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Join PokerStars now! CMoosepower had the stars around the avatar to illustrate Supernova status. Denff did not. But despite the differences in experience and status, the two made for worthy foes in a challenging heads-up battle.

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SCOOP 2012: See CMoosepower win Event #22-L ($11 NLHE/PLO)

Join PokerStars now! Event #22 on the SCOOP schedule offered a chance for players with skills in both of the “big-bet” flop games — no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha — to test their mettle. The “medium” version featured a $109 buy-in, and by the time late registration ended 1,903 players had joined the fray. That meant a prize pool of $190,300, more than twice the $75K guarantee

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SCOOP 2012: GermanBraine solves #22-M ($109 NLHE/PLO); hazelasty 2nd after chop

Join PokerStars now! Four months ago, PetjeXL missed out on a TCOOP title by one spot, his runner-up finish in Event #17 ($109 NLHE 1R1A) earning him nearly $75,000. It was his largest-ever tournament score on PokerStars , outdoing the $70k he won for third place in the Sunday Warm-Up, but was still a bittersweet finish he was no doubt looking to improve upon. As PetjeXL hit the final table of Event #16-L, he had already bobbed and weaved his way through 12,572 players– a miracle in and of itself– but still faced one extremely powerful adversary.

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SCOOP 2012: PetjeXL topples Team Pro Nacho Barbero in Event #16-L ($27 NLHE 2x-Chance

Join PokerStars now! It’s the game that was played by Civil War soldiers, Wild Bill Hickok, and painted dogs on a 1903 calendar.

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SCOOP 2012: Born2Ca$h realizes destiny, wins #6-L ($11 NL 5-Card Draw)

Join PokerStars now! With 120 tournaments in two weeks, SCOOP is already blistering along with tourneys going off at all hours and champions being crowned left and right. Event #3 gave players a chance to use the gas pedal a little more with a short-handed, turbo format with rebuys — with the “low” version being just $5.50 to start, and $5 for each rebuy and the add-on. It was an action-seeker’s dream, and in the end a total of 20,244 such individuals took part, the group ultimately tossing in 38,211 re-buys and 10,526 add-ons to create a huge prize pool of $344,905, meaning another guarantee (this one $150K) had been crushed.

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SCOOP 2012: Respect for Respect4life, #3-L champ ($5.50+R NLHE 6-max Turbo)

Join PokerStars now! Uruguay’s joacowalter is on a run for the ages and if the last two days are any indication, the best move might be to stay out of his way until he cools down just a touch. Until a few days ago, joacowalter’s largest score on PokerStars was just over $3,600 for winning a $33 buy-in tournament

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SCOOP 2012: joacowalter’s whirlwind week wraps with Event #5-H win ($1,050+R Turbo NL

Join PokerStars now! PokerStars ‘ weekly $1,050 no-limit hold’em tourney, the Super Tuesday, was back in action tonight, with yet another large field of online poker’s elite coming out. Once late registration closed a total of 438 had registered, creating a $438,000 prize pool and once more besting the tourney’s $300K guarantee. The top 54 places paid, with $84,052.20 due the winner and successor to last week’s victor, Team PokerStars Pro Jude “j.thaddeus” Ainsworth

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All surrender to MendaLerenda, 4/24/12 Super Tuesday champ

Join PokerStars now! I don’t remember where I first met American Carter Gill. It had to be during Season 2 of the APPT, in 2008.

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APPT Cebu: The return of Carter Gill

Join PokerStars now! With the Day 1a field now officially locked out at a rather disappointing 51 players, we are starting to wonder whether we’ll need to play the full seven levels that were originally scheduled for today.

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APPT Cebu: Benton hits the beach

Join PokerStars now! Whether you celebrated today sipping mimosa with family over brunch, attended an Easter gathering, watched The Masters golf tournament, or planted plastic eggs around the yard for the kids to find and hid them so well you could not find the ones they missed afterwards, the second weekend of April brings an air of remembrance and fun. Last week Kevin “ImaLuckSac” MacPhee tried to match his grand EPT Berlin win with a victory in the $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up , but fell short in fourth place. Fellow final tablist from last week Supernova Elite wpr101 from Estonia was back again after chopping up last week for $75,478.97 looking for and getting back-to-back final tables as 3,297 plied themselves away from the festive Sunday with hopes of grinding for 11 hours and coming out the first prize of $103,526.70 A couple of Team PokerStars pros managed to shave a little off the $659,400.00 prize pool by finishing in the top 495 places.

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Sunday Warm-Up: Five-way deal makes victory easier for Palmero92