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The special $10 million guaranteed edition of the Sunday Million on December 18 is a key element of our 10th Anniversary celebrations. There are a myriad of ways to enter this huge event, which comes with a guaranteed first prize of $2 million (see the PokerStars Lobby for satellites etc),...more

For Adrienne 'talonchick' Rowsome life is about more than making money and grinding it out at the poker tables. The PokerStars Team Online player makes some serious cash playing poker but you won't find her in front of a dozen computer monitors every day clicking away for hours on end....more

On Tuesday, the long-awaited kickboxing match between Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier and Lex 'RaSZi' Veldhuis took place. After two years of planning, the two Team PokerStars Pros met in Marbella, Spain for their match, which lasted just four minutes. In the second round of the bruising five-round contest, Veldhuis delivered a...more

When you cover a tournament circuit like the EPT for season after season, you get used to seeing familiar faces at the tables. There are many players making trips time and again alongside folk you've never seen before; some are PokerStars qualifiers enjoying their first taste of live action, others...more

Here's a novelty that could bag you a package for this January's PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for very little indeed. How little? Well, how about via a $0.10 rebuy? This tournament will run this Sunday at 2pm (ET) and guarantees one PCA package worth $15,780. With any number of rebuys allowed...more

If you were a small stakes sit & go player grinding the nine-man, $5 buy-ins, and I said in a couple of years you would be playing $5,000 heads-up matches, you'd think I'd been drinking, right? After all, that would mean either a heroic success rate or a long-lost relative...more

For most of us, our first taste of online tournament action on PokerStars has been the traditional No Limit Hold'em freezeout. That's certainly how I first came to play via the first-ever World Blogger Championship of Poker (WBCOOP) back in 2005, and I bet most of you reading this came...more

I remember that six years ago when I started my relationship with PokerStars I traveled to different places in Latin America and, when going to play poker, there were different games and rules depending the place and country where I was. Also poker was so much less popular. Since the...more

In four days of exciting poker that showcased the depth of talent around the world, pros converged atop the London Eye for the International Federation of Poker Nation's Cup. Germany's victory was followed by the $500,000 Invitational World Championship where the ladies held court at "The Table." 135 of the...more

Liv Boeree and I have a little bit in common. Both of us are English, have worked in the poker media and have played in live events for PokerStars. I would not claim to be any more professional at the journalism side of things, but I don't think there is...more

Just moments ago, I revealed PokerStars is about to give away $1 million in the Ring Game Leaderboard promotion, part of its 10th Anniversary celebrations. Now, more news has just landed on the PokerStars Blog newsdesk. Actually, it's not one but three pieces of news goodness. Here goes: 1. $0.10...more

So, we've already announced a special $10 million guaranteed Sunday Million and a $1 million guaranteed Sunday Storm, something that pleased our legions of tournament players a great deal. But what about our cash game players? Why had PokerStars not revealed something juicy for them as part of its 10th...more

PokerStars Macau, the largest poker room in continental Asia, is pleased to announce its full special events calendar for 2012. The Asia poker season launches with the Macau Poker Cup: Red Dragon from February 18-26 and features the HKD $11,000 Red Dragon main event which comes with a HKD...more

By now you've likely heard that PokerStars is aiming to beat its own Guinness World Record for staging the largest online poker tournament in history. The $1 event, with a guaranteed $50,000 first prize, kicks off on Sunday, December 4 and we hope to smash the current record of 149,196...more

In 2009, two Team PokerStars Pros, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier and Lex "RasZi" Veldhuis got into a friendly confrontation that led to the two making a prop bet where they would square off against each other in the ring -- mixed-martial-arts style. The two agreed to fight it out, seriously, but...more