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Noah Schwartz made the biggest score of his career by winning the WPT Alpha8 Florida on January 18th for $585,000. With this he most likely will be the biggest 6-max Sit & Go winner in 2015, since besides Schwartz, only five other players, Byron Kaverman, Jason Mercier, Jake Schindler, Bryn Kenney and Dan Colman registered for the event.

PokerStars has released a new video in their "Inside PokerStars" series, this time James Hartigan visited the PokerStars Data Center with Director of IT Operations, Gary Hill. Even if you are not much of a tech person you can probably agree that the server park and the security measures that the company takes look very impressive.

Last Monday we wrote about the first ever $1 million Spin & Go hit on PokerStars, it was Russian player "sss66666" who took home the huge prize. Later on in the week he was joined in the millionaires club by Czech player tornádo111 and Canadian anushan_2323 after the $5 Spin & Go gave out the biggest multiplier yet again.

The Computer Poker Research team at the University of Alberta claims to have created the Cepheus poker bot which plays perfect Heads-Up Limit Hold'em. The program has played more hands in 2 months than humanity combined and pretty much solved Heads-Up Limit Hold'em.

PokerStars has partnered with London based restaurant Jones & Sons to launch the "All-in Kitchen", the first restaurant in the world where you can pay with poker! 

Ilkin Garibli went to the Bahamas for vacation but ended up registering to his first ever tournament, the PCA $25,000 High Roler, which turned out to be a great decision as the young player from Azerbaijan won the $1.105.040 first prize after defeating a tough final table that included Faraz Jaka, Scott Seiver, Lee Markholt and Joe Kuether.

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event culminated in a 6-handed finale yesterday, in the end it was American Kevin Schulz who won the $1.49 million first prize and the title, defeating players like WSOP champ Chance Kornuth and online tournament pro Diego "Die Ventura" Ventura.

WSOP bracelet winner Chance Kornuth leads the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event final table with 6 players left in contest for the $1.49 million first prize, you can check out the live stream with revealed hole cards below!

Today the first side event kicks off at the Aussie Millions, in total there will be 21 events throughout the series, the $10,600 Main Events runs between January 25 - February 1, you can check out the full schedule below.

57 players started Day 4 of the PCA Main Event, including Brazilian football legend Ronaldo who was in 18th place of the chipcount. By the end of the day there were 24 players left and the remaining field is very tough with Pratyush Buddiga, Shyam Srinivasan, Dylan Linde and Noah Schwartz still in contest for the $1,491,580 first prize.

As we have previously reported, PokerStars has introduced a special, $5 buy-in Spin & Go as part of their December Festival with a mind-blowing first place prize of $1 million. It took Russian player "sss66666" less than 15 minutes to win that prize in the first ever $1 million Spin & Go to happen on PokerStars.

American Josh Kay won the Latin America Poker Tour (LAPT) Bahamas Main Event after defeating a field which included of Martin Finger, Stefan ''mindgamer'' Jedlicka, Mustapha Kanit, Galen Hall, Taylor Paur and Dimitar Danchev.

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event started on Thursday and in the two starting days a total of 507 players advanced to Day 2. The chipleader is Dietrich Fast, but Daniel Negreanu, Stephen Chidwick, Bertrand ''ElkY'' Grospellier are also still in the hunt for the title.

As part of the PCA poker festival, the Latin America Poker Tour also has a stop at the Bahamas, and the final 11 players in te $3,000 Main Event guarantee some great action for the final day, players like Dimitar Danchev, Mustapha Kanit, Martin Finger, Taylor Paur and Stefan "mindgamer" Jedlicka are still in the hunt for the $367,000 first prize, you can check out the live stream below from 19:00 CET!

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Steve O'Dwyer won the 2014 Asia Championship of Poker Super High Roller just two months ago but has managed to claim another Super High Roller title in yesterday's $100,000 buy-in at the PCA, defeating a stacked final table that included players like Scott Seiver, Bryn Kenney and Sorel Mizzi.