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Viva Mexico: The Shane Schleger story

In the early part of my career in poker, Shane Schleger became one of the first people I identified as a real person with a fake name. That is, everyone called him "shaniac," and that was cool, because that's who he was. Over time, it became common to call real people by their online names, but "shaniac" was among the first for whom it seemed normal to me. As the months and years passed, as I started to read more and more of Schelger's writing, for whatever reason, it started...more

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Crazed Andre Coimbra's $100,000 challenge gets moving

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Andre 'acoimbra' Coimbra is a lunatic. He's a nut bar, a fruitcake, loopy and bonkers. He's mad, barmy and round the bend. He's an unhinged, unbalanced, rabid crackpot. But, and it must be stressed that it's a big but, he's got a good heart. The PokerStars Team Online grinder has...more


Team Online's Caio Pessagno makes history on TLB

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When dawn broke on Monday, the people who manage the PokerStars Tournament Leader Board saw something interesting next to the weekly winner's name: a red spade. PokerStars' Mike J. has been running the TLB seven years. When he saw Team Online's Caio Pessagno's name at the top, Mike thought, "Well,...more


I'm going for MicroMillions Player of the Series

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The Micro Millions 4 tournament series kicked off on March 14th and is now underway! After giving it a decent amount of thought, I've decided that I'm going to put in a lot of effort to try and win/finish high up on the overall leader board. After being a bit...more


From Moneymoon to honeymoon on FPPs

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If you've watched my Team Online feature video, then you know that my main motivation for playing poker has always been to obtain some of life's nicer things. My conventional job pays for things like food, shelter, and investments while poker covers eating out, vacations, and sparkly new toys. That...more


Andre Coimbra sets out on $100 to $100,000 challenge

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A lot of poker players might well think Andre Coimbra is crazy. The 2009 Magic: The Gathering world champion became a member of PokerStars' Team Online a couple of years ago and has since shown himself to be...well, mildly insane. The first flashes of his madness came last summer when...more


Race to Supernova... and beyond!

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Be the first to reach Supernova or Supernova Elite and we'll festoon you with glory and gifts. Sign up to the leader board today! In 2011 Andrew 'azntracker' managed to make Supernova Elite in a record two months, busting PokerStars Team Online's George 'Jorg95' Lind previous record by some three...more


Mystery no longer: Team Online reveals Tatiana 'Mysters_Y' Barausova

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She'll strap herself to a snowboard. She'll travel the world. She'll pump iron in the gym. She'll hit the road and drive for hours. She'll do all of that just as soon as she finishes up grinding through enough hands to make Supernova Elite. This, friends, is Tatiana 'Mysters_Y' Barausova....more


Supernova Elite at the end of the world

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I don't know how you think the world is going to end in eight days. Previously unseen asteroid? Random out-of-control planet spinning through the universe against all laws of physics and slamming into Earth? Dario Minieri waving his magic wand in the wrong direction? Really, it could be anything. For...more


DaWarsaw vs Tzen1 in MicroMillions challenge

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Team PokerStars Online members Grzegorz 'DaWarsaw' Mikielewicz and Richard 'Tzen1' Veenman have picked this Sunday's MicroMillions as a battleground. To the winner the spoils, which are in this case a day's of valeting at the PCA this January. "Get me a Jamba Juice!" "Hold my place in the water slide...more


PokerStars mobile: Your new weapon to survive shopping

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Team PokerStars Online's Andre 'acoimbra' Coimbra may well have just saved his relationship - and might be able to save yours while he's at it. The Portugese player, who got a lot of attention during his sleep-deprived MicroMillions II campaign, has struck upon the idea of playing on PokerStars Mobile...more


DaWarsaw raking it in with B000000M!

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Team PokerStars Online's Grzegorz 'DaWarsaw' Mikielewic is just one of the 1,937 winners that have picked up $207,246 in bonus B000000M! money over the last four days. To celebrate 1,000,000 hands being BOOM!ed we've been giving out 100 big blind bounties to anyone that wins a Zoom hand Hold 'em...more


PCA 2013: I want to go back

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Don't miss the $10 PCA qualifiers running every Sunday on PokerStars. The top ten finishers all get seats to the 2013 PCA! People head down to the Bahamas for various reasons but if you're a poker player and you're in Nassau during January, you're probably there for the PCA. The...more


Isaac Haxton joins Team PokerStars Online

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Introducing the poker world to Isaac Haxton is a bit like introducing Hollywood to Johnny Depp. Haxton is as much of a veteran of the online poker community as anybody in the modern age. He's among the most feared competitors in both the live and online realms. There isn't a...more


Team PokerStars Online: And the new member is...

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Well, you guessed, and you guessed, and you guessed, and guess what? Some of you got it right. Earlier this week, we announced that Team PokerStars Online was adding a new member to its stable. During the 36 hours of the contest, we had nearly 1,500 guesses. About 10% of...more


Guess the next member of Team PokerStars Online, win cash (Updated!)

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The Team PokerStars Online family is about to grow, but--at least for right now--we're not going to tell you who's coming to dinner. It's up to you to guess, and if you do, you could win a little bankroll of your own. Here's how it works. If you can guess...more


Randy Lew (not a robot) to defend championship in Macau

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Randy Lew is about ready to celebrate his first anniversary with the companion he loves the most. They've spent the past eleven months together. It's a relationship like you've never seen. Randy Lew loves his APPT Macau trophy. As you might remember, the member of Team PokerStars Online won the...more


From one grind to another

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What an intense month it has been! Its funny how whenever a big series like SCOOP or WCOOP is coming up you cant wait for it to start and you are so motivated to grind all the events every day, and then towards the end, well I think my colleague...more


The lucky WCOOP seat at my house

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If you missed the insanity on Twitter over the past few days, there was one particular house in Canada that pulled in a lot of World Championship of Online Poker cash. Even better? It's the house where Team PokerStars Online's Adrienne "talonchick" Rowsome lives. Not only did her friend Eric...more


Welcome two new members of Team PokerStars Online

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Team PokerStars Online's ranks swelled by two this morning, which is good news all round. For them it means representing the biggest and best online poker site in the world. For you it means that you can easily spot them at the tables because they'll have that little red spade...more


WCOOP 2012: nanonoko and Talonchick working out their plays

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Two members of Team PokerStars Online have posted in their WCOOP videos to us today. Randy 'nanonoko' Lew last night went deep in WCOOP-52 ($215 NL Hold'em Big Antes) and recorded a video talking through some of his hands as he did so. Despite his one-table focus, a far cry...more

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