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PokerStars Is Celebrating Its 25th Anniversary with a $50 Million Tournament Series

PokerStars will celebrate a quarter of a century in the poker business with special editions of its landmark events like the Sunday Storm and Sunday Million, and valuable giveaways for all Annivesary Series runners.

Here’s your full schedule for the tournament action this summer in Las Vegas.

While the World Series of Poker will be the star of the show, there are plenty of other tournament series taking place in Las Vegas at the same time. Whether you’re looking for cheaper alternatives or something to play while waiting for your WSOP event to restart, Kevmath has your covered.

Everyone is invited to join the big PokerStars celebration.

The online poker giant is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a huge online tournament series offering $50,000,000 in guarantees and heaps of special events taking place on Sundays. There are events for every bankroll, and all players are invited to join the action at PokerStars.

Go into the WSOP with the win mentality, says Chance Kornuth.

Not everyone will agree with this approach, but going for a big win or two makes a lot of sense if you’re planning on playing a bunch of tournaments this summer. One top-three finish will easily make up for any min-cashes you potentially miss out on while going for it.

The next generation of coverage is coming to the 2026 WSOP.

Jeff Platt shares some exciting details about what we can expect from live coverage of the 2026 World Series of Poker, and it all sounds pretty amazing. Looks like we’re in for quite a poker summer!

WSOP sets a new record for the largest prize pool in Texas history.

Despite recent turmoil with The Lodge, poker fans in the Lone Star State remain undeterred. The WSOP Circuit event at the Texas Card House attracted a total of 1,709 entries, resulting in a prize pool of almost $2.6 million!

This is the largest tournament prize pool in the history of the state, and we certainly hope to see more of the same, especially with all charges against The Lodge dropped. The future of poker in Texas looks brighter than ever.

Check out this interesting debate on running it twice in three-way pots.

I’m not sure I’m getting the full grasp of the argument, but you can feel free to chime in. Basically, it’s the discussion about what should happen in three-way all-ins when the short stack doesn’t want to run it twice, but the other two larger stacks want to go for the second run for the side pot.

Allen Kessler throws his name in the hat for the 2026 WSOP Fantasy Draft.

The World Series of Poker fantasy fever is slowly starting. For those interested in picking Allen Kessler, he was kind enough to post his entire planned schedule for the summer, consisting, not surprisingly, of predominantly mixed game events.

Paul Seaton brings an interesting Op-Ed on the way that tournament winnings are tracked on The Hendon Mob.

Right now, the go-to site for tracking poker players’ tournament results only shows each individual player’s cumulative winnings, not accounting for the money they spent on buy-ins along the way.

Is this the right way of doing things, or should buy-ins be deducted from the total? There are certainly arguments for both approaches, and it’s hard to say which one is better.

The HCL Million Dollar Game takes place on June 12.

Set inside the Horseshoe Casino, the upcoming edition of the Million Dollar Game will feature the likes of Alan Keating, Santosh, Texas Mike, and more.

Even though the game takes place in the middle of the World Series, it will likely steal the show for the duration. With that kind of lineup, the word fireworks immediately comes to mind!

The excitement is on for the 2026 WSOP Fantasy League!

David 'ODB’ Baker will be running the popular WSOP Fantasy League this year again. Apparently, the excitement is already building and Baker expects this to potentially be the biggest year yet in his 11 years running the competition.
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