There's a glow that hangs around after something like the Spring Championship of Online Poker, a sort of spent, endorphin-charged euphoria that has many of us stumbling around with silly smiles on our faces. I submit that it's the natural biological reaction to a festival that became the biggest of any online tournament series in history--$65,332,179 in prizes and bounties, 526,154 buy-ins, 156 countries, 120 champions. It's such a pleasant feeling that we'd bottle it if we could. Since we can't (Big Pharma would never let that happen), we'll do the best we can do. We're going to help ourselves
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MicroMillions Latest Posts
MicroMillions: Jannick Wrang's 98 events
So, a funny thing happened on the way to an EPT Campione championship. If you were to pitch it to a film studio, it would probably sound a lot like this: Man loses $150,000, punishes himself by registering for nearly 100 poker tournaments, loses a couple hundred dollars more, but...more
How I become the MicroMillions Player of Series winner
I am a big fan of all the tournament series on PokerStars. WCOOP, SCOOP and TCOOP have always been big successes and I try my best to get as good results as possible. When I first heard of MicroMillions my first thought was its another great idea but I assumed...more
Marcin Horecki snags MicroMillions Player of Series
I can imagine the scene inside the Abacus Bunker at PokerStars HQ. A frustrated employee stands in front of Abacus Prime counting the colored balls over and over again. "This can't be right!" he exclaims. "No one will believe us!" But again and again, the numbers come out the same....more
Sunday Million Latest Posts
CC2332 sees victory in April 29 Sunday Million
It is an action-packed weekend at PokerStars. In addition to a final table getting underway at APPT Cebu, the EPT Grand Final Main Event is ready to find its 2012 champion on Monday in Monte Carlo. And the online poker geniuses are preparing for the upcoming SCOOP series to start...more
Mypokerf pairs Super Tuesday title with Sunday Million win
Does luck really come in streaks? Ask ten players and you'll get ten answers, but ask the final two in tonight's Sunday Million and you might find a couple of true believers. Eleven days ago, Russia's mypokerf defeated 462 of online poker's elite MTT grinders in the Super Tuesday, earning...more
TCOOP champion jmc8609 adds Sunday Million title to award list
The Sunday Million has a long, rich history of being the largest online poker tournament in the world. For many years, it has boasted of the largest guarantee of all weekly online events offered on any website, and its title holds the most prestige. "I won the Sunday Million" is...more
Sunday Warm-Up Latest Posts
Sunday Warm-Up: Licensed to Win, Slaktaren007 takes down $97K in victory
After eating a sausage biscuit sandwich for breakfast, normally it would be time to catch up world news and Lindsay Lohan's latest mishap. But, today for some reason opening the PokerStars client to see the start of today's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-up made sense as the tournament will be taking...more
Sunday Warm-Up: MISHELA cracks aces and table to $108K victory
Aces. They look so pretty sitting in your hand and ready to get some unfortunate soul with a lesser hand to make the call. But, as we found out tonight, aces do get beat sometimes. Even twice in the same tournament. Tonight's $500,000 Sunday Warm-Up would attract 3,468 players as...more
Sunday Warm-Up: WCOOP champ sosickPL claims another big title
Usually on Sundays here at PokerStars the largest tournament is the $1,000,000 guarantee Sunday Million and tonight's $1,457,800.00 prize pool there would once again reign as king of the Sunday Majors. The queen who gets up a little bit earlier than the king, the $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up, usually stands...more
TCOOP Latest Posts
TCOOP: Easing into the champion's role
The Turbo Championship of Online Poker revealed a lot about the nature of today's game. Of the many things we learned, it's that the series can produce champions from the ranks of relative unknowns. Just a few days removed from the end of the first TCOOP, we asked a few...more
TCOOP: How Mongy won Player of the Series
Scott "Mongy" O'Reilly played every single event of the 2012 Turbo Championship of Online Poker. Scott "Mongy" O'Reilly won a TCOOP championship and tens of thousands of dollars. Scott "Mongy" O'Reilly won the TCOOP Player of the Series title. We knew all of those things about Scott O'Reilly. But...how did...more
TCOOP closes with (quick) bang
If you blinked, you might have missed it, but there was no mistaking the sound of a lot of money rushing by really fast and slamming into the bankrolls of PokerStars' newest Turbo Championship of Online Poker champions. Sunday marked the end of the very first TCOOP, one that was...more
Super Tuesday Latest Posts
Super Tuesday 5/22: Apestyles dealt a victory after 3-way deal
After a two week hiatus for the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker to shatter records, the Super Tuesday made a triumphant return to the Pokerstars calendar. A field of 397 entries means the final 45 players will share in the $397,000 prize pool. When three players remained, they decided...more
Super Tuesday 5/1/12: I'amSound goes wire to wire, wins $87,506
Being the first Tuesday in May, this edition of the PokerStars Super Tuesday will attempt to channel the spirit of a certain horserace running on the first Saturday in May. This week's a field of 456 nominees, each putting up $1,050 dollars, create a purse of $456,000 to be...more
All surrender to MendaLerenda, 4/24/12 Super Tuesday champ
PokerStars' weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em tourney, the Super Tuesday, was back in action tonight, with yet another large field of online poker's elite coming out. Once late registration closed a total of 438 had registered, creating a $438,000 prize pool and once more besting the tourney's $300K guarantee. The top...more
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