In light of the developments that took place in the U.S. online poker market last week, the three largest formerly USA-facing online poker rooms each made significant changes to their major tournaments on Sunday. PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and UB, all of which had their primary domains seized by the Department of Justice on Friday, [...]
Early Monday morning, the battle in the Fifth Anniversary PokerStars Sunday Million came to a close, setting records for both its prize pool and player count. Last week, when PokerStars announced that the guaranteed prize of the fifth anniversary of its Sunday Million would be million, it was safe to assume that it would draw [...]
On Sunday, March 6, 2011 the largest weekly online poker tournament will celebrate its fifth birthday as the PokerStars Sunday Million hosts a special tournament in honor of its 5-year anniversary. To celebrate the achievement PokerStars will more than triple the usual guaranteed prize-pool of .5 million, offering up a massive million guarantee that will [...]
Another interesting week of poker is in the books, and the past seven days have seen a new game introduced at Party Poker, PokerStars creation of Regional Championships of Online Poker tournament series, and rash of signings at a number of different online poker rooms. Party Poker introduces Double Holdem Double Holdem is an offshoot [...]
It’s been an interesting week in the poker world; the World Series of Poker Europe is underway, one of the handful of legal US online poker rooms shut its doors, and a number of Brits were honored at the first British Poker Awards. Perhaps the biggest news of the week was Phil Laak’s WSOPE win. [...]
PokerStars has been all over the headlines over the past week for a variety of reasons, but it was Full Tilt Poker and one of their newest sponsored players that were involved in perhaps the biggest story of the week. PokerStars 50 Billionth Hand Promotion: With over million in cash and prizes set to be [...]
An action-packed Sunday of online poker came to an end early Monday morning as Event #13 of FTOPS XVII ran well past sunrise on the the east coast. Headlining the final table was none other than Chris Ferguson. However, he bowed out in fifth place… @ Poker News Related posts Mike Sexton Falls Just Short [...]
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Last we checked, Canada Day was earlier in the year. Our Canadian friends took the day off and did a bunch of Canadian things. We remember it clearly, largely because we were a little jealous. So, with the above completely understood, you can probably understand why were like, “Wha?” when Team PokerStars Canada blew up [...]
Tired? Sleepy? Need a nap? Perhaps a shot of five-hour energy, six pack of Red Bull, or if the World Series of Poker PokerStarsBlog crew is to be believed, a handful of Atomic Fireballs would help you make it through the 0,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-up in one piece. The post-WSOP time started after a marathon [...]
