After one of the Team PokerStars Pros has a big win, we like to give them a chance to tell us what it was like. Even though he is the newest WPT millionaire, Brazilian Pro Alex Gomes took the time to sit down and tell us what it was like...more

By Brad Willis... The World Series of Poker can be discouraging. You can play all month long and barely have anything to show for it. Look at Team PokerStars Pro Alex Gomes. The best win he came away with in the 2009 Series was a $5,300 cash for an...more

Brad Willis reports at the start of the main event... As far as we know, it is not written in any poker bible that every tournament Day 1 must be a blistering marathon that leaves the players a blubbering mess at the end. That understood, never before at the...more

That's all, folks. There are no more preliminary events at the World Series of Poker. If a player hasn't cashed in one yet or still have a seat in one of the two events running today, he is going to have to make his nut in the Main Event....more

Brad Willis with the latest from the Amazon Room... Last night at this time we were reporting that Daniel Negreanu had just hit his seventh cash of the year. Now we can report he's posted his eighth. Negreanu has been multi-tabling the 2-7 game and $5,000 short-handed event all...more

Team PokerStars Pro announced today that it has signed to its stable two rock stars of the modern poker world. In one fell swoop, Team PokerStars Pro pulled in longtime tournament veteran Marcel Luske and prolific young gun Jason Mercier. Known around the world as 'The Flying Dutchman,' Luske...more

Brad Willis reports from the World Series... It was not to be, apparently, for Team PokerStars Pro Chad Brown. Seeking his first-ever WSOP bracelet to mix with his more than $2.3 million in lifetime tournament winnings, Brown came into day 3 of the $1,500 Stud-8 event with the chip...more

More from the Amazon Room at the World Series... Daniel Negreanu may be a lot of things, but a tragic figure he is not. Shakespeare would have a field day in building full of tragic tales. They may not end with star-crossed lovers offing themselves or a crazed prince...more

Brad Willis reports on Event 53 at the World Series... The rail at the $1,500 is the thicker than you'd expect for a limit, split pot Stud game. Normally at a rail for that kind of event, you'd have two people watching and one of them would only be...more

Brad Willis, working the rock face in the Amazon room, reports on the HORSE event at the end of the first day... It's hard to fully define what Day 1 of the $50,000 HORSE means. It takes an incredible amount of Run Bad or some equally terrible play to...more

Brad Willis reports on the first day of the HORSE... After an initial slow start during which time we couldn't tell exactly who was playing the $50,000 HORSE World Championship and who was not, we now have a clearer picture of the event. When registration closed this afternoon, 95...more

The rematch. Last November, Peter Eastgate defeated Ivan Demidov heads up to become the youngest World Series of Poker Main Event champion ever. Demidov claimed his own piece of poker history, becoming the first player to ever make the final tables of both the WSOP and the WSOP-Europe, and he...more

JC Alvarado has narrowly missed out on winning a WSOP bracelet like his fellow Team PokerStars Mexico Pro Angel Guillen. Alvarado made it to the last five in the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em, but despite a temporary comeback from the jaws of defeat, he fell in a huge coin...more

We started with 14 and now we're down to just nine in the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em. Among them is Team PokerStars Mexico Pro JC Alvarado, who survived a few early escapades to take a place at his first WSOP final. While still at two tables, Alvarado nursed a...more

Simon Young reports on events towards the end of another day at the World Series... After being all-in for her last 30,000 or so not too long ago, Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso has gone on a monumental tear-up around her $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em table - and shot...more

Ali vs. Frazier. Balboa vs. Creed. Eastgate vs. Demidov. This latter fixture may not be the most famous rematch of all time, but in terms of entertainment it's right up there. How it ended the first time is now part of World Series legend. In November 2008, Peter Eastgate...more

Our man at the World Series, Simon Young, reports on the latest... We've seen many a player at this WSOP juggling two tournaments at once - playing one, then nipping over to the other during a break to try and keep their stack alive. Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu...more

Simon Young reports from the World Series on the latest Team PokerStars Pro to make a final table... The pay day will come as little compensation to Barry Greenstein. After three days juggling the extreme swings this game brings, he arrived at the final table of the WSOP $10,000...more

We've all been there - you're involved in a key hand playing on PokerStars and someone tries to interrupt just at the wrong time. You get a little grumpy, right? That's exactly what happened to Joe Hachem during his time as a motel operator and some guests arrived to...more

Team PokerStars Pro Steve Paul-Ambrose details a mathematical approach to a hand played during the World Series... The hand: Day two of the WSOP $1,500 NL and there are 270 left. We're in the money, average is around 45,000 and I have 11,100 after losing a flip on the...more

The latest news from the Amazon Room... It seemed like just another day at the WSOP. Four tournaments were winding their way towards conclusion, generating the usual large crowds of railbirds and the just plain curious. But while four bracelets were on the line, focus was beginning to centre...more

Nearly every country has its own revolutionary hero. Anymore, nearly every country has its own poker revolutionary, someone who has changed the face of the game so dramatically that the country's players will never forget him. Angel Guillen may just be that man in Mexico. Late last night, after...more

Angel Guillen will remember this day for the rest of his life. The Team PokerStars Mexico player had already enjoyed a dream start to his live poker career, which began only at the New Year, and now he has topped it by winning a WSOP bracelet. The 26-year-old Mexican...more

A big day results wise for Team PokerStars Pro as Simon Young reports from the Amazon Room... He came agonisingly close to a WSOP bracelet, but Team PokerStars Pro Chad Brown has just busted in third place in the $10,000 Limit event. He collects $188,855 for his three days...more

After a long day in the saddle Simon Young reports on the last match of the heads up championship... What a day: eight hours of gruelling, energy-sapping heads-up play to determine who would take the coveted WSOP bracelet for topping the $10,000 World Heads-up Championship. If those of us...more

