They may have the biggest site, but PokerStars hasn’t had the easiest time the last year or so. They dealt with Black Friday last April, and they have also lost some key members of their team since then. For example, John Duthie was a Team PokerStars member and also the creator of the EPT. However in December of last year, he chose against renewing his contract with the site. Is there a chance that he will download Roulette and try to get into the casino industry?

Thomas Kremser is another member of the team that left last year. Kremser acted as an EPT tournament director for PokerStars from 2004, but he decided to leave his job just a month after Black Friday. The online poker industry was very surprised that Kremser did this.

The most recent source of shock for the online poker industry came from the news that Gabi Campos, the PokerStars CEO, has decided to resign. Campos originally…

These accomplishments gained him a spot on Team PokerStars Online a couple years ago. Since then, he has expanded his game to brick-and-mortar tournaments. He recently took down his first major event in Macau for almost $500,000. And now, amazingly, he has added his name to the Guinness World Records.

Lew planned to try to break some record during the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, and he had been asking his Twitter followers for suggestions. I wanted to suggest trying to break a Bingo codes record, but I thought he probably wanted a poker related goal. Sure enough, he decided to try to play the most hands ever in an eight hour span while still earning profit.

He got to work on January eighth. He started with around forty tables of $50NL and tried to keep that…

If you are a fan of multi-table tournaments, you’ll love this: in January, all MTTs on the Party Poker download will have no rake! This means that the entire buy-in of each tourney will go straight to the prize pool. This started at the beginning of the month and will run all the way until 11:59 pm on January 31st. The last time Party Poker ran a promo like this was back in August of last year.

In addition to the zero MTT rake promo, there will also be a 100% deposit bonus so that you can pad your bankroll. If you are looking to play a freeroll, there will be a $50k depositors freeroll on February 5th at 11 AM ET.

Tournament players in February will have the chance to use the money they…

The first of these amazing tournaments was the World Record Tournament. Because PokerStars wanted to break their own world record for the biggest tournament field ever, they decided to host a $1 with a $250k guarantee. To entice everyone to register, they capped the field at $200k which guaranteed at least $50k in overlay.

The tourney only took slightly over 7 hours from start to finish. Once it got down to 3 players, a deal was made so that they could all receive at least $25k. The winner of the event was Sokoluk1991, a player from Russia. He received over $40k for his efforts.

The Sunday Storm, which has an $11 buy-in and a $200k guarantee, is usually the biggest MTT field every week on Pokerstars. To celebrate its anniversary, PokerStars ran a special version of the tournament with a $1 million guarantee. This meant that first place was guaranteed a…

EPT Prague followed WPT Prague just a short time after, and it attracted a record breaking field. 722 players paid the €5,300 buy-in, creating a prize pool of €3,501,700. This created a giant first place payout of €720,000.

Many talented players fell short of the final table, including Chris Moorman who finished in 15th for €23,000. Moorman has long been a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the best Euro poker sites. Recently he added finishing 2nd in the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event for €800,000 to his resume.

Nicholas Levi began the final table just shy of the chip lead. However he suffered a crippling blow after getting in the majority of his chips with bottom two pair against David Boyaciyan’s top set. No miracle came for Levi and Boyaciyan vaulted into the top of the chip…

This isn’t a formal stance by Adelson, but it is rather interesting considering that he has been a supporter of the Republican Party for quite some time. This includes Arizona Senator Jon Kyl who has been a major opponent of online casinos for USA players for a while. Proof of this is in his support of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in 2006.

A lot of the surprise stems from the fact that Adelson’s personal view is far removed from many others in the casino industry who believe that licensed and regulated online poker should be available in the United States. This is in addition to the fact that earlier in the year, Adelson was said to be in support of online poker at the federal level…

Since they can’t play on a William Hill Poker download, Americans are looking to casinos to fulfill their poker cravings. With two Day 1s, a grand total of 327 players participated at $1,600 a piece, with 181 of them surviving to Day 2. 11 of those players made it to Day 3 to play for the $111,812 grand prize. It took just 30 minutes of play for the remaining players to get down to the final 9, the final table.

Casey McCarrel started the final table in fourth position but doubled Chris Clark up soon after the final table began. Ten minutes later he was gone in 9th place after committing the last of his chips with an overcard and a flush draw against Ron Segni’s top pair.

Segni enjoyed the chip lead early on in the final table until his…

A short while back, PokerStars broke the Guinness World Record for the largest number of players in a tournament. This was back when they were one of the biggest US friendly poker sites around, so they had plenty of help from Americans. For their tenth anniversary, though, PokerStars has decided to break the record again, this time without the USA.

On December 4th, they will host a $1 tournament in hopes of attracting 150,000 people. To help attract even higher stakes players, they are offering a $250,000 guarantee and have capped the tourney at 200,000 players. This means that PokerStars will be adding at least $50,000 to the prize pool! That’s some good value.

PokerStars lacks casino features like video poker, but they make up for it by offering the best value tournaments on the Internet today. For example, the Sunday Storm costs $11 to enter every week, but the prize pool is always at least $200,000. On December 11th, PokerStars is having…

It became clear that no one was intending on sitting around as the very first hand produced one of the biggest pots of the tournament. After a series of raises, Lamb and Staszko got their stacks in with KJ and 77 respectively. Staszko won the flip, which crippled Lamb. Lamb never recovered and the WSOP Player of the Year for 2011 was soon out in 3rd place.

Stacks were deep, but no one would have guessed that the two remaining players were about to play an incredible 120 hands over 6 hours. Staszko started with a small chip lead when heads-up play began, but this was quickly taken away from him by Heinz a few hands in.

Heinz was able to keep this chip lead for around 30 hands, but then…

The House of Representatives has discussed online poker a number of times, with bigwig Barney Frank a consistent instigator of debate. By contrast, the Senate have not touched the issue since the original UIGEA was passed in 2006.

That’s all changed this week, with a hearing having been held to discuss the issue. November 17th played host to a discussion on the ‘Future of Internet Gaming: What’s at Stake for Tribes?’. As you might have guess from the title, it concerned the impact of online gambling on various Indian Tribes. It was designed to consider not only poker, but games like real money slots.

It’s almost traditional in the U.S. for Indians to run casinos and many are understandably concerned about the impact of online gambling on their lifestyles. The hearing was called to consider how the influx of offshore providers like the titan…