Today we can announce that the Spring Championship of Online Poker is being extended until the end of the month, with the combined guarantee now $135 million. But the details are what makes it that, so let’s get to them. First thing to know is that the dates of existing events remain the same, including…
6:05pm: David Costabile wins! Douglas Costa runner-up It’s over! After winning a couple of double-ups, actor David Costabile of The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Billions jammed his leading stack from the button with 4♠4♣ and Brazilian footballer Douglas Costa called with A♣K♣. The board ran out 8♦9♦J♠6♥10♣, and the small pair held — Costabile wins! But in truth, a lot of charities are the big winners today….
Here’s something fun to share — an announcement, and not about something being postponed or canceled. It’s the Stars CALL For Action, powered by PokerStars charity poker tournament, happening on Saturday, May 9 at 14:00 ET, a celebrity-filled charity event guaranteed both to raise a lot of money for several great causes and to be an entertaining time for players and observers alike. Celebrities…
PokerStars has announced the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) 2020 will take place from April 30 to May 19, with $85 million in prizes guaranteed. SCROLL DOWN FOR THE FULL SCHEDULE. If you have a partner, friend or family member with an interest in online poker, you might wonder where they disappear to during…
Everyone loves an online poker home game amongst friends. But organising a six-day tournament series for an entire online community? That could get tricky. Thankfully, Lex Veldhuis has worked with PokerStars to arrange the entire thing for you. Following the postponement of Lex Live 3 comes the announcement of Lex not Live, an online series of low to…
In light of the continuing spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19, and the uncertainty surrounding it, a decision has been made to postpone the upcoming Lex Live 3 event previously scheduled to take place at Aspers Casino in London from April 16-23. No one is more disappointed than series host Lex Veldhuis, who ultimately had to…
In the build-up to the highly anticipated Lex Live 3, we’ll be introducing you to a different member of Lex Veldhuis’ Twitch community every week. This week our guest is Todd Slater, although you may know him better by his Twitch handle: ‘Ferris2000’. The 51-year-old Canadian is a staple of Lex Veldhuis’ community and is…
Move over, Chris Moneymaker. There’s a new poker last name in town. Last week on PokerStars, Phil Toogood — yep, Toogood is his real last name — went from a $0.75 Lex Live 3 Step 1 satellite all the way to a $55 qualifier with three packages worth $1,050 guaranteed. He took down one of those packages…
In the build-up to the highly anticipated Lex Live 3, we’ll be introducing you to a different member of Lex Veldhuis’ Twitch community every week. This week our guest is Gardar Svavarsson, better known to the Beaker Army on Twitch as ‘viTNE’. The 29-year-old from Norway had never attended a live poker event prior to…
In the build-up to the highly anticipated Lex Live 3, we’ll be introducing you to a different member of Lex Veldhuis’ Twitch community every week. This week our guest is Simon Steenstra, better known to the Beaker Army on Twitch as ‘Mzzlaar’. Hailing from Gouda (known for its namesake cheese) in The Netherlands, Mzzlaar is a…
For amateur poker players, there’s nothing quite like binking a package to a live event through an online satellite. Not only have you just spun a few dollars into a few hundred or thousand, with a shot at winning thousands more once you play the target event, but you’ve also now got a paid-for holiday…
In the build-up to the highly anticipated Lex Live 3, we’ll be introducing you to a different member of Lex Veldhuis’ Twitch community every week. This week, our guest is ‘Driftinator’. ‘Driftinator’ was born, raised and currently resides on the eastside of Norway. A prominent member of the Beaker Army, he’ll be attending Lex Live 3…
In the build-up to the highly anticipated Lex Live 3, we’ll be introducing you to a different member of Lex Veldhuis’ Twitch community every week. This week, our guest is ‘RichyRob’. You’ll no doubt already be familiar with him if you’ve spent time watching Lex on Twitch, or you simply peruse the Twitch poker streets. As…
Tag team matches. Battle royales. FU flip-outs. Nope, this isn’t a promo for an upcoming WWE wrestling event. This is Lex Live 3, baby. Lex Veldhuis has today revealed the full poker schedule for Lex Live 3, which runs from April 17-26, 2020 at Aspers Casino in London. The announcement comes hot on the heels of Veldhuis’ two nominations at the…
“Lex Live is a great social event, and I think it would be great for people to get out and experience it. You’ll see there are so many people just like you.” Those are the words of Lex Veldhuis himself, and having attended the first two instalments of Lex’s community-driven poker festival, we can attest that every…
From April 17 – 26 2020, PokerStars Ambassador Lex Veldhuis will be hosting the third edition of Lex Live at the Aspers Casino in Westfield Stratford City. That’s in London, baby. Whether it’s recalling all of the hotels that you wanted to buy on Mayfair and Park Lane in your earlier years playing Monopoly, watching…
As one of the most vibrant and bustling cities in the world, you don’t really need an excuse to visit London. But just in case, Lex Veldhuis has given you a pretty darn good one. He’ll be returning to Aspers Casino from April 17-26 2020 for the third edition of Lex Live, his live poker festival which puts community first. Just…
Lex Veldhuis will be returning to London in April 2020 for the third installment of Lex Live, his hugely popular Twitch community poker festival. Get these dates marked off in your calendars, folks: April 17-26 2020. Then get your travel and accommodation booked because you’re not going to miss this. After fantastic stops in Namur, Belgium…
This was by far the craziest 8 day period I’ve had on Twitch. Broke 500 subs. Broke viewer record. Broke longest stream. All during the craziness that is the Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP). January had already been great in terms of viewers. Every day we would get up to 1500-2000 viewers pretty quickly….
