31 January 2012

» Turbo Championship of Online Poker concludes

The inaugural PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker is over, with the $770 Main Event wrapping things up with a $2.4 million prize pool. The 3,500 plus field capped off a series that has awarded $18 million in prize money.

24 January 2012

» Toby “810ofclubs” Lewis wins PokerStars TCOOP #16

Much like James Akenhead, we haven’t heard much from Toby Lewis for a while – though he did pick up a WCOOP title late last year. Much like James Akenhead, he’s won a tournament on PokerStars.

13 December 2011

» PokerStars 10th Anniversary Sunday Storm meets guarantee

As part of the PokerStars 10th Anniversary celebrations, the guarantee of the $10 + $1 buy-in Sunday Storm was upped from $200k to $1m. No problem for PokerStars who saw 116,400 players compete for a $1.16m prize pool.

12 December 2011

» Phil Galfond leaves BlueFirePoker training site

Phil Galfond has announced that he is parting ways with BlueFirePoker, coming as a shock to many in the poker community who had always thought of BlueFirePoker as “Phil Galfond’s training site”.

09 December 2011

» Ilari Sahamies wins $300k in first week of December

Ilari “Ilari FIN” Sahamies has continued his November tear into this month with over $300k won in the first nine days of December. He added another $118k to his total yesterday despite playing fewer than 100 hands.

06 December 2011

» Rafael Amit the big winner in high stakes PLO action

The past weekend has seen some more high stakes Omaha action at the virtual felt on PokerStars with Rafael Amit and “Jeans89” the biggest winners of the weekend, taking home $79k and $76k respectively.

23 November 2011

» Ilari Sahamies the winner, PepperoniF crashes the “!P0krparty¡”

The P0krparty¡ saga is over, it seems. After a hectic six weeks the party halted with an eight hour session and a loss of approximately half a million dollar at the $50/$100 PLO tables. The final nail in the coffin saw him lose with a full house versus a better boat.

21 November 2011

» “!P0krparty¡” wins $330k and takes on Phil Galfond

The man (or woman) who annoys poker writes everywhere, “P0krparty¡”, is still an unknown player at the PokerStars high stakes games despite an epic run with six-figure swings over the past few weeks. A very much known player, Phil “MrSweets28” Galfond, was the latest victim.

15 November 2011

» Phil “takechip” D’Auteuil takes chips to the tune of $1m

French-Canadian online pro Phil D’Auteuil has had an incredible November with his latest session bringing him over seven figures in winnings for the past three weeks. This takes him to second on the 2011 winnings list for PokerStars high stakes games.

10 November 2011

» Phil Galfond, Brian Hastings lose out in high stakes online PLO

The high stakes games on PokerStars have seen a lot of action, particularly of the four-card variety, since Black Friday. One player who until this week was not getting the best of it was Canadian PokerStars Pro Peter “GARFIELD25” Chan.