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There were 31 days in March; it would have been tough for any player to compete in all three Women's Poker League divisions, much less do well in all three of them on a regular basis. In addition to bankroll considerations, it takes good time management to play in multiple...more

Time once again for another rousing edition of the PokerStars Super Tuesday. Tonight's tilt featured a field of 495 runners generating a prize pool of $495,000 split among the final 63 players. When four players remained, they arranged a deal to carve up most of the remaining money. In the...more

It's been a stormy year, no? Lots of crashing, booming, and Texas-style floods. There are a lot of reasons for that, but let's focus on a good one. It was around one year ago at this time that PokerStars introduced us to the Sunday Storm. It was a gigantic affair...more

Try to absorb the raw numbers. It took 5,030 hands for Viktor "Isildur1" Blom to win half a million dollars cash from Isaac "philivey2694" Haxton. In total, they played for just about 12 hours over three days. Blom earned more than $40,000 an hour for his work. Blom is 21...more

I'll be honest. I'm really glad that weekend is over. So much was happening at once that it felt like everything might actually be an April Fools joke. What's worse, there were no jokes. Everything was real. Everything was insane. And it just kept coming. The biggest news of the...more

After five intense days of poker action, the Estrellas Valencia finished with Spanish player Miguel Ángel Rodríguez as the winner of the event. Rodríguez won the ESPT Valencia Main Event for €76,000 after making a three-way deal with runner-up PokerStars Qualifier Ruben Gonzalez Porcel (Spain) who earned €58,000 and third-placed...more

After all the excitement of last weekend's Women's Sunday birthday celebration, it was time to get back to normal this weekend. But we're not going to lie. The absence of the web chat and all of the birthday messages was a bit of a letdown. We also miss the virtual...more

A lot of you thought it was too good to be true and the timing far too suspect. A million-dollar SuperStar Showdown on April Fools' weekend? Isaac Haxton and Viktor Blom playing $200/$400 no-limit hold'em for four hours a day until one felted the other? Surely we'd all tune in...more

So, this was a real problem. Yesterday I wrote this post about Viktor Blom and Isaac Haxton playing a heads-up match for $1 million this weekend. I thought it was pretty straight-forward and full of seriousness. But, noooooooo. Everyone in the comments and forums thought I was involved in some...more

This was always going to happen, wasn't it? From the very first hand of the very first SuperStar Showdown in December 2010, it was always going to end up right here at this moment when Viktor "Isildur1" Blom and Isaac Haxton agreed to face off for $1 million. Today we...more

The PokerStars Estrellas Poker Tour is once again underway, this time in Valencia, where Casino Valencia plays host to the second event of the season. Yesterday's Day 1A of the €1,000 + €100 event saw 176 players at the felt, 81 of them having qualified online on PokerStars. After eight...more

I can imagine the scene inside the Abacus Bunker at PokerStars HQ. A frustrated employee stands in front of Abacus Prime counting the colored balls over and over again. "This can't be right!" he exclaims. "No one will believe us!" But again and again, the numbers come out the same....more

The Super Tuesday, the weekly $1,050 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament that routinely brings out online poker's best, was back on tonight with another big field coming out to do battle. A total of 480 players bought in this week, creating a $480,000 prize pool and easily besting the event's $300K...more

Make way in Valencia, because Sergio Garcia has a tee time. In this case, however, you won't find him on the first tee or sipping a cocktail at the 19th Hole. No, this week, Garcia is going caddy-less to Valencia for the Estrellas Poker Tour. While he may not have...more

The France Poker Series has found its latest winner, and she is Veronika Pavlikova. On Sunday, Pavlikova, an 18-year-old, finished atop the 296-player field. Her take? The FPS trophy and €70,000. The PokerStars qualifier scored her first major victory in an event featured many seasoned players, including Guillaume Darcourt, Thibaud...more