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Team PokerStars Online's George Lind

WCOOP 2010: Xaston speeds to expedited victory in Event #6 NL Turbo Rebuys


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Supersonic poker.

That's the charm of turbo tournaments -- fast paced and built for adrenaline junkies who don't want to grind it out in a deep stacked tournament with structure so slow that you're folding hand after hand after hand ad nauseam for 16 hours straight. Add the rebuy element and you have a recipe for a poker junkie's nirvana. Where can you play a 1,600+ player tournament in less than four hours with a prize pool topping over $1.3 million?

Jamie "Xaston" Kaplan won this all-out sprint to claim his first WCOOP

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Online Tournaments

WCOOP 2010: J0hnny_Dr@m@ earns top billing in Event #5, $320 NLHE 6-Max Shootout

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Win a six-person sit-n-go. Seems a simple enough proposition, right? Now do it four times. In a row. And your opponents? Among them them will be some of the toughest MTT players in the world. Folks you've read about on these very pages. Guys you've watched on TV. You're

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WCOOP 2010: ProXimaVez dominates Event #4 $320 PLO final table

PokerStars WCOOP 2010 Event #4 final table

Day 2 of the World Championship of Online Poker commenced with Event 4 - $320 Pot-Limit Omaha with $200,000 guarantee. A field of 1,805 players registered crushing the guarantee to create a prize pool of $541,500 with 234 players making the money, starting

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WCOOP 2010: Joao bauer survives 19.5-hour marathon to win Event #3

Team PokerStars Online Pro Martha

It only happens once a year. The World Championship of Online Poker brings the biggest guarantees, most tournaments, and best variety for online poker players around the world. And it's finally here!

The first night of WCOOP action brought some exciting action

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WCOOP 2010: AlexKP crushes final table en route to Event #1 victory

2010 WCOOP Event 1 final table

At first glance, it was a Sunday like so many other Sundays that have come before. Thousands of players launched the PokerStars client. They then registered for a $215 no-limit hold'em tournament that featured a guaranteed prize pool of seven figures. But this was

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WCOOP 2010: CrabMaki King of Event #2 ($10,300 NLHE)

2010 WCOOP Event #2 final table

Two years ago PokerStars first introduced the "High Roller" $10,000+$300 buy-in no-limit hold'em event as part of the World Championship of Online Poker schedule. As was the case in 2008 -- when dorinvandy won -- and in 2009 -- when Sumpas came out on top, this year's

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News

PokerStars set to release new software features

Coming soon to a PokerStars lobby near you!

Nobody's perfect, but PokerStars is working to get there. 

Once again, PokerStars has been listening to what its players want, and is now set to release a long list of features on its software.

We've had a snea

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James McCarty wins PokerStars Macau Cup

PokerStars Macau Cup winner James McCarty

by Fred Leung
There was a record prize pool of HKD $4,512,353 for this PokerStars Macau Cup with more than 1,000 players registering across seven tournaments.

The main Red Dragon event saw 314 entries making it the second largest ever and awarded

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Red Dragon: Ginger is the spice of Day 2

Ginger Keong

by Fred Leung
PokerStars Macau at Casino Grand Lisboa had 179 players entered Day 1B to bring the tournament total to 314 players making this the second largest Red Dragon event. The eventual winner will receive HKD $643,000 out of the total HKD $2,859,912

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Jason Coe Leads Day 1A In Red Dragon

Jason Coe

by Fred Leung

The Macau Poker Cup, hosted by PokerStars Macau at Casino Grand Lisboa, began Day 1A of the Red Dragon tournament on Friday, September 3. A healthy field of 135 players entered the first of two Day 1s for Asia's premiere poker series' main

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Macau Poker Cup opens with success despite typhoon fears

Bryan Mad Mimi

by Fred Leung

PokerStars Macau at Casino Grand Lisboa had a successful opening to the September edition of the Macau Poker Cup (MPC) which runs from September 1-5. The MPC kicked off with 167 players in the $2,000 KO Bounty event which set a record fo

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Live Tournaments

Having fun at UKIPT Edinburgh

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by JP Kelly
I arrived in Edinburgh on the Thursday night having postponed my start day to 1B. I felt really bad with what must have been something like flu so I stopped multiple times on the way to the George hotel and picked up some medicine - and jelly

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EPT Vilamoura: Toby Lewis crowned new Prince of Portugal

Champion Toby Lewis and his happy rail (including Daniel Negreanu) at EPT Vilamoura

Expectations were high when we touched down in Vilamoura last Friday. The weatherman forecast glorious sun, the hotel promised brand new views and freshly grouted luxury, and the European Poker Tour promised a week of poker better than any Portugal had ever w

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EPT Vilamoura: Final table level 25, 26, 27 & 28 updates (40,000-80,000)

Martin Jacobson at EPT Vilamoura

Lewis fades two outs for the title
These two young aggressive players didn't want to hang around and the shortening of the levels proved that. It took around four hands of this level before we had the second all-in of this heads-up battle. Lewis raised to

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EPT Vilamoura: Final table level 23 & 24 updates (15,000-30,000, 3,000 ante)

Sam Trickett at PokerStars EPT Vilamoura

3pm: Break time
Players are taking a 15 minute break after level 24. Here's how things stand after the best part of two levels:

Teddy Sheringham - 1,715,000
Toby Lewis - 4,150,000
Martin Jacobson - 940,000
Jason Lee - 1

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EPT Vilamoura: Final table profiles

Toby Lewis

The final eight players in the European Poker Tour event in Vilamoura will play down to a winner today. From a field of 384 the last eight include three Englishman, a former International soccer star, a former EPT winner, a Dane, a Swede, an American and a home town

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WCOOP 2010: The greatest, the biggest, the best

Team PokerStars Pro Joep van der Bijgaart

by Joep van den Bijgaart
First of all welcome to my blog about the WCOOP, the greatest, biggest and best online tournament series in the world. For those guys who were interested in my Supernova Elite Challenge, I will give a short update on that first.

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WCOOP 2010: Exercise and sleep is the key to success

Team PokerStars Pro JP Kelly

by JP Kelly
The WCOOP is an exciting time in the online poker community as it is universally thought of as the most prestigious online festival. It is the most innovative, has the biggest prize pools and offers the best structures going allowing the players

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WCOOP 2010: A little bit of advice

Celina Lin at PokerStars APPT Macau

by Celina Lin
WCOOP 2010 is a date marked down in most poker players' schedule. For those of you unfamiliar with the series, it is essentially the world series of online poker! The buy-ins range from $100-$10,000, so it will suit recreational players to those

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