September 12, 2018
PokerStars’ continuing initiatives to provide players with new and interesting poker variants will continue despite the occasional setback where a new product does not work out, according to the company’s director of poker innovation and operations Severin Rasset. Rasset made the comment in his announcement this week that following a review the company has decided […]
September 2, 2018
Media and forum reports this week indicate that PokerStars is continuing its pursuit of new and interesting product offerings by promoting Six Plus Hold’em (Short Deck Poker), a variant reportedly popular with high roller players in cash games and on the tournament circuit in Asia. The variant differs from Texas Hold’em; deuces through fives are […]
August 20, 2018
The month of September will see a massive $130 million invested by Pokerstars and PartyPoker as they compete for players in two distinct major tournaments. Pokerstars has announced that this year’s World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) set to run from September 2 to 17 will have $70 million in guaranteed prize pools, whilst PartyPoker […]
August 2, 2018
Pokerstars has announced that it is to invest over $116 million in prize pool guarantees during this year’s World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) season, which runs from September 2 to 17. More than $70 million of will come from WCOOP alone making this year’s championship the biggest yet, with 182 tournaments spread across 61 […]
June 29, 2018
Four new millionaires are celebrating football-fuelled victories at PokerStars, PokerStars Casino, and Full Tilt this week having each secured million-dollar pay outs totalling more than $5.4 million, the company announced in a press release Friday. “With four millionaires created since the World Cup started, we clearly have the answer to half-time entertainment,” said Christopher Coyne, […]
June 22, 2018
Player “[AG]_Rocky” scored big in likely the most important game of his life, a quick fire $5 PokerStars Spin & Goal tournament that netted him $1 million at full-time. The player, who had just bust out of a low stakes multi-table tournament half an hour before, decided to play a Spin & Goal, and in […]
June 21, 2018
The PokerStars Trio Series, the first tournament series to celebrate the new shared player pool of Portugal, France and Spain, exceeded its advertised Euro 5 million guarantee with a total prize pool of Euro 6,457,486, the poker provider revealed in a statement Thursday. The Trio Series celebrated PokerStars becoming the first online operator to offer […]
June 21, 2018
Popular poker streamer Jason Somerville and his successful Las Vegas-based Run It Up Studios project in partnership with PokerStars is taking another step forward in building the Twitch community and helping other streamers to improve the quality and content of their products. Run It Up Studios and PokerStars plan to develop new and existing poker […]
June 13, 2018
PokerStars gave an indication of its ambitions in the relatively new Indian poker market this week by announcing significant increases in the guarantees on its weekly tournaments – up to 40 percent. The move appears to be a restructuring, and includes reductions in the buy-ins for certain events to bring more players to the tables…and […]
May 23, 2018
Poker Players in Portugal are now able to play against French and Spanish players following Portuguese authorities green lighting the country’s participation and PokerStars is first off the mark, offering a shared poker pool between the three countries. “We have worked hard to become the first operator to bring the benefits of shared liquidity to […]