There was plenty of action in the world of online poker events this past weekend.  Taking the main stage was a special $1 buy-in event that looked to set the world record for number of entries in a poker tournament. Hosted by PokerStars, the $250,000 guaranteed tournament took place during their 10-year anniversary celebration.  With [...]

An astounding 200,000 people helped Pokerstars.com, the world’s largest poker site, to make history on Sunday December 4th by participating in the largest poker tournament ever. This event was part of Pokerstars’ ongoing 10th Anniversary celebrations. The previous record, held by Pokerstars, was set in 2009 when 149,196 players participated in a $1 buy-in event. [...]

Sunday tournaments continued to push onwards towards the end of 2011. It has been quite a rocky year for online poker.  With April 15th’s removal of American players from the market, a lot of sites have lost a good chunk of their MTT traffic.  On top of this, online poker giant FullTilt had to close [...]

The weekend tournament report comes at you on Tuesday this week. Instead of a full version, we’re going to go with a special Thanksgiving abbreviated write-up.  There wasn’t anything too interesting going on in online tournaments this weekend. The biggest news might have come from bwin who appears to have increased the guarantee of their [...]

Without a major tournament series on the horizon, online poker events are back to their standard tricks.  Coming of a strong 2011 Poker Fest, Party Poker was looking to have a big weekend of online MTTs.  Their biggest major, the Sunday $200,000 guaranteed, certainly did not disappoint.  With more than 1,300 players paying the $200+$15 [...]

This week brings an abridged version of the Sunday tournament report. With the 2011 Party Poker PokerFest coming to an end, there was some decent action spread across a few online poker rooms. The $1,000,000 Main Event was the day’s second largest event, coming in just behind the Sunday Million on PokerStars.  Both events ended [...]

There is much to be optimistic about lately when it comes to online poker tournaments. Coming off a successful WCOOP run by PokerStars, it seems other sites are now keen on getting a piece of the tournament series action. Currently, the world’s 2nd largest online site Party Poker, is busy with their 2011 Poker Fest. [...]

There was a lot of action online this past weekend, highlighted by the start of the 2011 Party Poker Poker Fest. The tournament series kicked off on Sunday and runs all the way through November 6th. There will be plenty of big events with millions of dollars guaranteed. The series culminates on the 6th with [...]

This weekend marked another big promotion from PokerStars as they run multiple majors under the “double vision” promo.  Tournaments like the Sunday Warm-Up and Million were actually run twice, with incredible results following.  As other online sites have struggled, PokerStars continue to shine with events like the WCOOP and SCOOP stealing headlines in the online [...]

Online tournaments continued to roll on this past weekend, as millions of dollars were up for grabs at many popular poker rooms.  Sites like Party and PokerStars had strong showings while both the iPoker and Merge Poker Networks continue to struggle to fill their major events.   It seems the 2011 WCOOP provided more of a [...]