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When anybody wins a big tournament, there is usually a sense of excitement and surprise. When ElkY wins a tournament, people are starting to yawn. No, not literally. It's still exciting, but ElkY winning something or getting close to it has become so commonplace that people are starting to expect...more

Every poker player has his back-in-the-day story, and most poker players who didn't have their day around a casino have a story of a game they played where they paid to play. Just about any city without a casino has a list of people willing to host poker games for...more

With the ranks of Team PokerStars Pro growing every day, it's pretty common for a WCOOP player to run into a member of the Team at the table. It's less common to meet a member of the Team with whom you have shared a pretty significant moment. That's exactly what...more

Take any sport. Pick one. Ready? Okay. It's guaranteed that, no matter which one you picked, there are more people in poker than any other game who can tell you where to find Binghamton. The 1998 poker classic Rounders made sure of that. That said, the extent of what most...more

There are screen names and there are screen names. Some are boring, some are clever, some are dirty. And some are just perfect. Meet Unsyatisfied. Anybody who has ever seen the movie Rounders (or anybody who watches it at least once a year, and keeps it on his iPod to...more

Hang around enough Brazilians, and you'll hear it eventually. "VAMOOOOOOO!" Hang around enough poker tournaments with Brazilians doing well, and you'll hear it even louder. "VAMOOOOOOO!" Hang around a final table of a poker tournament a Brazilian ultimately wins, and you'll be hearing it in your dreams. "VAMOOOOOOO!" And, so,...more

We wait for it every year. Which member of Team PokerStars Pro is going to go deep in a WCOOP event? We've seen Raymer, Rousso, and Moneymaker (among many others) do it. This year, we've seen Peter Eastgate get close, but so far, German George Danzer is the only one...more

It's easy to find a hold'em game--at your local casino, anywhere online, on just about every TV station at night. Hold'em is king and that probably won't change anytime soon. To be royalty in that kingdom takes more than just being good. And so some people, like Shawn "ShawnZJones" Grant,...more

A lot of people will tell you that it's always darkest before the dawn, that every cloud has a silver lining, that the light at the end of the tunnel is not, in fact, a train, but actually salvation. These people are relentless optimists who are probably going slip on...more

Longmeadow, Massachusetts is a nearly 400 year old town with which Puritan settlers fell in love. The soil was rich, the grazing land was good, and there were enough beavers to kill and skin that everybody was going to line their pockets with cash. Three hundred something years later, Jonathan...more

So, here's more than a quarter million dollars. It's not going to hold you for the rest of your life, but if you're 25 years old, it's going to feel pretty darned good to get it. Now, keep in mind, you need to get to class. You're in law school...more

A crib clown teen power! Think on that for a second. Let it rest on your noodle while we introduce one of WCOOP's newest bracelet winners, Thomas "soterdelf" Osterfeld. It's been just a couple of days since Osterfeld won $174,594 in the WCOOP $215 rebuy tournament. "It was a great...more

"Now I know I can compete with the sharks," said the man when I asked him what it was like to take down a WCOOP event. It's rare to hear something like that from a winner of a World Championship of Online Poker tournament. Most everybody who wins one of...more

I've been watching PokerStars players for longer than my kids have been alive. At the very same time I started the PokerStars Blog, a player with the screen name MyRabbiFoo started playing on the tables. He almost immediate started winning, which meant I started seeing the name on a regular...more

Yadin Shemmer is no dummy. The man worked on Wall Street and ran a hedge fund. He plays poker--high stakes Pot-Limit Omaha, to be exact--as a hobby. Yes, a hobby. That's a short way of saying, you don't expect him to do anything boneheaded. "Making the final table was unexpected,"...more