August 4, 2015
Exploiting a potential international audience of 157 million football fans, Pokerstars has launched its biggest marketing campaign yet – an exclusive Facebook initiative starring global sports giants Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar Jr. The players’ Facebook fans have been given an exclusive preview of new videos featuring the duo, with Youtube versions also published here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KYAvJbsWrY […]
July 29, 2015
Figures from Pokerstars on the just-completed 10-day MicroMillions online tournament show that much of the action came from Russian players. Registration stats show that 161,939 players from Russia entered, cashing 23,843 times, with 15 of them winning events and prizes worth $777,209 sent home to Russia. The Germans lived up to their formidable reputation in […]
July 28, 2015
Pokerstars, an Amaya Inc. brand, and UK men’s health charity Prostate Cancer announced Monday that the organisations are to join forces for a special one-night event in a bid to raise money to fight prostate cancer. Titled “Lads Night In”, the first event will take place on September 25, 2015, with the objective of encouraging […]
July 22, 2015
Media reports from California suggest that the Pokerstars strategy of sending high profile poker aces to state cardrooms to spread the word that regulation is good for everybody is working. The visits thus far have produced packed audiences keen to interact and discuss the issues with the star players or just plain take selfies and […]
July 16, 2015
Pokerstars has released details of an online Super High Roller NLHE tournament featuring what is likely to be the most expensive online buy-in ever at $51,000…with correspondingly big money pay-outs for winning players. The previous record for the biggest ever buy-in for an online poker tournament was $25,000, which was shared by heads-up tournaments in […]
July 9, 2015
The largest online poker provider in the world, Pokerstars, is about to take a much tougher and more restrictive stance when it comes to third party software aids used by some players to gain an edge on their opponents. A company spokesman revealed this week that the company plans to prohibit the use of such […]
July 3, 2015
Pokerstars and its California tribal and cardroom allies have upped the ante in the fight for fair and open online poker legalisation in the Bear State by launching a new Professional Player Tour initiative titled Let California Play! The initiative will be supported by the www.californians4ipoker.com website launched last month (see previous report). The drive […]
June 11, 2015
Many a crook has discovered to his cost that the expert players and industry people who frequent the 2+2 poker forum are hard to fool, and a group of allegedly Russian bot operators are the latest to experience this truth. Members of the forum quickly picked up on a number of players who they claim […]
June 4, 2015
The Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, a member of a strong tribal alliance seeking to dominate the debate on internet poker legalisation in California, went on the attack against Pokerstars this week in a radio advertisement that will do little to further the cause of legalisation in the state. The advertisement singles out Pokerstars and […]
May 29, 2015
Pokerstars has released positive numbers from its recently completed 2015 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), revealing that the total prize pool was almost double the company’s $40 million guarantee. The total number of entries for the 138 varied tournaments was 569,089.