Poker player Randy Lew has set a new Guinness World Record for playing the most hands of poker in an 8-hour time frame of any player ever. Besides all the other excitement inherent with the Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure, a participating player at the event just set a world record to boot. The player was […]

When you play in the Game of Your Life promotion at Poker Stars, the site may send you and all your friends to the sports event of your choice, wherever in the world it happens to be. Poker Stars is giving away a VIP sports event prize package to the winners of its Game of […]

The 65 billionth hand is about to be dealt at one of Poker Stars’ cash tables this July, 2011, and you can win a big cash bonus just for playing in that hand, or any milestone hand leading up to it. In Poker Stars’ recent Road to 100 Billion Hands promotion, the next milestone of […]

Poker Stars has made some major changes to the prize pool guarantees in its online poker guaranteed tournaments in the way of hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize pool guarantee increases. Play in Poker Stars’ guaranteed tournaments these days and you’ll see that the site has made some significant changes in the prize pool […]

Poker Stars has just announced the first half of the schedule for the upcoming eighth season of its revered European Poker Tour, with two poker festivals amid stops in Spain, the UK, France, Italy, the Czech Republic and the Bahamas. The European Poker Tour is gearing up for its eighth season and its creator and […]

On Sunday, March 6, 2011 Poker Stars is celebrating the 5th year anniversary of its Sunday Million tournament with a boost in the guaranteed prize pool to $5 million, and a guaranteed $1 million to the winner, plus a brand new sports car to boot. This weekend’s Sunday Million at Poker Stars is a special […]

Poker Stars’ The Big Game is back on television for a second season, as of Monday, June 27th. Hosted by Scott Huff and Joe Stapledon, the Big Game features five big moneymakers in poker and the business world and one Loose Cannon, a PokerStars qualifier, in a cash game with a $100K buy-in. On Monday, […]

Poker Stars has just announced the first half of the schedule for season 8 of its European Poker Tour, including this time three new stops: in Berlin, Campione and Madrid. Poker Stars has been hosting the European Poker Tour since 2004 and now, with the coming of January 2012, the site marks the start of […]

Poker Stars has just appointed Alex Payne, former marketing and sales director of Microsoft’s Bing search engine, as its new Chief Marketing Officer. Poker Stars has been through a lot lately, what with the April 15 Black Friday seizure of their U.S. assets and an immediate call to repay their ejected U.S. players tens of […]

Poker Stars is celebrating its upcoming 60 Billionth Hand dealt with a promotion offering cash prizes for players participating in milestone hands leading up to the big sixty billion mark. Can you believe there’s been almost sixty billion hands of online poker dealt over at Poker Stars? Well, if seeing is believing then all you […]

The 2012 Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure main event champion is John Dibella, a player who won his seat in the event through a satellite tournament. The 2012 Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure has finished playing out and the last man standing was one John Dibella. Besides being Dibella’s biggest poker win by far, this is also […]

The 65 billionth hand is about to be dealt at one of Poker Stars’ cash tables this July, 2011, and you can win a big cash bonus just for playing in that hand, or any milestone hand leading up to it. In Poker Stars’ recent Road to 100 Billion Hands promotion, the next milestone of […]

The US government has finally put some bite behind its bark, shutting down three of the biggest poker sites online: Full Tilt Poker, Poker Stars and Absolute Poker. We don’t usually dedicate much space in these pages to bad news, but sometimes in order to report the most relevant events in online gambling to its […]

Recent updates on the dread day in poker history now known as Black Friday, include Poker Stars beginning to pay out US players, Full Tilt’s US player funds still in limbo, indictments, and 5 sites expressing that they still serve US players. To catch you up if you haven’t heard, the US Federal government, specifically […]

The Poker Stars Spring Championship of Online Poker starts this week, and by its final event, a $2.5 million main event on May 22, the site will have doled out $25 million in cash prizes. U.S. players may have been ejected from the field, but that hasn’t stopped the Poker Stars Spring Championship of Online […]

In a move that mirrors the recent partnership news between Wynn Resorts and Poker Stars, the company that owns Station Casino, Fertitta Interactive, has just joined forces with Full Tilt Poker. Casinos and poker sites are teaming up in order to battle the U.S. federal governments Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). For example, the […]