Ah, spring is here and with it comes the Spring Championship of Online Poker or otherwise known as SCOOP. Bracelet hunting become watch hunting on May 12th as the low, medium, and high versions of Event #1's NLHE 6-max will get everyone's attention. Especially the alarm clocks of the PokerStarsBlog's...more

Making a Sunday Major final table is quite the accomplishment. First, you need to have the means of buying into the tournament or the skill to acquire a ticket through the many satellite opportunities. Then, defeating past champions, Team PokerStars Pros and Team Online members, and several thousand players to...more

Experience pays dividends at the tables as the players who you will read about below have it in spades. Tonight's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-up field of 3,432 players had plenty of folks lined up near the final table with a shot at the $107,765.70 first place prize who have been...more

This week's Sunday Warm-Up champion's last shot at a major PokerStars final table ended up with a runner-up check, but history did not repeat itself as German player 'cmontopdeck' managed to reverse a heads-up chip deficit to win $109,712.77 and a Sunday Major title. 'cmontopdeck' beat 3,943 players on their...more

Four minutes. It's a double minor penalty in hockey or a stern time-out given to a child who refused to eat his or her brussel sprouts. In tonight's $500,000 Sunday Warm-Up our champion VL-Hannibal would go from a mid-stack, to taking the chip lead, and eliminating three players in just...more

On the final night of the MicroMillions 4 tournament series so not-so-micro action took place involving some not-so-micro stakes players. The $1 million guarantee Main Event gathered 68,081 players paying $22 a pop to take a shot at a top prize of $167,541.13. In tonight's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up Team...more

With St. Patrick's Day landing on a Sunday this year many people celebrated the Irish holiday last night creating some hangovers for serious players looking to go deep in tonight's Sunday Majors. The $500,000 guaranteed Sunday Warm-Up does not finish in two hours as our final two players found out...more

There are barometers for a poker player's abilities. Most of these benchmarks are left for tournament play since the tournament rankings tend to be much easier to measure than asking a player to post their spreadsheets from every cash game they have played live and online. Tonight's $500,000 guaranteed Sunday...more

Trickle down economics. The gist is if you give more money through tax cuts to the wealthy they will spend those saving and the money will eventually reach poorer folks. While we doubt anyone with $215 to buy-in to tonight's $500,000 guaranteed Sunday Warm-Up could be labeled as poor, the...more

100 billion hands coming soon at PokerStars as the 95 billion hand celebration is here with at least $20,000 going out to a lucky player winning that 95 billionth hand. During tonight's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up hand #94,601,569,666 was worth $10,000.00 to MetalHelmet who held the chip lead during a...more

Six-time NBA champion and known as the greatest basketball player who has ever lived, Michael Jordan celebrated his 50th birthday tonight. PlayaPlz happened to have an avatar of the Chicago Bulls star and managed to win tonight $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up. Whether or not PlayaPlz has the same crossover or...more

While snow and sleet cover the terrain outside, like most of the 3,693 players in tonight's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up, this scribe decided to remain indoors during the duration of the tournament. In the early goings of the final table it appears jnel9 would take home first place after taking...more

Super Bowl Sunday. Last year 111.3 million watched the final season game of the National Football League. But, not everyone watches for the sporting event as company's pony up big cash for funny commercials that have people taking about at work the next day. The reactions for the Bar Refaeli...more

Dejanaceking is no stranger to a PokerStars final table. He's been there during the SCOOP and the MicroMillions, banking some solid five-figure cashes. Gerge Jung, however, is more likely to be found beating up 18-man SNGs, although he's been on a MTT hot streak as of late. Gerge Jung never...more

Triskaidekaphobia (say it thirteen times REALLY fast, don't worry it won't bite), as you probably know is the fear of the number thirteen, as players no longer part of Tenth Annual PCA event (at press time the PCA main event final table was down to just three players click here...more

With all eyes on Atlantis for the 10th annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure one would think the population of tonight's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up might be down. Considering those players often frequently play the Sunday Majors they might be enjoying the live poker action or something call "sun" and "warmth" that...more

The $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up poker year started exactly on New Year's with jenbizzle claiming the top prize of $97K likely with many people nursing hangovers and questionable decisions. Tonight's Sunday Warm-Up to close the year of crushing that guarantee constantly week after week would end with inwooke earning $108,205.21...more

Marcel perhaps had too many holiday engagements this evening to attempt defending his title in tonight's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up after taking home the big prize last week. The 3,381 entries tonight likely were happier not seeing his smiling face among those shooting for the $106,164.21 first place prize as...more

Team PokerStars pro Marcel Luske is known for the charisma and the smiles he brings to the table. And perhaps during his run to the $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up victory, some of those good feelings he gives others came back in the form of karma. While his winner's check of...more

As Kristin Bihr reported a few weeks ago, Jason Koon crushed 2012 for over a half million dollars on the live poker circuit along with several online victories here at PokerStars. One of those victory happen in this very tournament just three weeks ago as Koon claimed $109,869.77 after winning...more