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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

The holidays loomed closer in this week's Super Tuesday, as you can now start working on "The Twelve Days of Christmas". The field of 413 created a prize pool of $413,000, giving 54 players more than their money back. Tonight's winner could win nearly $80,000, which would buy quite...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

Unless you spent you weekend in the woods hunting the elusive snipe, unless you have eschewed all technology in favor of studying water-power grist mills, unless you simply just don't give a diddly-darn about poker, it seems very unlikely you missed this weekend at PokerStars. It was a monster. Where...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

The month of December is filled with holiday cheer as the PokerStars 10th Anniversary celebration continues. The excitement is everywhere, from tournament promotions to satellites to the upcoming PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. And this week was no different, as the Women's Sunday offered another amazing opportunity. Players who participated in this...more

The first day of the Belgian Poker Series Grand Final is over with Christopher Buzzo in the lead. Day 1a began with a lot of familiar faces in hw crowd, including Kevin Thomas, Fried Meulders, Filip Verboven, Laurens De Smet, and more. Many of them made it tot he end...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

Do not be alarmed. Do not rush for the exits. Remain calm. All is well. Relaxed? Okay. Now, peep this: the PokerStars 10th Anniversary Road to 100 Billion special is hitting like crazy right now. As we told you a few days back, as part of the on-going 10th anniversary...more

Don't let this worry you. I couldn't have you being worried less than a month away from the best poker vacation of the year. Nonetheless, I would be remiss if I didn't mention a certain packing necessity for a subset of PCA players. Though modern day international flying restrictions are...more

There have been so many exciting announcements as part of the PokerStars 10th Anniversary celebrations that it's quite hard to keep up. Thank goodness for the handy 10th Anniversary page which has everything in one place. Visitors there today will have noticed the last block of promotions has now been...more

Two years ago, a German student named Björn 'Bjoerni89' Schneider started his raid on the online poker world. As a newcomer to the game, Schneider got his feet wet by playing $5 nine-man sit-and-gos on PokerStars. His competitive drive helped him find immediate success, which led to an unusual and...more

Fancy winning your way to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, simply by depositing on PokerStars? Now you can, so long as you are a Canadian resident and use a Ukash voucher to load your PokerStars account. The PCA in the Bahamas, which runs January 5th to 14th, is one of the...more