I've recently learned that if you want to run deep in the Sunday Million, you'd better play it from my condo. I took 13th place a little while back and over the course of that month, both guys I share the place with finished in the top 15! It's not...more

Have you voted in the hunt for The Greatest Ever Poker Hand in the History of PokerStars? A phrase came around a few years ago that meant to run really, really, really well. It meant to run like God, but probably a little better. That phrase was 'to run like...more

I read an article the other day in which someone suggested (more than half-seriously) that the French Open be re-named after PokerStars' ambassador and tennis legend Rafael Nadal. If you don't already know, most folks in those parts call it Les internationaux de France de Roland-Garros, or more succinctly, Roland...more

"My friend was convinced I would make it big on PokerStars so he gave me $50 and a one-hour lesson in Hold'em. Six months later I had $100,000. Three years later I had made a million and saved my family from poverty." - Tian 'wobbly_au' Shou If that was the...more

It's this simple: answer a trivia question and you can have a chance to play in a $1 million tournament. Today, PokerStars kicked off the first of its trivia freerolls that can get you into the $1 Million Ultimate Freeroll at the end of this month. In all, there are...more

I've been a soccer fan my whole life but when it came to FIFA, Ronaldo Nazario was my biggest idol. One of the greatest Brazilian players of all time, he's the highest goal scorer in the history of the World Cup and won FIFA Player of the Year three times....more

Have you voted in the hunt for The Greatest Ever Poker Hand in the History of PokerStars? Well, have you? Here are a couple more choice clips we're putting under your nose, one of which is a clash of two big-name players in a levelling war that could wreck friendships...more

While many top players are in Las Vegas already for the World Series of Poker, there were still a number of good ones who took the virtual felt for this week's Super Tuesday, PokerStars's weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em tournament. Several notables made the final table, in fact, with Team Online...more

I've told this story to a lot of my friends and a few of them refused to believe it was true. They couldn't comprehend why anyone in their right mind would make this play, but I'm telling you--it happened. I was at the Commerce Casino, playing a $1,000 mega-satellite to...more

Have you voted in the hunt for The Greatest Ever Poker Hand in the History of PokerStars? As part of our the upcoming 100 billion hand party we're taking a look at some of the best, funniest, memorable and strategically sound clips of PokerStars history. Not only is it a...more

I was thrilled to know I am the first PokerStars-sponsored player to win the TLB Weekly. So when I thought what should I write about it for the blog, one thing came to my mind: the beginning of my career. Why? Because the way I see low stakes tournaments has...more

Since her team's win at the 1998 European Women's Hardball Championship and their 1999 World Women's Championship, Kjersti Grini has been well known in Norway for her skills on the hardball court. Now she is becoming known in another competitive arena with her recent win as UwouldntKnow at the PokerStars...more

I'm a blessed man. Not only do I get the chance to travel to Las Vegas each summer for the World Series of Poker (not to mention stops on the European Poker Tour) to report on my favorite players, most of which are Team PokerStars Pros, but this summer I...more

With a little more than a week to go in the voting, the front runners are emerging in PokerStars Greatest Poker Hand contest. Last week, we showed you the One Where Daniel Calls It. It currently sits at the top of the voting. While the Negreanu hand is out in...more

I had a pretty good March. I final tabled an LAPT event in Chile and a tournament in Panama, and I won an FTOPS event on Full Tilt Poker. All told I cleared $250,000 in tournament winnings. It started with LAPT6 Chile. This was the first LAPT event that used...more

I've written a lot about poker in the past decade, and most of the pieces you've read are about things that happened after the money bubble popped. It's rare that any of us concern ourselves with the people who bust before the bubble. I played my first World Series of...more

It's that wonderful time of year for dedicated online grinders and recreational poker players alike: the World Series of Poker. Thanks to the WSOP, a whole swathe of poker's best and brightest players are sucked out of PokerStars waters. That, some would argue, makes for softer tournaments. Not that we're...more

The World Series of Poker is well underway in Las Vegas and SCOOP is still in the rearview, but that didn't stop a big field from turning out for this week's Sunday Million, online poker's most popular weekly tournament. The $215 buy-in event saw 6,733 players take part, and after...more

The first weekend of June was one filled with opportunities to donate to charity. Our May initiative to help raise money for Cancer Research UK was taken to new levels with Team PokerStars Pro's decision to run a Race for Life and help with fundraising. Final numbers aren't in yet,...more

Daniel Negreanu is on the button with 9♦T♦. He's facing a big pre-flop raise. He calls. He calls because he's on the button with a fun hand. He calls because he's Kid Poker. Oh, and he calls because he has a secret. He knows what his opponent has, and it...more