PokerStars Gives Back to Japan

The poker community has come together to show their support for the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Japan. Full Tilt Poker started a donation fund for Japan and PokerStars quickly followed suit. Like Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars features two ways for players to donate....

NAPT Season 2: Los Angeles

Season 2 of the NAPT enjoyed a successful start to the year with the PCA, and so hopes are high for the 2nd event of the year, NAPT Los Angeles. The NAPT actually finished off Season 1 in Los Angeles, and it was such a success that they’re looking to do it all...

PokerStars.tv

For most of us, competing for thousands of dollars in front of huge TV audiences is little more than a pipe dream, but televised poker gives us a window into the high stakes world of the poker pro. Catching your favourite players as they whisk through the schedules...

PokerStars Home Games is Here!

Most poker players started out by playing home games with their buddies at one time or another. This requires players to buy a poker table, chips, and cards, find a dealer (or deal themselves), and travel through hours of traffic just to play a few hands of poker....

Isildur1’s Identity Revealed

In October 2009, Isildur1 made a stir in the online poker scene, showing up out of nowhere and beating some of the top online players on Full Tilt Poker. By November, Isildur1 had cemented himself as online poker legend after he won nearly $5 million from Tom...

Canadian Celebration at PokerStars

Canada might be the butt of many jokes but there is no questioning the country’s poker prowess. Canadians Daniel Negreanu, Marc Karam, and Evelyn Ng have had impressive results whilst destroying their opponents on the felt. Jonathan Duhamel became the latest...

PokerStars Rolls Out a Software Update

There have been tons of changes made at PokerStars in their most recent software update. The biggest name in online poker continues to show their dedication to being on the cutting edge in regards to online poker play. Most of the updates were small changes but they...

Qualify For The PCA at PokerStars

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) is coming up in January and PokerStars has started running satellite qualifier for the events. This year, PokerStars not only has the PCA Main Event, but a fun and unique new live event, which they are calling the Fish and...

Eric Baldwin Wins NAPT Bounty Shootout

On Thursday, Eric Baldwin took down PokerStars’ North American Poker Tour Los Angeles Bounty Shootout event, collecting the $134,280 top prize. The event was a shootout so it had a different structure than most tournaments. Play started with 81 participants and...

ESPN Launches Poker Room

PokerStars has once again partnered with another company in an effort to spread the game of poker around the globe. This time, the company is ESPN, the same ESPN that broadcasts the World Series of Poker annually. PokerStars will be providing the sports broadcasting...

Could RaiseOnce Be Phil Ivey?

With the Halloween weekend rapidly approaching, it seems as though one of poker's biggest names may be playing in costume. The player in question is “raiseonce”, who has become a frequent fixture at the nosebleed tables over at PokerStars. After appearing sometime during 2009, the mystery man has made a name for himself with a hard-driving, aggressive style. This, combined with several other factors, has led many online wizards to predict that raiseonce is, in fact, Full Tilt pro Phil Ivey.

Win your Dream Job Through PokerStars!

Most players that take up the hobby of poker dream of turning that hobby into a full-time job. This would require that the player be able to make enough money playing poker to support themselves. Playing poker professionally allows players to create their own schedule...

PokerStars Announces RCOOP

PokerStars has recently announced their newest tournament series, the Regional Championships of Online Poker or RCOOP. Following in the footsteps of its wildly successful predecessors, the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and the Spring Championship of...

PokerStars Estonia Launches with Government OK

In conjunction with the government of Estonia, PokerStars has launched its third country-specific gaming site. The newest entry, PokerStars.ee, “complies fully with Estonian law and enables the country's residents to continue playing at the world's largest poker site and to qualify for the biggest live events across the globe, such as the PokerStars European Poker Tour,” according to a recent press release.

Negreanu Draws Fire at WCOOP Final Table

Once embraced as one of the most likeable characters in the game, Daniel Negranu has drawn a sizable amount of heat over the past several months. From his criticism of Ultimate Bet to his well-publicized slur toward Annie Duke, Kid Poker has found himself in the limelight a bit more often than he and his employers would like, perhaps. Now, it seems, he's given detractors more fuel for their hate machine.

PokerStars Promos Celebrate 50 Billion Hands

It's a number that's impossible to wrap your head around, no matter how hard you try. It's a total nearly seven times the population of the planet, an astonishing tally that defies the imagination. 50,000,000,000 – The number of hands that PokerStars has dealt out over their years as one of the top names in the gaming industry. It's an landmark feat, one that must be celebrated.

dcg30 Captures WCOOP Event #49 Crown

For just about 15 hours worth of work, $123,000 isn't a bad payday. Just ask dcg30, who finished in the top spot in the 49th event of PokerStars' current WCOOP running. Kicking off at 12:00 ET on September 22 and wrapping at 3:14 ET the following morning, 1,654 players bellied up to the digital tables for this $200+$15 No Limit Hold'em event. Each player was allowed one rebuy and one add-on (costing an additional $200). Not willing to simply bow out after one beat, 1,172 of the contestants opted for a rebuy, while 942 spent the additional cash to pad their chip stack.

SixthSenSe19 Wins WCOOP Event #38

In the marathon heads-up matter that was PokerStars' WCOOP Event #38, SixthSenSe19 emerged as the top dog in what is arguably the most challenging game in online poker. Outlasting 943 other entrants, SixthSenSe19 took home the lion's share of the $600,000 guaranteed prize pool. The $500+$30 buy-in event finished short of its expected enrollment, but still managed to last nearly 36 hours.

Antoshka Wins WCOOP Event 21

Over 10,000 entrants formed a prizepool in excess of $2,000,000, shattering World Championship of Online Poker Event 21’s guarantee of $1.5 Million. The event was a rather standard $215 No Limit Hold ‘Em event. The Cadillac of Poker attracted the best on...