In the latest bit of sponsorship news, PokerStars announced that they entered a relationship with the Philadelphia Flyers. PokerStars is the first online poker site to work out a deal with the Flyers, so this is a historic move. PokerStars now has three sponsorships with NHL teams as an official sponsor of the Flyers, the Detroit Red Wings, and Toronto Maple Leafs.
Get ready for the triumphant return of the biggest and most prestigious online tournament series in the world. The 2024 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) starting this Sunday, September 8 exclusively on PokerStars. This annual festival of poker will run the remainder of the month and end on October 2. This year's WCOOP has a total of 379 tournaments spread across three tiers of buy-ins with guaranteed prize pools over $80 million. The Main Event World Championship in both NLHE and PLO is slated for September 29.
PokerStars will host a SCOOP Afterparty running June 2 to 10 with unique formats, mixed games, Mystery Bounty Main Events. More details and schedule here.
Get ready for the 2024 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). PokerStars released a full schedule for this year's SCOOP, which marks its 16th installment, and will begin on May 5 and run through May 29. There will be a total of 128 events and like all COOPs, this will have three tiers of buy-ins with low, medium, and high buy-in levels. You can join in on the action for as low as $2.20 or take a shot at a High Roller if you have $25K sitting in your PokerStars account.
British pro and five-time WSOP bacelet winner Benny Glaser has been on one heck of a heater. Glaser won seven tournaments during PokerStars annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Over the weekend, Glaser -- playing under the screen name 'RunGodlike' -- took down 2023 WCOOP Event #94-High $1,050 NL 6-Max Turbo for a score worth $38,894.
PokerStars released the schedule for the upcoming 2023 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). This year's epic and popular online series features 110 tournaments with three different tiered buy-ins and $80 million in guaranteed prize pools starting on Sunday, September 10 and running for 25 days through October 4. There are 12 championship events on the docket at the 2023 WCOOP.
Celebrate 4/20 Day in style with the beginning of 2023 MicroMillions on PokerStars. Starting on April 20, MicroMillions returns with 84 events and $2 million in guarantees over a four-day span. Buy-ins are as low as $1.10. On April 23, there's the $22 buy-in NL PKO Main Event that has a $350K guaranteed prize pool. Visit PokerStars Blog for more details, or visit the PokerStars client for a schedule of events.
The 15th running of the annual Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) returns to PokerStars starting on May 7 and running through the rest of the May. The 2023 SCOOP features 121 events with $75 million in guaranteed prize pools. As always there are three types of price points and buy-ins ranging from $2.20 to $25,000.
PokerStars has a couple of big events coming up in April. On April 16, global players will celebrate the 12th birthday for the Sunday Storm tournament which includes a special $700,00 guarantee. On April 30, Americans will be treated to the Million Dollar Weekend with $1 million in guaranteed prize pools for shared liquidity states, and a special $500,000 guarantee for Pennsylvania.
PokerStars hosts their 17th Anniversary Sunday Million Special this weekend, and you still have a chance to qualify for a seat through various satellites. PokerStars is giving away over 3,000 seats to the $215 buy-in tournament that has a $7.5 million guaranteed prize pool. There's $11 Mega and $22 Mega Turbo satellites, plus Turbo Phase events for as little as $2.20. There's also the Sunday Million Anniversary Fast Track which allows you snag a seat for as little as $0.50 via Spin&Gos. Head over to PokerStars Blog for more details.
PokerStars announced that the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) returns to American players in three states. The 2023 SCOOP has 42 events and the popular online tournament series will be available to PokerStars players on in Pennsylvania (PASCOOP) and a shared player pool in New Jersey and Michigan (MI/NJSCOOP) beginning March 17 and running through April 3. There's a total of $5 million in guanarteed prize pools.
PokerStars wants you to save a special date on Sunday March 26, 2023. PokerStars s celebrating the 17th Anniversary of the Sunday Million. Yes, the Sunday Milly turns 17 in March! The buy-in is only $215, and this year's celebration will have a $7.5 million guaranteed prize pool. This year's winner will bank at least $1 million. Germany's Blackbeaty won the Sunday Million's 16th anniversary special.
PokerStars will launch a special virtual version of the PokerStars Players Championship for American online poker players in New Jersey and Michigan with the PSPC Online. The special series runs from January 13 through Jan 30 on PokerStars for a combined player pool in New Jersey and Michigan. The PSPC Online has 85 events and a guaranteed prize pool worth $2.5 million. Oh, and there's a special PSPC Online for online grinders in the state of Pennsylvania as well with 72 events.
Michigan and their 10 million residents, became the fourth state in the USA to be a part of the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement (MSIGA) along with Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware. MSIGA is now four deep and could have more states join the pact with Pennsylvania on deck.
Get ready for the 14th version of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), which starts on May 8 and runs through June 1 with 318 events spread out on three-different buy-in levels in almost every format imaginable with buy-ins ranging from $2.20 to $25K. There will be a special Women's SCOOP event, along with the coveted SCOOP Main Event Championship. This year will have over $78.5 million in guaranteed prize pools with over $11.5 million in guarantees set aside for the Main Event at all three levels of Low, Medium, and High.
PokerStars announced a new PokerStars Rewards program for players in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. These easy to understand rewards start at 15% but they can reach as high as 33%. It includes real money cash games and tournaments other verticals including sports betting and casino. Head over to PokerStars Blog for more details.
