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In the past few days there have been rumours of a $1 million buy-in tournament with a $50,000,000 first prize on March 30th, 2014, at The Star Hotel and Casino in Sydney, Australia. David Chen, the tournament director behind the alleged high roller tournament, claims that 48 players have enrolled already, including members of the British, Danish and Monaco royal familys who have been selected as ambassadors, Hollywood stars and poker professionals.

"Poker is a true game that cuts across all class and income barriers. It tests skills, nerves and courage in a way that's incomparable to other card games. There is no higher drama and examination of character than a high stakes poker game. With a splashing $50m prize, in the remarkable city of Sydney, this should be a historical event indeed," said Chen in a press release (according to the news site and tracking site highstakesdb).

After 16 hours of play, the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event final table concluded this morning with Dominik Panka as the champion! The Polish pro brought the 4th largest stack to the final table of eight, and he defeated Mike "Timex" McDonald, who had a fantastic chance of becoming the first player ever to win two EPT Main Event titles, heads-up to claim his first EPT title and $1.4 million in prize money!

Read more » PCA 2014: Congratulations to Dominika Panka - The First Polish EPT Champion!

On Monday, Vanessa Selbst, the winner of the 2013 PCA High Roller, had an incredible chance to defend her title as she had the chip lead with only 14 players remaining in the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller ($25,000 buy-in, 247 entries).

Things went really well at first, and after she had sent Mustapha Kanit packing in 4th place with pocket aces against pocket jacks (all-in preflop) things looked even better as she had about 5.5 million chips - slightly behind the chip leader, Jake Schindler, and well ahead of Greg Merson, the winner of the 2012 WSOP Main Event.

Read more » 2014 PCA : Jake Schindler Defeats Greg Merson Heads Up for $1,192,624! Selbst finishes in 3rd place

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Read more » New Poker Partner: Full Flush Poker (US Players Welcome)!

Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst is running extremly good as of late. Just about a week ago she finished 3rd in the PCA Super High Roller for $760k, then she finished in 42nd place in the Main Event for $32k this weekend, and now she's the chip leader in the $25k High Roller!

Read more » PCA 2014: Selbst Leads with 14 players remaining in High Roller event

The 5th day of the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event was a short day of poker as only 12 players had to be eliminated before the tournament had reached its official final table of eight. Madis Muur will bring the largest stack (6.2 million) to today's final table (begins at 12 p.m. local time) and Pascal Lefrancois and Mike "Timex" McDonald are not far behind. The latter is not just having a great chance to claim the $1.8 million first prize, but also to create poker history...

Read more » PCA Main Event: The Final Table is set; Mike "Timex" McDonald in 3rd place!

There are 234 of 1031 players remaining in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event after Day 1A and B and Day 2. The current chip leader is Pascal Lefrancois with 412,000 chips. The French-Canadian pro won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2010 and finished 11th in the main event the same year. It will be interesting to follow him on the leader board during Day 3!

Read more » PCA Main Event: 234 Players Through to Day 3!

The 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event is underway and the two starting days are already in the books. 184 of 295 players (Dylan Hortin topped leader board with 160k) survived Day 1A and 475 of 710 players (Shankar Pillai came out on top with 173k) made it through Day 1B, which means that 659 players will return to play today! The overall chip leader is Shankar Pillai (picture) with 173,900 chips and there are lots of big names left in the competition, including PokerStars Pros Vanessa Selbst, Eugene Katchalov, Marcel Luske and Liv Boeree.

We will be back with another report tomorrow morning. The prize pool and payout structure should be announced by then. Stay tuned!

A big congratulations to Fabian Quoss, the winner of the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller! The German pro bested an extremly tough field of 45 players (54 entries), including the final table with poker stars such as Dan Shak, Vanessa Selbst and Antonio Esfandiari, over three days of poker in the Bahamas to lay hands on $1,629,940 in prize money! According to PCA's webiste, 2013 was a rough year for Quoss on the tournament circuit, so the prize money will most probably come in handy for him.

