The finale of the European Poker Tour's ninth season is over with Max Altergott triumphing in the last major event of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final, the €100,000 buy-in Super High Roller event, earning a first prize of €1,746,400, and a Shamballa Jewels bracelet worth €10,000, courtesy...more

News just in as the PokerStars Blog was wrapping up for the night: Ole Schemion has just won the €10,000 six-handed NLHE turbo to complete a hat trick of side event wins here in Monaco. First place paid out more than €100,000 but until results reach us - which will...more

Television coverage of the European Poker Tour is so slick that we take it all for granted. You probably don't notice the camera operators, floor managers and producers busying themselves in the background of the pictures you watch -- you're not meant to; they're all dressed in black after all....more

Within the poker community in my country the only thing anybody talks about is the Colombian LAPT in the city of Medellin, and it's just around the corner. This tournament was voted the best stop of the LAPT Tour in 2011. It also broke records with nearly 700 players playing...more

Imagine the crowd rushing a college football field after a huge win and taking down the goalposts. Then apply that image to the final table set of a poker tournament and you'll have a good idea what we witnessed in São Paulo moments after Victor Sbrissa won the 2013 PokerStars.net...more

When heads-up play began, Daniel Murta was the chip underdog to Victor Sbrissa. Slowly, small pot by small pot, Sbrissa began to increase his lead. He liberally raised his button against Murta's big blind. He played many pots out of position against Murta, often using the check-raise to induce folds....more

The PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) has released its APPT Macau* - Season 7 schedule which takes place at 'PokerStars LIVE at the City of Dreams' from June 7-16. The ten-day schedule includes eleven Official Asia Player of the Year Events (APOY) featuring the HKD $25,000 (US $3,200) Main...more

Each day seemed to belong to one player. Daniel Spence finished atop the leader board in Day 2 and then Jim Collopy knocked out player after player and ended Day 3 with a massive chip lead. Today belonged to Jae Kyung "Simba" Sim, who ran through the final table and...more

As we've mentioned before, poker is expanding throughout Asia. The fields, prize pools, buy-ins and even amount of tours have steadily been growing over the years. A few weeks ago, PokerStars announced that they were going to start sponsoring the China Series of Poker (CSOP). Now, the people over at...more

The inaugural UKIPT Series is going to be tough to top as Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody defeated a field of 343 to claim the first prize of £19,400 and his first tournament victory since he completed his Triple Crown in May 2011. Your champion - Jake Cody He's had...more

11.30pm: Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody wins UKIPT Series 1 It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that with the stacks as they were and the blinds high that the next all-in would decide this tournament. And so it proved. From the button Jake Cody raised to 240,000,...more

8.10pm: Break time The players are now on a 15 minute break whilst tournament staff colour up and race off the 1k chips. You'll find level 25 updates in a new post. 8pm: Jake Cody wins a million chip pot I joined the action to see a sizeable amount of...more

There aren't many festivals about where you can find six players banking more than a million dollars each. The PokerStars Caribbean is one of them. Scott Seiver and David 'Doc' Sands kicked off the festival with a first and second place in the $100,000 Super High Roller for $2,003,480 and...more

Every EPT and PCA festival ends up with a popular high stakes turbo. The PCA 2013 offering came in the shape of a $10,000 six-max turbo which pulled in 88 entries, including many that had played the $25,000 over the two days previous. Those high stakes guys, they don't like...more

Affif Prado is the PCA Main Event champion. No, scratch that, he's the mini Main Event champion. The Brazilian finished off his PCA with a solid $16,090 win in the $300 buy-in event that follows the same structure but plays with much shorter blind levels. Prado beat Englishman Ian Simpson...more