It’s a Knockout. Two of them!
Bring on the pain… With many eyes on the latter stages of the Women’s World Cup, we thought we’d fill in the gaps between games with a knockout of our own. All week you guys have been voting in a...
View ArticleEPT Open Madrid down to 12 players
What a week it’s been in Madrid. The EPT Open Madrid Main Event has been running since Wednesday. A total of 1,151 players entered the tournament, making it the biggest $1.1K in the history of Casino...
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UFC KO Poker Series: Final Day
It’s the final day of the UFC KO Poker Series. Here are the headlines with everything to play for… Fintan Hand leads into the final day Lex Vedhuis the only real challenger Spraggy shifts into full...
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UFC KO Poker Series: Lex Veldhuis tops KOs
The final day of the UFC KO Poker Series played out yesterday. We won’t know the winner of the Main Event, or the KO contest itself until tomorrow, but here are the headlines this morning: Lex Veldhuis...
View ArticleWhat’s Our Most Brutal KO?
One more KO to KO It’s time… to crown your favourite knockout. All last week we ran daily Twitter polls alongside the UFC KO Poker Series to determine our most brutal KO from the live PokerStars felt....
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Our pick? #Moneymaker4HoF
Anyone with a connection to poker, or who has followed the game in recent years, will know the players nominated for the poker Hall of Fame have something to offer. The list will likely leave poker...
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Moneymaker Wins 3 “First 50” Awards
You might have heard about how Chris Moneymaker is among the 10 nominees for the Poker Hall of Fame this year. That explains this #Moneymaker4HoF hashtag you might have seen going around. What you...
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EPT Open Madrid, UFC KO Series wrap up
Headlines from the weekend… Jakub Grzegorzek conquers Madrid main event Nicholls, Behor win EPT Open Madrid titles UFC KO Series wraps up SCOOP wrecking ball wins in HRC All the big results from the...
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Lex beats Fintan and Spraggy for UFC KO belt
It’s all over. The referee has stopped it. We have a champion. Lex Veldhuis — also known as the people’s champ, the Van Damme of Rotterdam, and now the KO King — has defeated both Fintan “easywithaces”...
View ArticleRivalries that shaped the UFC light heavyweight division
The UFC light heavyweight division has hosted some of the biggest names in the sport during the Octagon’s lifetime. With light heavyweight champ Jon Jones set to face Thiago Santos in the UFC 239 main...
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Play your A-game with PokerStars School
Studying with good poker players is one of the best ways to improve your own game in the long run. Converting what you learn into a bigger bankroll isn’t always simple when you’re starting out, but...
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50 Years, 50 WSOP Nuggets
Today begins the Main Event at the 50th annual World Series of Poker. That’s the 50th annual, mind you — not the 50th anniversary of poker’s most famous tournament series. That’ll happen next year, as...
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WSOP 2019: 'Special' John Cynn sets the ball rolling
The crickets started at around 11.45am. That’s the point at which the doors opened to the Amazon Room at the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino and the first players flooded to the tables for the start...
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WSOP 2019: A bracelet, $1m and now a wife
It’s been quite a week for Kainalu McCue-Unciano. Last Thursday, the man from Hawaii won his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) title, when he took down the $1,500 Monster Stack event earning more than...
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WSOP 2019 coverage hub
PokerStars Blog has been at the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) for the past 15 years — and we’re back again for the 2019 renewal too. Here’s where you’ll find all the key info for...
View ArticleWSOP 2019: Photo gallery
A selection of photos from the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. All images by PokerPhotoArchive. RETURN TO WSOP COVERAGE HUB DAY 1A Click and swipe left/right to view images
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Announcing MicroMillions 2019
MicroMillions is back for 2019. Like before, this year’s schedule promises to turn low stakes players into high stakes winners. About 146 of them. Here’s what’s coming up this month. The two-week...
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EPT Barcelona: Travel Guide
Next month one of the most popular stops in the history of poker returns: EPT Barcelona. The ultimate summer vacation for poker players is just around the corner, so we recommend you either get...
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WSOP 2019: How I survived the Vegas earthquake
It started at around 10.45am, right about the time a poker tournament reporter thinks about ending the browsing of garbage and smut on his phone and getting up and making something of his morning. An...
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Poker's polymath Liv Boeree treads a new path
There’s good news and bad news for the many, many fans of Liv Boeree. To deal with the disappointment first: she will not be winning the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event. The PokerStars Ambassador...
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