PokerStars’ Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is set to make a return as from May 12 to May 17 and this time it will be featuring a record $75 million worth of guaranteed prize pools which will be further supplemented by at least $1 million guaranteed for every single day of the poker series. […]
Renowned online poker operator PartyPoker has been very busy solidifying its place in the United States’ poker industry over the past couple of months. While some of the company’s moves have been unprecedented, it goes without saying that they make total sense especially when viewed from a business perspective – these developments have not only […]
In response to recent changes made by PokerStars, last Sunday hundreds of poker player participated in a boycott that was organized by a group of the site’s high stakes poker players led by Belgian player “girafganger7”. Joining him were 250 more high stakes MTT players who opted not to participate in the $5,200 buy-in Turbo […]
Just a few days after Jeff Gross and Jaime Stables announced the end of their contracts with PokerStars, the company has signed Ramon Colillas, the winner of the PokerStars Player’s No-Limit Hold’em Championship, as their new brand ambassador. The poker star took the online poker industry by surprise when he emerged victorious at the $25,000 […]
As the United States continues to struggle with online poker legislation especially with regards to interstate online gambling, the online poker industries in various European countries – Spain, France, and Portugal – are already reaping the fruits of liquidity sharing. According to a joint regulatory statement that was released recently, the cross-border pact between the […]
The online poker industry has just gotten even more competitive following an announcement by PokerStars that it was slashing the buy-in for its long-running tournament from $215 to $109. By doing this, the online poker operator will now need to attract at least 10,000 buy-ins every week so as to avoid an overlay. However, the […]
When PokerStars came up with the idea of the PokerStars Players’ Championship a lot of discussions pertaining to the event erupted, especially with regards to how big it would be as well as how many people would actually come out and participate in it. Well, as it turns out, the originators of the idea had […]
Sweden has been preparing to launch its online poker industry for years and recently poker players got exactly what they had wished for and much more. It is one thing for one poker room to launch in a country but when thirteen online poker rooms are launched in any given country then there is certainly […]
Thanks to a newly formed sponsorship partnership, PokerStars is now the official poker partner of the UFC, the world’s top-ranked mixed martial arts organization. This was revealed during a recent press release where in addition to announcing their new alliances, the two organizations shared plans of how they will be going about their joint activities […]
A Kentucky appeals court has recently overturned what is considered to be the largest ruling against a company in the history of the state. The three-judge appeals court panel voted to release the Stars Group, formerly PokerStars, from an $870 million judgment that was awarded back in 2015 by a trial judge. Franklin Circuit Judge […]
