PokerStars

It is pretty much business as usual at PokerStars. Nothing major has taken place, but there are a few things to note.
First, in celebration of awarding $5million since the inception of the Battle of the Planet leaderboards began, they are doubling the prize pool for each division from Nov 8 - Nov 21. If you [continue]

On November 15, the biggest weekly tournament in poker, the PokerStars Sunday Million, will add another milestone to its already impressive resume – $250m in total prize money awarded. To mark the occasion, PokerStars is hosting a special edition with a huge $2.5m guarantee. First place prize money will be in excess of $300,000!
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Any dedicated Sit & Go players on PokerStars will probably already be familiar with the Battle of the Planets leaderboard. This celestial contest rewards the most effective S&G players every week, paying out thousands of dollars to the site’s top players. Divisions named after the Solar System’s planets are assigned to different levels of tournament, [continue]

Poker has always been attached to the stigma of gambling and unscrupulous behavior. This unwarranted bias has struck particularly hard in the land of TV, with station executives  unsure about pumping such a questionable activity into living rooms around the county. In recent months however, there seems to have been a shift. Poker programing has [continue]

PokerStars.com breaks ‘Most Players at an Internet Poker Room’ Guinness World Record
ISLE OF MAN, UK, SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 – PokerStars.com, the world’s largest poker site, has shattered its own world record for hosting ‘THE MOST PLAYERS AT AN INTERNET POKER ROOM’ - an achievement that’s been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. [continue]

This is it.  The culmination of the largest annual online poker tournament in the world - The World Championship of Online Poker.  Brought to you by… who else, the largest online poker site in the world, PokerStars.  The Main Event is the tournament to win in any tournament series, and the WCOOP Main Event is [continue]

They say poker is a game of luck. Someone should have gotten that memo to Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, who not only demonstrated that poker is a game of skill, but also demonstrated that he has the necessary prowess to take down his second bracelet of the 2009 series of the PokerStars WCOOP.
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We’re rolling into the final weekend for WCOOP 2009, as it was Event #34 wrapping up in the wee hours of the morning.  This event was a $215 no-limit Hold’em tournament featuring “big antes” from the start.  The guarantee was set at $500,000, but as has been the trend in the WCOOP, the guarantee was [continue]

Another day gone by, and another great event in the books! This time it was the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) event #27, $25000+$500 USD Hold’em No Limit Heads-Up. That’s $25 THOUSAND DOLLARS to buy in, so you could be assured that the field for this particular event was comprised entirely of the [continue]

Another day gone by, and another great event in the books! This time it was the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) event #24, $500+$30 USD Hold’em No Limit Heads-Up.  1564 hopefuls showed up for a night of extremely deepstacked poker, to determine once and for all who is the best NLHE HU player. [continue]