He is Nanonoko! Lew Wins APPT Macau
Lew wins his first major live tournament title and takes home 3,772,000 HKD ($483,902 USD). The Team PokerStars Online pro and famed multi-tabler worked his magic on just one table for a change, coming...
View ArticleSunday Scoop: Brazilian Scores $201k Victory
Chiro became one of the few players to win a Sunday Million without a chop while Ana Marquez nearly made the final table of the elite PokerStars Sunday 500. Johnny Lodden, Lex Veldhuis and Chris...
View ArticleStaszko Joins Team PokerStars Pro
Just the second Czech player to join Team PokerStars (Martin Hruby being the first), the 35-year-old from Třinec was officially anointed in a Czech release from PokerStars today. A former auto plant...
View Article$100 Million Macau Pro-Am Rumored for 2013
Details are unsubstantiated at this point but the businessman, William Murray, claims he represents one of the five Chinese companies involved and that one-third of the seats for the main event are...
View Article$10k High Roller Added to PokerStars Anniversary
Set for Dec. 18, the same day as the recently announced $10m Sunday Million, it will have a $10,300 buy in and start at 3:30 pm (ET). $500,000 is guaranteed for the winner. High Rollers have become a...
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Sahamies Nearly Hits $1m in November High Stakes
The aggressive Finn was easily the biggest story of the month as he crushed almost every opponent and stacked his way to nearly $945,000 in profit. Sahamies has been playing on another level the last...
View ArticleGet 5% of Chris Moorman’s Winnings in Prague, Australia
Now he’s giving away two shots for you to take home 5% of his winnings from two upcoming events. The first is the €5,300 European Poker Tour Prague main event starting December 5. Moorman is looking...
View ArticleFacebook Angling for Real-Money Gambling in UK?
The report, (behind a paywall at eGR but covered in detail here on TechCrunch) says Facebook has spoken with up to 20 online gaming experts and potential facilitators over the last six months and is...
View ArticleJudge Sets Trial Date for Black Friday Indictments
Presiding over a hearing today in Manhattan engineered by the lawyers of two of the lower-profile defendants in the case – Chad Elie and John Campos - Kaplan also said the chances of dismissal of the...
View ArticleEpic Adds Three Open Events to December Lineup
Along with the already scheduled $1,500 Pro-Am, which offers nine $20k seats for the main event, that makes for four events at the Palms over the week of Dec. 10-17 now open to all players. New events...
View ArticlePokerStars e-Mag Covers 10 Years Of History
Over 26 animated pages it maps out the key moments in PokerStars’ history from its beta launch in September 2001 to the present. The pages are filled with key anecdotes and interviews with some of the...
View ArticleO’Dea Circling After Day 1a at WPT Prague
One of just 93 players to survive the day, O’Dea managed to accumulate 142,600 chips over the ten 60-minute levels played and sits in seventh heading into Day 2 Saturday.. As might be expected for a...
View Article$750k Up for Grabs on PokerStars Road to 100 Billion
Announced this morning, every millionth hand played on PokerStars from 71,700,000,000- 72,000,000,000 will now be a milestone hand and have cash prizes paid out to all players dealt in. All you have to...
View ArticleSahamies Keeps Streak Alive, Wins $65k
The pride of Helsinki, Finland, burned through 699 hands last night and spun up $65,000 in profit. Sahamies alternated between $50/$100 PLO as well as a few hands of $100/$200 Cap PLO against a variety...
View ArticleKastle Storms to Chip Lead at WPT Prague
Originally from Chicago, with live tournament cashes dating back to as early as 1999, Kastle has a daunting 356,800 chip stack to take with him into Day 2 tomorrow - nearly 100k ahead of second-place...
View ArticleFreeroll Spotlight: PokerStars Adds $5k Anniversary Special
The freeroll is taking place Dec. 17 and qualifying couldn’t be easier for PL.com players: Simply earn 100 VPPs between Dec. 1-15 and you’re in. The top 25 players in the free tournament will each...
View Articlesokoluk1991 Bests 200,000 for World-Record Win
After a three-way deal with Kaitz20 from Estonia and King-2-Z from the UK which allocated an extra $5k for the winner, sokoluk1991 pocketed $40,258.83 – a solid return on his $1 investment. Kaitz20...
View ArticleKretz, Pateychuk Star at WPT Prague Final Table
Playing down from 62 players to just six, action went for about 15 hours at the Kings Casino but the young German Kretz seemed none the worse for wear. Busting Agris Klaise, Denis Pisarev, Tobias...
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The Sunday Scoop: Kenney and Chartier Victorious
Also making news was Brazilian Gabriel “gabriel171” Otranto, the day’s biggest winner. Otranto took the biggest part of a four-way chop in the Sunday Million and finished second in the Sunday 500....
View ArticleSahamies, mTw-DaviN Make Big Weekend Scores
Georgi, who is a former professional Warcraft 3 player, has had a good year on PokerStars but hit a serious wall in the last couple months. The German was apparently very motivated to pull out of the...
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