PokerStars have broken the Guinness World Record for the largest online poker tournament twice in one year. In July 2009 Full Tilt Poker made an attempt to beat the PokerStars December 2008 record (35,000 players), by hosting a 50,000 capped tournament with a $5 buy-in. Poker Stars held a $1 tournament on the same day which had a 65,000 maximum player limit both tournaments were full before starting time.

On the 27th December 2009 PokerStars made another attempt and hosted a uncapped tournament with a $300,000 guaranteed prize pool. The tournament had a staggering 149,196 players registered, a drastic improvement of more than double their previous Guinness World Record.

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Have a bit of time on your hands, enough for a poker quiz?

PokerStars have added a quiz that comprises of 12 questions about events held throughout 2009 at PokerStars.

Players who answer all 12 PokerStars quiz questions correctly will get an invite to play a $5 buy-in tournament entry with $20,000 added to the prize pool. The PokerStars quiz will run until 17 December 2009.

To find the PokerStars Player Quiz 2009 simply login to your account and look at the news banners in the lobby, even if you answer a few questions wrong you can retry until you get the correct answers.

We have helped a bit by providing the answers to the Poker Stars Quiz questions in the self help cheat sheet below.

Click the links in the PokerStars Quiz questions to find the correct answer, the answers are  highlighted in bold yellow text.

PokerStars deposit bonus code:  STARS600 – 100% of first deposit match up to $600 – PokerStars minimum deposit is $10.

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Every Tuesday Poker Stars players can play against the Team PokerStars Pro players, play ring games and tournaments against some of the top poker pros in the world which includes World Series Of Poker main event winners Joe Cada (WSOP 2009) and Peter Eastgate (WSOP 2008). PokerStars have added two tournaments to their Tuesday tourney schedule called Outlast the Pro, win extra cash for outlasting Team PokerStars players. $1,000 will be added to the tournaments for players who outlast all the PokerStars pros.

Use Poker Stars bonus code STARS600 and get double your first deposit up to $600 – minimum PokerStars deposit is only $10

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In Poker the term Donkey or Donk has become the modern poker term for fish. A Donk is a poker player who will play with the worse cards and then somehow manage to have you beat by the the river. It’s not easy to beat these kinds of players because in general they are gamblers who don’t use poker skills to win, donks are willing to take a chance with any two hole cards regardless of their value or poker hand ranking. With careful observation of the play on your table you should be able to recognize these players within the first 10 hands.

Watch to see who is raising pre-flop and who calls, study their play to the showdown. If the raiser raised for no reason or the caller called with nothing you should make a note on these player, most online poker rooms allow you to write notes. You should label these types of poker players as Donks for future reference because when you got the nuts they will pay the price.

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We’ve saved the best for last in our review of Texas Hold’em online poker odds calculators in our review of Holdem Genius; we have already covered two similar poker tools in Calculatem and Calculatem Pro all three poker odds tools are made by the same software developer. Our full reviews of these poker tools can be found here:

The regular Calculatem is tailored to novice players while the Pro version of Calculatem caters to intermediate poker players and Holdem Genius is best suited for advanced players and includes all stats and poker odds imaginable.

Holdem Genius Texas Holdem Odds Calculator does pretty much all it can do legally without getting you banned from a poker room i.e. it does not make use of databases or make calculations based on your opponents hand history which seems to be the border  line drawn by the many online poker rooms out there as to which tools are permissible for online usage, they seem to be fine with poker odds tools that calculate odds of winning a hand on the fly vs. those that use player databases of previously played hands or hand histories.

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