A typical two-year-old's birthday celebration is full of cake, presents, and admiring friends and relatives. Unfortunately, the celebrations are often cut short when the ear-splitting screams, chaos, and early nap times ensue. Sometimes, there's a creepy clown around to add to the overall agitated ambiance. PokerStars Women's Birthday Special on...more

Anyone that claims that moving out of the US in order to continue to pursue online poker was a snap-call must be even braver than the little toaster from that 1987 Disney flick! Obscure movie references aside, I own a Lab that's about one hamburger away from being considered a...more

This is a great excuse to remind you all that the Women's Sunday is celebrating its second birthday soon! What do we have in store? • A week of twice-daily freerolls • Live YouTube 'Hangout' with Team Pros on March 23 at 14:00 ET • Women's Sunday Birthday Special on...more

As the APPT spotlight shines on Seoul, Vivian Im is doing everything within her power to nurture the game in her own backyard. In the past four years that poker has become a livelihood for Vivian, she has enjoyed consistently good online results, gained Supernova Elite status, and used that...more

Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst did a recent online Q & A via reddit that delivered some fascinating comments and details about her life as a pro player. Some questions asked by people she knew in high school even gave us a glimpse of what she was like during those...more

Sunday Grind: March 3, 2013 Since I couldn't bear to confess to more scorched scrambled eggs, like in my first "Anatomy of a Sunday Grind" article, I decided it was time to rethink my schedule. Being as I wouldn't recommend a hectic start for any tournament grinder, especially on a...more

Today is International Women's Day, a time we recognize the contribution women make to the world in every field and the historical inequalities women have had to face. This day of recognition dates back to 1911, a time long before we thought about female's contribution to the game we all...more

It takes time to prepare for a big party. Details have to be confirmed. The celebration has to be organized. Invitations must be sent. We've been working behind the scenes to do just that. Someone bring us some cake, please. Last year's cake from Marjamma That's right. The second birthday...more

There is a scene in Lethal Weapon 2 that played over and over in our minds at the 2009 World Series of Poker. Throughout the week of the Main Event, we watched a young Spanish woman climb through the ranks of the field. Each time she made it to another...more

It was a big Sunday on PokerStars. Our Women's Sunday had the highest turnout in months, catapulting the prize pool over the $17K mark. Quite a lot of money! All of PokerStars was jumping this weekend. The 7th Anniversary Sunday Million had a whopping $7 million guarantee and ended up...more

February may have been the shortest month of the year, but it was filled with plenty of poker fun and information to keep it quite busy. PS Women Team Pros were in action in places like Deauville and Melbourne, while some were spending time in the kitchen and even on...more

A few days after EPT Deauville, my sister and I were in the newspaper for sitting next to each other at the poker table. That's why my sister, the brothers De Meulder, and I were invited to a TV show called Café Corsari. Matthias would explain poker to the audience...more

Vanessa Rousso is one of the most recognizable and formidable players in the game today. Her blonde good looks and friendly smile make her a favorite both at the table and with fans. But that friendly persona disguises a steely intellect and a competitive spirit that can destroy you in...more

It was announced this week that the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker is returning to PokerStars! For the eighth time, bloggers around the globe will have an opportunity to play for money and prizes in WBCOOP. It's going to be exciting, as always, with 31 tournaments over the course...more

Turning 21 last December was not only fun for the lovely cake and presents I received, but also because my sister gave me $100 on my PokerStars account to play some online poker. I would first watch some of my sister's games, and she explained every hand she played and...more

Let Happy Times Ride "Let's just say we're going to go to Bahamas next year now", Jamie Kerstetter told me as we ate mushy curry and awaited our plane back from Paradise to Philadelphia. Indeed, a trip to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure can be well planned by those who qualify...more

As we approach the second half of February, some of the action from the live tournaments has calmed a bit with the end of EPT Deauville and the wind-down of UKIPT Cork. Players can focus more on their online poker tournaments, like our exciting weekly Women's Sunday. Lately, our writers...more

Zinzi de Silva was introduced to poker on a trip to Las Vegas about 18 months ago and has been taking it seriously ever since. Since that fateful trip, she has won a package to the 2012 PokerStars Women Live event in the Bahamas and a similar package to the...more

There was something a little different about Celina Lin as she took her seat at this year's Aussie Millions. Returning to the Crown Casino felt that kick-started her original passion for the game, Lin looked more focused than ever. Perhaps it was her newly-wed glow. Maybe it was being back...more

Sunday Grind: February 3, 2012 My Sundays remind me of the oft-quoted opening to Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. A 12-hour session of over 150 PokerStars tournaments is often the best of times, but with higher buy-ins than the rest of the week, they occasionally feel like the worst...more