by Alex Kravchenko One of the most important strategies in MTTs is varying your game. That means that in similar situations with similar hands you must occasionally play a different way. For example, when you have a big hand pre-flop and there's a raise in front of you, sometimes you re-raise and sometimes you just call. I think there are two major … [Read more...]
2009 PokerStars Year in Review
December 31, 2009 By
As the calendar trips from one year to the next, folks tend to find moments of introspection. We look at ourselves and wonder what we might have done better, what we could've done worse, and what we hope to achieve in the coming 365 days. We here at the PokerStars Blog are no less reflective. Each December since 2005, we have taken a look back at the … [Read more...]
Watch Mike Kosowski win a million
December 30, 2009 By
By now you know that the first first season of the PokerStars Million Dollar challenge ended with one of the contestants beating Daniel Negreanu for $1 million. If you somehow missed the covers of the New York newspapers and all the poker industry web sites, the winner, Mike Kosowski, was a 9/11 hero who not only triumphed over the injuries he suffered … [Read more...]
Resting before the PCA, by Chad Brown
December 29, 2009 By
by Chad Brown I really enjoy Christmas. It is the time of the year I get to spend with my family, and after traveling all over the world, it's great to have a couple of weeks to just chill. Now, after having two weeks of relaxing, I'm really looking forward to going to the Bahamas for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. This year they have many more … [Read more...]
PCA preps for parties, Kelly Rowland
December 29, 2009 By
If there is one thing PokerStars does almost as well as it runs a poker site, it's throw parties. It's hard to say exactly how this came to be. The people behind the scenes are really quite upstanding, thoughtful people who don't cotton to random Bacchanalian adventures. Nevertheless, over lo these many years the PokerStars Blog has been traveling … [Read more...]
PokerStars Sunday tournament results (12-27-09)
December 28, 2009 By
If you play at PokerStars, you knew the last Sunday of the year was going to be a big one. With that understood, no one knew exactly how big it was going to be. Enter, the new Guinness World Record for the biggest ever poker tournament ever held. For the affordable price of one dollar, 149,196 people signed up for the record-breaking tournament on … [Read more...]
5-Way Deal means 6-figure payouts as coach6999 comes from behind to capture Sunday Million glory!
December 28, 2009 By
The PokerStars Sunday Million ended 2009 with the bang of a blown-up guarantee, as 9,344 players built a whopping $1,868,800 prize pool in the last Sunday Major of 2009. The field was huge, the final table was grueling, but in the end it was coach6999 triumphant, locking up over $143,000 after a five-way deal and a quick heads-up triumph over BBOY3110 … [Read more...]
5-Way Deal means 6-figure payouts as coach6999 comes from behind to capture Sunday Million glory!
December 28, 2009 By
The PokerStars Sunday Million ended 2009 with the bang of a blown-up guarantee, as 9,344 players built a whopping $1,868,800 prize pool in the last Sunday Major of 2009. The field was huge, the final table was grueling, but in the end it was coach6999 triumphant, locking up over $143,000 after a five-way deal and a quick heads-up triumph over BBOY3110 … [Read more...]
Turbo Takedown: Wire to wire spells victory and an Audi for ImDaNuts
December 28, 2009 By
The $1 Million Turbo Takedown went out of 2009 with a bang and some vrooom this evening. The field was relatively small having just 17,755 entries as compared to the 149,196 players in the just finished Guinness Book of World Records $1 tourney. But the good part was the buy-in was less than those record breakers had to pay! Just 3,000 FPPs attained … [Read more...]
NinjasTyle87 chops down competition on the way to a Sunday Warm-Up win!
December 28, 2009 By
PokerStars definitely brought out the holiday spirit in this week's edition of the Sunday Warm-Up, as 4,605 players took to the field to trim the tree with a $921,000 prize pool. With the top 675 players taking home a little something extra in their stocking, the big money was reserved for the final table. After a tough final table performance, NinjasTyle87 … [Read more...]