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The poker world has been expecting a new world champion for the past three months and luckily the wait is almost over. The November Nine will be getting together to play down to a final winner in a few days from now. All the players at the table are experienced enough to win the event,… Read more »
The recently announced schedule that PokerStars has released will have players more exited than ever. The stops added to the European Poker Tour will have players traveling to some really exotic locations, including the EPT Snowfest in Salzburg, Austria. The events will take place at one of the best ski resorts in the world, Saalbach-Hinterglemm. … Read more »
The third event in the Czech-Slovak Poker Tour, played in Brno, had one hundred and thirty one players and the first place prize was $21K. Among the field were only six PokerStars qualifiers and one of them managed to outplay all his opponents and win the event. Martin Hruby is a local that has been… Read more »
The final table at the Baltic Festival was an all-European table. Among the players were two PokerStars qualifiers: Johan Nilsson from Sweden and Kenneth Danielsen from Norway; the only PokerStars sponsored player was Claus Bek Nielsen. The chip leader was the Danish player Michael Fardan. The first player to bust out of the final table… Read more »
It’s almost certain that all poker players wish to win one of the biggest online tournaments, and PokerStars gives them the opportunity every weekend. The number of players who want to take a chance at the Sunday Million increases as time passes, and this weekend was no exception. There were a total of 7,962 players,… Read more »
Day 1A brought a larger field of players than last year – just like the tournament organization was expecting. A total of 307 players entered the tournament and the majority have busted out by now. The field has gotten tougher and the players remaining have had skill and luck on their side to survive up… Read more »
PokerStars has become more involved in the live tournament scene, promoting some of the major tournaments world wide like the EPT, APPT, CSPT and of course the LAPT. Part of the huge logistics operation behind these great events is deciding where the tournament stops will be. Because coordinating such events cannot be done in a… Read more »
The Baltic Festival has been a success all around. The city, Tallinn is a beautiful place and the Swissotel is just a top notch place where players feel comfortable in their tobacco free environment. Day 1A ended with a few notable players busting in the late stages of the day. PokerStars player Shaun Deeb unfortunately… Read more »
The beautiful city of Tallinn is the location for the Baltic Festival which has brought around 300 players to battle it out in hopes of leaving this gorgeous city with a fat check in their pocket. Day one A kicks off today with 130 players and play will stop when there’s probably 60 players left. … Read more »
Not only does PokerStars have some of the best promotions in the industry but they also sponsor some of the biggest live tournament series. They started out with the already famous European Poker Tour and quickly added the Asian Pacific Poker Tour and the Latin American Poker Tour. On top of all that, PokerStars has… Read more »
Just this weekend the EPT Warsaw saw Frenchman Chistophe Benzimra win the top prize of $533K and PokerStars is already hosting satellite events to the next European Poker Tour event on schedule. This time around the tour will take poker players from around the world to the beautiful resort called Algarve in Vilamoura, Portugal. The… Read more »
The European Poker Tour Warsaw did not have as many players as expected, but there were still plenty of experienced players and pros among the field. PokerStars pro Dario Minieri did not have one of his best performances but he entered the High Roller event and managed to win it. After that he decided to… Read more »
It was a busy weekend at the PokerStars tables again as players from all parts of the world wanted to win a percentage of the huge prize pools up for grabs. The Sunday Million’s prize pool swelled to $1,648,400 and a total of 1,260 players would leave the tournament with extra money in their PokerStars… Read more »
Day three has come to an end at the EPT Warsaw event and only 24 players remain. Many players saw their hopes of winning a big live event crushed while others had the luck of surviving another tough day on the felts. American Carter Phillips got off to a strong start, but busted near the… Read more »
EPT Warsaw started with two hundred and three players and there’s only fifty five remaining. Today will be a tough day since they will play down to only twenty four players. The top prize will exceed half a million dollars and it has been a fierce battle thus far. PokerStars pro Peter Eastgate failed to… Read more »
The Warsaw event has turned out to be a very interesting tournaments with some extremely tough table draws. One tough battle is taking place at the table where Carter Phillips is demonstrating his aggressive style. He currently holds the chip lead and is bullying his fellow poker players at the table, and the best part… Read more »
Just as expected by the tournament organizers, Day 2B of the EPT Warsaw had a much larger field than the first day as a total of one hundred and thirty players showed up to compete. Day 1A had three players who took the spotlight, including Carter Phillips who ended the day as chipleader and has… Read more »
The EPT Barcelona that ended almost two months ago had tons of excitement for all the spectators. It also brought a PokerStars qualifier name into the spot light as Carter Phillips dominated the massive player field and managed to win the event. Something that no player has been able to do is win two European… Read more »
The six day tournament has kicked off with 88 players showing up for Day 1A, which is a small field for European Tour Standards, but a much larger field is expected tomorrow. The first man to leave the tournament was Guiseppi Vividomini who decided to mix it up with aces against Peter Bosen. The flop… Read more »
This past weekend, players around the world took some time away from their TV sets and other activities to play in PokerStar‘ biggest guaranteed tournaments. This weekend 7,856 players took the Sunday Million challenge, and the prize pool swelled to $1,571,200. Just before level 34, player Helten22 was nursing a short stack and he made… Read more »
The PokerStars APPT Auckland had 263 players registered, including some of the areas top pros like Tony Hachem, Grant Levy, Emad Tahtouh, Celina Lin and Eric Assadourian. The rest of the field consisted of PokerStars qualifiers and the new generation of New Zealand such as Neil Stewart, Josh Eagan, Shaun Goldsbury, James Honeybone and reigning… Read more »
In 2008 the main event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure awarded $3 million to Canadian player Poorya Nazari for defeating a field that had 1,347 players. Nazari won the biggest prize in a live tournament event with the exception of the WSOP main event. PokerStars will have free satellite events that will start today at… Read more »
There were a total of 130 players that started day two and the day would end as soon as the field was narrowed to 32 of them. When the field was down to 90 players there were three that stood out from the rest, they were the only females left from the starting field. Among… Read more »
In level six on day 1B the Australian Pro Tony Hachem announced that he was all-in when the board was Kd-10d-2d-Ks-Qd. There were no callers but Tony showed his royal flush anyway. Unfortunately, the best hand in poker went to waste as nobody else wanted to push their chips into the middle of the table.… Read more »
The first episode of PokerStars’ Million Dollar Challenge featured the unlikeliest of faces as Catholic Priest Andrew Trapp hit the felt in search of a million dollars. Trapp’s first opponent, NBA star John Salley, didn’t put up much of a fight versus the Daniel Negreanu-coached priest. Daniel had an accurate read on the priests’ opponent… Read more »
