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Poker Stars Sponsors Spanish Basketball Federation

23. June 2010

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Online poker and sports have been making fantastic bedfellows for a long time now, and one of the poker sites spearheading that union is Poker Stars. Poker Stars has just announced that it will be sponsoring the Federación Española de Baloncesto (FEB), otherwise known as the Spanish Basketball Federation for at least one year’s time. [...]

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Poker Stars SCOOP 2010 Satellites Are On

23. April 2010

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The 2010 Poker Stars Spring Championship of Online Poker is coming up May 2nd – 16th, and this time will be comprised of 38 events for a grand total of $45 million guaranteed to be awarded. Each of the 38 events has 3 different buy-in levels with 3 different prize structures to match, making it [...]

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Poker Stars 2010 SCOOP Offers Low & Medium Stakes

11. March 2010

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Last week we brought you word of the 2010 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker schedule, and in that post we briefly mentioned that the site was offering 3 table stakes ranges for each of the series’ 38 tournaments. So we thought it would be nice to give you lower and medium stakes players a [...]

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Coming Up: PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (WBCOOP)

9. December 2008

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On December 21, PokerStars will begin its World Blogger Championship of Online Poker, or WBCOOP (not be confused with their recent, and ever-popular, World Championship of Online Poker, or WCOOP).  To play you should first get your PokerStars bonus code here so you can max out your deposit bonus.  This poker bonus code is one [...]

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Get All Your 2008 WCOOP Results Right Here – Part I of II

24. September 2008

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As promised, here are the results of the latest incarnation of PokerStars ever-popular World Championship of Online Poker. This posting is Part I, listing events from 9/5 to 9/13. Results for the second half of 2008 WCOOP events will be listed next week. 9/5    6-handed No Limit Holdem                     shane147 won $202,409 9/5    Pot Limit 5-Card [...]

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PokerStars WCOOP Half Way Through

15. September 2008

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With the 2008 PokerStars WCOOP half way finished players have been paid out over $2 million in 1st place prize winnings with the top winner so far taking home over $600,000 from the High Roller NL Hold’em event #5. With a little more then 1 week to go in this years WCOOP there are still [...]

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PokerStars WCOOP Underway

10. September 2008

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The eagerly-awaited, annual online poker extravaganza known as the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is underway again, and it’s not too late to enter! Sure, about a third of the tournament’s 33 events have already taken place (we’ll hold off printing any results until after the entire event is completed), but that leaves [...]

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Proof that Online Poker Rooms Protect Players

4. September 2008

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Anyone worried about online poker security need only read the recent story of 26-year-old Brian Townsend to have their concerns assuaged. Multi-accounting is a crime that doesn’t only hurt internet poker rooms but internet poker players as well, as it involves one player misrepresenting himself by playing at the same site under two different usernames. [...]

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