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5-Card Fiction: Poker Solves a Murder
In The Canary Murder Case, Philo Vance sits down with a group of murder suspects for a game of five-card draw. When the game is done, he knows which among them is the killer. Anthony Holden once...
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Spin & Go to Monte Carlo
Turn €35 into a PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino EPT Main Event package If you like your poker opulent, with a backdrop of millionaire tower blocks and the spring sunshine in your eyes, there is no...
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Can you use poker skills to win the Grand National?
With the Grand National just around the corner, you might be preparing to have a bet on one of the oldest sporting events in the world. The famous horse race took place for the first time in 1839. The...
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VIDEO: Lex battles Spraggy, and other highlights from Lex Live Day 1A
The first ever Lex Live event kicked off last night in Namur, Belgium, with plenty of recognisable faces from the world of poker and Twitch taking part. The man of the hour—or should we say the man of...
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High Roller Club leaderboard debuts
The biggest PokerStars tournaments every week are part of the High Roller Club. With buy-ins between $530 and $2,100 these events are already flush with cash. Starting in April they’ll become even more...
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LEX LIVE: Catch up on Day 1B’s action
The Grand Casino de Namur was jam-packed last night for another starting flight of the €225 Lex Live Main Event. If you saw inside the casino and poker room last night, you’d never have guessed it was...
View ArticleBook Excerpt: From the forthcoming “Purposeful Practice in Poker” by Dr....
All poker players want to improve their skills and thus their chance of success. But what is the most effective way to go about such study? Reading the forthcoming Purposeful Practice for Poker is a...
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INTERVIEW: Catching up with Ryan Riess
Ryan Riess first came to prominence in the poker world in 2013 when he won the tournament every player dreams about: the WSOP Main Event. Ryan Riess (front, between Mark Newhouse and J.C. Tran) with...
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VIDEO: Party time at Lex Live
Lex Live is now in full swing here in Namur, Belgium, and last night saw the official welcome party take place in the Grand Casino bar. The evening kicked off with a friendly €25 sit and go featuring...
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WEEKLY ROUND-UP: Knockout Sunday, Lex Live and EPT Sochi, and 5-Card Fiction
Catch up on all of this week’s PokerStars Blog content… Select Sunday Major tourneys go PKO this week Lex Live festival kicks off in Belgium EPT takes over Sochi Charlie “JIZOINT” Combes gets back in...
View ArticleLEX LIVE: Meet Croaks, the Twitch troll turned Lex Veldhuis moderator
Everybody ready? Here we go, on the count of three. One…Two…Three… #FUCKCROAKS! Of all the people from Lex Veldhuis’s Twitch community who have travelled to Namur for Lex Live, only one of them has had...
View ArticleEPT Sochi 2019: Results
EPT Sochi Main Event Dates: March 25-29, 2019 Buy-in: 191,800₽ ($2,900 approx) Entries: 758 (inc. 195 re-entries) Prize pool: 145,500,000₽ ($2.21 million approx) POS NAME COUNTRY PRIZE RUBLES PRIZE USD...
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Lex Live: Big Day 1C, €37K up top
At the end of Day 1A of the €225 Lex Live Main Event, Lex Veldhuis said he’d be happy if this tournament got 500 runners. Little did he know, for when play wrapped up after last night’s final Day 1...
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LEX LIVE: The FU Friday Flip
While it’s serious business over in the €225 Main Event, last night at Lex Live was all about fun. The €60 FU Friday Flip was a side event most members of Lex Veldhuis’s Twitch community had circled...
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