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A $1 million guaranteed prize pool with at least $200,000 set aside for first place. Sounds pretty good, yes? Better still, you can play in this event for just $55 and try to win $100 bounties by knocking out a member of Team PokerStars Pro or Team PokerStars Online in...more

A few short days ago it was Valentine's Day, the day of happiness, love and adoration. A day of hugs, kiss and cuddles but it was also the day PokerStars completely changed the online poker world. After reading my Valentine's Day card from my other half and opening the gifts...more

The first season of the PokerStars Eureka Poker Tour was met with great enthusiasm from a poker community looking for its own tour in central and eastern Europe. Tournaments in Prague, Croatia, Slovenia and Bulgaria were great successes, showing once again that PokerStars puts on the best live events. Now...more

If you've been playing the game long enough, there aren't many words in poker that can make your heart race. But today, PokerStars issued a five-word statement that will change the lives of UK poker players. Those five words? "We are now an App." With one little sentence, PokerStars set...more

PokerStars announced this afternoon that PokerStars.eu has gone live for all of its players in Sweden and Finland. Combined with the recent announcement of PokerStars' new license in Malta, it's an important step in improving the player experience and benefits in those countries and across Europe. Today's announcement means Swedish...more

Listen, I was the designated driver this weekend, so it's not me. It's you. Actually, I don't know if it's you, either. Let's just blame PokerStars, shall we? Because it's somebody's fault I'm seeing double today. Let's just count the ways shall we? First, there was Sunday's date. 12-12. That...more

The Sunday Warm-Up has always been kind of a prequel, a lead-in to online poker's blockbuster tourney, the Sunday Million. With this week's "double vision" promotion, however, we had a sequel to the prequel, a.k.a. the "Sunday Warm-Up II: Electric Boogaloo." And as it turned out, the sequel might well...more

It was just another Sunday in February. Winter raged in many places throughout the world, with cold temperatures keeping players indoors and near a heat source. But for players on PokerStars, it was anything but an ordinary Sunday, as Double Vision took over and offered many players the opportunity to...more

Circus Groupe and PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site, today announced that www.pokerstars.be has become one of the first online poker sites in Belgium to be officially granted a license under the Casino de Namur A+ license. The site was authorised in 2011 by the Belgian Gaming Commission in...more

"The players are calling it The Thing," Emma said. It was her job to be in touch with the people at the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. She had listened, and she knew that many folks were exceptionally curious about what my colleague Rick Dacey described as the "the elasticated crisscross...more

In case you didn't know, poker players tend to like to gamble with their money, and I'm not talking strictly in cash games or poker tournaments. Prop betting offers another way for poker players to be in action and have their money on the line. Working in the industry, oftentimes...more

Though most people outside of North America refer to it as American football, the game's championship game is a worldwide event. Tens of millions of people around the world tuned in last night for the National Football League's Super Bowl. While it was a big deal, it was just background...more

I had a lot of travel problems getting to the PCA. I got stuck in Miami for one night, and had a lot of other flight problems. I showed up at the tournament very tired, which is not the way you want to be at a $100,000 tournament. I ran...more

The first Sunday of February brings another Women's Sunday to the masses of female poker players on PokerStars. Another month of the weekly events is on the way, along with a Facebook freeroll and other surprises. We can't give away all of our secrets, but you can trust that there...more

The biggest and richest tournament in all of Europe is on its way back to Monaco. After a one-year hiatus, the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final is returning to Monaco. As Season 8 of the EPT draws to a close, the EPT will pack its bags April...more