February 22, 2017
PokerStars is giving poker fans another opportunity to experience Latin America’s thriving poker scene next (March) month with the PokerStars sponsored Brazil Series of Poker (BSOP) São Paulo that runs March 23-28. Players who have already qualified for PokerStars Championship Panama, which takes place from March 10-20 in Panama City, can use this as an […]
February 15, 2017
Online poker provider Pokerstars has set up a select US player group to put its latest new product through its paces in an Alpha test. The new product, branded Power Up, is based on the NLHE game and gives players special powers, creating a game that offers a combination of traditional poker injected with special […]
February 14, 2017
Pokerstars spokesman Sam Woods has advised that Pokerstars.cz will be launching on Thursday February 16 following its pioneering achievement of Czech Republic licensing in January this year (see previous reports). In a press statement, Woods said: “Czech players were last night contacted by email with instructions on how to cashout their existing funds. Czech regulation […]
February 7, 2017
PokerStars has released a schedule of additional stops pertaining to its 2017 Championship and Festival tours. After debut events in New Jersey, London and the Bahamas, PokerStars Championship and PokerStars Festival 2017 will also visit Panama and the Czech Republic in March, South Korea, Macau and Monaco in April, Chile in May, Spain in June […]
February 2, 2017
Online poker player ‘maxv2’, who won the PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) 2017 $215 Main Event for $489,075.72, has topped the largest prize winner of the series list as well as the all time list of biggest TCOOP prizes ever won. The series attracted more than 215,000 entries in total, generating a record […]
January 31, 2017
The 2017 PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker has again generated six-figure prizes for online victories in its slew of events, with the latest including top earner Maxwell ‘maxv2’ Ludwig, who plays from Costa Rica. Ludwig bested a field of 3,582 to win the TCOOP Main Event and claim the top prize of $489,075.72, by […]
January 27, 2017
The PokerStars deployment of sports superstars in its competitive #raiseit social media campaign ends on a high note this week after a successful six-challenge run that attracted an impressive 87 million views. The final challenge, dubbed Aerial Duel, pits Team PokerStars SportStar Cristiano Ronaldo against renowned basketball player Dwyane Wade in a display of outstanding […]
January 27, 2017
The latest move in the PokerStars strategy to make recreational poker an enjoyable and fair experience was launched this week on PokerStars.es in the form of Seat Me, software designed to shield casual players from being preyed upon by far more experienced and well-equipped professional players…a practice known in the poker community as “bum hunting.” […]
January 27, 2017
The GBP 2,200 buy-in High Roller at the Pokerstars Festival London has concluded, although it took an extra day to do so amid some tough competitive action, and a two-player chop at the finish. 178 players entered the event at the Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square, distilling to a final table that took six hours […]
January 24, 2017
Pokerstars has advised that beginning next month it will require players to use a new lobby display in its client, adopting the new “filter” view, which many are already using as a default option. The operator is ringing the changes to more easily add updates to the lobby in the future, a spokesman said this […]