Tag Archives: PokerStars

The first ever Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) turned out to be a huge success at PokerStars since it offered players a collective $18.5 million over 49 poker tournaments. A big chunk of this amount came from the 2012 TCOOP Main Event, which saw 3,667 players pay the $700 buy-in to create a $2,438,555 prize pool. Among the players who bought in were world-famous poker pros such as Alex Kravchenko, Humberto Brenes, Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo, Lex Veldhuis, Liv Boeree, Martin Staszko, Shane “shaniac” Schleger, Vanessa Selbst and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom. Out of this elite group, only Brenes managed to …

Canadian poker pro Nathan “Blackrain79” Williams is the biggest micro stakes winner in PokerStars history. In fact, he has pulled in $30,000 in profits while playing the $0.01/$0.02 and $0.02/$0.05 stakes alone. This being said, it’s no wonder why Williams is one of the most popular coaches at DragTheBar, where players can get free poker training through RakeTheRake. In regards to Williams’ record micro stakes profits, he was quoted as saying, “I guess (people were impressed) because no one was playing as many hands as I was and getting such high win rates. And people just thought it was crazy.” …

James “Asprin1” Akenhead proved why he is one of the UK’s best poker players by winning the most recent PokerStars Sunday Million tournament along with $213,750. This was certainly no easy task either when you consider that there were 7,150 players who either paid the $215 buy-in or satellited into the poker tournament. In addition to this, dozens of Team PokerStars pros bought into the event, which meant plenty of players on Akenhead’s level. Event still, the Londoner battled his way onto the final poker table with the third best chip stack (9.63 million). And Akenhead wouldn’t be behind for …

Those who closely follow online poker already know that Randy “Nanonoko” Lew is one of the best multi-tabling players in the game today. Nanonoko has become legendary for his quick decision-making, high-volume multi-tabling and impressive results. A testament to Lew’s skills is that he’s made millions of dollars, despite normally playing $5/$10 NL Hold’em games and lower. Recently, the Team PokerStars Online member decided to push his skills to the limit by trying to break the Guinness World Record for most online poker hands played in eight hours. Seeing as how the previous record was 23,492 hands (2,336 hands per …

After a highly successful year in 2011, it appears that PokerStars has resolved to be even better in 2012 with their VIP Blast Off Club. The VIP Blast Off Club is essentially a number of special bonuses, promotions and discounts that will be offered to PokerStars players throughout the month of January. Since there’s a lot to cover, we’ll get right into each promo. VIP Ring Game Happy Hours – From now until January 29th, Stars is giving online poker players the opportunity to earn 50% more VIP Player Points (VPPs) and Frequent Player Points (FPPs) during Happy Hours. The …

2010 WSOP* Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel is a good friend of RakeTheRake, and he’s even downed a few drinks with the RakeTheRake girls. So when we heard about the horrific robbery and beating that Duhamel endured, RakeTheRake was shocked and concerned for him. About a week ago, two men broke into the Canadian’s suburban Montreal home in the morning, and started attacking him. Eventually, they tied Duhamel up and kept hitting him until he told them where the valuables were. With this knowledge in hand, the robbers stole Duhamel’s 2010 Main Event gold bracelet, a Rolex Submariner watch that …

In being the world’s largest online poker site, PokerStars already draws a fair amount of worldwide attention. However, the site is gaining an even larger audience thanks to a new commercial series they’re running dubbed “We Are Poker.” The artistic commercials feature various members of Team PokerStars such as Daniel Negreanu, Liv Boeree, Jose “Nacho” Barbero and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier competing in interesting settings. For example, in a TV spot entitled “Nacho vs. Brazil,” Barbero is sitting at a poker table located in the middle of a crowded Brazilian street. His opponent shoves all-in, while various images of a man …

One of the great things about online poker is that it has the potential to turn players into millionaires overnight. Kyle “First-Eagle” Weir recently found this out after winning the largest poker tournament in history at PokerStars. The tournament in question was the PokerStars 10th Anniversary Sunday Million, and 62,116 players paid the $215 buy-in to create a record $12,423,200 prize pool. Weir managed to navigate his way through the massive field of players, and on towards a $1,146,574 payday. Obviously the money is impressive here, but what’s especially interesting about Weir’s win is the fact that the Toronto, Canada …

UK poker beauty Liv Boeree put her astrophysics degree to good use recently on a special Christmas episode of the BBC’s University Challenge. The poker tournament pro was representing the 4-player team from the University of Manchester, and the show’s host, Jeremy Paxman, introduced Boeree by saying, “Someone who has used a degree in astrophysics to good effect, and has now become one of the UK’s most successful card players.” For those unfamiliar with University Challenge, the TV show pits two universities against each other in a first-on-the-buzzer quiz show format. As teams correctly answer questions, they earn points, and …

On Sunday 4 December, PokerStars achieved a new Guinness World Record when 200,000 online poker players competed in the PokerStars No Limit Hold’em tournament, paying a $1 buy-in. The tournament has smashed the previous record of 149,196 players in a single online poker tournament. The Russian player “sokoluk1991” took first prize, seven hours into the game, netting himself $50,000! And of the field, a massive 3000 were RakeTheRake players who entered into the World Record tournament. So if any of you out there cashed in the tourney or have any good stories to tell, do let us know, either by …