06 December 2011
Rafael Amit the big winner in high stakes PLO action
The past weekend has seen some more high stakes Omaha action at the virtual felt on PokerStars with Rafael Amit and “Jeans89” the biggest winners of the weekend, taking home $79k and $76k respectively.
23 November 2011
Ilari Sahamies the winner, PepperoniF crashes the “!P0krparty¡”
The P0krparty¡ saga is over, it seems. After a hectic six weeks the party halted with an eight hour session and a loss of approximately half a million dollar at the $50/$100 PLO tables. The final nail in the coffin saw him lose with a full house versus a better boat.
21 November 2011
“!P0krparty¡” wins $330k and takes on Phil Galfond
The man (or woman) who annoys poker writes everywhere, “P0krparty¡”, is still an unknown player at the PokerStars high stakes games despite an epic run with six-figure swings over the past few weeks. A very much known player, Phil “MrSweets28” Galfond, was the latest victim.
15 November 2011
Phil “takechip” D’Auteuil takes chips to the tune of $1m
French-Canadian online pro Phil D’Auteuil has had an incredible November with his latest session bringing him over seven figures in winnings for the past three weeks. This takes him to second on the 2011 winnings list for PokerStars high stakes games.
10 November 2011
Phil Galfond, Brian Hastings lose out in high stakes online PLO
The high stakes games on PokerStars have seen a lot of action, particularly of the four-card variety, since Black Friday. One player who until this week was not getting the best of it was Canadian PokerStars Pro Peter “GARFIELD25” Chan.
01 November 2011
PokerStars Milestone Hands underway - $200k won in two days
The Road to 100,000,000,000 marches on at PokerStars with the next milestone hand (the 70 billionth dealt at the site) pending, meaning that once again PokerStars are bringing out the big guns to reward the players who have enabled them to deal almost seventy billion hands of poker to people around the world.
25 October 2011
PokerStars Sunday Majors award big prizes
Despite many of the world’s top pros being in Italy for the EPT San Remo and thus unable to partake in the PokerStars Sunday majors, huge fields turned out for both the Sunday Warm-Up and the Sunday Million, both of which offered up a six-figure first prize.
17 October 2011
PokerStars hosts two Sunday Millions and Warm-Ups
PokerStars don’t do things by halves. When they announced that the $1m guaranteed Sunday Million and the $500,000 guaranteed Sunday Warm-Up – both merely a $200 buy-in – would be running twice, we didn’t doubt that the total of $3m in guarantees would be met.
03 October 2011
“socutiesf”, Rafi Amit, Ilari Sahamies September’s big winners
September was another month of increasing high stakes cash action over at PokerStars. Since the Armageddon of Full Tilt Poker the nosebleed regulars have been moving out of the US and taking their bankrolls to PokerStars, with $200/$400 a regular stake there.
PokerStars Sunday majors results
The first post-WCOOP Sunday of 2011 evidently saw PokerStars players still keen for big tournaments as both the Sunday Million and the Sunday Warm-Up burst their guarantees by over six figures – as did the humble $11 buy-in Sunday $200k, which wound up with a prize pool of more than $300k.