PokerStars in Rio for UFC 237
As part of their partnership with UFC, PokerStars was in Rio for UFC 237 last weekend, with some facinating art installations that caught the attention of local and fight fans alike. Together we’re...
View ArticleHappy wedding day, Mr and Mrs Negreanu!
The day he won the very first WSOP bracelet event he’d ever played. The day he won $8.2M in one poker tournament. The day he installed a golf simulator in his home. Yep, Daniel Negreanu has had some...
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Five New Events Added to SCOOP 2019 Schedule
Five new SCOOP events, and more than $5 million added to schedule, including one event to test Friday Feeling… A few years ago, a British company set out to examine what effect Friday had on the...
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The DAILY SCOOP for Friday
Today the internet tells us to unite and salute International Virtual Assistant Day. It’s a nod towards those people behind a screen somewhere, frantically doing the legwork work for us. We’ve never...
View ArticleWho are UFC's best pound-for-pound fighters?
Rankings are vital to a combat sport such as the UFC, providing fans with a glimpse into the overall state of a weight class and creating the structure to define challengers to championships. But the...
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"Pot Limit Omaha is crazy but I love it"
“Please send me your questions. Actually my native language is Russian, but I think I can answer in English.” So said the man who won this year’s first Low-tier SCOOP title in pot-limit Omaha when the...
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SCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 6
The 2019 Spring Championship of Online Poker rolls onward, with a busy Friday producing many more winners and an exciting weekend on tap. TODAY’S HEADLINES 18 more titles won, including two more for...
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Five-minute filler: Yoga for poker players
The SCOOP grind is now well under way, which means thousands of men and women across the world are spending hours on end in front of their computers. While it’s fun, it’s not necessarily all that...
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SCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 7
Saturday saw nine more titles won as the 2019 Spring Championship of Online Poker wound up a busy first week of action. TODAY’S HEADLINES Kenny “SpaceyFCB” Hallaert takes down SCOOP 29-H for almost...
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SCOOP win brings "holy h3ll" full circle
Uri has been playing poker professionally since 2011. Grinding on Pokerstars as “holy h3ll,” he started his journey in the micro-stakes and worked his way up to the top levels of online MTTs, earning...
View Article"ImDaBest514" scoops a SCOOP-Low title
Zach has a knack. He turns small buy-ins into big prizes. Two summers back he bought into a $3.30 MicroMillions Stud tournament, playing as “ImDaBest514,” and walked away at the end with $835 for first...
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SCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 8
The 2019 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is officially now into its second week. It was a highly frenetic middle weekend, so here’s a look at what went on. Richest day of SCOOP so far, with...
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The DAILY SCOOP (feat. The Plan)
There are only 8 days left of SCOOP. So how does a player like you get the most out of them? By you, I mean the type of player at the lower end of the bankroll spectrum, but the upper end when it comes...
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Justnl2 on earning SCOOP breakthrough
If you follow the results of big PokerStars tournaments and series long enough, you’ll notice a certain kind of player’s screen name pop up time and again. This player never seems to take down the big...
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SCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 9
All the huge events that started on Sunday in the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) ended on Monday. There’s a lot of rounding up to be done, so let’s crack on: Guilherme “guilherme12”...
View ArticleNew Oculus Quest out today with PokerStars VR
A big portion of the poker community disappears into another world today… Here’s the last IRL reminder of what happens today. We mean before a big portion of the poker community plugs itself in and...
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Let the Magic 8-Game Ball be your SCOOP guide
There’s plenty of hold’em today, fixed and no limit. You can play shootouts and Progressive KOs in 6-Max and 8-Max formats respectively. None of which puts you to the test like another game on the...
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Stepping into "The Grid" with Jennifer Shahade
We’ve all heard the advice to “think outside the box” as a way to encourage creativity. It’s a nod to the way our routines sometimes constrain us, causing us not to recognize novel, unorthodox...
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Russia's krakukra catches the fattest fish
Konstantin “krakukra” Maslak finds success wherever he plays poker. The Russian chess grandmaster has won major titles both live and online, boasting a World Series of Poker bracelet and a WCOOP 8-Game...
View ArticleSCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 10
Just like that, the end is now in sight in the 2019 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). This time next week, it’ll all be done. But let’s focus on the now, huh? Here’s today’s latest round-up:...
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