It's December, meaning for much of the world temperatures are getting colder. Meanwhile at PokerStars the Sunday Warm-Up continues to sizzle, providing huge fields and big prize pools to greet players like a nice, inviting fire on a cold winter's day. There were 3,553 players all gathered around together to...more

Tonight's $500,000 guaranteed Sunday Warm-Up had a feel of a turbo tournament for the first two levels. In one stretch we would see four players getting knocked out in rapid succession. Then, nearly an hour would pass until CasChr claimed fifth place giving the Sunday Major a feel of deep...more

Jason "jakoon1985" Koon is a man in the midst of a career year. In 2012 he's earned more than half a million dollars in live tournaments alone, including fourth place in the PCA High Roller event for $272,000 and a runner-up finish in the $3,000 heads-up NLHE/PLO event at the...more

The PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up today attracted another strong field with 3,512 players handing over the $215 buy-in to form a prize pool of $702,400. The top 540 players would finish in the money with a min-cash worth $295. Unfortunately for recently-crowned ANZPT Melbourne champion Paul "KingPaulie" Hockin, he would experience...more

It was Double Vision Sunday on PokerStars and that gave grinders a second chance at their favourite tournaments this weekend. 3,871 players took advantage of that in the Sunday Warm-Up II, which offered a $500,000 prize pool guarantee, but that number was easily surpassed as a prize pool of $774,200...more

Several players late in tonight's first edition of the Sunday Warm-Up as part of the Double Vision promotion tonight were looking for a second title. A MicroMillions champ, A Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) champ, and last week's Sunday Million champ, all seeking a second title. Despite the double...more

It takes a pinch of hubris to choose a screen name like "Run dat Game," but it's pretty safe to say Chris Lovett has earned it. In October 2011 Lovett twice final tabled the Sunday 500, coming away with more than $50,000 in earnings. One year later, he finally has...more

After being in the driver's seat for a WCOOP win last month with five to go and walking away in fourth place with a lot of cash but no bracelet, Vzsolt800 would hang around in tonight's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-up just long enough to take home a Sunday Major title...more

Marathon. Usually the word marathon is used to describe a foot race of 26.2 miles, with the current world record at a breath taking two hours three minutes and thirty-eight seconds. Figuring this reporter has been training several months for a distance of half that amount, HOPING to run under...more

Tonight's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up was about a pair of Russian players tearing up the final table busting each player from places fourth through ninth and looking to go 1-2 with $100,072.70 up top. Twice potential deals were shot down and twice Manta_Rays from Sweden would stand tall to claim...more

"bought in with FPPs today (not bad roi)" stated Cod Meharly right after the three-way chop talks gave our final three players over $70K a piece and yet another story of those little Frequent Players Points churning out something big in a major tournament here at PokerStars. 40 FPPs...more

Tonight's champion will get to hold on to that title for awhile. No, not just the normal seven days from Sunday to Sunday but instead since a little thing called the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) will be traveling through for the next three weeks the $500,000 guaranteed Sunday...more

This spring we watched Shaun Deeb destroy the 2012 SCOOP series with eight final tables and four champion watches. In the same series Dan "djk123" collected his first SCOOP title to go with his three WCOOP titles. Tonight's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up would also feature someone with the same type...more

For the second straight week, the players got a bit greedy. Who can blame a person wanting $88,925.24 all to themselves as a shot for this kind of money does not happen every day unless you are someone with a massive bankroll playing high stakes open faced Chinese Poker on...more

The latest installment of the MicroMillions is in the rear view mirror (and hopefully Team Online's Andre Coimbra has recuperated from playing in all 100 events). Currently, players are flying their respective country's flags high as the 2012 London Olympics has a hold of nearly everyone's interest. Soon, especially for...more

With the 2012 Summer Olympics well underway, the weekly international poker competitions that happen every Sunday on PokerStars played out as usual, among them this week's $215 buy-in, $500,000 guaranteed Sunday Warm-Up. This week's Warm-Up saw 2,943 players from all around the world take part, together creating a total prize...more

Right about the time the $500,000 guaranteed Sunday Warm-Up hit three tables left from a starting cast of 2,815 players all pitching in a $215 buy-in the second edition of the MicroMillions was nearing the end of another successful series. While Event #99 had 17,815 players and five minute blinds...more

Quads are usually a rarity in Texas Hold Em'. With three players remaining tonight the rarity would show up in back-to-back hands that perhaps someone with a mind for probabilities could figure out the odds of this happening. The draw possibility for completing quads with paired cards by the turn...more

Sundays are big days, full of a wide range of buy-ins and guarantees in the largest online poker tournaments in the world. For example, this Sunday Warm-Up offers a massive $500K weekly guarantee for a $215 buy-in, though satellites offer players chances to qualify for much cheaper seats. With that...more

Around the time the players in tonight's $500,000 guaranteed Sunday Warm-Up were moving into the 360 player money position, five Team PokerStars Pros were about to begin their very expensive journey into the most expensive poker tournament at the World Series of Poker. The One Drop boasts a buy-in of...more