In August, Brazil’s Demitri1985hit his first major career score, taking down the $11 buy-in PokerStars Sunday Storm to the tune of $17,000 after a seven-way chop. He only started playing poker full-time in the last year, but he is the latest in an ever-growing line of Brazilian players to win major tournaments.

In 2006, three years after Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker Main Event, Daniel Craig and Mads Mikkelsen starred in “Casino Royale,” the latest James Bond movie. This author remembers going to opening night of the 007 flick, which ended up being the fourth highest grossing movie of the year. Also seeing it… Continue reading “I Started in Poker After Watching Casino Royale”

A week ago, the PokerStars Sunday Storm, an $11 buy-in tournament, celebrated its fourth anniversary. The result: 104,000 entrants and a prize pool that lapped $1 million. Coming in second place when all was said and done was Bulgaria’s Georgi Nikolov (pictured), who is known on PocketFives as dscturrr and earned $56,000 following a five-way… Continue reading “Please, One Time, Take a Cab and Bring Me Some Red Bulls”

It’s hard to believe that an $11 buy-in tournament not only hit, but surpassed a $1 million guarantee, but that’s exactly what happened over the weekend, as the 4th Anniversary PokerStars Sunday Storm attracted 104,939 entrants, one of the largest-field online poker tournaments ever held. A five-way deal ended matters.

At the tail end of January, Deric Lee (pictured), known on PocketFives as omgitsball, won the PokerStars Sunday Stormafter a three-way deal and took home $25,000. As he fittingly put it, “I am happy. It’s surreal. You never expect to win a tournament with 34,000 entrants.” He took home the largest amount given out and… Continue reading “You Never Expect to Win a Tournament with 34,000 Entrants”

Last month, PocketFiver ruslanmd(pictured) took down the PokerStars Sunday Storm for $29,000. While it wasn’t a life-changing amount of money, it was worth an interview on PocketFives due to the fact that the field numbered over 34,000 entrants, or half the capacity of CenturyLink Field in Seattle. The top 5,400 players finished in the money… Continue reading How to Outlast a 34,000-Player Field: “Tight is Right”