May 2008 Archives

A first Belarussian winner in the Saturday WR2 event last weekend with “Miensk” taking $293 for first place ahead of “*Katrin*20” of Germany. Of thousands of entrants 648 places were paid with “lor144144” of Canada checking out in 648th for $0.80. It was back to American domination though on Sunday...more

As detailed in the blog a few days ago Macau has become the home of the first live PokerStars card room and what better place to kick off the Asia Pacific Poker Tour which announced the dates of its second season this week. The first stop will be 1...more

Today, in a first of its kind event, PokerStars cut the ribbon on the brand new and first live poker room in Macau. Players from all over China walked into the Grand Waldo Casino today to see the opening of PokerStars Macau. Surrounded by hordes of local press, APPT President...more

By Brad "Otis" Willis A couple of years back, somebody in Las Vegas whispered to me, "Why do you think PokerStars hasn't opened a live poker room yet? Just imagine..." I spent the next couple of years imagining just that. Of course, there are a lot of logistics to...more

Just as Brazil held its first PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour event earlier this month a Brazilian by the name of “ferpetrucci” took the spoils in last weekend’s WR2, ahead of a pack of Americans on the way to $287.60. And as this is the WR2 that all came for...more

By Brad "Otis" Willis From an outsider's perspective, it might appears as though poker players do nothing but take, take, take. Recently, PokerStars players have shown they can give just as well. Over the past several weeks, PokerStars and its players gave their hard-earned money to Life Ball 2008 to...more

Ah, the weekend. Two days free from the day job, cleaning the house, mowing the lawn, taking the kids to various sporting events. Or, a few hours of Weekly Round 2 poker action, as “Whatruplayin” and “Lacky1111” did this weekend, winning themselves $293 and $276 respectively on Saturday and Sunday...more

The PokerStars European Poker Tour recently finished its fourth season in Monte Carlo, a glitzy place of razzmatazz and glamour and some of the best poker Europe has ever seen. But Europe isn’t the only place that poker increases in popularity year on year. As the Asia Pacific Poker Tour...more

Cheers to the 1,503 players who took away a cash prize after last weekend’s Weekly Round 2 events, a toast particularly appropriate to “cheers99,9” who won $287.60 on Saturday and to “SWITZY3” who took $276 on Sunday.On Saturday 702nd saw “smokeeD” made a modest score of $0.80 whilst “alaina83” did...more

PokerStars is gearing up to send some of its players to Life Ball 2008. The largest annual charity event and fundraiser for AIDS research has been running since 1993. Life Ball has since become a gigantic and surreal celebration of life attended by celebrities and wealthy philanthropists from around the...more

Here are last weekend’s results of the Weekly Round 2 freeroll - open to the final eleven tables of the daily astronomer freeroll tournaments on PokerStars.net. They gives you the opportunity to win real cash prizes whilst being free to enter.On Saturday it was ‘Saiman40’ from the United States taking...more