Here is yet another fine example on how one can turn a poker freeroll into a whopping sum of money. Chris Levick won a freeroll and went on to win his first major title as Pokerstars.com ANZPT Melbourne Main Event champion. A total of 218 players joined the $2,700 AUD tournament to get a shot […]

Not bad for a high school student. German Dominik Nitsche hasn’t bridged his 20th birthday yet but he has already won $381,030 courtesy of the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour Mar del Plata. To take the title, Nitsche had to outlast Jorge Landazuri, a 19 year old from Mexico.
Nitsche was Day 3 Chip Leader and […]

Carter “ckingusc” has beefed up his already glowing poker resume. After winning the PokerStars’ 2008 World Championship of Online Poker Main Event, King won the Sunday Million after arriving at the final table second in chips. King had to outlast 7,905 other participants to take down the $193,697 prize. The sheer number of participants pumped […]

PokerStars player are eager to find out who will win the Mega Milestone Hand at PokerStars. Currently, the number of cash games is just a little over 24,850,000,000 so it’s only a matter of time before someone wins the 25 billionth cash game on PokerStars. But the winner doesn’t just walk away with bragging rights […]

The 2009 PokerStars Carribean Adventure’s Main Event has ended and when the dust cleared, an underdog emerged as champion. Online qualifier Poorya Nazari has joined the list of poker millionaires with his triumph in a tough field of 1,347 entrants. To win his millions, Nazari had to wade through a sea of 746 online qualifiers, […]

The year has just begun and what better way to start 2009 than to kick off one of the largest poker events of the year? The PokerStars Carribean Adventure (PCA)’s main event starts January 5, 2009 at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. The event will have a now staggering $10,000 buy-in. Last year, the […]

Everyone was certain that PokerStars would hit the 35,000-player mark it needed to get the latest Sunday tournament into the Guinness World Records. True enough, hitting the 35,000 player cap was so easy that a lot of poker players were left on the waitlist. The Stars’ “Guinness World Record Tourney” is now awaiting certification and […]

Mark the date. On December 28, 2008 at 3:30pm ET, PokerStars plans to hold a tournament that will probably be known as the biggest cash tournament of all time—at least when it comes to field size. Wondering if this is all hype? Probably not. PokerStars has contacted the Guinness Book of World Records in anticipation […]

After a hard fought battle, Salvatore Bonavena finished on top at the Main Event of the PokerStars European Poker Tour in Prague. Bonavena’s final table odyssey was a roller-coaster ride as he lost and regained chip lead several times before finally being crowned champion. For his amazing victory versus fellow Italian Massimo Di Cicco in […]

While other poker sites are forced to shell out cash from their tills to meet tournament guarantees, PokerStars isn’t sharing in their woes entirely. In its second week, PokerStars 2008 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is still drawing in players like bees attracted to honey—particularly the No-Limit Hold’em tournaments.
WCOOP Event # 23 had a […]