January 18, 2018
PokerStars has confirmed that it had to cancel midday tournaments on Wednesday due to an hour-long technical problem that required a server re-start. “Our sincere apologies for the unexpected technical issues that occurred today. If you have any queries re. our cancellation policy then please email support@pokerstars.com and we’ll do our utmost to assist,” the […]
January 17, 2018
German poker pro Ole Schemion (25) racked up another major win this week when he took down the inaugural World Poker Tour Championship main event at Spielbank Berlin in his home town, scoring a Euro 218,435 pay day, along with a $15,000 seat at the upcoming WPT Tournament of Champions. The event pulled in 339 […]
January 16, 2018
Using licenses from Spain and France, online poker provider PokerStars has become first to market with its shared player pools offer. Poker players across France and Spain can now challenge and play each other at PokerStars, which today (Tuesday) became the first online operator approved to offer a shared player pool between the locally licensed […]
January 15, 2018
Maria Lampropulos (36) from Argentina is celebrating a $1,081,000 win – her second career seven-figure prize in just three years of professional playing – after taking down the $10,300 buy-in Main Event of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas. Lampropulos’ previous seven-figure score was in April last year, when she took home $1,255,004 after […]
January 15, 2018
Christopher ‘Apotheosis92’ Kruk, a mainly online poker pro from Canada, has proved his live tourney chops at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas after taking down the $25,000 buy-in High Roller competition in an exciting five-hour final table. The event attracted 144 entries and a stellar field that included Ryan Riess, Bryn Kenney, Ben […]
January 13, 2018
West Virginia poker pro Jason Koon (32) is $421,080 wealthier this weekend after taking down the $25,000 buy-in PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Single-Day High Roller, besting a stellar entry field of 41 in doing so. The field included names like Nick Petrangelo, Chris Hunichen, Benjamin Pollak, Mustapha Kanit, Eric Seidel, Chance Kornuth, Igor Kurganov, Daniel Negreanu, […]
January 13, 2018
The PokerStars Winter Series, which ran from 25 December 2017 to 7 January 2018, attracted buy-ins way in excess of its $25.4 million guarantee, with a total series prize pool of $38,013,576. The series attracted more than 1.3 million entries and close to 203,000 unique players, and also awarded five Platinum Passes worth $150,000 to […]
January 12, 2018
PokerStars has announced that its popular but ponderously titled Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) is to renamed Turbo Series, and will now take place in February – a month later than has become its traditional slot. PokerStars has assured players that there will be no loss of momentum in the popular series, which started […]
January 11, 2018
Cyber-currency media are giving eSports betting site Luckbox.com plenty of air this week due to its use of Bitcoin as a transaction currency and an impending ICO. Our readers may recall that Luckbox is the brainchild of former PokerStars managers Lars Lien and Mike Stevens, who have been working hard to bring their dream to […]
January 10, 2018
Poker professional Steve O’Dwyer has done it again, taking down his third PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller title to claim the $769,000 main prize this week, bringing his career live poker earnings to over $21 million. He triumphed against a field of 46, many of them respected names in the international game such as Byron […]