It's always been the crown jewel in the Sunday lineup. Your shot at turning $215 into six figures. Even if you spend your days multi-tabling Nanonoko-style, it still hurts to bust and it's a long wait until next week. This Sunday was different. It wasn't Groundhog Day but it felt...more

Sundays are usually reserved for winding down from a busy week, but in the world of online poker, it's one of the most exciting days with the most opportunities to win big. Last Sunday saw the final events of the inaugural TCOOP series take place, and today brought all of...more

Every Sunday on PokerStars is a big day. There's a reason the big tournaments that play out on Sundays are called "the majors." Big guarantees and even bigger prize pools award millions of dollars to players who compete and make it into that money. January 29 was no different -...more

After 19 events of high-speed TCOOP madness, it was a relief to sink back into the old routine of the Sunday Million. Big stacks. Long time banks. Comfy fifteen-minute levels. 7,125 Sunday grinders agreed, buying in for $215 apiece to create a $1,425,000 prize pool. 1,080 places were paid with...more

The Sunday Million is a big deal. In the online poker business, it's the largest weekly tournament, and its $1 million prize pool guarantee is nothing to sneeze at. Each Sunday, it's one of the most watched and discussed events in poker. This week, however, there were more than a...more

There's a bar on the ground floor of the Atlantis' Coral Tower. As hotel bars go, it's nothing out of the ordinary. The overstuffed chairs are sufficiently comfortable, the cocktails priced a bit higher than one would like, and the internet is as consistent as you'll get on Paradise Island....more

New Year's Day brings its own excitement. It's more than a holiday for many people, as the start of a new calendar year also signifies new beginnings for poker players with goals to be met, bankrolls to be built, and old bad beats to be wiped from recent memory. Of...more

Is tonight's Sunday Million going to come close to last week's? No. We may need to wait until next year's World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) or another surprise Sunday Million with $10 million guaranteed like last week before seeing the poker crowds flock to these tables and create the...more

In Toronto, Canada, Kyle Weir sat unemployed. He was 24 years old and paying the bills by playing poker. Meanwhile, he had college loans hanging over his head It was a life, but not necessarily a rich one. "I've always played cards to scrape together money," Weir said. A lot...more

After playing host to a decade's worth of life-changing moments on the felt, it was only fitting that PokerStars celebrated their tenth anniversary by dealing out an embarrassment of riches to its players. First, there was the world record shattering tournament that drew 200,000 players and made one man $40,000...more

It's mesmerizing. It's almost zen-like. Open your PokerStars tournament lobby and watch the 10th Anniversary $10 million Sunday Million registration number climb. As of this moment, it's 4,783. I've been watching it go up for the past 24 hours. I've not quite seen anything like it. This event is unlike...more

As days go, it was a good one to be Czech. Only hours after Kozlicek_x pocketed $24,300 for winning PokerStars' 72 billionth hand, his countryman emaestrodobi finished fifth out of 116,400 players in the Sunday Storm 10th Anniversary Special, earning $32,650 off his $11 investment. And by the time dawn...more

Every now and then, the Sunday Million tops itself. Sure, it's already the biggest weekly online poker tournament with its $1 million guarantee, so no improvements are really needed. But as a bonus for PokerStars players, it occasionally does something that wows the poker world even more than usual. December...more

They hailed from Vancouver to Venezuela, the U.K. to Uzbekistan. 6,609 strong, each with $215 and the same long-odds dream-- spinning those bills into an avalanche of cash. Over $10,000 for making the final table. More than $200,000 for first. Every week someone wins this thing. Why can't it be...more

In case you've been busy, PokerStars is in the midst of a massive anniversary bash. Celebrating 10 years of online poker is something that PokerStars embraced, and the online poker parties go on and on. This page details the biggest of the promotions. One of the celebratory tournaments was today's...more

7,030. Enrollment at a medium-sized university. Number of calories Manny Paquiao consumes each day during training. Price of a Hermes handbag. And lest you think you're reading the wrong recap, the number of runners in this week's Sunday Million. This virtual army of pros and punters created a prizepool that...more

It was a perfect Sunday for online poker. Weather was getting chilly in many parts of the world, and staying in next to the warmth of a laptop was ideal. Poker was also amidst the broadcast of the World Series of Poker final table, and players gathered around to watch...more

Who among us wouldn't want to wind the clock back on a tournament once in a while? Maybe you'd make that hero call, pick off that bluff, or just fold those pocket jacks when the king flopped. Although the PokerStars menu offers rebuys, second-chance events and even time tournaments nowadays,...more

The Sunday Million was back to it's regularly scheduled, singular self this weekend following last week's "Double Vision" edition. 6,585 players put up $215 apiece for their shot at life-changing cash, creating a $1,317,000 prize pool. 990 players came away with a slice of the pie, the largest piece weighing...more

If you were shaking your head at the list of tournaments tonight, it wasn't your eyes playing tricks on you. There were two Sunday Warm-Ups and two Sunday Million tournaments as a part of the PokerStars Double Vision Sunday. Double the fun awaited fans of both tournaments. The regular Sunday...more