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WCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 6
The 2019 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is nearly a week old — and some patterns are starting to emerge. Brazil and Russia are dominating, and some old crushers are doing what they do best....
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Help answer this question of time for a free WCOOP ticket
A panel of experts (several of our Twitter followers) has made it clear. One obstacle stands in the way of playing more WCOOP events than any other. It’s not money (okay, it could be a little to do...
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WCOOP 2019: Quick review earns 5-Card Draw win for MAZAAZAZI
“Feels good to be a champ!” So said “MAZAAZAZI” yesterday when speaking with PokerStars Blog about his big win last weekend in WCOOP Event #9-L. Even if most of us haven’t won a WCOOP before, we can...
View ArticleThe legendary Red Dragon Poker Tournament returns
PokerStars LIVE Asia will be hosting the Red Dragon series — Red Dragon JEJU 2019 at the Shinhwa World Resort Landing Casino in Jeju island, South Korea — from the 9th to 15th November, 2019. The...
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WCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 7
If you think you’re busy, just look what some of these guys got up to on the seventh day of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). And if you think you’ve earned a lot, just look what...
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WCOOP 2019: Shaun Deeb discusses capturing 7th title
It’s September. And, as usual, we here at PokerStars Blog are talking to Shaun. Shaun Deeb, that is, annual crusher of all things ‘COOP at PokerStars, including the ongoing World Championship of Online...
View ArticleRockets, cowboys & ducks: Poker hand nicknames enliven game
One of the great attractions of poker is the unique and often colorful vocabulary used to describe how the game is played, with poker hand nicknames just one example. A lot of poker slang has found its...
View ArticleClosing the book on the PCA
I do not know what my home looks like in the first half of January. I’ve lived in this house for going on nine years, and I’ve never seen how the light hits the dining room or the shadows fall in the...
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WCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 8
The biggest buy-in event of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) brought out the biggest stars. And one of them is now half a million dollars richer. Stick around for all the latest from the...
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Introducing the VRPT: A brand new PokerStars Tour that's out of this world
Today we’re announcing the launch of a brand-new Poker Tour for PokerStars players. It’s open to anyone, it’s free to play, and there’s no travel involved. In fact, you’ll play while in space, while...
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WCOOP 2019: Pedro “PaDiLhA SP” Padilha on winning titles and apocryphal tales
Back in the 1960s, rock music pioneer Don “Captain Beefheart” Van Vliet was selling vacuum cleaners door to door in California. One day he was out on his rounds when he stumbled across the home of...
View ArticleWCOOP 2019: "snovalshik1" on how he turned $5.50 into $3,408.17
The WCOOP winner stories arrive in many forms. While we see many of the usual suspects turning up at those “M” and “H” final tables, the lower buy-in “L” events often present us players we haven’t met...
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WCOOP 2019: Alex “dynoalot” Difelice on winning his second title
He might not yet consider his poker career to be a success, but with $4.7 million in online cashes, $730K won in brick and mortar cardrooms, and now two World Championship of Online Poker titles under...
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WCOOP 2019: Rinat "Zapahzamazki" Lyapin livin' the stream, wins #18-M
All poker players who stream their play over Twitch harbor dreams of winning big tournaments while their viewers are tuned in and watching. Besides adding to their bankrolls and perhaps boosting...
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WCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 9
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WCOOP 2019: Naoya "nkeyno" Kihara breaks through with $1K Razz win
The $1,050 buy-in razz — Event #23-H on this year’s WCOOP schedule — wasn’t a tournament Japanese poker pro Naoya “nkeyno” Kihara was expecting to play. But he did. Once that decision was made, other...
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WCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 10
Pizza servers, new fathers and six-way tournament chops all feature in another packed round-up from the tables of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Let’s crack on… TODAY’S HEADLINES •...
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WCOOP 2019: Italo "sep_itl1914" Carandinas chooses right, wins #4-L
There was a moment at the final table of Event #4-L of the World Championship of Online Poker when Italo “sep_itl1914” Carandinas of Brazil faced what in retrospect was a crucial decision. It was the...
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WCOOP 2019: All the news from Day 11
WCOOP’s middle weekend was when the dam broke on this year’s flood of double champions. Here are all the specifics from the World Championship of Online Poker: TODAY’S HEADLINES • Double double on...
View ArticleWCOOP 2019: Viktor “TsiTool” Kovács wins PLO title for Hungary
The first Hungarian winner of the 2019 World Championship of Poker tells us his story. We’re well aware of Hungary’s ability to produce online poker excellence. You only have to look as far as Andras...
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