Event #8 of the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) has concluded after many hours of play. This event was the “SuperKnockout” event, which featured a very large bounty on each player’s head. Most bounty/knockout tournaments put a small, token bounty on each player of approximately 20% of the prize pool. But in a [...]

Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 has been absolutely dominating the PokerStars SCOOP tournaments so far. Isildur1 began this hot streak by first winning the SCOOP-02-M $215 9 max for $247,200. He beat out RaisingRay91 with AJ against Ray’s K8s to claim the title, besting out a field of 8,240 entrants in a two day event. As [...]

A trio of winners took home first place in the seventh event of PokerStars’ Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP).

It’s time again for another promotional period on the Road to 100 Billion Poker Hands at PokerStars. For this 80th Billion hand milestone, PokerStars is giving away money to the lucky players who play on every millionth hand starting at 79,700,000,000 and ending at 80,000,000,000. There is up to $1 million up for grabs. There [...]

PokerStars has announced their schedule for Season 9 of the European Poker Tour (EPT), and there are some big changes. President of the EPT, Edgar Stuchly, talked about their approach when making the schedule: “We looked at every EPT season up until now and asked ourselves how we could make the tour even better for [...]

8:30 PM ET Update: Diamond Flush spilled details of how players would have been repaid had the GBT gone through: Players with an account balance of less than $ 100 could be repaid in full or have that balance credited to their players account in the new company, virtually immediately. According to some sources, this [...]

PokerStars has taken their next step in a long-standing battle with infamous data-mining site Poker Table Ratings (PTR). They’ve sent a cease and desist to the site and have a team of lawyers ready to take legal action on the order if necessary. Poker Table Ratings is a site that collects hand histories on the [...]

PokerTableRatings recently received a cease and desist order from PokerStars, relating to their data mining and hand tracking activities of PokerStars’ hand histories. This was followed by GoDaddy.com (a web hosting service) dropping www.pokertableratings.com temporarily only to bring PTR back online shortly after. PokerStars claimed it had given PTR many opportunities to stop tracking all [...]

Today marks the one-year anniversary of Black Friday, a day of monumental significance that devastated the very core of online poker in the United States, the aftermath of which has affected the lives of poker players to this very day. On this day one year ago, the FBI launched a crackdown on Full Tilt Poker, [...]

It has now been one full year since April 15th, 2011 when the Department of Justice (DOJ) shut down a number of major online poker sites who had been servicing American card players. Dubbed “Black Friday” by players around the world, Americans found themselves completely shut out from accessing even the dot.com (US domain) websites [...]