John Duthie is the creator of the European Poker tour and throughout the year is often seen patrolling EPT tournament areas itching to pull up a chair himself. Free from any restriction in Las Vegas he's digging in to the World Series heads-up event, as Simon Young reports... If...more

So close yet so far for Team PokerStars Pro Alex Kravchenko. Having tasted the sweetness of bagging a WSOP bracelet two years ago, he was back today hungry for more. But he fell short on the final table of the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Low 8 or Better, busting...more

Chad Brown has built a reputation as a prolific tournament earner, and that's no great surprise as he has more than $2 million under his belt already. What also impresses, however, is his ability to make serious money in all poker disciplines. Over the years, the Team PokerStars Pro,...more

Simon Young with more news from the front lines of the World Series... Brazilian motor racing team boss Gualter Salles had been in overdrive for the last two days, roaring up the leaderboard in the $1,500 no limit hold'em event. But unfortunately he's just done the poker equivalent of...more

Former World Champion of Poker and Team PokerStars Pro Greg Raymer writes about moving from online poker to the live game ahead of the main event next month... Many of our PokerStars players coming over to Las Vegas for the WSOP will be playing live tournaments for the first...more

The latest from the HORSE event, from Simon Young... While we're not really sure if Ylon Schwartz likes riding horses, we feel confident enough to suggest that he doesn't. Instead, poker and chess are the passions in which he has enjoyed considerable success. Before finishing fourth behind fellow Team...more

Simon Young reports from the Amazon Room on the frustrations of Daniel Negreanu... Daniel Negreanu must be wondering when he'll ever get hold of his fifth WSOP bracelet. Despite riding high from a breathtaking start to this World Series, he's now missed out on a title by a whisker...more

The results just keep on coming, as Simon Young reports... Daniel Negreanu has said he "loves" limit hold'em, and no wonder considering two of his four WSOP bracelets have come in limit tournaments. Today, he was within a whisker of make that three out of five. Despite holding the...more

Our man in the Amazon Room Simon Young, reports on the latest from the World Series... Six months ago Angel Guillen played in his first ever live tournament and cashed. He went much better at the PokerStars LAPT Punta del Este tournament by finishing first - and tonight he...more

Simon Young, on the front lines of the World Series in Las Vegas, reports on today's action... If you have never been to the Rio in Las Vegas for the WSOP, you could be forgiven for thinking there is a straightforward tournament each day. In fact, multiple events are...more

Simon Young continues with the PokerStars coverage from this year's World Series with news of more success for Team PokerStars Pro... Perhaps it was just never meant to be Hevad Khan's day. Down to two tables in the $2,500 pot-limit hold'em/Omaha event he was held up on his way...more

Another day done in the desert, as Simon Young reports... From the 453 who set out on the rocky road to the $2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em/Omaha bracelet, just two tables remain. Of those 18, Team PokerStars Pro Hevad Khan is still at his seat. The larger-than-life Khan started the...more

A day full of action, success and more success for PokerStars players at the World Series, as Simon Young reports... He may come from the US, but Jason Mercier is a well known heavyweight on the EPT circuit. A PokerStars player, he found himself winning the first EPT San...more

Simon Young reports from Las Vegas... He already has four WSOP bracelets to his name, but now Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu is homing in on number five after reaching the final 11 players of the $10,000 World Championship 7-card Stud. They say the greatest poker players are those...more

Simon Young reports from the front line in the Amazon Room... It may be 26 years since he won the WSOP Main Event, and the hair has grown grey (on head and beard), but Tom McEvoy today showed he has lost none of his shrewd poker ability. What makes...more

Simon Young reports from the Amazon Room front line... PokerStars is home to the world champions. So when the WSOP introduced a Champions Invitational to this year's Las Vegas schedule, it was always going to be rammed with members of our team. Fighting for bragging rights, a shiny 1970...more

The second event on this year's World Series schedule turned out to be a good one for PokerStars. First Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso cashed in 27th place for $71,050. Then, as players were whittled away PokerStars player Isaac Haxton, Team PokerStars Holland Pro Lex Veldhuis and former World...more

"There are people counting on me." Brad Willis reports on another flash back to World Series's of yore... I remember Barry Greenstein saying that to me a few years back. It was so antithetical to the well-established poker mindset, it was hard to fit in my head. If you ask...more

Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso already had more than $1.3 million in tournament winnings when she arrived in Monte Carlo. She hardly needed to prove her ability to the poker world, but if there's one thing that cements a place among the game's great and the good, then winning a...more

It's been a month of new faces to Team PokerStars Pro. First the not so unknown Johnny Lodden signed up to those of the red spade, then the likely lads of World Champion Peter Eastgate and his World Series rival Ivan Demidov. Well there are some more ready to hoist...more

There was a time when young Scandinavian poker phenomenoms were as commopn as internet start-ups. With many looking for investment a short period of boom got everyone excited until capitalist realities, tied in with nature's 'survival of the fittest', seperated the high-minded from the high-skilled. Just as businesses floundered so...more

It's a lesson quickly learned by every player that as a game of skill poker remains a game of frustration and swings that can drive you to a misspent hour in an Omaha game. Whether it's in those ring games on PokerStars.net or on the tournament tables of the latest...more

Brad Willis, fresh from covering events at the PokerStars LAPT Vina del Mar event, arrived home to find more news to report... Just a few days ago, we stood in a very long line at the Santiago, Chile airport. It snaked back and forth between the stanchions for 45...more

Team PokerStars Pro is one of the most elite in the world and this week it welcomed two new players in William Thorson and Marcin Horecki. For William his most notable success came at the World Series in 2006, eliminated in a painful 13th place in the main event. That...more