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In three weeks, the Women's Sunday will experience its first birthday! And instead of buying gifts for the Women's Sunday, it will be giving presents to the players who helped make the tournament such a success. That makes it a birthday for the women of PokerStars, in a way. For...more

With three divisions in the Women's Poker League, players have more options than ever to compete at levels with which they are most comfortable. Some choose to play in two or three divisions, while others focus on one and improve their game as they go. Bankroll and game goals may...more

When this week's Sunday Million dealt its final river card, we looked at the winner's name and knew we had seen it before. That's because the guy won the Sunday Storm just a week before. What's more, his Sunday Million win came by way of a 2,500 FPP VIP Club...more

"This is freakin' awesome." That was among the first responses we got when we announced the first PokerStars MicroMillions yesterday. It came to us via our PokerStars Blog Twitter account from Hamilton, Ontario's Maureen McCarthy. "I'm taking my shot at the big score," she said. Now, we knew people were...more

PokerStars loves a good celebration. We celebrate billionth hands on a regular basis, and you might remember the weeks-long festivities surrounding PokerStars' 10th Anniversary at the end of 2011. And if you've ever been to a PokerStars live event like the European Poker Tour, you're familiar with the dancers, drinks,...more

Phil Ivey didn't want his picture taken. He didn't have to say so. His ice-bath stare made it pretty clear. He would've probably rather hit the photographer in the face than hear the shutter click one more time. The problem was this: Ivey was the biggest news that day. When...more

Maybe you've been there: sitting in front of your computer, watching the World Championship of Online Poker, wishing you could compete for big money on a micro bankroll. Now, you have your chance. Today PokerStars launched the MicroMillions tournament series: 100 tournaments over the course of eleven days. The buy-ins...more

The are a lot of things standing between you and a big tournament score: big fields, tons of buy-ins, and that pesky little problem of run-bad. While a lot of us roll around in puddles of self-pity and loathing, a lot of other people have figured out a secret: they...more

A winning poker player never sits still. Just days after bagging his first big live event win at EPT Copenhagen, Mickey Petersen headed to another tournament in his home country of Denmark. Petersen is one of that rare breed who has transferred undoubted online skills--he's a member of Team PokerStars...more

Team PokerStars Pro Pierre Neuville, who narrowly missed becoming the first ever Belgian EPT champion in Copenhagen on Sunday, has shot up to fourth place in the All-Time EPT Tournament Leaderboard. This is not the first time that Neuville, who was also runner-up at EPT6 Vilamoura, has been in the...more

Fifty-five bucks. It will buy you a decent meal. It is good for a night out at the movies with your best guy or gal. It might buy you groceries for a few days, if you're frugal and don't mind some generic items. Or, you might consider buying into the...more

Yesterday my son asked me about Leap Year. "If I was born on February 29th," the seven-year-old kid asked me, "how old would I be today?" I wanted to tell him that he was dealing with some heavy existential stuff and that he should finish his dinner. Instead, I just...more

PokerStars Women is looking forward to March. Obviously, spring weather will be nice, but there's a little something happening next month that will be even more special. While we can't leak the details now, let's just say that the Women's Sunday will have its first birthday in March. But you...more

It's only been a few days since the close of the Latin American Poker Tour's fourth season in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Those of us who were there can still taste the cachaça in our mouths, hear the samba music outside, and see another big season on the LAPT come to...more

If I remember correctly, on my sixth birthday I got a horse-racing board game. It was a curious gift for a young boy that perhaps explains a subsequent interest in recreational, er, gambling. The reason I mention it, however, is that this sixth-birthday gift was worth a few dollars in...more