January 9, 2018
Top international poker professional Jason Mercier has announced that he is to sever his commercial connection with PokerStars in order to spend more time at home with his wife and a child born last October. “My life was changed forever that day, and for the better,” Mercier said in his announcement. “Becoming a parent brings […]
January 6, 2018
With the high stakes online poker leader board books now closed for 2017, the publication Poker News has published the top scorer, a player using the handle Berri Sweet who amassed earnings of $1,769,395 at the PokerStars high-stakes cash tables, upstaging the 2016 top earner Alexander Kostritsyn’s $1,466,568. 2015’s winner on $3,497,527, the legendary Viktor […]
December 19, 2017
French recreational player Kalidou Sow showed remarkable discipline, control and skill in Prague this week, and was rewarded with a win in the Euro 5,300 buy-in Pokerstars Championships Prague main event following a chop at the heads up stage. Shrugging off the trash talk thrown at him by his heads up opponent, Jason Wheeler, Sow […]
November 16, 2017
Moving temporarily away from its usual recreational player focus, online poker provider PokerStars has announced a new high-stakes online tournament series designed to appeal to high rollers. The tournament will begin November 26 and run through December 4 with 22 high buy-in events covered by a total of $11.4 million in guaranteed prize pools. Buy-ins […]
November 2, 2017
In an interesting sequel to this week’s revelations that the Stars Group (formerly Amaya) is a major shareholder in poker information site Poker News, the independent publication Flush Draw has revealed that the change of ownership was agreed in 2011 and followed the Black Friday debacle in which US Department of Justice enforcers effectively shut […]
October 31, 2017
Rumours circulating for some time that Pokerstars has a significant investment in the poker news firm iBus Media, which owns Poker News, were confirmed late Monday when the company posted an explanation on its website. Emphasising that the relationship with Pokerstars is very much an arm’s length arrangement, iBusMedia revealed that things are going well […]
October 20, 2017
PokerStars.fr has agreed to sponsor the second season of the Esports European League, a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) competition shown exclusively on the Canal+ television Channel C8. It is understood that mainly five French and Danish CS:GO teams will be involved in the second season, for which qualifiers are to be held next (November) […]
October 11, 2017
Online poker provider PokerStars is reportedly recruiting artificial intelligence (AI) specialists in an effort to create a “fully flexible” AI agent. Personnel ads flighted by the company indicate that it is planning to create a number of different programs using artificial intelligence “which will learn how to play” poker and possibly other games, and could […]
September 21, 2017
After barely more than a year in operation Pokerstars has decided to discontinue its Beat The Clock product, citing “the need to cater to evolving player tastes.” In a public statement the online poker provider revealed: “We will be making some changes to the client which will involve the removal of Beat The Clock. PokerStars […]
August 23, 2017
Online poker operator Pokerstars, which has for weeks warned that changes to Australian law will compel it to withdraw from real-money operations, has set a firm date of September 11 2017 for its exit. In a communication to players, the company advised: “The Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill (2016), which was passed earlier this month and […]