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The ladies event at the APPT Sydney brought a total of 39 players to the felts, including some of the best female players from the region entered the tournament. At six thirty am the heads-up battle ended and Lorinda Bolus had outplayed the other 38 players in the tournament for $7,800, while Sarah Lee took… Read more »
The European Poker Tour event in Prague has been a complete success as a huge field of players showed up to try and earn some extra holiday money. A total of ninety five players will be returning for day three, and only twenty four of them will survive the day and return tomorrow. Day two… Read more »
Day 1B ended with Norwegian player Marius Heine in the chip lead with 162,700 and he certainly hopes his luck will extend into day two of the tournament. The event in Prague has grown into one of the biggest tournaments on the EPT schedule, with a total of 586 players entered the tournament this year… Read more »
The Star City Casino is playing host to a large crowd today, many of whom are PokerStars pros. Players in the field will share the tables with pros like: Joe Hachem, Peter Eastgate, Celina Lin, Grant Levy, Jonathan Lin, Emad Tahtoug, Raymond Wu, Tony Hachem, Dan Schreiber, Bryan Huang and Tae Jun Noh. Other notable… Read more »
The APPT Sydney main event and the High Roller tournament started yesterday. Last year’s champion in the High Roller, Australian Jarred Graham, is back this year for another shot at the title and big prize pool. He started the tournament in great shape and eventually got heads-up against George Moussa. Moussa was not able to… Read more »
A total of 119 players managed to overcome a very tough day at the poker tables in Prague, and a new group of players has arrived to compete in Day 1B. Day 1B brought many experienced players and well known pros to the tables, including Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Dario Minieri, William Thorson, Johnny Lodden, Sebastian… Read more »
The last event for the European Poker Tour in ’09 has taken players to the beautiful city of Prague, Czech Republic. Day 1A started with 219 players and around 150 remain. Some of the pros who are ding well so far include: JP Kelly, Florian Langmann, Sandra Naujoks, Arnaud Mattern, Marcel Luske, Marcin Horecki, Joep… Read more »
The fifth tournament scheduled in the Asia Pacific Poker Tour will lead players to Sydney Australia and the Star City Casino where some the best poker players in the world will surely show up to play. Many PokerStars qualifiers and pros have already arrived, including Joe Hachem, Lee “Final Table” Nelson, Emad Tahtouh, Grant Levy,… Read more »
As always, the biggest tournament on PokerStars this weekend was the Sunday Million, which attracted an outstanding field of 9,077 player. The enormous field took more than nine hours to play down to the final two tables and an additional three hours to complete from there. At the end caio_pimienta outplayed the field and took… Read more »
One of the best things about having free time is getting the opportunity to win extra money, and what better place to do that than PokerStars? Players get the chance to win life changing money on PokerStars this Sunday in the Sunday Warm-up and Sunday Million, which feature guarantees of $750K and $1.5 million respectively.… Read more »
Traveling around and playing poker in some of the most exotic locations in the world is every poker players dream. That might be the reason why thousands of players fight to earn a PokerStars passport each year. Because the competition for the top spots in the Yearly Tournament Leader Board is a task that only… Read more »
PokerStars has renewed their Depositor Freeroll promotions again. They want to reward players for their loyalty with half a million dollars in total cash prizes. All existing players will only have to enter the code “500K” when they are making a new deposit and they will automatically be entered into the freeroll. The promotion consists… Read more »
Shaun Deeb has been around at the virtual felts for quite a while now and is well known as a great tournament player. In 2006, he finished in third place at the Yearly TLB at PokerStars, and then in both ’07 and ’08 he topped the leaderboard, which is in amazing feat. Shaun Deeb received… Read more »
The Latin American Poker Tour it’s already in its third season and it has been a complete success. The schedule includes five stops, with the first one concluding this past weekend. It was held in beautiful Costa Rica in Central America. Players from all parts of the world flew to the Playa Conchal and got… Read more »
Sunday was another crazy day at the PokerStars tables as thousands of players registered to the major tournaments which made competition extremely tough. The Sunday million had 8,587 players wanting to take the $252K first place prize home win them. It took 9.5 hours to play down to ten players, when icedavid pushed all his… Read more »
The tournament at Vilamoura has seen very tough competition; the starting field of 322 players is now down to 38 players, only three of which are PokerStars Pros. PokerStars Pro Ruben Visser held the chip lead at one point in the tournament until Jeff Sarwer managed to take it from him. However, Frenchmen Antony Lellouche… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker held a press conference recently to announce their newly signed contract with the online sensation Tom “durrrr” Dwan. He was even assigned as the host for the main event of the FTOPS XIV which concluded on November 15th. But the largest poker room in the world, PokerStars, signed a player of their… Read more »
Not all the PokerStars pros survived day 1B at the beautiful Vilamoura Marina in Portugal. Some of the names that won’t be returning for day two include: Peter Eastgate, Vanessa Rousso, Dario Minieri, Carter Phillips, Huck Seed, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Pascal Perrault, George Danzer, Marcin Hocrecki, Bertrand Grospellier and Juan Maceiras. But the good thing is… Read more »
Day 1A of EPT Vilamoura ended with 76 players out of the initial 136. Among the field were several PokerStars pros and qualifiers who had a good day at the tables and ended with big chip stacks. When play stopped the chip lead was in the hands of the PokerStars qualifier Dominykas Karmazinas, who had… Read more »
PokerStars player Joe Cada went into the final table in fifth position in chips and was down two several big blinds at one point during play, but he managed to step-up his game and battle his way to victory. Despite displaying both skill and perseverance at the final table, there are still doubters who say… Read more »
Not all online poker rooms can offer players the chance to represent them at the major live events around the world, but the contract PokerStars is offering will include a $5K monthly salary and $40K to spend on the live events around the globe. Players will get to choose the live tournaments they participate in… Read more »
The European Poker Tour is currently hosting the fifth event in their season six schedule and this time around the event is held in Portugal. The tournament is scheduled to be played out in five days with a winner declared on Sunday. It’s not unusual to spot some of the PokerStars pros and qualifiers at… Read more »
PokerStars attracts thousands of players every weekend, and this Sunday was no exception as The Sunday Million’s prizepool – which had a special $2.5 million guarantee – eventually swelled to $3,656,600. When the tournament started there were 18,283 players and it took ten and a half hours of play until there were only 9 players… Read more »
PokerStars will have exclusive events for the ladies during their biggest live series of tournaments which will take place in the beautiful Bahamas. The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure will start on January 4th and it will run for ten days in which 50 tournaments will award millions of dollars. The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has been held… Read more »
PokerStars is constantly improving their promotions and they have recently decided to beef up their monthly Turbo Takedown tournament. The prize pool is still $1 million but they’ve now added additional prizes. The top finisher will take home an Audi TT on top of the big money prize that will be deposited into his or… Read more »
