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Fish, chips, and more chips!
Before this SCOOP came along, I decided to take a long poker trip around Europe. My first stop was in Berlin for the EPT. It's a great city and I absolutely loved it. After the tournament ended, I...
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A documentary...about me?
Editor's note: Tomorrow, PokerStars Team Online will release a mini-documentary about Shane "shaniac" Schleger. We asked him to write a little bit about the making of the film. *** I'm not shy about...
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Viva Mexico: The Shane Schleger story
In the early part of my career in poker, Shane Schleger became one of the first people I identified as a real person with a fake name. That is, everyone called him "shaniac," and that was cool, because...
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Chips, not Euros: Inside the Monte Carlo cash game
About a month before the EPT, I received an invitation to participate in the Million Euro Cash Game at Monte Carlo. One million euro buyin, no-limit hold'em, blinds of 1k/2k. It was to be, I believe,...
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10 million man George 'Jorj95' Lind winning in life and poker
Do you know George Jorj95' Lind III? You should. Not only is he the first player to have crossed the monumental 10,000,000 VPP barrier, but the member of Team PokerStars Online is also contesting for...
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Meeting shaniac: Short film triggers old memories
Editor's note: Earlier this week, PokerStars released a short film about Shane Schleger that triggered a few memories in Trent Wyatt, a longtime PokerStars employee. In 2005, Wyatt was still a...
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Am I successful Team Online player?
Lately I had the idea to check all my cash-game results since I joined Team PokerStars Online. As I was chosen in the original 'draft', my Team Online adventure started on Dec 15th, 2009. In 2009 and...
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Miraculous George 'Jorj95' Lind conquers his million VPP challenge
George Lind, who is better known as Team PokerStars Online's 'jorj95', has just completed what they said couldn't be done. And by 'they', I mean 'we'. When Lind made his bold proclamation that he would...
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Love them all
I was thrilled to know I am the first PokerStars-sponsored player to win the TLB Weekly. So when I thought what should I write about it for the blog, one thing came to my mind: the beginning of my...
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Take a free six-max masterclass with Felix 'xflixx' Schneiders
Here's a guy that's almost too cool for school but, by his own admission, you'll always find him there as his passion for poker drives him to learn more about the game every day. Felix 'xflixx'...
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Mickey Petersen on winning streaks and the WSOP
In poker you so often hear about how confidence and winning streaks are everything. They are apparently the reason people go on major heaters, get huge amounts of confidence in their reads and plays,...
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We are poker? We are poker!
PokerStars uses the tagline 'We Are Poker'. What does that even mean? It causes me to reflect on community interactions I have had, from as recently as yesterday when I was in the bank preparing my...
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Tzen1's SCOOP walkthrough
I figured it might be fun if I'll do a small review of my version of the SCOOP Main Event and the Limit Hold'em events. Let's break it down! The 20th of May was a big day for me. Online there are only...
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Brazil: The growth of poker in the country of football
I want to talk about something that is making me very happy as a professional poker player: the growth of poker in Brazil! In the last few years we saw countless happenings that show the development of...
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Getting the most out of the PokerStars lobby
The PokerStars lobby is the gateway to being dealt into a hand. You may wll have noticed that the ring game lobby has recently changed in a few very noticeable ways. Among the improvements, there are...
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Tips to avoid online poker mistakes
As part of the PokerStars Road to 100 Billion celebration, we asked Team Online to look back at the development of the PokerStars software and offer some tips on how to get the most out of it. Making...
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Enjoying the view
My first month as a new Team PokerStars Online member has brought so many good things upon me and my poker life. First and foremost, I have received tons of positive feedback, kind and supportive words...
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Andre Coimbra's $100,000 challenge: looking back, moving forward
July is about to start and it will mark the beginning of the second half of my $100K challenge, which involves turning $100 into $100K playing MTTs. So it's a good time to look at the first half of the...
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PokerStars software tips (from the people who use them most)
As part of the PokerStars Road to 100 Billion celebration, we asked Team Online to look back at the development of the PokerStars software and offer some tips on how to get the most out of it. Saying...
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Like a (rack of) lamb to the slaughter
It's been a while since I've written any sort of blog post so before I properly re-start the ol' blogging machine I want to recap the year so far for me. Succinctly put: it started off with a bang then...
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