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Katie ”hotjenny314” Dozier: What Happened to the PokerStars Women Community?

In an open letter to the world’s largest poker site posted on February 21st on her blog, poker pro Katie Dozier shares her concern that PokerStars has downgraded its focus on women in poker. For some time now it’s been evident that the former thriving PokerStars Women community has suffered …

Laura Garzón: From 6 FPP to the $10,300 PCA Main Event

When 21 year old Laura Garzón Cortes from Colombia realized she had only 7 frequent player points left on her PokerStars account, she decided to play an online satellite costing 2 FPP. The satellite was a “FPP Mega-Path”, which ultimately had 6 packages for the PCA Main Event at the Bahamas …

Yaxi Zhu on Poker in China, Being a Perfectionist and Her Love for the Game

Just a year ago, in November 2013, Yaxi Zhu played her first live tournament. It was the WPT National China. The final table of six played out in South Korea in December after a break and Yaxi Zhu finished in 4th place for $80,650. Since then the young Chinese has …

Celeste ”LadyMaCe86” Oroná New Member of PokerStars Team Pro Online

For some time now, news from the world’s largest online poker room PokerStars have been rather depressing. In August PokerStars parted ways with well-known Latin American players Humberto Brenes, Angel Guillen and Jose “Nacho” Barbero, and in September the poker site said goodbye to 2009 Main Event champion Joe Cada, …

Xuan Liu Wins $215 Sunday 2nd Chance on PokerStars

Canada’s Xuan Liu had an excellent night at the online tables as she Tweeted this morning: Won two tournaments today for my best online Sunday ever! — Xuan Liu () September 8, 2014 First Liu won a $11 tournament on PokerStars for $3,129 and then she went on to win …

Annette Obrestad Made it to the Quarter-Finals in SCOOP $700 Heads-Up NLHE

It took 14 hours to finish SCOOP Event #08-High, a $700 Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em event.  The tournament attracted 765 players, and when they were only eight left the Norwegian pro Annette Obrestad was one of them. Annette Obrestad, who plays under her well-known screen name “Annette_15”, met “teunuss” from …