PokerStars may have already hit its 100 Billionth hand, but the party isn't over yet. It seems there's still some extra cash sitting around that the PokerStars brass is just itching to give away. Enter: Zoom and BOOM! You might remember the recent hubbub about the Greatest Poker Hand in...more

Back in March, PokerStars was honoured to be invited by Cancer Research UK to take part in its second Citizen Science Project 'GameJam'. PokerStars employees joined the charity's world-leading scientists and technology gurus from the likes of Amazon, Facebook and Google to help design and develop a mobile game that...more

During SCOOP 2013, there were four separate tournament leader boards: Low, Medium, High and Overall. An error was identified in the initial calculation of points awarded from High stakes tournaments with small fields, which affected the results of the High and Overall leader boards. The advertised rules required that leader...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

Winning poker tournaments can often involve crazy coolers, huge suckouts and a fair share of lady luck. Then there are the days where you keep your head down as it all just seems to fall into place. That was the case for dunner1624 in the weekly Super Tuesday. dunner1624 picked...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

Hi everybody! Taking the cue from the interesting video that recently appeared on PokerNews Italia in which three major heads up players suggest some starting points to reflect upon this speciality, I also wish to analyze the theory of heads up tournaments to express my personal view. Among poker tournaments,...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

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

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