As the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is approaching its finish early next week, the few PokerStars’ regular tournaments that have continued through SCOOP are still running, just with a slightly slower pulse. Down about 50 players, the Wednesday Hundred Grand clocked in last night at 375 players. Together, these card sharks created a $112,500 prize pool. Not the biggest prize pool (...)
It is the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) at PokerStars! Starting on May 6, the tournament will run through May 20. This is of course good news to poker players around the globe, who eagerly await the enormous list of SCOOP tournaments each year. Unfortunately for some of the regular tournaments, however, players are investing their bank rolls elsewhere and attendance is down.
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Amid rumors that PokerStars has bought now-defunct Full Tilt Poker, though the rumors are quite unsubstantiated, the industry giant is chugging along without pause, turning out its weekly tournaments and seeing its usual great success. With more than 400 players competing in the Wednesday Hundred Grand, the prize pool ballooned well beyond the guaranteed $100k. Players fought with chips and cards (...)
Last night, PokerStars hosted its premier hump day tournament, the Wednesday Hundred Grand. Attracting a healthy 417 players, the prize pool swelled to $125,100 right as the action started. With 54 paid places, and a long streak of producing a prize pool well above the guaranteed limit, this tournament attracted all its regulars, and a number of new comers as well.
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Chop chop chop! So goes the PokerStars Wednesday Hundred Grand. Last night, for the first in its post-Black Friday history, the Wednesday Hundred Grand ended in a spectacle of a 3-way chop with the dominant player giving up a substantial lead to two underdogs. The tournament saw the return of former champion schlizzer and Team PokerStars Pro M. Staskzo, who left with no cash in 209th.
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PokerStars’ major midweek tournament, the Wednesday Hundred Grand, is running at full speed, showing no signs of slowing down. Though guaranteeing $100,000 in the prize pool, every week this is exceeded. And last night, it was exceeded by the significant sum of $23,000. A total of 410 players from all over the globe arrived at PokerStars to compete, creating a $123,000 prize pool sure to leave (...)
Poker players around the world have been following the Full Tilt debacle closely. But while their main competitor was shut down last April, PokerStars has been cleaning up. In the aftermath of Black Friday, the Wednesday Quarter Million became the Wednesday Hundred Grand, and soon thereafter the Wednesday Eighty Grand. But PokerStars hasn’t stopped promoting their major midweek tournament, and (...)
The re-branding of PokerStars’ premier mid-week tournament is turning heads. In an almost 10% increase over last week, 439 players from around the globe competed in last night’s Wednesday Hundred Grand. With 54 paid places, and a milestone $131,700 up for grabs, including at least $25k for first place, these poker sharks performed aggressively.
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Entering into just its second week, the Wednesday Hundred Grand saw a resounding success. PokerStars newly re-branded major midweek tournament attracted 407 players, all chomping at the chip to get in on the action. Together, they created a prize pool of $122,100, and a roster of 54 paid places, waiting to be filled by eager players around the globe. From Germany to Canada to Spain, the Wednesday (...)
There’s nothing like good old fashioned money to motivate people! Last week, PokerStars re-branded the Wednesday Eighty Grand as the Wednesday Hundred Grand. This wasn’t a seismic shift, but wow did it have an effect! The playing field grew by almost 20%, and prize pool swelled accordingly. However, with more than 50 more competitors than the week before, the tournament went a full hour (...)
Ladies and Gentleman, the Wednesday Eighty Grand is no more. After a long, long wait, PokerStars has re-introduced its major midweek tournament as the Wednesday Hundred Grand. With all the fanfare that an extra $20k in the pot brings, 398 players enjoyed the bump in guaranteed money, creating a prize pool of $119,400. Only 45 paid places awaited the most skilled, and lucky, players at the (...)
Last night, PokerStars hosted its most popular mid-week tournament, the Wednesday Eighty Grand, to the tune of the most players and money it has seen since December 2011. 455 players rounded out the significant playing field, generating a healthy $136,500 in the prize pool. The tournament attracted its normal slew of regulars, including players like AAninjaAA, JoeGall, and g.karolis.
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The Wednesday Eighty Grand is a bargain, wagered hundreds of players, when its prize pool balloons every week to 160% of its original size! 434 avid poker players came out last night to compete for a massive $130,200 prize pool. Even though the tournament hosted 20 more players than the previous week, the tournament was 50 minutes shorter. With only 54 places paid, the players fired their (...)
PokerStars’ headlining mid-week tournament rolled out another resounding success, attracting a field of 418 players. Though the same size as last week’s tournament, this competition lasted almost one hour longer. Players exhibited not just survival skills, but textbook tight-aggressive play designed to prolong a tournament life. Together, the players generated a prize pool of $125,400. For (...)
Last night, PokerStars hosted its major weekly tournament, the Wednesday Eighty Grand. The event attracted 411 competitors, who together generated a prize pool of $123,300. Though this was 30 fewer players than last week, the tournament actually lasted longer. Whereas last week resembled an Old West shootout, with players falling faster than you could catch their chips, this week’s Wednesday (...)