This Sunday, the largest Zoom tournament ever is going to take place. A massive $1,000,000 guarantee has been put up as part of the 100 Billion Hands Celebration meaning that they'll be a huge prize whether 10,000 players put up a fast $109 bucks or not. How can you miss...more

Nowadays, elite poker is more and more a scientific game, in which it's increasingly complicated for an amateur player to survive and succeed. Who's to blame? I can find only one explanation: online poker! Any regular player is now playing more hands in a week than Doyle Bruson played live...more

I apologise if this is a bit hastily written, but you have to understand the more time I spend indoors writing this for you, the less time I'm out in the 29 degree sun drinking Pina Coladas. (Although you can see exactly what went on at the event by clicking...more

Chip leads might look good on paper (or felt), but converting them into the 'Big W' is another matter. Just ask Scott Seiver. In Event #23: $2,500 Seven-Card Stud, Seiver controlled over 50% of the chips with just four players left. Five hours later, that percentage was nothing but a...more

8.35pm: Ludovic Geilich (€130,000) wins the PokerStars Marbella Festival! It was four aggressive days of poker from our champion, who bested 763 runners, fueled by guts and favoured by fortune. The gregarious Pablo Rojas, who already had an Estrellas title - the 2012 Ibiza leg - on his C.V. finishes...more

Through six-and-a-half seasons of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour, there had never been a winner from China. It seems impossible that a country of more than 1.3 billion people couldn't find a champion on the tour that skirts its borders, but the game remains in its infancy in the People's...more

Tonight's Sunday Million capped off a historic week in which PokerStars dealt it's 100 Billionth hand, broke the World Record for the largest poker tournament ever played, and continued a massive $5M giveaway in celebration. Still, the Million was the granddaddy of the weekend majors, drawing 6,435 players. The prize...more

Russia, Lithuania, Romania (times two), United Arab Emirates, Israel, Bulgaria, Norway, and Germany all decided to join our colorful $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up final table this evening. While it would take just under an hour to reach heads-up play (including a five-minute break and stoppage time for a three-way deal...more

Sometimes, players inquire as to the need for PokerStars Women. But even more often, people wonder why there aren't more women in poker. The head of PS Women explained that in this post, with the help of a giant pink bunny. One of the ways that PS Women has allowed...more

That brutal, masochistic thing they call the World Series of Poker is once again up and running. From start to finish, WSOP is six weeks of poker, more tournaments than anyone can handle and enough cash game action to drive people insane. Yes, I am going to play again. This...more

Things have been going well for me over the last year. Poker has been going well, but I've also had a great time pursuing a course in culinary studies which included an internship in a restaurant. I first started to explore getting involved in culinary studies about a year ago....more

My new apartment in Salzburg has come together so well. My girlfriend and I have finally finished with the decorating and she is very happy with it. I just assembled the last piece of furniture, our couch. I've also managed to entirely replenish my wine refrigerator. We decided to empty...more

PokerStars uses the tagline 'We Are Poker'. What does that even mean? It causes me to reflect on community interactions I have had, from as recently as yesterday when I was in the bank preparing my WSOP wire. I could see the young teller was intrigued by the transaction; however,...more

In poker you so often hear about how confidence and winning streaks are everything. They are apparently the reason people go on major heaters, get huge amounts of confidence in their reads and plays, and why they perform well in multiple tournaments in a row. And by that logic no...more

Here's a guy that's almost too cool for school but, by his own admission, you'll always find him there as his passion for poker drives him to learn more about the game every day. Felix 'xflixx' Schneiders is the newest addition to PokerStars Team Online and he's here to help...more