Frankie Edgar is still the UFC's own Rocky
It’s hard to not like a fighter like Frankie Edgar. Edgar has often found himself as the underdog in big fights but manages to scrap and compete at a high level. He was a massive underdog at UFC 112...
View ArticleThe fight that wasn't: Cyborg v. Rousey
Sometimes fight sports are defined as much by fights that never happened as those that did. This is true of fights such as Georges St. Pierre vs. Anderson Silva, Randy Couture vs. Fedor Emelianenko...
View ArticleLeonard wins Sunday High Roller; Schemion final tables the Milly
Here’s everything you need to know from the weekend on PokerStars… Jakub “Olli444” Oliva wins the Sunday Million ($97K) Patrick “pads1161” Leonard claims High Roller Club title Top 5 results from the...
View ArticleMicroMillions 2019 Results Hub
All the MicroMillions winners so far… MM 01: $5.50 NLHE [Half Price Sunday Storm]: tamglenn ($24,723.91) MM 02: $3.30 PLO [6-Max, Progressive KO]: 2.2xbusiness ($3,527.87) MM 03: $3.30 NLHE [8-Max]:...
View ArticleSpin up a win with Spin & Go 10
If you sit down to play a Spin & Go this week, you’ll probably notice something in your Stars Rewards chest afterward. Don’t snooze on this one — it could bag you a bunch of extra cash. Starting...
View ArticleLive Tournament Tips from Liv Boeree
Liv Boeree isn’t just a Team PokerStars Pro. She’s also a past EPT and WSOP champion with more than $3.8 million in lifetime live tournament earnings. In other words, she’s exactly the type of person...
View ArticleHow the Sunday Million was won (July 28)
The definitive account of the Sunday Million (July 28). They say the cream rises to the top. Two weeks ago, long-time crusher Conor “1_conor_b_1” Beresford took down the $109 Sunday Million for a...
View Article5-Card Fiction: Bluffing the Toughs in “Destry Rides Again”
“A deuce in the hole in this game is as good as an ace.” So says a character near the beginning of the 1939 film Destry Rides Again starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. Directed by George...
View ArticleWeird Variants of Poker You Should Be Playing
Weird Variants of Poker You Should Be Playing If you learned how to play poker after seeing it on television, you’re not alone. Millions of poker players around the world first found their favorite...
View ArticleFAST FIVE: Things you might have missed this week
Here’s a quick catch up from the week on PokerStarsBlog… All the latest from APPT Manila 5-Card Fiction: Bluffing the toughs in ‘Destry Rides Again’ How the Sunday Million was won (July 28) Weird...
View ArticleOne week, two wins for Spraggy
Is Spraggy’s the no.1 Twitch stream? He’s certainly making a great case for it, winning two tournaments this week live on his channel. Sometimes Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg is heated: Fuck the internet...
View ArticleAPPT Manila results
All the results from the APPT Manila 2019 festival Main Event Date: August 1-4, 2019 Buy-in: ₱65,000 (58,500+6,500) Players: 1,135 Prize Pool: ₱64,405,575 Place First Name Last Name Country Prize 1...
View ArticleAPPT Manila coverage hub
APPT Manila ran from July 26 to August 4, 2019, at PokerStars Live at Okada Manila, Philippines. Click through links below to find out what happened in all the major events. FULL APPT MANILA DETAILS |...
View ArticleBow to Sensei
“The one thing that’s for sure is that I’ll be the all-time winner in the game of cards. No one really has a chance to hold me back. I’m going to be everywhere, I’m going to be winning everything. Good...
View ArticleAndras "probirs" Nemeth defeats "Bencb789" for HRC title
Here’s everything you need to know from the weekend on PokerStars… Andras “probirs” Nemeth defeats “Bencb789” for Sunday Cooldown title UK’s “losero88” wins Sunday Million for $95K Two Supersonic final...
View ArticleFrom $100 to $1 million in 11 minutes
There are lots of ways to make a million dollars. If you’re old-fashioned you can inherit hundreds of millions and collect a day’s worth of interest. You could go new-school and become a superstar...
View ArticleOpinion: Fortnite's Moneymaker moment? It's complicated
Most American kids spent last week counting their remaining days of summer vacation. Kyle Giersdorf from Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, spent his in the centre of a media frenzy. It was unfamiliar ground...
View ArticlePoker's future (found in the past)
Have you ever read any old science fiction? I mean really old like The War of the Worlds or A Princess of Mars? There’s something uncanny about reading books written so long ago that imaginatively...
View ArticleBest poker interviews of all time
When PokerStars Ambassador Liv Boeree grabbed Bryn Kenney for an interview moments before the £1 million Triton final table last week, she couldn’t have predicted she was about to conduct what many top...
View ArticleHow the Sunday Million Was Won (August 4)
An executive chef. A science writer. A two-time COOP champ with $5.8 million in PokerStars earnings. A Swedish high stakes player at his third major final table of the summer. These players outlasted...
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