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From January 19th, 2012 through January 29th, 2012 the world’s largest online poker room will be hosting its newly created Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP), bringing the site’s total of major online tournament series to an impressive three, joining the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). […]

In its latest bid to topple the record for the largest online poker tournament in the history of the game, PokerStars (which is the current record-holder) ran a special $1 tournament this past Sunday with a guaranteed prize-pool of $250,000 for its 10th Anniversary celebration. This would be the first attempt for the site to […]

If you are a fair-play online poker advocate like myself than today’s news that Bodog has implemented a site-wide policy that will keep all players anonymous to their opponents is like getting that shiny new bicycle on Christmas morning. The new Anonymous tables were part of a larger software upgrade, and could change the way […]

On October 23, 2011 Party Poker will launch its own online poker tournament series a la the PokerStars WCOOP. The series, known as POKERFEST, will run from the 23rd of October to November 6th, 2011, and will feature a total of 47 tournaments ranging in buy-ins from Party Point freerolls all the way up to […]

Often times after an online poker room updates their software the changes are imperceptible -sometimes dealing with a minor glitch or maybe adding a new language to the site’s download-but every now and then you get a new update that has a number of upgrades; like the recent update at PokerStars that saw the site […]

This past week Party Poker made some sweeping changes to their rake calculations, moving away from the “Dealt” method to the “Weighted” method, as well as changing their rake structure by dropping the stakes eligible for Max Rake collection from $15/$30 down to $3/$6, and decreasing the amount of rake taken from Micro-Stakes Fixed-Limit games. […]

Despite the loss of the entire US Market after Black Friday, PokerStars has managed to remain the top dog in the world of online poker, and with their main rival, Full Tilt Poker, now sitting on the sidelines, PokerStars has almost put the traffic loss from Black Friday behind them; evidenced by their massive $30 […]

Black Friday was supposed to decimate the attendance numbers of the 2011 World Series of Poker, and thus far there has been scant evidence of anything having changed in the poker world considering the 2011 WSOP numbers have INCREASED over last year. However, even the most optimistic amongst are not expecting the 2011 World Championship […]

After a Dutch player finished in 3rd place in the 5th anniversary PokerStars Sunday Million -good for a $518,902 score-a local newspaper decided this would be a nice little story to run and telephoned the player in question; which is where things started taking a very bad turn… It turns out the player using the […]

In this article I will examine the effects that the Department of Justice and FBI crackdown on online poker in the United States has had on PokerStars and the long-term forecast for where PokerStars goes from here, as well as touch upon how I feel the site has handled the situation as a whole. PokerStars: […]