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Stars Group News
PokerStars thinking big for next four stops on EPT
27 Oct 2015
The online poker room is planning big festivals for the EPT Prague and PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
PokerStars' unprecedented streak of Spin & Go millionaires continues
27 Oct 2015
German player 'handbt1' has become the fifth person to win $1 million in a Spin & Go tournament this week. Before this week, only five people total had ever won $1 million in Spin & Go tournaments.
Estonian player becomes 4th Spin & Go millionaire of the week at PokerStars
27 Oct 2015
Player 'barrakuuda4' won the $1 million prize on a $100 buy-in tournament after just 20 minutes of play.
PokerStars makes another Spin & Go millionaire
23 Oct 2015
Player 'wrawras' from Brazil made $1 million in just ten minutes, becoming the seventh player to win $1 million in a Spin & Go tournament.
PokerStars celebrates first anniversary of Spin & Gos by making another millionaire
22 Oct 2015
PokerStars player 'Samaro Lúcio' from Brazil won $1 million on a $5 Spin & Go tournament.
International Poker Open kicks off in Dublin this week
20 Oct 2015
The Full Tilt-sponsored tournament arrives in Dublin Oct. 21 and runs until Oct. 26 at the Regency Hotel Events Center.
Amaya-owned DFS site StarsDraft to pull out of all but four U.S. states
19 Oct 2015
The daily fantasy sports site will continue to operate in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Kansas and Maryland.
DraftKings, FanDuel block Nevada players' access to sites
19 Oct 2015
The Nevada Gaming Control board earlier this week ruled that daily fantasy sports constitutes gambling, and therefore DFS sites require a gaming license to operate in Nevada.
Amaya exec calls for more regulation of daily fantasy sports
15 Oct 2015
The Montreal-based company, which owns online poker giant PokerStars and recently acquired DFS site StarsDraft, says the DFS industry's self-regulation practices "have fallen short."
New Jersey approval of PokerStars could boost online wagering prospects
14 Oct 2015
The approval from New Jersey gaming regulators allows the industry giant back into the U.S. market, where it had fallen afoul of UIGEA enforcement in 2011.
PokerStars expands games offerings in several jurisdictions
14 Oct 2015
Game expansions have been made to the U.S., U.K., EU, Spanish and Italian versions of the online poker room.
SkillOnNet launches white-label online casino in Schleswig-Holstein
14 Oct 2015
DrückGlück is specially designed for German players and features good-luck and bad-luck character themes.
PokerStars sets new record for largest online poker tournament
6 Oct 2015
The $0.01 Common Cents Kick-Off tournament brought in 253,698 players to compete for a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool.
PokerStars sponsor top British snowboarder Zoe Gillings-Brier
5 Oct 2015
The Isle of Man native holds several multinational titles already and will be competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics on Pyeongchang, South Korea.
PokerStars celebrates richest WCOOP ever
28 Sep 2015
The 2015 World Championship of Online Poker built up a prize pool of more than $66 million, breaking the previous record by more than $3 million.
PokerStars celebrates 10 years on Isle of Man
25 Sep 2015
The U.K. & Ireland Poker Tour's Isle of Man festival will feature a 3-D projection and light show and a 13 poker tournaments.
Norway to host its first legal poker event
11 Sep 2015
Global Poker Tours will run the 2015 Norwegian Championships, consisting of five regional championships leading up to a main event in Oslo.
PokerStars weekly news digest for week of Sept. 10
10 Sep 2015
This week's news includes wins at the Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon event and the Sunday Million Special Edition, plus several upcoming events.
Amaya announces launch of StarsDraft by PokerStars
9 Sep 2015
Amaya bought Austin-based DFS site Victiv.com in August, promising to rebrand and relaunch it before the start of the NFL season.
GVC beats 888; bwin.party directors agree to 1.16 billion-pound merger deal
4 Sep 2015
bwin.party shareholders will own 66.6% of the new company, and current bwin.party CEO Norbert Teufelberger will serve as the new company's director.
PokerStars wins interim gaming license in Romania
4 Sep 2015
PokerStars and Full Tilt will be licensed to provide poker, casino games and sports betting while the Romanian government finalizes the process for acquiring a permanent license.
PokerStars signs new team pros in China, Taiwan
2 Sep 2015
Taiwanese native Chen-an Lin and Chinese pro Yaxi Zhu are both popular players in the emerging poker market in Asia.
Full Tilt launches the Full Tilt Classic tournament series
31 Aug 2015
The Full Tilt Classic tournament features 20 series events, 40 side events, freeroll tournaments and more.
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 2016 will be 'biggest PokerStars festival ever'
28 Aug 2015
Players can qualify for the live event in the Bahamas in January through the hundreds of satellites that PokerStars will be running online in the upcoming months.
Amaya acquires DFS site Victiv
13 Aug 2015
The site will be rebranded as "StarsDraft" and will be initially launched in select U.S. markets.
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