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Who is your favorite New Kid on the Block? No offense to Jordan, Jonathan, Joey, or Danny, but Donnie will always be my favorite. Not because he was the one who always wore the Yankees hat (though I am a New Yorker and I do appreciate it) but because of the...more

Barry Greenstein is giving us a monthly peek into his books and being honest about how his tournament year is going.For more check out: January and February by Barry Greenstein I won my first two matches (against Vanessa Rousso and Sammy Farha) in the NBC heads up. Most of the...more

4.15pm: Level over Yes it really is. Join us in 15 minutes for the thrills and spills of what we're calling level five. 4.10pm: Thinking out loud Action had stopped on Daniel Negreanu's table as the Team PokerStars Pro was deep in a hand and facing a tough decision. There...more

2:03pm: break time Players are now on a 15 minute break. 1:50 pm: Well, we don't need Babelfish for that one "Horrorstart, kan ingenting 17.000. Lockdown nu," twittered Lars Bonding (aka @1623poker), who is seated at a tough table alongside Shaun Deeb, Gavin Smith and David Williams. 1:45pm: The "Big...more

Don't get me wrong, I like a blog post about bucolic towns, pastoral prints and Mystic Pizza as much as the next guy, but that was yesterday and this is today. Moments ago in the Convention Center of this mighty complex, the 60-plus dealers received their introductory instructions for the...more

It's easy to get lost driving around the back roads of southeast Connecticut. The country lanes along the Thames River are spotted with enough bucolic little towns and pastoral prints that the eyes generally stop looking for road signs. It seems every little cottage and every pasture is surrounded by...more

When people start getting stuff from the PokerStars VIP store, it's usually a personal purchase. That is, in most cases, while the store is full of cool items, it usually doesn't cause one to think of altruism. Mike Scaglione is different, though. He spends a good deal of time thinking...more

It's been about fifteen years since I last visited Berlin; my former life,working in Frankfurt and we decided to train it over there for the weekend. I can't remember much other than really hot days and very sore feet from all the walking we did. Oh, and the beer was...more

When we started checking all the reports on this weekend's big tournaments, we started to think we might have hit the wrong button. "This looks a lot like last week!" I exclaimed, and then apologized for my use of exclamation points so early in the morning. But, it really did...more

One of PokerStars' newest members of Team Pro Online has just become the very first person to reach the level of Supernova Elite for 2010. While that's a remarkable achievement, it's sort of become old hat for Lind. Below, you'll find Lind's reasoning for working so fast, how he did...more

For the first time ever, Lima, Peru will play host to a televised live poker tournament. June 1-5, the Latin American Poker Tour will visit the historic city to award the next LAPT title. The host venue, Lima's Atlantic City Casino, is located in the upscale neighborhood of Miraflores, just...more

PokerStars has long been recognized as the place to go for well-run, well-structured tournaments. The reputation has made WCOOP, SCOOP, and the Sunday Million appointment poker for the world's online players. And so this morning we were left with a "Huh?" look on our face for a while. Something is...more

Imagine rolling over in bed one morning and finding a woman who knew everything your wife knew...she just looked 100% better than she had the night before. You might be a little freaked out at first, but I bet you'd get used to it. Well, we had something similar happen...more

Sundays are always fun around these parts, but some Sundays are more interesting than others. This weekend was no exception. As the last Sunday of the month, it featured all the regular big action, plus a few other exciting pieces of news from the ranks of Team PokerStars Pro. First...more

Whenever you try anything new, even under the auspices of something so well-established as the European Poker Tour, there's always some element of risk. But rather like in poker itself, where the most skilled players reduce the influence of chance to its bare minimum, the wily operators of the EPT...more