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Guilherme GZingano Zingano Wins Biggest PokerStars Sunday Million Season Prize So Far

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:35:45 +0000

The PokerStars Sunday Million Season completed its second week on March 18, and Brazilian Guilherme “GZingano” Zingano will look back on Week 2 with fond memories. While the online poker community was buzzing with excitement after the 2024 Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP) announcement, Zingano was one of 95 PokerStars players returning for Day 2 of the $1 million guaranteed Sunday Million PKO.

The $109 buy-in event drew 10,646 entrants, creating a guarantee-busting $1,046,000 prize pool. Zingano collected $83,490 of that princely sum, the largest haul from any of the completed PokerStars Sunday Million Season so far.

Former PCA Champion Warms Up For EPT Paris With an $83K Online Win

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:36:21 +0000

Poker players love going into major tournaments on a run of form, and what better to warm up for the upcoming PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Paris festival than by taking down one of the toughest online poker tournaments?

That is precisely what Dimitar “KuuL” Danchev did over the weekend. The 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event champion came out on top in the $5,200 Titans Event online at PokerStars. Danchev’s reward? A significant confidence boost and almost $83,000 in prize money.

Sam Grafton Becomes a PokerStars New Year Series Champion; Reaches Day 2 of Main Event

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:35:40 +0000

Sam “SamSquid” Grafton is ending the PokerStars New Year Series in hot form. The popular British grinder triumphed in a $530 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em 7-Max PKO event for $44,088 and finds himself in the final 47 of the $5,200 Main Event where $284,374 awaits the eventual champion.

Grafton’s victory came in the high edition of the 143rd event of the New Year Series. Some 464 players bought in, resulting in a $232,000 prize pool. The likes of Daniel “SmilleThHero” Smiljkovic, Niklas “Lena900” Astedt, Christian “WATnlos” Rudolph, and Dimitar “KuuL” Danchev reached the money place but fell short of the seven-handed final table.

Inaugural PokerStars Mystery Bounty Sunday Million Is a Roaring Success

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 12:00:40 +0000

Recent editions of the PokerStars Sunday Million have seen online poker’s most popular weekly tournament play as progressive knockouts (PKO). It is no secret that the Sunday Million has often struggled to meet its $1 million guarantee under its PKO format, but there were no such struggles in the New Year Series edition, which saw PokerStars change the long-running event’s format to a mystery bounty.

PokerStars tested the mystery bounty format in early December 2023, and it proved popular, with all 200 available seats snapped up in seconds. However, changing its flagship tournament to this new format was not without risk. A $1 million guarantee meant PokerStars required 10,000 entrants, many of whom would have been unfamiliar with how mystery bounty tournaments work. Any fears of an overlay were soon dispelled thanks to 16,234 players, including 4,622 re-entries, created a guarantee-busting $1,623,400 prize pool, some 62.3% more than the advertised guarantee.

Lex Veldhuis is on Fire in the PokerStars New Year Series

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 11:35:40 +0000

The $35 million guaranteed PokerStars New Year Series kicked off on December 24 with the first events from a 350-tournament schedule. Stellar names have packed the 63 completed events so far, and PokerStars ambassador Lex “L. Veldhuis” Veldhuis has been mixing it up with the best of them.

Veldhuis is spending the next four months in New Zealand, meaning most of the PokerStars New Year Series tournaments shuffle up and deal during the morning for him. Poker players are not usually known for their punctuality or their willingness to rise and shine early doors, but the red-eye start times seem to be working in Veldhuis’ favor.

Lex Veldhuis

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 13:26:02 +0000

Biography

Lex Veldhuis is a Dutch poker player and PokerStars Ambassador.

A popular Twitch streamer, Veldhuis regularly broadcasts his play to thousands of viewers on his Twitch channel.

“Ive been fortunate to have a few deep runs in COOP in the last few years, but my word, it feels like youre in a stadium full of people,” he told PokerNews in 2021.

“At a certain point, thats kind of what it is as well. Its just really crazy. You stream for those moments, you really do. In terms of poker results, you really want to have top-three finishes or win a tournament to have that insane absolution of the end. But in a stream, even if youre in the last seven or eight and have an insane stream with 20-30,000 watching, it can already make you feel like youve won the Champions League!”

PokerStars 50/50 Series Awards $4.1 Million; Vupe Takes Down Main Event

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 12:35:35 +0000

The PokerStars 50/50 Series is complete, with all 50 events crowning their worthy champions. PokerStars promised $3 million in guaranteed prize pools, but awarded over $4.1 million after a strong turnout by mid-stakes grinders. The biggest prize pool, as you would expect, belonged to the $50 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Main Event. It carried a $400,000 guarantee but a crowd of 8,904 entrants resulted in a $404,686 pot.

Several members of the Team PokerStars stable bought into the 50/50 Series Main Event, although none of them managed to walk away with a slice of the prize pool. Lex “L. Veldhuis” Veldhuis, Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg, Sebastian “peace&love” Huber, and soccer sensation Neymar “Neymar-jr” Jr added to the prize pool but not their coffers.

Phil Hellmuth, Lex Veldhuis Headline Epic PokerStars NAPT Players Party in Las Vegas

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 03:00:30 +0000

Its no secret that the 2023 PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT), which is taking place right now at Resorts World Las Vegas, marks the first NAPT in a dozen years.

But did you know that Thursday nights festivities marked the first PokerStars Players Party in Las Vegas in 13 years? It was way back on July 11, 2010, during the annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) that the online poker giant rented out the entire nightclub at the Palms for an epic party that featured an exclusive performance by none other than Snoop Dogg.

Online Crusher Mike BrockLesnar Holtz Shows His Goodwill at NAPT w/ Spraggy Merch

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 21:30:30 +0000

PokerNews own Chad Holloway is no stranger to thrift stores in Las Vegas, where he often tweets his various discoveries, from signed poker books to Aussie Millions and World Series of Poker (WSOP) swag. Earlier this week, he stumbled upon some interesting merchandise at a local Goodwill in the form of t-shirts and hoodies featuring Lex Veldhuis and Benjamin Spraggy Spragg, both PokerStars Ambassadors.

The merch harkened back to their early streaming days when they would venture to Jason Somervilles popular Run It Up (RIU) Reno.