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Join PokerStars now! Watch the final table of a typical NLHE event and you’ll see players working average stacks anywhere between 25 and 45 big blinds. Watch a turbo final table and that number will drop to 10 or 15.

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SCOOP 2012: kleath ousts theczar19, wins Event #14-H ($700 NLHE Ante Up)

Join PokerStars now! There’s a famous New Yorker cartoon, featuring two men, clearly residents of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, which has its de facto northern boundary at 14th Street. One says, “I haven’t been north of 14th Street in 20 years.” The other thinks for a moment, then replies, “I’ve never been north of 14th Street.” Sometimes the poker world, and its heroes, can be like that

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Barry Greenstein: PokerStars’ Renaissance Man

Join PokerStars now! While most cash game players tend to stick to the cash games and leave the tournaments for those chasing the dream they will periodically venture over and take a shot. Bory313 ventured over to the tournament felt in the 2012 Spring Championship of Online Poker Event 15-H where he joined a who’s who of poker. After 10 hours of trying to scoop the entire pot rather than only half as is the case with most split-pot game hands he stood at the top looking down at all the carnage slipping on his first SCOOP bracelet and counting the $57,000 plus that he won.

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SCOOP 2012: Borys313 wins Event #15-H ($2,100 FL Omaha Hi/Lo)

Join PokerStars now! When at first you don’t succeed try, try again. That is just what happened in the low version of the Spring Championship of Online Poker Event #8 as it took three attempts to secure a deal and 94 hands of heads-up play to get a winner

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SCOOP 2012: MaTpacuk deals his way to a win in Event #8-L ($11 NLHE)

Join PokerStars now! The EPT Season 8 awards are due to be given out at the closing party on Tuesday rewarding a select elite for their grind over the last nine months. They’ll all have earned their plaudits but plenty of other unsung heroes will have to remain in the shadows. Don’t ask why but we at the PokerStars Blog didn’t actually get consulted on the Achievement of the Year or Player of the Year awards.* It’s not like we’ve been at every event.

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EPT8 Monaco: Season’s greatest players; Gruissem and other overlooked talents

Join PokerStars now! As you may have noticed if you have been following our colleagues over on the dark side of PokerStars Blog , the main event of the Grand Final – sorry, the main event of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final – is over. They are wandering the halls, breaking down the set and unscrewing every single one of those lightbulbs that make the huge video wall. But fear not! The High Roller endures.

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EPT8 Monaco $25,000 High Roller: Negreanu fits in with the leaders

Join PokerStars now! Having a good reputation and keeping a cool head at the poker table is very much a positive trait for all players. In the case of tonight’s $50,000 Battle of the Planets triple shootout freeroll, both traits would be used to secure a deal that took longer than some turbo SnGs take to finish

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Battle of the Planets: Soap opera plot twists end with nine-way chop

Join PokerStars now! Come to any APPT event and it will be impossible for you to miss a tall, fit fellow in a suit and tie scurrying around the tournament floor. His accent gives him away as an Aussie, though from his last name – McDonagh – you might never guess that until he opened his mouth.

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APPT Cebu: Heart and soul

Join PokerStars now! Come to any APPT event and it will be impossible for you to miss a tall, fit fellow in a suit and tie scurrying around the tournament floor. His accent gives him away as an Aussie, though from his last name – McDonagh – you might never guess that until he opened his mouth. His first name is Danny and he is, without a doubt, the soul and energy of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour.

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APPT Cebu: Heart and soul

Join PokerStars now! The last time Dominykas Karmazinas was here in the Salle des Etoiles he was three-handed for the EPT Grand Final title against Josef Klinger and Nicolas Chouity. That was in April 2010 for the Season 6 Grand Final. Karmazinas was to be the next player out after his [ad][7s] failed to hold up against Chouity’s dominated [ac][6d]

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EPT8 Monaco: Karmazinas on the rise again, Pantaleo falling