PCA 2014 $100,000 Super High Roller
Date: January 5-7, 2014
Buy-in: $100,000
Entries:: 56 (45 unique)
Prize pool: $5,433,120
1st: Fabian Quoss (Germany) $1,629,940
2nd: Dan Shak (United States) $1,178,980
3rd: Vanessa Selbst (United States) $760,640
4th: Antonio Esfandiari (United States) $575,920
5th: Matt Glantz (United State) $445,520
6th: Tony Gregg (United States) $347,720
7th: Ole Schemion (Austria) $277,080
8th: Mike McDonald (Canada) $217,320

Forget about Las Vegas and Antlantic City. Macau is the place where the big bucks are spent gambling. According to a recent article by CNN NewSource, Macau (a territory in China which lies on the Western side of the Pearl River Delta and was the first and last European colony in the country) had a gambling revenue of 360 billion patacas ($45 billion) in 2013 - an increase of almost 20% over the previous year! To put that amount into perspective, Las Vegas is lucky to have made a $6.5 billion in 2013 (15% of Macau's total). This means that Macua's gambling industry currently is 7 times greater than Vegas! 

Read more » Macau's gambling industry is now 7 times bigger than Las Vegas

The final table at the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller ($100,000 buy-in) is set after two days of intensive play in the Bahamas. The event saw a total of 56 entries creating a prize pool of approximately 5.4 million dollars, and the 7 finalists of tonight's final table are guaranteed a minimum cash of $217k - with the chance of going all the way to the first place prize of an incredible $1.6 million!

Read more » 2014 PCA Super High Roller: The Final Table is Set!

The 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Super High Roller kicked off yesterday at noon in the Bahamas. Day 1 of the $100,000 buy-in event attracted 45 players - of which 6 players lost their chips and re-bought a starting stack of 250,000 chips. By the end of the first day Martin Finger, who won the Super High Roller event at the 2013 EPT London, had the largest stack (829,000) and his fellow countryman Max Altergott bagged up the second largest stack (707,000).

TOP 10 stacks:

1 Martin Finger 829,000
2 Max Altergott 707,000
3 Isaac Haxton 594,500
4 Bryn Kenney 562,000
5 Jason Koon 551,000
6 Lawerence Greenberg 518,500
7 Justin Bonomo 516,000
8 Daniel Colman 512,500
9 Paul Newey 477,000
10 Philipp Gruissem 454,000

Registration is open until the start of Day 2, so we will announce the total prize pool in our report tomorrow morning. Stay tuned!

This year we continued the Lottery from last year, where you could win MobPoints, MobDraw tickets and MobSafe shots. The way to get entry tickets to the lottery, would be if you won a prize in the Christmas Calendar that you were unable to use, for one reason or another. If you won a freeroll entry worth $15 you would get 15 tickets for the lottery if you decided to claim lottery tickets, instead of the actual prize.

The lottery in 2013 would then have the following prizes available:

• 2 x 4,000 MobPoints
• 3 x 3,000 MobPoints
• 5 x 2,000 MobPoints
• 15 x 500 MobDraw tickets
• 10 x 100 MobSafe "shots"
• 15 x 50 MobSafe "shots"

And today we ran the "randomizer" and found the winners to the prizes above. Basically, the more tickets you had, the bigger chances of winning.Read more » Christmas Calendar 2013: Lottery Winners

Since January 1, 2014, all $50/$100 NLH and PLO cash games on PokerStars are played via Zoom - the site's fast-paced way to play poker (if you fold a hand, you will be moved to another table with different players). According to PokerStars, the change was requested by its players and it's not a permanent change for now.

"PokerStars developed a special High Stakes Zoom product with an eye toward replacing all High Stakes games with Zoom, and it's now time to put it to a test," said Nick Williamson, Ring Game Manager for PokerStars, in an interview in December, 2013.

"Our players have told us that they want to focus on playing poker, rather than worrying about seating, lobby and software settings to get them the best seat at the table. This is in an effort to allow players to concentrate on actually playing poker while encouraging a healthy, competitive, non-predatory environment in our highest stakes games," said Williamson.

