“Bighusla” has shown that skill does factor into things, playing over 5000 $30 Spin & Go and winning over $11,000 doing it. PokerStars boasts more cash-game players than the next 10 most popular poker sites combined.

A Russian player turned a $5 buy in into the magical amount of one million in the space of only 13 minutes. New Jersey sites start pooling players. Mississippi takes another shot at an online poker bill.

Last week PokerStars introduced Spin & Go and it was enough to cause a 9% decrease in cash game traffic this week. US prosecutors are seeking to extradite Calvin Ayre and three other Bodog officials.

PokerStars rolled out their version of lottery sit and go’s which they called “spin and go”. PartyPoker has recently upped the ante and now will offer casual cash games up to $10/$20 NL.

PokerStars is the world's largest online poker room and is the pinnacle of the online poker industry.
At peak hours, PokerStars can have over 300.000 players online.