Technical Issues Cancel PokerStars Tournament
PokerStars’ weekly Sunday Storm tournament has seen its 10th-anniversary event cancelled due to a glitch in the software. The error occurred after 64 617 entrants had bought in and saw the clock running, blinds raising, but players ...Read More
PokerStars To Shut Down Full Tilt Poker
PokerStars is finally pulling the plug on Full Tilt Poker. The operator giant has announced that come Feb. 25, Full Tilt’s entire database will be merged with that of the PokerStars platform, thereby discontinuing Full Tilt’s ...Read More
PokerStars Officially Live In Michigan State
Top online Poker operator and brand PokerStars recently become the first online Poker room ever to go live in Michigan state. In turn, Michigan has become only the fifth U.S. state to legalise online Poker – having recently joined N...Read More
Chris Moneymaker Parts Ways With PokerStars
Chris Moneymaker is after a 17-year-long partnership bidding team PokerStars farewell. Moneymaker has been sponsored by and affiliated with the Canadian Poker powerhouse brand ever since he won the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event ...Read More
Excitement As Neymar Jr Rejoins PokerStars
He’s a world champion Olympic gold football star with a 50 million+ fanbase. But Forbes’ fourth highest paid athlete of 2020 is also a Poker fan without parallel – so much so that his dog’s named Poker! And now tha...Read More
WhatIfGod Wins PokerStars EPT Main Event
PokerStars’ European Poker Tour Online Series concluded with a spectacular $5,200 buy-in Main Event on Wednesday, with the final table and $1,019,081 first prize winner none other than two-time WCOOP champion, Sweden’s “...Read More
Badziakouski & Eibinger Pocket EPT On A Chop
That the 2020 PokerStars European Poker Tour Online has only been running for a little over a week has not deterred some of the biggest names in the competition from already having scooped up some of the largest of the big-money prizes. T...Read More
PokerStars & Team Furia Ink eSports Deal
The world of eSports is living an explosive boom not showing signs of settling down anytime soon. And riding the wave of success by making the most of every new opportunity to come its way is online Poker titan PokerStars – courtesy...Read More
PokerStars Announces Active Waiting List
The practise of bum hunting has long plagued online Poker. But it’s just been dealt yet another blow. PokerStars has now rolled out active waiting lists for the protection of new and recreational players typically preyed on by more ...Read More
PokerStars Exits China, Macau And Taiwan
PokerStars is no longer active or available to players living in China, Macau or Taiwan. This following the popular brand’s September 1st exit from all three the aforementioned countries. This following an email notifica...Read More
PokerStars Announces Upgraded Home Games
Leading online gaming giant PokerStars, obviously eager to keep the online and mobile Poker momentum going, has just made several changes and upgrades to its Home Games offering. Not only has the operator upgraded Home Games so as to incl...Read More
Playtech Debuts Spin & Win With PokerStars
Leading online casino games developer Playtech has announced the official launch of its brand-new Spin & Win live-dealer product across PokerStars brand-domains. The game is now live and available to online Roulette enthusiasts via po...Read More
PokerStars Unveils New DoJo Training App
Trust to save the boring day. The leading Poker room operator has now launched a rather superb new (and free!) training app intended to help players master specifically the basics of the game. Poker DoJo is available to all U.K. and U.S....Read More
Poker’s Darkest Friday Nearly 10 Years Old
former CEO and founder Isai Scheinberg’s March plea and guilty verdict was likely the beginning of the end of what will forever be known as Poker’s own Black Friday saga. The once-respected online Poker boss earlier this year...Read More
The Stars Group Rebrands BetStars
The Stars Group is slowly but surely building its brand into a name to be reckoned with. And since knowability is the name of the Fortune-500 game, the group’s recent rebrand applied to its online sports book BetStars – which...Read More
A Sneak-Peek At PokerStars’ Anti-Cheat Team
It may be argued that the majority of Poker players can reasonably be expected to be aware of the anti-cheat safeguards implemented by online operators like . And yet, thousands of transgressions are reported each year, ranging from playe...Read More
PokerStars Founder Isai Scheinberg Faces 5 Years In Jail
The drama surrounding founder Isai Scheinberg finally drew to a close last week when Scheinberg pled guilty to various charges stemming from a 2011 slew of indictments imposed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Each of the charges brough...Read More
PokerStars Ramps It Up With 6-Card Omaha
Thanks to a genius initiative dreamt up by leading operator , a brand-new product is headed in the direction of card playing enthusiasts. Pot Limit 6 Card Omaha will instead of following the usual 4-card model, make provision for 6-card h...Read More
PokerStars To Give Away 21 Platinum Passes