PokerStars has a bunch of big events on their upcoming schedule. The low-stakes MicroMillions series returns to France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy starting January 30 and running through February 13. The PokerStars 50/50 Series returns on January 30 with 50 tournaments with a $50 buy-in and a $7.5 million in guarantees. Also, the Sunday Million turns 16 on March 20, 2022 with a $10 million guaranteed prize pool.
Phil Galfond is one of the greatest PLO players in the history of online poker, but he had to make a tough business decision regarding his dream website Run It Once. Galfond's online poker site -- Run It Once -- will cease global operations as of January 3, 2022 in order to focus on the US marketplace in the near future. Players have until April 3, 2022 to cash out, but this is a major step backward before Galfond and Run It Once can take a giant leap within the American marketplace.
Get ready for the upcoming Winter Series on PokerStars to cap off 20211 and kick off 2022 with a fun tournament series with $50 million in guaranteed prize pools. This year's installament of the Winter Series begins on Christmas and runs through January 12, 2022. A total of 291 events will take place including 252 tiered and 39 non-tiered events starting as low as $2.20. The Winter Series Main Event on January 9, 2022 will be three tiers with over $4.5 million in guarantees.
The Big 20 features a special throwback series on PokerStars to celebrate 20 years of existence. There will be 22 different tournaments with $5.5 million guaranteed prize pools starting November 14 and running through December 5. Each event in The Big 20 will celebrate a different year in PokerStars history and if you dig the Foo Fighters, there's a special VIP experience at stake as well.
If you ever dreamed about becoming a sponsored player and the next poker ambassador for PokerStars, then the latest Dare2Stream competition on Twitch is up your alley. Dare2Stream returns to PokerStars with a coveted PokerStars Ambassador contract up for grabs to the winner. The competition runs from October 23 to December 12 on Twitch with a one-year contract at stake.
GGPoker expanded their roster of brand ambassadors with the addition of American pro Jason Koon, which was announced at the 2021 WSOP over the weekend. Koon won over $32.5 million in live tournaments during his career and he's currently ranked #10 all-time on Hendon Mob. Koon joins Daniel Negreanu and Fedor Holz as GGPoker's brand ambassadors.
The celestial Galactic Series from PokerStars returns to southern Europe beginning 5 September and running through 26 September. The 2021 Galactic Series features 303 events and a €10 million in guaranteed prize pools, including the €1 million guaranteed Main Event on September 19. There will be special Galactic trophies awarded to ten championship event winners in ten Galactic Series Championship Events.
PokerStars added a new ambassador to their ranks. They announced the addition of German poker pro Benjamin 'BenCB' Rolle as an ambassador, along with a partnership with his poker teaching site Raise Your Edge that will debut in September. Rolle is a stellar MTT player who has big sores in the WCOOP and SCOOP over the years. Rolle also has a popular stream on Twitch, which he'll continue doing as a PokerStars ambassador.
PokerStars finally released the full schedule of events for the 2021 World Championship of Online Poker, which begins its 20th incarnation on Sunday, August 22 and runs through September 15. There are 102 events with three tiers of buy-ins for 306 total tournaments with $100 million in guaranteed prize pools. The $5,200 buy-in WCOOP Main Event has a $10 million guarantee and begins on Sunday, September 12.
Save the dates. Get ready for 2021 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), which begins on August 22 on PokerStars and runs through September 15. The schedule has yet to be released, but there will be $100 million in guaranteed prize pools. Check back for more details about 2021 WCOOP.
It's back! The 2021 MicroMillions features 122 events spread out over 12 days on PokerStars beginning July 15 and running through July 25 with buy-ins as low as $1.10. This latest version of MicroMillions offers $4.7 million guaranteed prize pools. The $22 buy-in Main Event has a $1 million guarantee. PokerStars added three freerolls awarding $200K in MicroMillions tickets. There's also Spin & Gos are running as we speak for $0.50 for seats into the MicroMillions Main Event.
Get ready for some stellar action at the virtual tables if you live in Brazil with the fifth incarnation of the insanely popular Brazilian Series of Poker (BSOP) series returns online to PokerStars with 25 events starting July 7 and running through July 12 with $1.6 million in guaranteed prize pools. The champions will be awarded a coveted BSOP trophy for their excellence.
The 2021 SCOOP Main Event played down to a champion last night. Event #92-High had a $10,300 buy-in and attracted 664 entrants and a prize pool worth $6.6 million. kZhh, Dan 'Dannyz0r' Borlan, and Kayhan 'KayhanMok' Roshanfekr agreed on a three-way money chop, but Hungary's kZhh won the title and first-place prize worth $878,781. The final table also included Beowulf3182, David 'MissOracle' Yan, Christian 'WATnlos' Rudolph, Ka Kwan 'kaju85' Lau, Jareth 'jareth3542' East, and 23tudy23.
The 2021 WSOP Super Circuit Online Series at GGPoker begins on May 1 and ends May 30 with 18 low-tiered buy-in tournaments with 18 WSOP Circuit rings up for grabs. Plus, they'll give away two WSOP Circuit rings to cash game specialists. The $5 million guaranteed Main Event, which starts May 30, has a modest price tag of $525. You can win a WSOP Circuit ring for as little as $25, while the biggest buy-in is only $840.
