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If the 10th Anniversary celebrations were not enough, and maybe the announcement of TCOOP didn't do it for you, today we have yet more good news from PokerStars that should help the food and drink go down even better during your holiday festivities: The European Poker Tour has just unwrapped...more

How many chances in your life do you get to watch a guy win a million bucks? Those people who were awake early Monday morning got to see Kyle "First-Eagle" Weir do it in the PokerStars 10th Anniversary Sunday Million. Now, those who weren't awake now have their chance to...more

"Someone who has used a degree in astrophysics to good effect and has now become one of the UK's most successful card players." This was waspish television presenter Jeremy Paxman introducing Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree on a special Christmas edition of the BBC's University Challenge, the quiz show for...more

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

Now some people say that you shouldn't tempt fate And for them I cannot disagree. But I never learned nothing from playing it safe I say fate should not tempt me. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter, "I Take My Chances" A couple of days ago, all of us in the PokerStars...more

You can't trade it on the stock exchange. You can't pay for your Big Macs with it. You can't even use it to pay off those golfing losses. Time is a commodity you can't buy. Now, however, PokerStars is going to allow you to become a real online champion at...more

Exactly a week before Christmas, PokerStars played the role of Santa at the December 18th Women's Sunday. The victor of the $10,000 guaranteed weekly tournament would also earn a package worth $3250 to the PCA Ladies Event in the Bahamas. The prize pool smashed the guarantee: Total players: 389 Prize...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

Lex Veldhuis versus Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. Phil Hellmuth versus Ben Lamb. Pius Heinz versus Martin Staszko. These are just a few of the matchups made famous in 2011, each for very different circumstances. The first was an entertaining kickboxing match, the second a heated race in the 2011 World Series...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

The holiday shopping season is in full swing, and if you're anything like us, the magnetic strip on your credit card is wearing a bit thin. Fortunately, PokerStars makes it easy to cash in your FPPs to knock some of those Secret Santas off your list. Whether you're shopping for...more

It took four Day 1 flights. Four! Then it took two Day 2 flights. Finally, the Belgian Poker Series has reached Day 3, and more importantly to the players involved, the money. When the tournament got underway a week ago, it started building a field 538-people strong. The top 80...more

PokerStars today unveiled a plan to extend its industry-leading approach to protecting player funds into the newly regulated markets, and called upon Europe's gaming industry to follow suit. PokerStars' approach provides a third-party, fully independent trustee being appointed to oversee player funds in France. The Trustee will be a UK...more

All I want for Christmas is pocket rockets served with a rainbow flop. Winning the 10th Anniversary Sunday Million or a ticket to the PCA. Have the PokerStars Team Pro ladies been naughty or nice? And what do they want for Christmas and for the New Year? It's that time...more

Earlier in 2011, a few Greek men decided to challenge each other to a year-long contest to determine who was the king of the Greeks. The Greece Poker Challenge pitted Stavros 'IDOLLS' Kalfas, George 'gkap13' Kapalas and Alexis 'J0hnny_Dr@m@' Zervos against each other. Now it appears the Belgian Poker Series...more