Over the last few years, PokerStars has been running a tournament series called PokerStars Women Live. As the name implies, it is a series of women-exclusive live tournament events, crowning 5 women over the last two years alone. The tournaments wish to play second fiddle to none, running the gambit of the biggest PokerStars-sponsored events [...]

With every passing day of the jam-packed 2012 TCOOP schedule, PokerStars is proving that tournament poker is as healthy as ever. Event 42, the $33 Rebuys NL tournament, had a $300k guaranteed prize pool, but it was almost half that before a single re-buy was even made. And after getting almost 2.5 re-buys per participant, [...]

The first ever PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker has come to close and it is safe to say that it was a resounding success. Almost every event exceeded the guaranteed prize pool, and many players walked away from the tables with considerably larger bankrolls. The biggest first place prize of the entire series was [...]

Event 29 of PokerStars’ Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) was a $109 NL Shootout tournament.  It started with exactly 1000 entries creating a prize pool of an even $100,000.  To make it into the money and the second round all you had to do was win your first ten handed sit-n-go.  If you were [...]

Action was fast and furious in Event #10 of PokerStars’ Turbo Championship of Online Poker, a $10 rebuy tournament. The event drew 12,636 players and netted an additional 39,000 rebuys and 6,000 add-ons for a total prize pool of $579,330. This nearly doubled the PokerStars guaranteed amount of $300,000. Final table starting chip count: Seat [...]

Over the last year, it seems as though PokerStars has changed from the bottom up. There was the change forced upon their playing community when the United States Department of Justice mutilated the landscape of online poker. Then, there were a series of personnel changes that seemed to be working its way up the food [...]

Almost two years ago a player cropped up on PokerStars that instantly raised eyebrows. RaiseOnce was sitting at the highest stakes running for any game from Heads up No Limit Hold ‘em to 2-7 Triple Draw. Players famed for being the toughest at their respective games were all of the sudden getting action, but this [...]

For many, Randy “nanonoko” Lew is the quintessence of all those blue-collar nicknames of the poker world like grinder, zombie, humanoid or Steady Eddy. He doesn’t necessarily do it the flashy way, but putting in over five million tracked hands for well over $2M–before even taking bonuses into account–will turn some heads. It was only [...]

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 2012 final table broadcast is starting in less than one hour! You can watch all the action on FlopTurnRiver as we live stream the PCA. As you watch, you can comment on the hands with other spectators in real time with the Facebook Live Stream box. Eight players will be taking [...]

Viktor Blom is simply never too far from the headlines. A year ago he was the big buzz around the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) as he finally made the big reveal that he was Isildur1, ending a 16-month tenure as the anonymous wildcard of the online poker world. A year later he’s hauling in one [...]