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Players hailing from the United States may have been a bit groggy on Sunday, March 14. Daylight Savings Time kicked in the night before, and everyone lost an hour of time. It simply vanished because someone (a scientist?) told us to make it happen. We oblige, mostly because we don't...more

Hey, we're not all going to get rich on Sunday. Some folks will win, some folks will lose. Monday will come and we'll start looking forward to Sunday again. That's how the online poker world works. We spend a lot of time here talking about the people who win the...more

The first weekend in March brought a sizable crowd to the PokerStars tables for the big Sunday tournaments. Maybe it was the absence of big land-based tournaments to consume players. Possibly not many people cared about the Academy Awards. Or the stars could have been aligned in a particularly complicated...more

After the extracurricular excitement during Kevin "ImaLuckSac" MacPhee's one million Euro win at the EPT Berlin, online players returned to the quieter virtual felt for tonight's $750,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-up. With the buy-in still a scant $215, the prizes continue to reward the players who make the final table in...more

While the Hollywood stars were walking the red carpet in Hollywood, the only fabric anyone was concerned about in the poker world was the final table felt at the PokerStars Sunday majors. This week's Sunday Warm-Up had 4,980 players, with a prize pool of $996,000. It was a fast...more

With the successful opening of the North American Poker Tour last weekend at The Venetian players are back behind their computers for today's $750,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-up. 4,809 players remembered their logon IDs and ponyed up the $215 buy-in for a shot at the $961,800.00 prize pool. Nearly broaching a...more

Typically, Tuesday doesn't get a lot of hype. It's not the beginning or the end of a week, nor the very middle of the week. Even when holidays fall on Tuesdays, they're celebrated on Mondays. But leave it to the innovative minds at PokerStars to look at Tuesday as one...more

It was the second day of March. While some of us wondered how in the name of calendars and clocks we catapulted into the third month of 2010 already, online poker players had their eyes focused appropriately on The Super Tuesday, one of the most exciting poker tournaments of the...more

After the utter madness of the recent record-breaking Sunday Million, you might have expected PokerStars players to take some time away from the tables to catch their breath. But if you thought that, you don't know PokerStars players very well. About 38 hours since all the weekend's chaos abated, Super...more

It's not often (or ever) that the $1 Million Turbo Takedown's field fails to eclipse that of the previous Sunday Million field. One part is the Turbo Takedown low cost of admission being just 3,000 Frequent Players Points to grab a seat with 3,000 chips in front of your name...more

For the fans of the National Football League, it's Pro Bowl night where the best players in football (American not "proper" football of course) come out to show their talents. Basically they show up to put up huge numbers on the scoreboard and give fans one more taste of the...more

The $1 Million Turbo Takedown went out of 2009 with a bang and some vrooom this evening. The field was relatively small having just 17,755 entries as compared to the 149,196 players in the just finished Guinness Book of World Records $1 tourney. But the good part was the buy-in...more

Three SnG victories mean $12,000 for one lucky player this afternoon as the Battle of the Planets $50,000 Triple Shootout continues today with this long running daily promotion for Sit and Go players (read how to get your ticket into today's event here). If you're from the United State or...more

A little double duty for your writing crew today here at the PokerStarsBlog. The finale of the World Bloggers Championship of Online Poker is taking place with 2,062 scribes on the virtual felt today battling it out for tickets to the 2010 Spring Championship of Online Poker or an Omaha...more

As 600 SnG champs cashed in their tickets earned throughout the month for 2009's final $50,000 Battle of the Planets Triple Shootout freeroll, we had some well-known players make their runs at the $12,000.00 first prize sitting at the end of these three SnGs. New minted Team PokerStars Online Pro...more