October 3, 2017
The Euro 1,100 buy-in PokerStars Festival Dublin main event has been won by 29-year-old local pro Gary McGinty, who held the chip lead for the final two days of the competition but played it safe with a 4-way chop anyway. The event attracted a field of 544 players, creating a prize pool of Euro 681,720, […]
August 7, 2017
Popular British online and live tourney poker pro Sam Grafton bested a field of 736 opponents over the weekend to carry off the honours and the Euro 117,707 first prize in the PokerStars Festival Bucharest main event, racking up his biggest live tournament win in the last five years. By the time the final table […]
January 30, 2017
944 entries were recorded for the GBP990 buy-in PokerStars Festival London main event, which played out in Leicester Square’s Hippodrome Casino over the weekend. At the four-handed stage survivors Rehman Kassam, Daniel Harwood, Eric Cech and Yuriy Boyko paused to discuss a chop but were unable to reach agreement, and play resumed. Boyko subsequently busted […]
January 27, 2017
The GBP 2,200 buy-in High Roller at the Pokerstars Festival London has concluded, although it took an extra day to do so amid some tough competitive action, and a two-player chop at the finish. 178 players entered the event at the Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square, distilling to a final table that took six hours […]
November 25, 2016
Pokerstars has published the schedule for its consolidated PokerStars Championship and PokerStars Festival stops in 2017, unveiling eight major events which include: PokerStars Championship Bahamas, Jan. 6-14 PokerStars Festival London, Jan. 22-29 PokerStars Festival Rozvadov, March 2-13 PokerStars Championship Panama, March 10-20 PokerStars Championship Macau, March 30–April 9 PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino, April […]
November 6, 2016
Amateur New Jersey player Jason Acosta (30), who mainly plays his poker online, has taken down the $1,100 buy-in main event of the Pokerstars Festival New Jersey, turning his entry from a 5,000 StarsCoins satellite into a $38,220 main prize after getting the better of 207 other players. The win was triple his best previous […]
October 31, 2016
Atlantic City received a publicity boost over the weekend as the international online poker giant Pokerstars leveraged its partnership with Atlantic City land casino operator Resorts Casino Hotel to kick off its inaugural Pokerstars Festival. The Festival is a live event-focused project run by an experienced and dedicated Pokerstars team, and this is the first […]