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Over the past week, the best players from around the world flocked the Commerce Casino for the WPT Los Angeles Poker Classic. In total, 549 players entered the WPT Main Event, creating a massive prizepool of $5,270,400. After fours hours of back and forth play at the final table, WPT... Read more
PokerStars today announced MicroMillions, the most affordable and inclusive online poker tournament series to date. It will enable poker players of all abilities and stakes to win huge prize money for a tiny outlay. The online series takes place from March 15-25, features 100 events and has $5... Read more
Thanks to the internet, there has been a surge of new talented players that have invaded the live tournament circuits. Since the fields generally have tougher competition, some players have resorted to using unscrupulous methods in order to gain an edge. Such behaviour has recently inspired a new... Read more
The European Poker Tournament Copenhagen Main Event wrapped up this weekend and it turned into a battle between two separate PokerStars teams. PS Online member, MickeyPetersen, defeated PS Team Pro member, Pierre Neuville. For Petersen, the win was especially sweet as he’s been struggling to get some... Read more
World Poker Tour has announced the launch of WPT Foundation, a charity organization largely set up to run a series of philanthropic poker events called WPT Playing for a Better World. The kickoff event will take place at SLS Hotel Beverly Hills and the adjoining Bazaar by José Andrés... Read more
We knew Day 1b would have a much larger turnout then the 84 players that started Day 1a, but the lackluster showing off 215 players created one of the smallest field sizes in the tournament’s history. Danish Pro Mads Wissing finished the days as the chip leader... Read more
Last year was a banner year for poker professional Steve O’Dwyer. The young pro had a string of impressive results including a win at the $5k Bellagio Cup and the first Epic Poker League Pro Am event. He also scored 2nd place results at both the EPT... Read more
During March 1-4th, the annual Laak & Esfandiari open will be taking place in Montreal, Canada and will feature a “humiliation” penalty for the losers. Both Laak and Esfandiari are well known for their practical jokes and at one time had a TV show where they would challenge... Read more
Last week, rumours began to arise that Senator Harry Reid would attach legislation for legalizing online poker in the US to the upcoming payroll tax bill. However, Reid has recently told the Las Vegas Review Journal that it will not be happening at this time. Poker forums... Read more
Red Spade Open III: $1M Guaranteed! The $55 Red Spade Open returns this month with a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool, including at least $200,000 in prize money for first place, plus $100 bounties on all Team PokerStars Pro and Team Online players taking part! It’s your chance to test yourself... Read more
Players in Sweden and Finland have traditionally had issues playing on PokerStars since both countries enforced huge tax rates on gross winnings from any site outside of the European Union. Well, that has finally changed as PokerStars announced the addition of www.pokerstars.eu under a newly obtained Malta... Read more
Your weekly break down of events you may have missed this week: ELG pulls out of the US, chip dumping at Harrah’s Tunica WSOP circuit event and Brad Booth calls out Phil Hellmuth. Everleaf Gaming Network Pulls Out Of US The ELG network, home to such skins... Read more
The World Poker Tour Venice Grand Prix Main Event is now officially over and Russian Rinat Bogdanov survived the field of 155 players to win the €229,800 first prize and a seat in the WPT World Championship in May. This was the young professional’s first ever WPT event, which... Read more
Andrea Dato has made back to back final tables in a World Poker Tour Main Event, a feat very few players can brag about. Just two months ago, Dato had made the final table of the WPT Venice stop on the tour. He ended up in fourth... Read more
Back in 2011, the Belgian Gaming Commission allowed PokerStars the use of the domain www.pokerstars.be for a trial period. PokerStars announced today that the test phase is now complete and they have become the first online poker site to receive a full A+ online poker license for Belgium issued... Read more