is all about creating core value by expanding on rewards. The latest news is that the operator has officially launched its Platinum Madness Promotion, which aims to dish out 21 Platinum Passes in as many days. Not that’s Platinum v...Read More
Jason Somerville Announces PokerStars Split
The man famously regarded as the founding father of Poker streaming, Jason Somerville, has announced having split with PokerStars. Sort of. Somerville announced on New Years Day via a video message announcement on soci...Read More
PokerStars To Give Away Passes To Twitchers
Exciting news for those following the world of Poker is that PokerStars has made available not one, but two platinum passes to Twitch users. In order to qualify for a free platinum pass, hopefuls are required to link t...Read More
PokerStars Release Two New Cash Games
PokerStars has just launched two brand-new novelty cash games. Deep Water Hold’em and PokerStars Tempest Hold’em both follow typical PokerStars style in that they tie in perfectly with other limited cash games laun...Read More
Liv Boeree & Igor Kurganov Leave PokerStars
PokerStars appears to be experiencing nothing short of a mass exodus of player-expertise and brand personalities. The latest players to have announced what they have referred to in true tongue-in-cheek style as a “split-up”...Read More
Kevin Martin Retires From Streaming Poker
Kevin Martin has come a long way since his days of living it up in the Big Brother Canada house back in 2015. This was after all the same year he became one of the pioneers of Poker streaming on Twitch. But the streame...Read More
PokerStars Raises $56k In Aid Of Children
Big-time Poker brand PokerStars is making a difference to the plight of children in need thanks to its long-time support of the flagship charity initiative known as Right to Play. PokerStars, which is owned by operator...Read More
Van Blarcum Reigns Victorious In EPT Event
Aaron Van Blarcum is no ordinary Poker player. He recently beat a field of 520 entrants and made his way all the way to the $474,390 first-place prize money in the WPT Legends Of Poker main event played at the Bicycle ...Read More
PokerStars Mixes It Up On The Big Blind
Frustrated with having to guestimate your next move on PokerStars because you simply do not possess the faculty of super-human abacus skills? The operator has heeded the cries for change and has implemented a brand-new...Read More
PokerStars Slashes Cash Games From 24 To 4
PokerStars has slashed the number of cash tables that any player is able to play simultaneously at any given time from 24 down to 4. In spite of the fact that this is bound to prove highly unpopular as far as changes go; especially among...Read More
PokerStars Trials All-In Cash Out Feature
Insurance protection may be considered to be just another way in which the house ultimately wins when it comes to playing Blackjack, but when it comes to equity protection when talking Poker, and especially when cash players come to the p...Read More
Poker’s Kevin “Racks” Roster Has Died
Poker lover and all-round good guy Kevin “Racks” Roster has passed away. Roster was in 2017 diagnosed as suffering from sarcoma, a particularly unforgiving form of cancer. But instead of lying down and waiting for the inevitab...Read More
Negreanu Has No Problem With VPNs
With online Poker now outlawed in the United States, more and more US players are making use of VPNs in order to cast a cloak of anonymity over their real identities, and more importantly, their geo-locations, in order to gain access to i...Read More
PokerStars Debuts Novelty Game Tournaments
Iconic Canadian brand PokerStars’ classic novelty cash games have received a makeover. Three of the site’s original novelty titles that were launched last year are now available in an innovative multi-table tournament format. ...Read More
PokerStars Eyeing Out Swiss Market
Switzerland has officially closed its iGaming space off to the outside world. New Year’s Day saw the country’s new Money Gaming Act officially come into effect, despite the various motions filed in opposition of such a move si...Read More
Tankaza Secures Back-To-Back Main Events
In Poker, whether online or when talking in-person tournaments, winning back-to-back main events is a thing that is almost unheard of. Unless your name is Gianluca “Tankaza” Speranza of course. The Austrian online Poker player...Read More
Daniel Negreanu To Split From PokerStars
Anyone who has been following the more subtle goings-on on the world-wide Poker circuit will agree that although slightly sad because of it being the end of an era, Daniel Negreanu’s announcement that he will no longer be part and p...Read More
The Stars Group Launches Stars Affiliate Club
Affiliate clubs have enjoyed a lot of success in many industries all over the world, but it’s an element of business that has been strangely absent from the worldwide gambling and betting industry. Until now that is, because The Sta...Read More
The Stars Group Owns Up To Chinese Affair
Now may not have been the best time for The Stars Group to have been caught with its pants down and entangled with unregulated Chinese site Red Dragon Poker. All was revealed when a group of Chinese nationals were stripped of their coins ...Read More