Last week was absolutely nuts. There were so many people in the channel every day! Monday it started with another deep run in the $44 bounty. I love this tournament for many reasons. One of those reasons is definitely the success it has brought me. But I also have a weak spot for bounty builders….
Is this just a different way of saying resolutions? WELL I THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE NEW YEAR. But since I write it after, I guess I lose my credibility. Last time I mentioned I want to slow down a little bit on some projects and focus on streaming. Every once in a while I go…
Pretty good week. I feel like last week was very important and constructive in a lot of ways. It was a bit of a weird week for the stream, but also very productive off-screen. On Monday I did a regular stream. It was fun, had some deep runs, nothing out of the ordinary. Tuesday I…
This week was another reminder how important it is to minimize losses. When I say minimize losses I mean don’t lose more money just because you are losing. You could call this tilt in some cases. Sometimes it’s really just losing focus, making mistakes because you want to confirm your bad run (this happens so…
Poker is so diverse. It always puts you to the test in different ways. A few weeks ago you guys read that I wasn’t able to play my best because of a family situation. I chose to play some short days then. Last week it was a whole different form of pressure: stress. I don’t…
November has been a sick month in a lot of ways. The amazing hosts from MATUMBAMAN. The second/first place in the Bounty $44. I broke a million!!! channel views on Wednesday. A lot of that was because of frontpaging for the very first time. This whole week from 1 to 2 pm we were rocking…
It’s been an interesting week. Lot of valuable lessons this week. Not just for me specifically. Alright lets start at the beginning. Monday was business as usual. Had a nice workout, played some pokers. Nothing really eventful happened but it was a typical kind of Monday. I still felt the win lingering in the back…
What a week. I keep saying shit like this but this was the best week on stream. Results wise, viewershipwise, funwise. It had everything! After the second place last week I got even more relaxed than I’ve lately been. Monday started of disastrous with a lot of early bustouts. The $44 bounty was still going…
I broke the top 20 curse! One of the biggest streams to date happened on Thursday with me finishing second in the $44 bounty builder for $2900. That was the short version. Pretty much just had a fantastic week. The first few days of the week I had some deep runs again. It’s been very…
One of the most important weeks on the stream so far. Monday was so poor it really got to me. I quit streaming after a few hours and started doing some studying. I was evaluating my game and thinking about things. The amount of top 20 finishes over the past 3 months are stunning. I…
What a city. I really missed Rome. As soon as we drove in I was completely captured by the feel and look of the city. Of course I was completely biased. Myrthe told me I was an idiot because I said some 20 year old, nasty-looking building was a grand monument from 2000 years ago….
This week was all about priorities. As you guys know from the stream and my last weekly, my dad was in the hospital with an infection that gave him a fever. The fever triggered his Parkinsons hallucinations to the max. Monday actually started out fantastic. I had good news on several fronts. A tax case…
I don’t exactly know why it was strange. It felt strange. I think also it was a weird slot for Europeans on Twitch because of the charity marathon. The stream house of Jaime Staples, Matt Staples, Kevin Martin and Jeff Gross have been doing a 168 hour marathon stream for Michael Phelps charity foundation for…
Last weekly wasn’t even a week ago! Sent you guys the full TwitchCon update on Tuesday. My OCD brain is at ease again now being able to do them in the weekend :D. As you guys know TwitchCon motivated me to push even harder. I have been putting in a ton of hours on the…
Weekly October 1st Hey guys, You didn’t think I was going to forget the weekly did you? I’m at the airport in San Diego now. I can genuinely say I really missed you guys haha. Streaming and talking to you guys has been the core of my day for months now. Funny thing is that…
Weekly September 24th Hey guys, Another long week in the books. Almost. I’ll be streaming tomorrow (Sunday) I think I’m starting between 3 and 3:30pm CET. The week started out pretty well. I won the $27 PLO KO. About $330 for 1st and a whopping $600+ bounty score. Awesome tournament for us to start with….
Weekly September 17th Hey guys, What a week, what a week. Twitch told me I have been watched more than 2 million minutes this week -.- Monday craaazy. Holy shit. It started out with some unfortunate hands late in tournaments. Some nice bounties but no real cashes. A 6th place in the $44 PSKO. We…
September 10th, 2016 My head hurts. Beer record on Blowup Friday I think. Lets start at the beginning. Right off the bat we had a really good start to the week in terms of stream. We were above 1k viewers most of the day on Monday. Even though poker was a bit MEH that day….
Last week I started streaming on Twitch. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. I’m an avid Twitch-user myself. Over the past 4-5 years I watched a ton of Starcraft and DOTA streams. I just never knew what kind of content I wanted to make streaming myself. However, when this year started…