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Mark your calendars for May 8th because that’s when the 2011 SCOOP begins. PokerStars just recently released the SCOOP schedule, which includes a total of 38 events and $45 million in guaranteed money. In addition to the massive amount of money involved in this online poker event, PokerStars is once again offering their very popular format of Low, Mid, and High buy-ins. As the name implies, each buy-in level caters to different bankrolls so that everybody can compete. Of course, if you can’t afford the normal buy-ins for these poker games, there will also be 2011 SCOOP satellites starting on …

PokerStars is the driving force behind a historic occasion running from March 23rd to March 27th – the first ever live poker tournament in Greece. Dubbed the “Greek Poker Cup,” this event will feature a number of side tournaments along with a €1,000 + €100 Main Event. Fortunately, you can skip the €1,000 + €100 buy-in if you wish to play in this tournament because PokerStars is giving out €2,000 prize packages for the Main Event. In addition to covering your €1,100 buy-in, the prize packages will also cover a 5-night stay in the Club Hotel Casino Loutraki. Besides being …

After splitting heads-up matches against Isaac Haxton and Tony G, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom now has a winning record in the PokerStars SuperStar Showdown with his recent victory over Dan “jungleman12” Cates. Cates was considered to be Blom’s toughest competition since he finished 2010 as the top online poker player by earning $5.5 million in profits – and this isn’t even counting the rakeback money he earned! Some people even speculated that Cates would best the Swedish pro in this 2,500-hand matchup. However, it looked like Isildur1 would walk away with the contest in the early going since he went up …

The mysterious “Isildur1” shot to online poker stardom after he took an initial $1,000 bankroll and turned it into over $1 million.  After that, Isildur1 dominated some of the best players in the game at Full Tilt Poker. Following a hiatus from the internet poker world, Isildur1 is back and he has signed with PokerStars. And PokerStars is already pleased with his efforts since Isildur1 hit the poker tables with a vengeance by turning in a 14-hour session. By the end of his marathon session, Isildur1 had earned over $287,000 in profits! Here’s an excerpt from the PokerStars blog on …

With the WCOOP and SCOOP already offering online poker players over $100 million in guaranteed prize money, it’s not like PokerStars needs to host anymore huge internet poker events.  But the PokerStars staff never seems to rest since they just recently announced that they’ll be running 13 Regional Championships of Online Poker.  The RCOOP poker games take place in October, November, December, and February with over $7 million in total prize money being offered.  The biggest RCOOP event is the USA Championship of Online Poker where $3.3 million will be given out throughout 11 tournaments.  The second largest RCOOP event …

Unless you’re one of the multi-millionaire online poker players at Full Tilt Poker, chances are that you still rely on freerolls to build your bankroll.  After all, free poker tournaments give you the chance to win lots of cash without having to risk any of your own money.  If you’re in the business of hunting for big freeroll poker games, you should definitely take a look at the new one offered by PokerStars.  PokerStars is offering a $15,000 Monthly Million freeroll that’s an upgrade over the previous $10,000 freeroll.  With an extra $5,000 in the prize pool, this poker tournament …

It’s time to celebrate at PokerStars because they are drawing closer to their 50 billionth hand.  Most of the celebrating will be done by PokerStars players since the world’s biggest online poker room is offering several deals totaling over $1 million. One of the online poker deals that Stars is offering in celebration of hand number 50 billion are cash game bonuses.  During every millionth hand leading up to 50 billion poker hands, each player at the table will receive a $50 bonus.  Each player will also get $50 for every VIP point earned during the last 50 hands leading …

If you’re tired of satelliting into poker tournament after poker tournament in hopes of winning a big prize package, you might want to take a look at the deal that PokerStars is offering.  PokerStars is giving every member a chance to win a $5,200 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event seat just for taking a quiz.  The way this quiz opportunity works is that you first need to complete the poker download of PokerStars.  After you’ve downloaded the poker software and have signed up, you can look for the quiz in the poker lobby.  The holdem poker quiz …

The mere mention of the Belgian Open Poker Championships may not have you envisioning million dollar prize pools, but this casino poker event is actually one of the biggest in Europe.  Last year, the Belgian Open Main Event offered a €1,138,877 prize pool where Antonio Guida eventually won the largest share at €256,082.  In addition to the huge prize pool, many of the world’s top pros such as Marcel Luske, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, and Johnny Lodden play poker at the Belgian Open Poker Championships. If you’d like to join them this year, you should start playing at PokerStars since they …

Just a week after Party Poker and Bwin announced a huge merger, 888Poker is looking at a future merger with another poker room.  The news of 888Poker looking for a potential merger partner broke when 888 CEO Gigi Levy said that his internet poker site is definitely interested in merging within the next six months.  Most people would suspect that he is hoping to keep up with poker sites like Party Poker with this move, but he insists that this isn’t the case.  He told eGaming Review all of this when he said, “I think that the first thing to …