Three PokerStars UFC Ambassadors Introduced
Can PokerStars possibly get any better at what they have been doing up until now? Room for improvement seems to be a many-splendid thing that reveals itself in fresh new ways to the relentlessly committed. When PokerStars’ partnersh...Read More
PokerStars To Celebrate Rags To Riches
Most of us just love a good old story of rags to riches. We are inherently benevolent by nature and learning of how other managed to rise above their own circumstances gives us a sense of hope and creates in us the notion that if it&rsquo...Read More
PokerStars Makes Major Tech & VR Changes | Gaming Post CA
PokerStars first announced its own giant leap for Poker-playing mankind when in 2018 it adopted Virtual Reality technology into its forte for the very first time. Not much more came of it all at the time, save for the grand and elaborate ...Read More
Maurice Hawkins Wins 12th WSOP Gold Ring
Pro-poker champ Maurice Hawkins is a man with a plan. Hawkins recently walked away $44,297 the richer after he out-played, outwitted and outlasted 319 of his contemporaries at the 2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Harra’s Cherokee ...Read More
PokerStars In Trouble Over College Bets
New Jersey may have fought in the front lines of the war that eventually saw the ban on sports betting abolished in the United States, but that certainly doesn’t mean that anything goes. The state doesn’t permit any form of sp...Read More
Pennsylvania To Offer Online Poker
Pennsylvania To Offer Online Poker If any one day on this year’s calendar promises to be happy day then it’s without a doubt July 15. The 15th of July will see residents of the state of Pennsylvan...Read More
Poker’s Big 3 Under The Looking Glass
The Big 3 online Poker brands have been in constant competition with one another, and PokerStars, partypoker and 888poker each had its own story to tell when the revenue figures for the latest close of year were recently released. One can...Read More
PokerStars Celebrates 13 Years Of Sunday Million
On the 14th of April 2019 PokerStars will celebrate the 13th anniversary of its legendary Sunday Million Tournament. The tournament has enjoyed a lot of support and success since a Canadian online...Read More
Poker’s GPI Combines EPA And APA Awards
There’s a new development in the Poker Awards business and a very exciting one at that. The Global Poker Index has officially merged the American and European Poker Awards in order to form the bigger and better Global Poker Awards. ...Read More
Jake Cody Leaves The PokerStars Family
Despite the fact that nobody has made any move to confirm or challenge the rumour, it certainly appears as if the youngest ever winner of the Triple Crown is no longer affiliated with PokerStars. Jake Cody certainly was regarded as one of...Read More
Koon Kicks Ivey Off The Top 10 List
As if being forced, admittedly all of one’s one doing, to resort to playing low-budget Poker and having your name stripped from one of the most esteemed Poker rooms in Vegas isn’t bad enough, Poker’s disgraced golden boy...Read More
Split Omaha May Be Coming To PokerStars
If a recent report is to be believed, player may soon have the opportunity to kick their four-card playing sessions up a notch thanks to a brand-new novelty game in the PokerStars pipeline. PokerStars appears to be going all out with a su...Read More
Get Ready For The Lex Live Spring Festival
Twitch Pro-Poker celebrity Lex Veldhuis is about to offer his fans the opportunity of taking him on in person in the live Poker arena. The Dutchman is throwing his very own party, dubbed the Lex Live Spring Festival, and the Team PokerSta...Read More
No More Staples And Gross For PokerStars
Streaming personalities Jamie Staples and Jeff Gross have made their exits out from under the PokerStars umbrella. Staples and Gross gained fame and momentum when they grew their own personality-brands on the popular streaming website, Tw...Read More
Uproar Over PokerStars Incentive Re-Shuffle
PokerStars has made quite a number of changes aimed at stimulating recreational play. The flip side is that the funds has to come from somewhere, and it’s now very much a matter of taking away from the rich and re-routing the resour...Read More
PokerStars Signs A New Brand Ambassador
The world’s leading Poker operator, PokerStars has just signed a new brand-ambassador to represent their brand. Winner of the PokerStars Player’s No-Limit Hold’em Championship (PSPC) Ramón Colillas, officially rep...Read More
February 3rd A Big Day for Online Poker
Dozens of enthusiastic online grinders won huge on Sunday, February 3 thanks to 888poker’s innovative RakeLESS promo. Also on the table for players on the day was partypoker’s KO series, PokerStars’ Turbo Series, and a c...Read More
PokerStars Slash Online Games’ Time Banks
In a bid to speed up the pace of its cash gaming action, PokerStars will be slashing its time banks by significant amounts. The world’s top online poker platform will reportedly be doing this for both its zoom games and its standard...Read More
PokerStars Bans Seating Scripts in Policy
