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The start of UKIPT Season 2 has been put back a day owing to appalling weather conditions in the UK and Ireland. UKIPT Galway had been due to start at 4pm tomorrow (Thursday), but because so many players were having trouble getting through snowstorms to the venue--airports are in chaos...more

The final Super Tuesday in November drew a field of 422 players, smashing yet again the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool. The $422,000 prize pool would be shared amongst the final 54 players, with the winner expected to pick up over $80,000. Just a few members of Team PokerStars took...more

Fernando Brito, the 51-year-old businessman from Portugal who made the final of the EPT London Main Event, has secured a big lead in the EPT Player of the Year Award race after winning the €10,000 event at EPT Barcelona, writes Mad Harper. Brito is now 660 points ahead of his...more

Germany's Sandra Naujoks, 2009 European Player of the Year, had a varied career of a different sort before getting into poker. She studied German and history at university and became a teacher after graduation. Later she took on graphic design and modeling. But after being introduced to poker, her life's...more

There were two red spades in the lobby of the Twitter Poker League tourney on Sunday. Team Online Pro Boumaaza 'Chiren80' Bachir and Dale 'Daleroxxu' Philip might normally play higher stakes than a $1.10 tourney, but they were showing some love for the Twitter tourney. As usual at #tpoker time...more

It's not all glamour Along with the life as a professional poker player also come worries. Last week was the trip to Barcelona for the European Poker Tour tournament in Barcelona. All I had to do is show up. PokerStars had taken care of the five-star hotel and the...more

If you haven't made your monthly nut by now, time may be running out. That's why yesterday was such a huge day on PokerStars. People came out of the woodwork to play the Sunday majors, and we saw some performances that people will be talking about for a while. Team...more

The last weekend in November meant several things. First and foremost, huge monthly tournament opportunities were taking place on PokerStars, namely the Battle of the Planets and the Turbo Takedown. Second, a number of Regional Championships of Online Poker events were taking place in locales like the United States, Canada,...more

The final Sunday Warm-Up of November drew a field of 4,651 players, with the final 675 earning a piece of the $930,200 prize pool that was created over the next several hours. Over 30 members of Team Pokerstars would participate in today's Sunday Warm-Up, but only two made the...more

A great first act, a slow, more reflective act two, followed by a dynamite finale. The main character to this televised drama? A quiet, unassuming Swede named Kent Lundmark, with a knack of picking his moments and who can now call himself a European Poker Tour champion. Lundmark, 22,...more

by Mad Harper Seven years ago, Cathy Hong, a language student living in Seoul, went on a blind date that was to change her life forever. She was just 21 and the date was with Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier, a friend of a friend and one of the world's top-ranked players...more

by Jennifer Shahade Last month, I wrote some introductory strategy tips for satelliting into the Ladies Weekend at the PCA. So far, four $215 final satellites are completed and ten women, including Women in Poker Hall of Famer Kathy Liebert, have won their way into a spectacular weekend of poker,...more

The NAPT LA has just concluded and I must say that it was the best result I've had for Season 1 even though its the only event I've cashed. I love all of the NAPT stops, its such a great tournament. I mean, where else are you gonna get at...more

There were the usual added value extras this week over at #tpoker HQ (otherwise known as @tpokerstars Twitter). These included. • A completion to predict guess how many players there would be (it was always going to be 1,269 - this contest is a skill game). • Bounties if you...more

Here is the seat draw for Day 4 of EPT Barcelona: 1 1 Konstantin Puchkov Russia 820,000 1 2 Alessandro Longobardi Italy 1,863,000 1 3 Jorge Lores Spain 1,131,000 1 4 Marco Bognanni Italy 1,131,000 1 5 Zachary Korik USA PokerStars player 888,000 1 6 Jesus Cortes Lizano Spain 915,000...more