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Okay, everyone. I want you all to put on your best Dr. Evil. Raise an eyebrow, hold your pinky finger aloft, and say it together: "One meel-uh-yun dollars." That's what 190 players were playing for in the "high" version of SCOOP Event No. 19, Pot-Limit Omaha. $1,000.000, to be divided...more

Babe Ruth. Joe Namath. Perumov? One of these people is not like the other, but all predicted something amazing in their fields. Babe Ruth's field was baseball; Joe Namath's field was American football. And Perumov's field was fixed-limit hold'em. Yes, fixed-limit hold'em. You remember that game, right? It was the...more

Sometimes you have to leave Texas for Nebraska. Or in the poker sense, sometimes you have to try your hand at Omaha instead of Hold'em. The last day before the Spring Championship of Online Poker Main Event on PokerStars featured Event #19 Pot-Limit Omaha. The $530 buy-in medium event...more

Nearing the end of the Spring Championship of Online Poker series tonight was the last chance for players to gain some extra cash going into tomorrow's big Event $21 NLHE Heads-Up $270, $2,600, $25,500 tourneys or the $109, $1,050, or $10,300 Event #22 SCOOP Main Event (two day event). With...more

If you host it they will come. PokerStars players flocked to Event #17 $22 No-Limit Hold'em with one rebuy and one add-on Friday afternoon. The event drew 9,657 entries, who rebought 6,546 times and made 6,776 add-ons to create a whopping prize pool of $459,580. A total of 1,620...more

As the Spring Championship of Online Poker reaches its final days, players were looking to get their high stakes no-limit hold'em action in before the main event. Event 17 not only provided that NLHE game but allowed for one rebuy and one add-on to spice things up. The $2,000 +...more

A total of 1,809 players entered the "medium" stakes version of SCOOP Event No. 17 which carried an initial $200+$15 price tag. Each had the option of taking one rebuy ($200 for 2,500 chips) should he or she drop below the starting stack of 2,500 at any time during the...more

Less than 24 hours after taking down a SCOOP title in the $320 Seven-Card Stud event, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi had built himself another commanding chip lead, his stack nearly triple that of his closest competitor with three tables remaining in Event #18-low, $55 Omaha hi/lo. With the aggressive...more

Sometimes you feel like a nut (nut). Sometimes you don't. Lileor99 clearly felt like the nuts upon getting out of bed yesterday morning. He out-drew a field of 492 players to take down the title in SCOOP Event #18-M, $530 Omaha Hi/Lo Split. Players that didn't feel like a nut...more

Tonight's big action took place over split pots and nut-nut wheel draws as SCOOP Event #18's Limit Omaha Hi-Lo welcomed 82 players into this high stakes $5,200 buy-in event. With the big buy-in come sizable names, some of which have making the SCOOP events their personal ATM. Players like what...more

Let's just make sure we understand each other here. Hevad Khan wins things. It's hard to let a few months go by without the man known as RaiNKhAN winning some tournament or other. He's not choosy. He'll take a million dollar win at Caesars. He'll take a Sunday major. And,...more

When Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi first started making waves on the major tournament circuit, he would often be spotted wearing a royal blue baseball cap that read "The Grinder-- I'm a machine" in a gothic-looking font. Two World Poker Tour titles and $6.7 million in tournament earnings later, Mizrachi...more

Today's $3,150 Stud SCOOP event had a $150,000 guarantee before registration began, and like so many other SCOOP events so far it eventually wound up breaking that guarantee. But this tournament only topped it by one entry when 51 players were seated at the tables at the end of late...more

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to PokerStars' Most Well Rounded Poker Player. If you only play Hold'em, please sit. Now, if you only play limit or only play no-limit, grab your chair. Only like flop games? The door is in the back. Still standing? Got four thousand bucks to...more

When people think of a mixed game, some go back to their roots as a young player growing up with family poker games after dinner was cleared. Many players started their rounding skills playing kitchen table poker with aunts and uncles churning out games like no-peeky seven card baseball, guts,...more