Cates, Tollerene Join Stacked $100k All-Star Showdown
Two of the best No-Limit Hold'em players in the world, Cates (who plays on PokerStars under the alias w00ki3z) and Tollerene (who plays as Ben86) round out the 8-man field led by Isaac Haxton and Phil...
View ArticleFreeroll Spotlight: PKR Oktoberfest Begins Today
The promotion will run from Oct. 27-Nov. 11 with $450k expected to be awarded over the course of the mini-series.Oktoberfest has always been one of the biggest events on PKR Poker and this year the...
View ArticleHaxton, Sulsky Advance in $100k All Star Showdown
Battling Alex "Kanu7" Millar in an epic quarterfinal that took up most of the day yesterday, Haxton had to come back from a major deficit to move forward in his debut event as a Team PokerStars Online...
View Article$2m Guaranteed in New Super XL Series on 888poker
The Super XL Series will be played November 17-25 and consists of 88 No-Limit Holdem tournaments (and one Omaha event) with buy-ins ranging from $11 up to $1,050 in the Highroller Event.A total of $2...
View ArticleFull Tilt Poker Re-Opens for Play-Money, Balance Viewing
The new Full Tilt Poker has relaunched its slightly revamped website and is officially open for play-money play - a week ahead of its scheduled real-money relaunch.Players outside of the United States...
View ArticleGalfond Joins Cates in All-Star Semis After Epic Win
The two Vancouver-based pros had a friendly-but-swingy battle over 4,341 hands -- the longest quarterfinal yet -- that saw both players pushed to the brink.Tollerene, one of the best heads-up players...
View ArticleSahamies Posts Scorching $1.6m Run in October
Prior to October, Sahamies had been mired in a losing streak that had him down nearly $1 million since this summer.Suffice to say that losing streak is no more and Sahamies is looking to finish the...
View ArticlePokerStars Running $.10 PCA Satellite for PL.com Players
The PokerListings Turbo PCA Satellite takes place at 12:30 ET on Nov. 4 with a $1,000 guaranteed prizepool.For every $10 in the prizepool, PokerStars will chip in a ticket to the bigger $10 satellite...
View ArticleCates Runs By Sulsky to Claim All Star Showdown
Known as one of the best heads-up No-Limit Hold’em players in the world, Cates did little to dissuade that notion as he bullied the talented Sulsky over four tables for most of the match.Taking roughly...
View ArticleSunday Scoop: Joao M., $kill Game Win Big on Double Vision Weekend
As part of Double Vision Sunday both the Sunday Million and Sunday Warm-Up ran twice meaning grinders had access to over $4 million in prizepools in just those four tournaments.Here’s a complete...
View ArticleFull Tilt Returns with Real-Money Games Outside U.S.
The site officially re-launched with real-money games at 7 a.m. ET Tuesday morning and at the time this article was published there were over 40,000 players on the site.The site is available to most...
View Article888poker to Run $2-million GTD Super XL Series
Running from Nov. 17-25, 2012, the Super XL series will include nearly 100 events culminating with a $500,000-guaranteed Main Event on Nov. 25.The Super XL event represents the biggest tournament...
View ArticleParty Poker Starts Aussie Millions 2013 Qualifying
Starting Nov. 12, Party Poker will be awarding $16,000 packages to the 2013 Aussie Millions every week in a special $640+$40 buy-in tournament. The site will award one package for every 25 players in...
View ArticleIsildur1 Rising on Full Tilt, Sahamies Loses $672k
Blom, and fellow member of The Professionals, Gus Hansen, were among the first players on Full Tilt Poker after the site re-launched on Tuesday.It didn’t take long for former FTP regulars Rui Cao, Alex...
View ArticleSunday Scoop: SpaceyFCB Wins Big, Marquez Goes Deep
It was a busy day of action on PokerStars as Mickey “mement_mori” Petersen also nearly made the final table of the Sunday Warm-Up.Here’s a closer look at how the three biggest online tournaments played...
View Article$5m-GTD MicroMillions III Kicks Off on PokerStars Tomorrow
The series will run from Nov. 15-25 and offer 100 events of low-buy-in tournaments ranging from 11¢ to $22, with guaranteed prizepools of up to $1 million for the Main Event (with a minimum of $150,000...
View ArticleSunday Scoop: Jason Koon Smashes Sunday Warm-Up
Koon’s victory headlined a day that saw no less than five six-figure scores on PokerStars with both Melanie “Callisto 5” Weisner and Amit “AMAK316” Makhija making big final tables.While multi-way chops...
View ArticleUp to $1 Million Offered in PokerStars’ 90-Billionth Hand Promo
As part of its Road to 100 Billion promo, PokerStars will award cash prizes every one million hands from 89,700,000 to 90,000,000 at regular real money ring game tables.The first Milestone is expected...
View ArticleSunday Scoop: Maimone Wins FTP $500k GTD, MicroMillions Finale
While Maimone was busy cleaning up on Full Tilt, PokerStars was running the Main Event of another successful MicroMillions.An astounding 60,072 players paid $22 to play the last event of MicroMillions...
View ArticlePokerListings Players Get Free Shot at 2013 PCA
PokerStars is running a special freeroll this Sunday, Dec. 2, at 12:30 ET with the top 100 finishers all getting a seat in the $10 buy-in Saturday qualifier with a guarantee of at least 10 packages,...
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