After four days of play at the Casino Barriere, Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano surged to the lead of the European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France, with 24 players remaining. 54 players came to the felt on Saturday, looking to whittle the field down to the final three tables. Leading the pack was Samphane [...]
The hands may have slowed down a bit on PokerStars since Black Friday, but that doesn’t mean the action isn’t still fast and furious at the world’s largest online poker room. And just as the beat goes on, so does the march towards 100 billion hands. In the meantime, there are some other milestone hands [...]
Thursday, January 19, 2012 marks the start of the inaugural Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) at the world’s #1 poker site, PokerStars. The tournament series will run for a total of 11 days, featuring a mind-numbing 50 tournaments with at least million scheduled to be awarded. PokerStars has guaranteed million in prize money over [...]
According several reports, the first of which was published Monday by Poker Player Newspaper, Gabriel “Gabi” Campos Woslovsky is leaving his post as Chief Executive Officer of PokerStars. No replacement has been named. Wendeen Eolis first wrote in Poker Player Newspaper that the initial word of the change surfaced last Friday at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, [...]
After a return to the online poker tables following a significant absence, the identity of a particular online poker player at PokerStars is coming under scrutiny, with many people believing it is Phil Ivey. The 2+2 Poker Forum has long held the belief that the anonymous high-stakes player on PokerStars, known only as “RaiseOnce”, is none [...]
After half a day of humorous internet rumors and misunderstanding, European Poker Tour (EPT) founder John Duthie confirmed Monday morning that his time as a PokerStars pro has come to an end. Word of the Duthie/Stars split came out on the Two Plus Two poker forums Sunday afternoon, but people wanted to know why the [...]
PokerStars announced changes to its VIP program and ring game rake structure Wednesday, planning to implement the new policies on New Year’s Day. The description of the changes, as posted on the Two Plus Two poker forum by “PokerStars Steve,” is lengthy, but we’ll do our best to summarize them here. Rake Calculation At PokerStars, [...]
The world’s largest online poker room (and second place isn’t even close) has just launched a new global marketing campaign targeting players from all over the world, including the growing Latin and South American markets. The new television ad campaigns feature the slogan “We are Poker” and incorporate some of the biggest names in poker [...]
Leave it to PokerStars to come up with another “COOP” tournament. The world’s largest online poker room and king of the online poker tournament series has announced its newest offering, the Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP). Filled exclusively with turbo and hyper turbo tournaments, TCOOP will kick off January 19, 2012 with the first [...]
In a press release that was released mere moments ago, the number one online poker site in the industry, PokerStars, and one of its most recognizable faces have decided to part ways. In that press release from the London offices of PokerStars, 2005 World Series of Poker Championship Event winner Joe Hachem and the poker [...]
