February 22, 2018
An advisory from PokerStars reminds customers of the now defunct PKR poker room to submit their claims by the 28 February 2018 offer expiry deadline. InfoPowa readers will recall PokerStars stepping in when PKR went under last year with an offer to reimburse account credits as a goodwill gesture (see previous InfoPowa reports). PokerStars offered to reimburse customer’s ‘dollar-for-dollar’ with […]
February 21, 2018
PokerStars has hailed results from its first joint tournament series, FRESH, following the launch of the shared player pool of French and Spanish players. The series, which ran from January 28 to February 11, attracted over 30,000 unique entries and a total prize pool of Euro 6,149,751 across 50 scheduled events, exceeding the Euro 5 […]
January 30, 2018
In celebration of the shared player pool with France and Spain, PokerStars has launch a new series dubbed FRESH (France Espania Hold’em). FRESH will become the richest ever PokerStars online series in France and Spain with Euro 5 million guaranteed across 50 scheduled events, including a Euro 1 million guaranteed Main Event prize pool and […]
January 25, 2018
With France and Spain now fully committed to shared player pools, and PokerStars leading the operator charge into this new dispensation, The Stars Group’s director of poker operations, Severin Rasset explained the objectives and issues the company faces – chiefly as regards Southern European pricing. The detailed rationale behind the pricing structure is explained in […]
January 25, 2018
A $100 Spin & Go session awarded 10,000 times its worth when it hit a $1 million grand prize at PokerStars this week, the poker provider reports. Player ‘24HourATM’ cashed the seven-figure prize after just four minutes of play, defeating ‘adam cayer’ and ‘5dioresta’, who earned $100,000 each. Spin & Go’s are three-max Hyper Turbo […]
January 18, 2018
PokerStars has confirmed that it had to cancel midday tournaments on Wednesday due to an hour-long technical problem that required a server re-start. “Our sincere apologies for the unexpected technical issues that occurred today. If you have any queries re. our cancellation policy then please email support@pokerstars.com and we’ll do our utmost to assist,” the […]
January 16, 2018
Using licenses from Spain and France, online poker provider PokerStars has become first to market with its shared player pools offer. Poker players across France and Spain can now challenge and play each other at PokerStars, which today (Tuesday) became the first online operator approved to offer a shared player pool between the locally licensed […]
January 13, 2018
The PokerStars Winter Series, which ran from 25 December 2017 to 7 January 2018, attracted buy-ins way in excess of its $25.4 million guarantee, with a total series prize pool of $38,013,576. The series attracted more than 1.3 million entries and close to 203,000 unique players, and also awarded five Platinum Passes worth $150,000 to […]
January 12, 2018
PokerStars has announced that its popular but ponderously titled Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) is to renamed Turbo Series, and will now take place in February – a month later than has become its traditional slot. PokerStars has assured players that there will be no loss of momentum in the popular series, which started […]
January 11, 2018
Cyber-currency media are giving eSports betting site Luckbox.com plenty of air this week due to its use of Bitcoin as a transaction currency and an impending ICO. Our readers may recall that Luckbox is the brainchild of former PokerStars managers Lars Lien and Mike Stevens, who have been working hard to bring their dream to […]