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If you've been looking forward to another series of PokerStars SCOOP - the Spring Championship of Online Poker - then the good news is we've now got the schedule. As usual the list of SCOOP tournaments covers all the main poker formats, with small, medium and large buy-ins for each...more

by Alex Kravchenko One of the most important strategies in MTTs is varying your game. That means that in similar situations with similar hands you must occasionally play a different way. For example, when you have a big hand pre-flop and there's a raise in front of you, sometimes you...more

Omaha hi-lo split is a kind of poker game where you can see more action than in any other kind of poker and this final table was a good example of this statement - chips were changing hands fast, players stacks were going up and down. For example "PieOhMy" started...more

PokerStars has proven time and time again that it knows how to end a tournament series with a grand finale of events. The European Poker Tour is a prime example of that. And WCOOP is no exception to that tradition, as the last few days of the World Championship of...more

Those all-in shoves weren't quite so frequent on Tuesday. The 46th event of the 2011 edition of the World Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars featured a rotation of Pot-Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Omaha. The pot limit form of big bet poker certainly necessitates a different skill set than...more

We've become accustomed to seeing Team PokerStars Pro Alex Kravchenko cashing in the main events of the European Poker Tour, but now the Russian has added a big cash in a mixed event to his name. He got first in the €1,000 Mixed side event at Casino San Remo, netting...more