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‘Thanks, Daniel.’ – A letter to Negreanu by Phil Galfond

Posted by admin on 05/07/18

There's so much going on in Las Vegas and the Poker Twitter world that some things can slip through the cracks. But not this. A brief history In many ways, their careers have paralleled each other. Daniel Negreanu, born July...

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Survival games and poker tournament strategy

Posted by admin on 26/06/18

The meteoric rise of survival video games is impossible to overlook. Everyone has caught the battle royale bug, whether it's Fortnite, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), Arma 3, H1Z1, or The Culling. These survival games share core elements with poker tournaments. They...

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Texas 1933: That was a good year

Posted by admin on 13/06/18

If you have never lived in a near-constant state of denial, you have never made your idols out of men from Texas circa 1933. You have never come out of a restful night of sleep to find chaos on your...

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Brand new feature on PokerStars: Early payout tournaments

Posted by admin on 13/04/18

Did you notice the new feature on PokerStars we introduced last week? It was only a small tweak in the way we do things, but it's already had a positive effect for players. They're called early payout tournaments. Once an...

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Best of the Blog #1: The long, lonely walk of Matt Affleck

Posted by admin on 15/02/18

In the 2010 WSOP Main Event, Matt Affleck was eliminated in 15th place after getting outdrawn in a huge pot versus eventual champion Jonathan Duhamel. Yet it wasn't the hand itself that has gone down in poker history, but the...

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On terror, fear, and perseverance in Barcelona

Posted by admin on 18/08/17

On a Friday, we'd normally be shouting at you about the upcoming weekend and all the action ahead. We'd be pushing you to coverage of the PokerStars Championship and telling you about promotions and other fun stuff. That would happen...

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Summer of Sport: The summer’s ultimate sporting spectacles

Posted by admin on 16/06/17

With the close of another English football season, Chelsea fans are celebrating a triumphant return to the top while Arsenal supporters are no doubt glad to see the back of the Premier League, if not Wenger himself (which won't...

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Leicester City FC swap boots for hockey sticks in BetStars Shootout

Posted by admin on 20/10/16

What happens when you pitch members of Leicester City's Premier League winning team against the best of Team GB hockey? Well first off you get your camera ready. Then you ask if they fancied pitching their talents against each other...

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BetStars becomes official betting and gaming partner of Leicester City FC

Posted by admin on 03/08/16

It was one of the most incredible stories of recent sporting history. Leicester City, a team that began the season priced at 5000/1 to win the Premier League, defied odds, expectations, and everything else, to win the title with games...

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