320 Platinum Passes. $1 million added to first place. No rake. Those were some of the key components that made the 2019 PokerStars Players Championship the largest $25,000 buy-in event of all time. The event is coming back in 2020, this time in Barcelona, and it turns out the location is not all that will… Continue reading PokerStars Aiming to Make PSPC Sequel ‘Bigger and Better’

In a surprising turn of events, PokerStarsannounced on Tuesday that it has rolled back most of the rake increases it implemented in November and is cancelling most of the increases planned for this month. This is quite a pleasant development coming from a company that had been trending steadily downward in customer satisfaction after a… Continue reading PokerStars Reverses Rake Increases

On Friday, PokerStarsannounced that it will roll out blackjack and roulette “on a market-by-market basis beginning this month with completion anticipated by the end of 2014 reaching nearly half PokerStars’ current player base. PokerStars will add sports betting and other popular casino games in 2015. It also plans to launch a fully-featured casino on mobile… Continue reading PokerStars Launching Sports Betting and Casino Games Globally

In the months following Amaya’s acquisition of Full Tilt and PokerStars, the Canadian company has been quick to implement very noticeable changes, some of which have drawn protest. But the recent announcement that the poker giant would be cutting certain promotions and hiking rake seem to have put players over the edge. With the poker… Continue reading PokerStars Explains Rationale for Recent Changes

As you probably know by now, PokerStarschanged its foreign exchange policy in the last few days, which has elicited quite a reaction from the poker community. The site has introduced a margin of what appears to be about 2.5%, which only applies to deposits and withdrawals and not transfers within PokerStars. You’ll only encounter a… Continue reading PokerStars on FX Changes: “We’ll Continue to Make Tough Calls”