reexamination… Read more »
$100 million in guarantees Might as well make it a PokerStars new trifecta today. The Stars three-hit combo, if you will. On Tuesday, the world’s largest poker room announces the schedule for one of the world’s largest online poker festivals, the 2021 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). This year’s SCOOP will run April… Read more »
COVID-19 continues to have a say Major live poker tournaments have started returning to casinos, particularly in the United States, but we now have the first significant, confirmed casualty of 2021. On Wednesday, PokerStars announced that the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold’em Championship (PSPC) has been canceled. Technically, it is “postponed,” but seeing as it… Read more »
While my friend and colleague Dan Katz reported earlier this week on the closure of Full Tilt Poker (occurring today), it was big enough that I felt that I needed to add onto the remembrances of the site. While many may dwell on what was the end – and the nearly nomadic existence it has… Read more »
It’s about time For the last several years, Full Tilt Poker has been like Dr. Malcolm Crow in The Sixth Sense, an online poker room that didn’t know it was really dead. On Thursday, finally, the once-great poker site will stop wandering aimlessly, a ghost with no home, and accept that it passed away years… Read more »
Clear lines, advance levels PokerStars has never shied away from special Spin & Go promotions, but the one the online poker room just announced is a little different. While it’s still just a Spin & Go promo with leader boards and what-not, this time PokerStars has teamed up with Tetris, arguably the greatest video game… Read more »
Think fast! PokerStars has announced the schedule for the newest iteration of the Turbo Series, the fast-paced tournament series where no event will go past a single day. Running February 21 to March 7, the Turbo Series features 134 tournaments with more than $25 million in guaranteed prize pools. The Turbo Series is not one… Read more »
What’s PokerStars without a COOP? We all knew it was coming, and less than two weeks after PokerStars went live in Michigan, PokerStars confirmed everyone’s expectations, announcing the first Michigan Championship of Online Poker (MICOOP). The Wolverine State’s “COOP” will run February 20 through March 8 and will have $1 million in total guaranteed prize… Read more »
Complete details are still to come, but PokerStars has officially launched the Sunday Million 15th Anniversary event. I don’t know what makes me feel older: that I am about to have a high school-aged child or that I was in the poker industry when the first Sunday Million debuted. Though online poker rooms the last… Read more »
After Michigan came online with internet casino gaming earlier this month without any online poker, the internet poker community was hugely disappointed. That disappointment turned to excitement when, in only the company’s second state and in the fifth state overall in the States of America, PokerStars opened for business in Michigan. Sudden And Surprising Move… Read more »
50 is the key number here If there has been any good thing about this year-long pandemic, it is that online poker players have had a wealth of options. Loads of live tournament series have moved online and poker rooms have added even more series to take advantage of the lack of live poker. The… Read more »
All Good Things… It is often said that all good things must come to an end. This is true in many aspects of life, perhaps no more so than in the world of poker. After a 17-year relationship, the 2003 World Series of Poker World Champion Chris Moneymaker and his longtime sponsor, the #1 online… Read more »
As if all of you haven’t been playing enough online poker this year, how about one more gigantic tournament series to close things out? PokerStars has announced the PokerStars Blowout Series, running December 27, 2020 to January 19, 2021, and featuring 268 tournaments. The poker room promises $60 million in guaranteed prize pools the entire… Read more »
After more than half a year closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting shutdown, Atlantic City’s once vaunted poker scene has been cruelly silent. Even since the casinos were reopened in July, the poker rooms have remained closed due to an abundance of caution regarding the virus. That situation will change this week as,… Read more »
Professor Plum in the Conservatory with the chip rack Aside from when I finally gave in and bought an ear and nose trimmer, the time I realized I was getting old was when I played the board game Clue with my family and reacted negatively to the fact that there was a flip side to… Read more »
“Safe and fair experience” The effort to curb predatory behavior in online poker continues, this time with the implementation of cash game Active Waiting Lists at PokerStars. It is essentially what it sounds like: a cash game waiting list which requires you to be actively playing to stay on it. In announcing the new feature,… Read more »
Just had to wait it out After nearly a decade, it appears that online poker’s Black Friday ordeal is finally over. On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan sentenced PokerStars founder Isai Scheinberg to time served and a $30,100 fine for a single charge of operating an illegal gambling business. My friend Earl Burton… Read more »
