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More On PokerStars Road to 100 Billion: Milestone Hands
Now that we’ve brought you up to speed on the 80 Billionth Hand promotion at Poker Stars, we thought we’d take a moment to help you maximize your possible winnings in this promotion. As we mentioned in our previous post on the subject, prize winnings are based on the VPPs a player is holding when [...]
Get Back On The Poker Stars Road to 100 Billion
You remember the Poker Stars Road to 100 Billion promotion, don’t you? It’s been a periodic staple at Poker Stars for a while now, as the site slowly (or maybe not so slowly) progresses toward its target of 100 billion hands dealt in its history, at various increments offering players a cash bonus for happening [...]
Pokerstars Releases Zoom Poker Beta – Fastest Poker Format Yet
Pokerstars has just come out with the fastest format for playing online poker cash games yet. They’re calling it, appropriately, Zoom Poker, and right now at the site, player’s can test out this new advent in a Beta version. As mentioned already, Zoom Poker is a cash game format. One of the features that makes [...]
Poker Stars Celebrates 6th Anniversary of Sunday Million with $6 Million Guaranteed
Poker Stars is celebrating the coming 6th anniversary of its revered Sunday Million tournament with a special installment of the event this Sunday, March 11, 2012 featuring a $6 million guaranteed prize pool and a $1 million guaranteed first prize. The 6th Anniversary Sunday Million starts at 2:30 pm ET this Sunday. The buy-in is [...]
Poker Stars Celebrates 75th Billionth Hand
For about a year now, Pokerstars has been on the Road to 100 Billion hands dealt, celebrating the imminent approach of that major milestone with several smaller, incremental milestones, each with a $1 million prize pool up for grabs. For every millionth hand dealt at the Poker Stars cash game tables between 74.7 billionth and [...]
Poker Stars Runs Regional Poker Promotions All Year Long
On top of the poker promotions that Poker Stars offers to all of its players, the site also hosts a massive amount of promotions that are available soley to players who live in specific regions of the world. For players in CIS countries, PokerStars is hosting a We Are Poker promotion involving three weekly final [...]
Poker Stars Launches $100,000 Depositor Freerolls
Pokerstars is now holding four special freeroll tournaments per day, each with a $1,000 guaranteed prize pool. To earn tickets into all of these freerolls for a 31-day period, a player need only make a deposit into their real money PokerStars player account. This promotion is open to new and existing players both. New players [...]
Poker Stars Presents TCOOP Ticket Deposit Offer
Coming soon to Poker Stars is its first ever Turbo Championship of Online Poker, a fast-paced online poker tournament series with a $10 million guaranteed prize pool. And now, Poker Stars players can earn free tickets into TCOOP. To get your free TCOOP ticket, worth $22, reload your real money Poker Stars account with $60 [...]
Player at PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Sets Guinness Record
A player at this year’s PokerStars Caribbean Adventure set the new Guinness World Record for most hands of poker played in an 8-hour period of time. The player was Randy Lew, known online as nananoko, and over those 8 hours he played 23,493 hands. He played those hands on Poker Stars in a cordoned off [...]
Pokerstars Makes Changes, Causes Uproar
Pokerstars caused a bit of an uproar to mark the turning of the calendar when last week (which was also last year) the site announced certain changes to its VIP program and its rake structure. In a Bank of America style backlash, PokerStars players came out to the online forums by the scores to protest [...]
Poker Stars Reveals Last Two 10th Anniversary Promos
Pokerstars has now revealed all ten of its 10th Anniversary promotions with the last two to be revealed: the Road to the 72 Billionth Hand and Cash Prize Week for the Battle of the Planets Sit & Gos. The Road to the 72 Billionth Hand is actually the latest Mega Milestone stop of the larger [...]
Poker Stars Latest World Record Attempt Successful
Poker Stars has succeeded in once again holding the biggest online poker tournament, based on the number of players registered. There were 200,000 in all, this time, and there would have been more if technical issues hadn’t capped the potential pool at 200,000, the target number to set a new record, according to Ondrej Drebota, [...]
Three More Poker Stars 10th Anniversary Offers Revealed
At the start of this month of November, 2011 we announced Pokerstars upcoming 10th Anniversary and the promotion to honor it, make up of 10 smaller promotions to be revealed a little at a time as the actual anniversary in December nears. At the time, the only two of these promotions revealed was a giveaway [...]
Join Pokerstars Women Live at 2012 PCA
In addition to the satellite series for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in 2012 that are open to all its players, Poker Stars is also hosting a special, separate satellite tournament series strictly for its female players. Held as part of the larger 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, the PokerStars Women Live Caribbean Adventure is a separate [...]
PokerStars Getting Stricter On US Players Concealing Location
PokerStars has always been one of the most popular online poker sites out there, and this especially includes among United States players as well. It seems that since Black Friday, many US based players have continued to attempt to find ways to play at the massive site, even though it shut out the United States [...]
Poker Stars Comes Under Legal Fire Too
Full Tilt Poker isn’t the only online poker site facing trouble post-Black Friday 2011. PokerStars is also coming under fire, and from more sides than one. Unlike Full Tilt Poker, Poker Stars has at least paid back its U.S. players the funds sitting in their seized accounts after the D.O.J. closed down U.S. operations. But [...]
Poker Stars Starts Canada Cup I Qualifiers
Poker players in the United States may have been locked out of Poker Stars but not all of North America has suffered such a fate. Players in Canada are now being invited to try and win a free seat in Poker Stars’ first ever Canada Cup, featuring a main event with a guaranteed prize pool [...]
Daniel Negreanu Dominates at the PokerStars’ WCOOP
Daniel Negreanu is one of the best live poker players out there today, but after his recent Pokerstars World Championship of Online Poker, he’s shown that he has more than the ability to be one of the best online poker players as well. Negreanu has won four World Series of Poker gold bracelets, two World [...]
2011 PokerStars WCOOP Main Event Kicks Off
The PokerStars’ WCOOP is not only one of the largest online poker tournaments on PokerStars, but also in the online poker world in general. The WCOOP Main Event recently saw an increased buy-in of $5,200 back in 2008, and has had over 2,000 players enter it consecutively since then. While they were not expecting nearly [...]
Poker Pros to Battle for Expected £4 Million Prize Pool at PokerStars.com EPT London Poker Festival
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour (EPT), Europe’s richest and most popular poker tour is coming to London this month. In its’ eight year history, almost 40,000 players have hit the felt, and the EPT has paid out over £200 million in prize money. In August this year, the EPT Barcelona event broke all previous records [...]
