While fans of England's soccer team may have been disappointed after today's loss to Italy in the Euro 2012 tournament after taking The Azures to a scoreless tie but losing in penalties, fans of United Kingdom poker players had something to cheer about during tonight's $500,000 guaranteed Sunday Warm-Up. It...more

We were warned it was coming. But the monster field that showed up likely was not on the minds of the creators of tonight's Half-Priced Sunday Major's promotion. Five tournaments were included in the deal, the Sunday Storm, Women's Sunday, Sunday Kickoff, Sunday Million, and tonight's Sunday Warm-Up. All retained...more

Usually the words used in a describing a Sunday Major victory are marathon, grueling, grind. In tonight's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up the words to use while watching hvarga's victory were sprint, turbo, lightning, fast. 2,767 players would sit down for a tournament usually reserved for a 12 or 13 hour...more

With the World Series of Poker in full swing, the eyes are on the Team PokerStars pros taking their skills to the live arena at the Rio for riches and bracelets. Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst would increase her career tournament earnings to over $5 million after placing fourth in...more

120 tournaments in two weeks and you might be worn out too. Unless you are Shaun Deeb of course. The 2012 SCOOP player of the series was collecting watches like he was trying to outfit a pet octopus with PokerStars jewelry. But, not all players have the stamina to play...more

After eating a sausage biscuit sandwich for breakfast, normally it would be time to catch up world news and Lindsay Lohan's latest mishap. But, today for some reason opening the PokerStars client to see the start of today's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-up made sense as the tournament will be taking...more

Aces. They look so pretty sitting in your hand and ready to get some unfortunate soul with a lesser hand to make the call. But, as we found out tonight, aces do get beat sometimes. Even twice in the same tournament. Tonight's $500,000 Sunday Warm-Up would attract 3,468 players as...more

Usually on Sundays here at PokerStars the largest tournament is the $1,000,000 guarantee Sunday Million and tonight's $1,457,800.00 prize pool there would once again reign as king of the Sunday Majors. The queen who gets up a little bit earlier than the king, the $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up, usually stands...more

Whether you celebrated today sipping mimosa with family over brunch, attended an Easter gathering, watched The Masters golf tournament, or planted plastic eggs around the yard for the kids to find and hid them so well you could not find the ones they missed afterwards, the second weekend of April...more

No April Fools jokes here today as a trip around the internet will surely net you more well-planned fun like Google Maps going retro and updating its usage on the original Nintendo Entertainment System (maybe Mario to guide you to the nearest Starbucks?). Or Hungry Hungry Hippos coming out for...more

100 tournaments in 10 day, can you say busy much? The MicroMillions main event drew 54,065 players tonight with a guarantee busting $1.08 million prize pool capping off a successful run for our micro-stakes players who got the same coverage as our big time tournaments for the past week and...more

With MicroMillions madness sweeping the virtual tables and March Madness competing for the attention of more than a few Sunday grinders, this week's Warm-Up almost felt like a relaxing walk in the park. That is, if your idea of relaxation is competing for a six-figure score. 3,280 players came out...more

This week's $500,000 Sunday Warm-up guarantee was quiet younger brother sitting in the corner as big brother, Sunday Million, celebrated his sixth birthday party . Yes, the little sibling got a slice of cake and hit the piñata a few times but the focus was mostly on him. Well, the...more

It's hard not to look ahead to the next few weeks for the excitement coming across the upcoming tournaments here at PokerStars. You got the 6th anniversary of the original Sunday Major, the Sunday Million bigger and badder with a $6,000,000 guarantee and someone walking away with seven figures. Then,...more

You made it through Groundhog's Day, Valentine's Day, and on Wednesday everyone gets an extra day of February for Leap Year. One day of the week every month, and not just in February is special for online players at PokerStars. The Sunday Major are always a cause for excitement with...more

The Sunday Warm-Up is no jog around the block. It may have originally earned it's moniker due to its pre-Sunday Million start time, but has grown into one of poker's most hotly contested weekly online majors. Almost every weekend someone walks away from this slugfest with a six-figure payday they...more

The Sunday Warm-Up has always been kind of a prequel, a lead-in to online poker's blockbuster tourney, the Sunday Million. With this week's "double vision" promotion, however, we had a sequel to the prequel, a.k.a. the "Sunday Warm-Up II: Electric Boogaloo." And as it turned out, the sequel might well...more

Not one but two Sunday Warm-ups would give players a shot at calling themselves "Sunday Major winners". As the first Sunday Warm-up this evening would line up 4,176 players (and the second one which was taken down by none other than Team PokerStars pro Andre Akkari also drew a guarantee...more

It was a big day of sports for the Americans and those who follow what the Americans call football. But for the rest of the world, it was poker as usual, and PokerStars was there to provide the schedule of tournaments that would satisfy everyone from the low buy-in players...more

Every Sunday on PokerStars is a busy one. With the line-up of Sunday majors, players need a strict schedule and several computer monitors to get in on all of the action. Today is one of those days that requires even more attention because of all of the TCOOP action, but...more