After the controversial conclusion to the WSOP Main Event, where Jonathan Tamayo’s victory was overshadowed for many by ‘Laptopgate’, PokerStars have announced changes to the EPT’s rules and regulations, banning solver technology from their live events. With GTO technology or solvers banned from the tournament area in its entirety in Barcelona, are PokerStars the first […]

This week the World Series of Poker Main Event, in all its glory, returns to the Rio for what is strongly rumored to be the very last time. Thousands of players – both pros and recs – will pony up the $10,000 buy-in in hopes that after more than two weeks, it will be they […]

Kenny Hallaert navigated his way through 742 other players in Friday’s PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker action before chopping up a little more than $140,000 with two other players on his way to his third SCOOP title.

Plenty of big names in the high-stakes MTT scene took their shots in the eight High Roller tournaments on the partypoker POWERFEST schedule on Thursday night.

After a busy Friday on the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker schedule, Saturday saw just nine players walk away with a SCOOP title, including one player picking up his second of 2019.

‘Luigy666‘ came through a 10,306 field to win the PokerStars Sunday Million for $108,192. Brazil’s ‘Leo Borgheti‘ secured his biggest online cash to date with a third place finish for $55,929, before ‘Luigy666’ got the better of ‘QTsN€v€rF0ld‘ heads-up, with the latter banking $77,787 as runner-up.

Every week The PocketFives Milestone Report looks at the online poker players who are achieving career-best achievement or reaching new heights in the rankings

With just 85 players still standing on Day 6 of the 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event, 22 of them are PocketFives members. The group has a combined $33.6 million in lifetime tracked online earnings with former #1-ranked Bryan ‘theczar19’ Piccioli leading the way with $6.36 million.

One thousand and eighty four players returned to the 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event on Friday all with the hope of making it through five more levels of play. Just 297 managed to do just that though and at the end of the day, Argentinian Damian Salas put 4,678,000*into a bag to end […]

The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker is one of the highlights of the online poker calendar year. A widespread outage on Monday however put a damper on the festivities as a number of events were cancelled as players were unable to connect to PokerStars. Before all of that though, Kenny ‘SpaceyFCB’ Hallaert, Adrian ‘Amadi_017’ […]

It was Christmas Day 2013 when ‘Sheater’ made PocketFives history by becoming the first Swedish player to sit atop the PocketFives Rankings. Since then six other Swedes have taken the #1 spot at some point while ‘Sheater’ has continued to grind away. This week ‘Sheater’ became just the third Swede to pass the $8,000,000 earnings […]

You know the headlines, you know the bustouts, you saw what happened on TV. But there were many untold and unexplored stories of the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event final table, so we decided to break some down and crunch some numbers.

When the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event final table began on Sunday night, nobody thought Qui Nguyen had a chance at overcoming a field that included two former #1-ranked players on PocketFives, a talented European poker pro, a former PokerStars SuperNova Elite and two young American poker pros who cut their poker teeth […]

The first day of the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event final table was all about Qui Nguyen. The Vietnamese-born Nguyen got into it with chip leader Cliff Josephy on hand #1 and finished with the chip lead. The storyline from the second day wasn’t much different. Nguyen started play Monday, with five players […]

All eyes were on chip leaderCliff Josephy as the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event final table got underway in Las Vegas on Sunday night, but it took just one hand for another player to let it be known that this wasn’t simply going to be a coronation for one of online poker’s most […]