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PokerStars All Star week is almost upon us and we're just starting to learn who will make up the All Star Team and face off against Team PokerStars Pro. All Star Week will run from March 23 to 29, when PokerStars will be hosting a series of heads up matches...more

You might have heard about PokerStars Macau. You may think you know everything about it. Well, now, there is a brand new room in a brand new place and it bears some attention this morning. This weekend, PokerStars will host the grand opening of PokerStars Macau at the Gran Lisboa....more

Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso has just done something no other person has done before. Rousso went to the NBC Heads Up Poker Championship in Las Vegas and faced, without question, the toughest path to the finals as any player ever. After beating the likes of Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu,...more

By Sunday's end, a member of Team PokerStars Pro could very well be the NBC Heads Up Poker Champion. Daniel Negreanu, ElkY, and Vanessa Rousso have all made it to today's quarter finals. While all three have a shot at the title, only one of them can make it to...more

If you had a chalk bracket going into day 1 of the NBC Heads Up Poker Championship, find a bird cage to line, because it's pretty much worthless today. Well, not entirely. Several matches went the way the experts predicted, but the last year's champion and runner-up (and favorites to...more

In less than six hours, the 2009 NBC Heads Up Poker Championship begins and now we know who will face each other in the first round. As we mentioned yesterday, a host of Team PokerStars Pros, one Friend of PokerStars and a PokerStars NBC Heads Up Qualifier are in Las...more

At 19 years old, Blandino Gines had just come to America. He picked grapes for a living in California. He moved to Alaska and canned salmon. He taught himself to weld and moved to Seattle for another job. Now, he is unemployed, a victim of layoffs and the tough economy....more

Maybe you've turned on the TV and watched Greg Raymer play and thought, "Well, I might be able to beat him if I really try." Or maybe you sat down to play WCOOP and mused, "If I get sat with ElkY, I'm going to show him what I can do."...more

I do not pretend to understand what makes Ylon Schwartz tick, and anyone who claims to get him can just take a spot over in line #3 at the Liar Store. Some people have called him "spooky." Others say "peculiar." I think it's safe to just call him "good" and...more

Earlier today, we showed you how the top players won the biggest tournaments online (and if you missed it, be sure to go back and check out the 3-1-09 Online Poker Show). Now, here's some advice from Team PokerStars Pro Steve Paul-Ambrose on how to make it happen for yourself....more

If you went to bed early last night, you might have missed it. What started as a plan for Team PokerStars Pros Barry Greenstein and Daniel Negreanu to play some big heads up games suddenly turned into a full high stakes cash game table. You might already know about PokerStars'...more

It will take quite an imagination to wrap your head around this one, but, frankly, it took a lot of imagination to get to this point anyway. So, stick with us here. Imagine that every citizen of New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles wanted to play poker. Not an...more

It's only been a couple of months since we saw Mexican poker superstar Juan Carlos Alvarado stand front and center with Team Mexico at the PokerStars World Cup of Poker V. He's the type of player who always seems to be smiling and he is the kind of guy you...more

It seemed like a long shot. Even to the most optimistic person, the odds seemed pretty rough. There were thousands upon thousands of tables running early Monday morning on PokerStars. Not only did an optimist have to be sitting at the right table, but he also had to be dealt...more

In all the excitement leading up to PokerStars' 25 billionth hand, no one could've predicted how interesting the big hand would be. It happened in the early morning hours of Monday February 16th. PokerStars had given away hundreds of thousands of dollars in milestone hand money. All that remained was...more