Cash poker players at PokerStars, the world’s largest card gaming room operated by Canadian giant The Stars Group, will soon no longer be able to use automated seating scripts. The changes will be enacted from March 1 onward followi...Read More
‘AU555’ of Ukraine Wins the Sunday Million
On January 27, PokerStars ran its for the first time after the iconic poker website permanently reduced the event’s buy-ins from $215 to $109. Any concerns about the tourney’s $1 million guarantee not being reached were soon ...Read More
Endless Action in PokerStars Winter Series
It was another action packed weekend at US-licensed online poker rooms with the recent Winter Series coming to an end at PokerStars New Jersey. To add even more fun to the mix, the New Year Kick Off Series also started at WSOP.com, giving...Read More
PokerStars Embrace Short-Deck in 6+ Holdem
Canadian iPoker brand PokerStars has officially joined the short-deck movement with the launch of its latest online game, 6+ Hold’em. According to industry media channels, players can expect the new title to officially appear on iGa...Read More
Ramon Colillas Takes Home $25k PSPC Win
With every level that passed in the $25,000 PokerStars Players Championship (PSPC), the stakes grew even higher for those still in the running for the grand prize. A group of 38 participants reached the second last day of action on Januar...Read More
Dutch PokerStars Players Escape Win Taxes
Canadian company The Stars Group operates some of the world’s most successful iGaming brands. Among them is the number-one online poker platform on the planet, PokerStars, which operates in every corner of the globe from North Ameri...Read More
JPJ Group Enters Regulated Swedish Market
It seems like online gambling companies from all over the world are jostling to grab a piece of the newly regulated Swedish market. Just a few days ago, Canadian giant The Stars Group revealed the news that two of its cornerstone brands, ...Read More
The Stars Group Goes Live In Sweden
After being granted a license from Swedish regulator Lotteriinspektionen late in 2018, Canadian gaming giant The Stars Group (TSG) has officially entered the country’s regulated iGaming sphere. TSG’s flagship online poker bra...Read More
NY Senators Reviewing New iPoker Proposal
The new year has already brought around favourable changes for the online poker scene in the US state of New York. State lawmakers have again contemplated iPoker legislation, thanks to a bill that was recently forwarded to the Senate for ...Read More
12 Canadians Score PSPC Platinum Passes
The hype all began late in 2017 in Prague when Team Pro Daniel Negreanu officially announced the PokerStars Players Championship (PSPC). The $25k tournament was slated to run at the start of the yearly PokerStars Caribbean Adventure this ...Read More
Bicknell Named Female Player of the Year
As the new year kicks off, the Global Poker Index (GPI) rankings for the 2018 year have been revealed. Canada’s Kristen Bicknell once again secured a couple of great victories for her country, edging out Mike Leah for the top Canadi...Read More
Paul Michaelis Takes Home EPT Main Event Win
The 2018 European Poker Tour Prague $3,500 main event has just crowned its newest member of Poker royalty. German player Paul Michaelis is the latest player, and one of the youngest, to boot, to have had the opportunity of raising the tro...Read More
Aleeyah Jadavji Gets Her Platinum Pass
She’s not just instrumental in making things run smoothly from behind the scenes at PokerStars, but she’s also an enthusiastic and capable Poker player herself. And now, she’s won a coveted a Platinum Pass, an opportunit...Read More
The Stars Group Awarded Swedish Online Licence
It’s official: PokerStars parent company, The Stars Group (TSG), has just been welcomed into Sweden’s newly regulated online gambling fold. The Stars Group, together with four other operators, have become the latest operators ...Read More
NBA Names The Stars Group As Gaming Partner
Canadian-based The Stars Group, owners of the world-famous PokerStars brand, have managed to secure its very first partnership with a US pro-sports league. The group was recently named the official gaming partner of the National Basketbal...Read More
PokerStars and Player Agrees to Drop All Charges
If you’re going to try and have your cake and eat it too, you best make sure that on your end of the net, the court is squeaky clean. Just ask world-renowned professional Poker player, Gordon Vayo. Vayo had previously tried to take ...Read More
PGCB Grants PokerStars an iGaming License
PokerStars, the highly popular online gaming brand run by Canada’s own The Stars Group, is reportedly taking its first steps back into the US’s online poker market thanks to a ground-breaking new deal. The successful company&...Read More
November 18 A Memorable Day for Canadian Poker
November 18 was a huge day for online poker tourney grinders. Some immense scores were achieved by players from all around the world, and as per usual, it was PokerStars’ Sunday Million that generated the biggest prize pool and thre...Read More
‘Talonchick’ Rowsome Talks Family Business
Since taking her leave from team online, Canadian poker icon Adrienne ‘Talonchick’ Rowsome has expanded her family and started a brand new business. For more than 5 years, Rowsome represented as a Team Online member, and a...Read More
