"Any way that suited the other man would suit him - any way just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied". A quote from tavern regular Simon Wheeler talking about the gambling man Jim Smiley in the Mark Twain short story "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". Mr....more

If you have ever played a sport to a tie that required some form of overtime for the contest to be settled then tonight's heads-up match for the $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up was poker's equivalent. 3,619 players would drop their $215 buy-ins with a shot at $113,677.77 first prize, but...more

You wake up in a dark room. There is a faint odor of champagne and confusion in the air what is your next move? Well, for 3,100 players the next move was to sign up for the New Year's hangover edition of the $500,000 guaranteed Sunday Warm-Up. These players are...more

The final Sunday Warm-Up to conclude 2011 had a hammer-rific 2,700 entries as the crowd from last week's near million-dollar prize pool were off celebrating the holidays. But, for those diehards looking to take home a Christmas or Hanukkah gift in the form of a Sunday Major win, the depleted...more

Big, very big, bigger, and biggest. Everything about this final weekend of the PokerStars' 10th Anniversary celebration has grown in size. Big: tonight's Sunday Warm-up setting the tone for the night of huge prizepools and player fields. After averaging just under 3,600 players a week for the past four...more

A few hours ago a PokerStars player named Kozlicek_x snagged over $24,000 at the micro-stakes six-max table as part of the PokerStars 10th Anniversary celebration. 72,000,000,000th hand, if each hand was a mile long (and some tales of these hands could tell would make them seem a mile long) laid...more

Every week, the Sunday Warm-Up offers players the chance to get in on some early online poker action before events like the Sunday Million require their presence. Warm-Up seems a bit of a misnomer, though, when the $215 buy-in tournament offers a whopping $500K guarantee! Big stakes, prestigious title, more...more

Time and time again while watching the final few tables of the Sunday Majors you will see familiar names pop up. Tonight's $500,000 Sunday Warm-Up was no exception as the $215 buy-in tournament started with 3,535 runners but two of them reaching the final table already tasted the big prizes...more

Britain's Zimnan Ziyard and Germany's Hauke Heseding. If you are following the European Poker Tour Louttraki live blog more those two names are very familiar to you by now as they were the last two players remaining for the Greek EPT stop. Perhaps not household names on the tour, one...more

The traditional tenth year anniversary gift is tin or aluminum. While we are sure the players here at PokerStars are happy about their favorite soda or energy drink encased in aluminum, cash seems like a much better way to celebrate, after all that's why we hit the tables in the...more

You know what goes great with live poker? A heaping side dish of online poker. While most of the poker world had their eyes glued to the live stream of the WSOP Main Event, where newly minted Team PokerStars Pro Pius Heinz was busy amassing the chip lead, thousands of...more

"But, daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad why can't we go to one more row of houses?" Ah, the plea for more candy from the young ones. Taking two hours of primping to make sure the Power Rangers outfit is just like the TV show or the Cinderella costume is complete with faux glass slippers,...more

High blinds, long hours, but those bricks of cash sitting on the final table is every poker player's dream. To finally make a Sunday Major final table is a huge accomplishment. Just ask tonight's winner bigdogpckt5s who's appears often under the Sunday tournament results recaps, but tonight that would be...more

"Why, it's the drunken piano player. You're so drunk, you can't hit nothin'. In fact you're probably seeing double" quotes Billy Clanton as he draws his knife against the famous (or infamous) Doc Holliday. Doc having no problem with his blood alcohol content calmly retorts as a second gun is...more

Today's Sunday Warm-Up saw 3,519 players buy in to create a $703,800 prize pool-- a healthy 8% uptick over last week. 540 players earned a slice of the pie with first place set to earn a potentially life-changing $110,497.77. When the final river was dealt, that money was headed to...more

With the dust settled from the 2011 WCOOP and all 62 bracelets handed out, PokerStars returned to its regularly scheduled Sunday Majors lineup after a four-week hiatus. Fall's first Sunday Warm-Up smashed through its half-million dollar guarantee, 3,249 players entering the fray to create a $649,800 prize pool. 495 of...more

What if your favorite championship team got to hold on to their title just a little longer without having to defend their win? Man U could hold to their Premier League trophy, La Liga would still be ruled by Barça (although they may be holding on to that title...more

I don't know about you, but when I think "Warm-Up" I think of something gentle. An easy walk. Light stretching. A bit more hot liquid in that cooling cup of coffee. Just a little something to get the blood flowing in the early hours. Although this particular Warm-Up no doubt...more

It is crunch time for the rounders at PokerStars. The World Championship of Online Poker is starting up in a scant three week and players are scrambling to grab as many satellite wins for a shot at that $30,000,000 in guarantees over three weeks of non-stop high rolling action. The...more

It was expected to see some VIP action here tonight at the $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-up. Especially with the current 90% reduction in requirements to reach that next level of VIP action, PokerStars is expected to see an increase in precious metal (specifically Silver, Gold, and Platinum) around the...more