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Everyone knew the final weekend of the PokerStars 10th Anniversary celebration was going to be big. It would be a party befitting the world's largest online poker site. It would be rich. It would be glamorous. It would be everything everyone expected it to be. But who could've predicted how...more

In Toronto, Canada, Kyle Weir sat unemployed. He was 24 years old and paying the bills by playing poker. Meanwhile, he had college loans hanging over his head It was a life, but not necessarily a rich one. "I've always played cards to scrape together money," Weir said. A lot...more

After playing host to a decade's worth of life-changing moments on the felt, it was only fitting that PokerStars celebrated their tenth anniversary by dealing out an embarrassment of riches to its players. First, there was the world record shattering tournament that drew 200,000 players and made one man $40,000...more

Helping to put a big exclamation point on the 10th Anniversary festivities here at PokerStars, a special $10,300 High Roller tourney was added to the schedule on Sunday, and as expected the event drew many of online poker's biggest names. Combine that tough field with deep starting stacks (10,000 chips)...more

This is it. The final weekend of the PokerStars 10th Anniversary celebration has arrived. I hope you have prepared in advance for this, because this could easily end up being the biggest weekend of your year, if not your entire life. Somebody is going to win at least $2 million...more

After more than a month of celebration parties, giveaways, and excitement, it seems hard to believe the PokerStars 10th Anniversary celebration is getting ready to come to a close. When a party goes on for a so long, it starts to feel like the road goes on forever. But this...more

It's mesmerizing. It's almost zen-like. Open your PokerStars tournament lobby and watch the 10th Anniversary $10 million Sunday Million registration number climb. As of this moment, it's 4,783. I've been watching it go up for the past 24 hours. I've not quite seen anything like it. This event is unlike...more

PokerStars Women is only a bit over a year old, so in terms of 10th anniversary history, we are newcomers to this dance. At most, we were a vague idea in someone's head ten years ago. But after over a year of hosting a stellar series of women's tournaments around...more

On December 18th PokerStars will be holding an absolutely amazing event. For its 10th Anniversary, they will boost the Sunday Million guarantee to an incredible $10 Million prize pool. What this means is that there will most likely be 50,000+ players all paying just $200 for a chance to win...more

When the "Sunday Storm" debuted on PokerStars earlier this year, the $11 buy-in tournament swiftly became one of the more popular tourneys on the weekly calendar. Typically the Storm has little trouble smashing its usual $200K guarantee -- for example, last week 39,815 came out, creating a prize pool...more

Kozlicek_x hails from the Czech Republic, a fact which will become important later in this story. But at the tale's beginning, he was just a very small gear in a record-breaking PokerStars Sunday prime time engine. At the peak of the day, more than 410,000 people were playing on PokerStars...more

So, you might have noted yesterday that people started winning lots of money on PokerStars just for being dealt into special hands. This might have seemed like a flashback to the recent coverage of the 70 billionth hand promotion. You might have thought we were just re-hashing our blog posts...more

Your umbrella is not going to be able to handle this weekend. Don't try holding a newspaper over your head. If you choose to go to shelter, it better be one that has some good reinforcement. This weekend's Sunday Storm is going to be a big one. As part of...more

I'd been playing online poker for over a year before I made a deposit on PokerStars. When I finally did, it was like a breath of fresh air. The client was sleek and fast. There were good games going all the time. Best of all, the customer service team was...more

Ten years have passed since I registered my account on PokerStars. I remember surfing the internet, and reading about this new poker site. PokerStars immediately appealed to me, and I could already see myself playing for hours every day. I decided to take some time to choose my screen name...more