The holidays are over and you won't have to wait much longer for the next major live poker tournament series! The 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) kicks off this Sunday with a $98,000 + $2,000 buy-in High Roller event, then the $10,000,000 guaranteed Main Event (winner will get at least $2 million) will start on Tuesday.

The 2014 PCA will run January 5-13 and (as always) some of the world's best poker players will participate and battle for millions of dollars in prize money! We will provide you with daily updates on both the Main Event and the High Roller, so make sure to check our news section every day!

We would like to take this final opportunity to wish all of you a Happy New Year and say thanks for a fantastic year! It has been a great (and very busy) year for us and it wouldn't have been possible without all of you who contributed to BankrollMob in one way or another.

We have had several new No Deposit Bonuses available this year and, of course, our goal is to be able to offer many new ones in 2014 as well - alongside with the usual Daily Freerolls, Leader Boards, Deposit Bonuses etc.

We hope to see you all in 2014! Let's make it the best one ever!

The last World Poker Tour tournament of 2013 came to a close yesterday when Julian Thomas defeated Vasili Firsau, who also finished runner up at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris a few months ago, heads-up in the bwin WPT Prague Main Event! Thomas received €206,230 in prize money and joined a long list of German poker professionals who have gone all the way in some of the major poker tournaments of 2013.

Final table results:
1) Julian Thomas, €206 230
2) Vasili Firsau, €135 000
3) Andrey Shatilov, €85 000
4) Gintaras Simaitis, €63 000
5) Ognjen Secularac, €47 000
6) Valeri Savov, €38 000

The final table of the PokerStars Prague Main Event, which took place on Wednesday, ended up being a marathon. The fact is that it took 14 hours of play until Julian Track, who brought the biggest stack to the final table, was the last man standing and received the first prize of €725,700, plus an exclusive Slyde watch!

Read more » PokerStars Qualifier Julian Track Wins EPT Prague Main Event

It didn't take long for a field of 22 players to be narrowed down to a final table of 8 players in the 5th day of the EPT Prague Main Event. Julian Track from Germany will bring the largest stack to today's final table (7.2 million), and Day 4 chip leader Max Silver is his closest opponent with 5.9 million chips.

Read more » EPT Prague: The Final Table is Set!

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22 of 61 players made it through Day 4 of the EPT Prague Main Event and unfortunately Ludovic Lacay, the 2012 EPT Sanremo winner, is no longer in the contest. The French poker star had a decent chip lead when Day 4 kicked off and he picked up where he'd left off in Day 3. However, things changed drastically when he called Max Silver's all-in with pocket kings. Silver showed the best starting hand in the game of Texas Hold'em and Lacay ended up losing a significant chunk of his stack. Eventually, Lacay bused in 33rd place by Ori Hansson.

Read more » EPT Prague: Max Silver Leads Last 22 in Main Event; Lacay Eliminated in 33rd Place

The fourth day of PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague Main Event kicks off in a few hours time. There are 61 players left (out of 1,007 entries) in the tournament and Frenchman Ludovic Lacay is the chip leader with 1.7 million chips - about half a million more than his closest opponent in the chip counts!

Besides having played several final tables at World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour, he has an EPT Main Event title (2012 EPT Sanremo) to his name. If he ends up taking down this tournament, then he will became the first player ever to win two EPT Main Event titles! Add to that, he would take home an incredible €889,000 first prize!

When the final table of the Eureka3 Prague Main Event kicked off yesterday, 22-year-old Canadian online pro Ami Barer (about $5.5 million in online winnings) was the chip leader with 7.2 million and his closest competitiors were Stephen Chidwick (4.9m) and Dmitry Holdeew (4.7m). The trio dominated play from when the cards were in the air until they were the last men standing.

Read more » PokerStars Qualifier Dmitry Holdeew Wins the Eureka3 Prague Main Event

The Eureka3 Prague Main Event drew a field of 1,315 players - who have battled it out for the past few days and become a final table of 8. The finalists will return at noon local time and fight for a first prize of €226,400!

Read more » Eureka3 Prague: PokerStars Qualifier Leads Final Table!