Vayo Drops Fraudulent Lawsuit Against REEL
Gordon Vayo, the iconic 2016 WSOP runner-up and popular online poker player, has reportedly dropped his former lawsuit against the parent company of PokerStars, Rational Entertainment Enterprises Limited (or REEL) after it was revealed th...Read More
Evolution Gaming Air TV Series for Ardent Group
Live dealer casino giant Evolution Gaming has reportedly joined forces with Ardent Group, a prominent Belgian gambling operator, to launch a nightly live gambling television series. Last week, Evolution’s upper management announced...Read More
The Stars Group Profits’ Soar Post-Acquisitions
Canadian iGaming operator operates, among other things, two of the world’s most successful online poker brands: PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. It should come as no surprise, then, that fans of the company’s poker offerings w...Read More
Kevin Martin Scores Over $180k in 2018
has done it again. This time, the Albertan Team PokerStars Pro Online star has scooped yet another life-changing cash, which comes as his largest to date and has added to some exceptional results for the year in review. Last week, Marti...Read More
Poker Pro Liv Boeree Gives TED Talk
The professional Poker world is dominated by men, but Britain’s Olivia ‘Liv’ Boeree is one of the few women who are in the process of changing that. The pro player has already won more than $3.7 million in prize money, a...Read More
Big Expansion Plans for The Stars Group
A few years back, The Stars Group was struggling with debt after being shaken by an insider trading scandal involving its founder and CEO David Baazov. After paying off its debts from the acquisition of PokerStars...Read More
PokerStars Galactic Series a Clear Success
The latest has demonstrated the overwhelming success of shared liquidity in Europe. It was in August when PokerStars launched the largest online poker series in the world for players in the newly merged European shared ...Read More
MuchBetter Payments Coming to Stars Group
Online and mobile payment service firm MuchBetter revealed this week that it has signed an exclusive new partnership with Canadian iGaming giant, . Under the terms of the fresh new deal, the payment service provider will supply their sec...Read More
Sports Stars Sponsored By Casinos
The world of sports is an every changing one. It was not so long ago that it was all but expected that alcoholic beverage brands or electronics companies would sponsor sports teams. It was an accepted situation, almost as if the two had alw...Read More
DDoS Attacks Hit 888Poker Before XL Series
The notorious group of women and men donning ‘fsociety’ masks struck again this week, this time hitting 888Poker with a series of catastrophic DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. The saga has rocked the online gambli...Read More
Short-Deck on the Cards for PokerStars
Canadian poker giant PokerStars has recently been innovating new ways to enhance users’ experiences on their website. Some have been interesting indeed, while others, like the Unfold feature, have been met with criticism after being...Read More
PokerStars Removes iDEAL for Dutch Players
News has now emerged that Canada-based PokerStars operator The Stars Group informed its Dutch players last month that the popular iDEAL payment method would soon be removed from the local version of the poker site. In a message sent to i...Read More
EPT Season Off to a Great Start
The European Poker Tour (EPT) started 15 years ago in the Spanish capital of Barcelona. Every year since then, the sizzling Spanish destination has been the site of the first event in each new Tour season, as well as being one of the la...Read More
Kevin Martin Keeps Raking In the Wins
Not long after his first big win of last month, local legend and Team PokerStars Online Pro Kevin Martin managed to bank his , and then go on to win a 3rd. The player, who is also a well-known poker streamer and winner of Big Brother Can...Read More
Poker Players Hit Hard by Spanish Taxman
Just as local poker players began to trek into Spain’s second-largest city for the , a brand new breaking news headline has hit the web that could make players from certain jurisdictions stop and think twice about attending. Hossei...Read More
PokerStars Offers Apology Free Rolls After DDoS Attack
Over the past few weeks, the online poker industry has been heavily affected by a slew of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that caused numerous tournament cancellations and site crashes at several popular sites. PokerStars, t...Read More
Online Poker Sites Suffer DDoS Attacks
The online poker industry has recently been plagued by a spate of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, with three highly popular gaming websites being impacted by the onslaught. Initial reports of the attacks emerged on US-facin...Read More
Strong Results for Stars Group in Q2 2018
Canadian analysts have praised The Stars Group’s ‘impressive momentum’ in Q2 this year, which was driven by a busy period of mergers and acquisitions. The news of the Group’s second quarter success has come after t...Read More