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PokerStars Finalizes Deal to buy Full Tilt Poker
Reliable sources have informed Holdem Poker Chat that PokerStars has finalized a deal with The Department of Justice to take over the assets of Full Tilt Poker. Details remain elusive but the happy news for poker players is that any deal with the DoJ always had to include the return of funds stuck on the [...]
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 [...]
