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Sundays are typically leisure days, ones that offer a slower pace than the rest of the week with time to relax. Even with the regular Sunday tournaments on PokerStars, players can ease in to the action with the Sunday Warm-Up and other events. It may be a grind at times,...more

With all of the tournament reports on the PokerStars blog covering the Sunday majors and the new TCOOP series, there is a lot of talk about smashing guarantees. Not to brag, but it's something the women of PokerStars do every week with the Women's Sunday. When the event started last...more

Sunday was another day full of high-speed, rapid-fire action as the Turbo Championship of Online Poker continued on PokerStars. Among the tourneys on offer was Event #16, a $55 buy-in no-limit hold'em affair with five-minute levels and $10 bounties for each knockout recorded. There were about 7,000 players seated when...more

They call it the action game. Throw in five-minute levels and knockout bounties as added accelerants, and a pot-limit Omaha tourney becomes a blazing blur. Or a blurry blaze. Or whatever... no time to fuss over it. Suffice it to say, Event #9 of the Turbo Championship of Online Poker,...more

Event #6 in the Turbo Championship of Online Poker offered players the unique opportunity to win five short-handed, no-limit hold'em turbo-style sit-n-gos and turn a mere $55 into nearly $32K. All in about six hours or so, too! A total of 3,994 players decided such an offer sounded worth their...more

Four cards. Short levels. Split pots. No-limit betting. As Jake said to Elwood... "Hit it!" Like the Bluesmobile careening toward Chicago, the TCOOP got off to a fast start on Thursday with four events, all of which featured super-quick five-minute levels that ensured lots of rapid-fire play in each. Of...more

Another big field showed up for tonight's Super Tuesday, with 439 coming out to play. That's the biggest group to participate in PokerStars' weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em tournament so far in 2012, and the largest since 442 played four weeks ago -- which at the time was the largest Super...more

The Sunday Million is a big deal. In the online poker business, it's the largest weekly tournament, and its $1 million prize pool guarantee is nothing to sneeze at. Each Sunday, it's one of the most watched and discussed events in poker. This week, however, there were more than a...more

They started with 75 players, but in the end, there can only be one winner. After two days and 18 hours of play, the winner in the PokerStars Women Live $1K NLHE event was Kathy Saraf. She and second place finisher Lauren Kling had been playing heads-up for only about...more

When online tournaments and live events collide, the online events sometimes take the hit. As the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure wound down in the sunny Bahamas resort, the Women's Sunday actually saw a dip in the usual numbers. Poker fatigue? Sunburn? It's anyone's guess. The PCA did, in fact, wind down...more

Everyone likes the idea of free money, right? I mean, why ignore the offer of something for nothing? Right now, PokerStars is in the mood for giving away cold, hard cash. Just by making a deposit or reloading your account, you can enter a series of special $1,000 freerolls with...more

It was a final table perfect as a send-off for the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. There were no weak links, no one out of place, no anomalies in ability. Just eight great players in peak form meeting for one last day to decide the winner of the $25,000 High...more

Peru has won the World Cup of Poker, snatching the title away from the Netherlands and Japan in an exciting eight-way team battle. Peru had never been far from the lead but a strong finish in the final heads-up rounds powered them through to victory and the $90,000 winner's purse....more

One week out of every year, the Atlantis resort is the home office of hundreds of professional poker players. For John Dibella, his wife Wendy, and their two girls, it's no office. It's a regular vacation spot. This week, Dibella's children are at home in New York going to school....more

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure didn't put a damper on tonight's Super Tuesday as 366 players registered. The $366,000 prize pool was split up amongst the final 45 players with the winner expecting to earn over $70,000. After an attempt at a five-handed deal failed, fold_em_sho7 maintained their chip lead...more