David "Gunslinger3" Bach is a stud. Not only is this Bach's second SCOOP victory, it's his second SCOOP victory in the same event. Back in 2010, Bach won the $2,100 Stud Hi/Lo and now he decided it was time for another SCOOP. While the field only had 95 players, it...more

In a lot of poker games, particularly big-bet games, a chip lead doesn't necessarily mean a lot. It's not terribly uncommon to see incoming chip leaders exit a final table early when players have the opportunity to get all their chips in the middle in one big move. All other...more

Stud Hi/Lo may not be the sexiest poker game in the canon, but it still has enough fans to more than double the $25k guarantee on this $27 buy-in event. Whether they were specialists, adventurers, or seeking to fix a weak spot in their H.O.R.S.E. or 8-Game rotations, the 2,146...more

About a month before the EPT, I received an invitation to participate in the Million Euro Cash Game at Monte Carlo. One million euro buyin, no-limit hold'em, blinds of 1k/2k. It was to be, I believe, the biggest non-private cash game ever run in Europe, and definitely the biggest one...more

It's tough to be a live-plus-online pro in Asia. Unlike Europe, which has lots of live events fairly close together and friendly online tournament times, Asian live tournaments are far-flung and major online tournaments start in the middle of the night. Since the start of the year from Singapore to...more

We have good tournament directors around the world, but sometimes they and their partners make really bad decisions, and often the reason that they do is they aren't playing poker every day. What we need to have happen at all major events is to have a committee of players who...more

This year's SCOOP series has produced numerous spectacular performances with many players collecting multiple cashes and making numerous deep runs. Event #27-H, the $2,100 buy-in fixed-limit Triple Draw 2-7 event, continued that trend, with several familiar usernames and avatars again turning up at tourney's end. This time it was Stephen...more

It was a lengthy heads-up match that required the nuts to win. zxz_ overcame a field of 1,668 players, several former SCOOP champions and a number of Team PokerStars Pro and Online players to achieve victory. zxz_'s first hurdle was making the money with the final 216 players. All cashers...more

Check or bet. Call or fold. Break or pat. These are the relatively bifurcated decisions that are presented to fixed-limit poker players. That's what 376 players signed up for in SCOOP 2013 Event 27-M, $215 FL Triple Draw 2-7. Grinders one and all, aDrENalin710 proved the ultimate grinder by entering...more

My PLO results since the middle of last year have been kind of frustrating. They've forced me to think about Omaha and poker in general in ways that I never did before. I thought back across my poker career. I started off playing limit hold'em. Then I transitioned to no-limit...more

For the last year I've been trying hard to improve my online cash games. I'd always played cash games before I got into tournaments, but when I started having tournament success I stopped playing them for a while. When I got back to them I kind of felt stuck. The...more

I didn't have much sleep before going to the EPT Final, because my nephew was born at 5am on day 1a. Obviously I had to stay in London to rail that in. Luckily, I was playing day 1b. So, after an hour's sleep and a dawn hospital visit to meet...more

In the early part of my career in poker, Shane Schleger became one of the first people I identified as a real person with a fake name. That is, everyone called him "shaniac," and that was cool, because that's who he was. Over time, it became common to call real...more

Editor's note: Tomorrow, PokerStars Team Online will release a mini-documentary about Shane "shaniac" Schleger. We asked him to write a little bit about the making of the film. *** I'm not shy about expressing myself, but when it came time to start filming on my PokerStars Team Online short film,...more

Before this SCOOP came along, I decided to take a long poker trip around Europe. My first stop was in Berlin for the EPT. It's a great city and I absolutely loved it. After the tournament ended, I stayed in Berlin for about a week then went straight to Monte...more