“I’ve never really been interested in tournament poker,” Guner tells the PokerStars Blog.

That might sound funny for someone who just won a Spin of the Day freeroll, but it’s actually a pretty reasonable stance given his history.

Now 37 years old and living in Gravesend, England, Guner has been playing poker for half of his life. He started playing online in the years before the poker boom, logging on during the couple hours he would shut his kebab shop during the day. And he enjoyed success, too. At a time when he usually aimed to win £300 in a single day, Guner won a £5,000 pot with pocket queens.

Big cash wins made tournaments pale in comparison for Guner.

“There were at least five of us in the hand and the pot was already £400 before the flop,” he says. “The flop came Q-4-Q and through excitement I fell off the chair and pulled the plug from my computer! I managed to switch it back on before I was timed out but I was sweating the whole time it was loading.”

With that much excitement in one hand, how could a tournament ever measure up?

As more players began to join in, Guner eventually found himself gravitating away from higher-stakes poker. “It got to the point where everyone was happy to gamble and it started becoming a coin flip, so I lost enjoyment from that.”

He didn’t stop playing completely, though. He’s mostly played in social games with his friends for the last 10 years (a stretch that included a bout with testicular cancer, from which Guner has been cleared for four years now). He’s also worked in “the odd occasion online.”

Like, say, a Spin of the Day freeroll.

“I played this tournament because I’m planning to enter a tournament in Aspers Casino Stratford and I need the practice,” says Guner. “I know playing tournaments is all about patience and being able to give up hands.”

He got exactly what he was looking for. And he learned a lot from the experience.

The dream.

“Patience is the key,” says Guner. “I found myself laying down big hands because in my mind if someone gets lucky I’m out. For me it wasn’t about the money at the end, it was to learn how people play tournaments, how they bet, what they call with but most importantly they are willing to lay down (if they show). The further on you get in the competition, it becomes by far a better and more sensible game, but you need some luck to get to that point.”

Having acquired the knowledge he sought, Guner’s next task will be to conquer that live tournament. And if he can do that, who knows what’s next?

“When I watch poker on TV,” says Guner, “I always picture myself with a T-shirt that has a big poker sponsor on it. My dream is to be a poker player.”

There’s still time to win with our Spin of the Day promotion. Check out all the details here and get in on the action before April 14th!

Joe Stapleton just flew in from Estonia — and boy, are his arms tired!

If you said “strawberry milkshake,” you’ve won this round of “What Do Poker Players Order At McDonald’s?”

Stapes had been in the Baltic republic for the last week working on the Patrik Antonius Poker Challenge alongside the new tour’s namesake. Naturally, he has some great stories to tell, among them the tale of his late-night visit to Estonian McDonald’s with the Finnish legend.

After begging a cab driver to take them across town at 5 a.m., Stapes bounded into the land of the golden arches with three people: Antonius, his wife, and Miss Hungary. (Yes, Miss Hungary!) Antonius wanted a strawberry milkshake, even though everybody knows that you can’t get a milkshake at McDonald’s. The machine is always “broken.”

Check out this week’s episode on SoundCloud, iTunes, or Spotify, and be sure to rate and subscribe to the podcast. The bit about Estonia starts around 12:00, and Maria Ho appears at 20:40.

How to tell the difference between a triangle choke and an armbar…

There’s a learning curve to becoming a fan of any sport. Exploring the world of the UFC is no different.

Before this weekend’s UFC event, let us help you pick up a bit of lingo to enhance your enjoyment of fight night.

The Striking game

Superman Punch – Anyone familiar with boxing may be taken aback by the concept of a fighter leaving their feet to throw a punch. The dynamic nature of mixed martial arts has allowed the superman punch, or a punch where an opponent jumps forward and kicks their leg back to add force to the punch, to gain traction as a premier striking attack.

Showtime Superman Punch?@ShowtimePettis finishes Thompson in round 2! #UFCNashville pic.twitter.com/m5D7PkvyHm

— UFC (@ufc) March 24, 2019

Flying Knee – Another acrobatic strike involving leaving the feet, a flying knee is exactly what it sounds like. One man (or woman) flying at another and cracking them in the head with their knee.

The Ground Game

Takedown – While all fights start on the feet, many fighters do their best work on the ground. Taking your opponent to the mat requires a takedown, which could be from a discipline such as amateur wrestling, judo, jiu jitsu, etc. Here is UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov setting a single fight record for the most takedowns in a fight:

Submission – Lock down a joint to the point of pain or danger of injury or cut off the blood flow to the brain with a choke and you’ve got yourself a submission.

Tap out – If you’re locked in a submission hold and can’t find a way out, your best option is to tap out. This means tapping your hand on the mat or (preferably) your opponent’s body. This indicates you are giving up, but does stop your opponent from wrecking one of your limbs or choking you to the point of unconsciousness. Also, you may submit verbally. The act of screaming out in pain is also considered a “verbal tap.”

A WILD FINISH!

Make it 1️⃣3️⃣ straight victories for Cláudio Silva!

Tune in now ➡️ https://t.co/7gsc6RQiv8 #UFCLondon pic.twitter.com/CkP4kiNidy

— UFC (@ufc) March 16, 2019

Ground and pound – When you have an opponent on the ground and drop heavy punches and elbows to their face, you’re practicing the time honored art of “ground and pound.” Many fighters have made their name in the Octagon on the strength of putting fighters on their back and dropping heavy strikes to score points or score stoppage victories.

VICIOUS ground and pound.@TheBeast_UFC #UFCAustin pic.twitter.com/cwvrvSfdA5

— UFC (@ufc) February 19, 2018

Four basic submissions

Armbar – One of the four submissions you’re most likely to see on any given fight night, the armbar can be applied from a variety of positions. Squeeze your knees around the arm, trap the forearm to your chest, point your opponent’s thumb to the sky and drive your heels down and your hips up. It’s tap or snap time at that point.

Rear-naked choke – Before MMA took its place in the mainstream, the idea of a choke brought to mind hands on a throat preventing another person from breathing. In reality, a “blood choke” stopping the flow of blood to the brain is a more powerful tool. The rear-naked choke is one of the most common in the sport, and is one of the go-to attacks when you take your opponent’s back. Former top featherweight Urijah Faber breaks down the technique here:

Triangle choke – Again, blood chokes are the best chokes. Trapping a fighter’s head and one arm between your two legs, properly positioning the arm and pulling the head down while squeezing your knees together are key to finishing off this submission. Just like Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon:

Or in UFC action:

Guillotine choke – Chokes are a big deal, ok? The guillotine choke is a favorite attack of many submission aces when an opponent is reckless attempting a takedown. It looks similar to a headlock but involves squeezing arteries to cut off that valuable brain blood supply. UFC featherweight Brian Ortega has been measured as generating 365 pounds of force with his guillotine choke. Oh, and he fights at 145 pounds.

HOW DO WE FOLLOW IT UP???? WITH THIS!!!

Unreal performance from @DannyHenryMMA!! #UFCLondon pic.twitter.com/QQg4DnkKQ5

— UFC (@ufc) March 17, 2018

Fun with rare submissions

Twister – If there’s a more honest name for a submission than “Twister,” I don’t know it. A combination of locking up the far leg, passing an arm behind your head, trapping your opponent’s head and, well, twisting. Exceedingly rare, exceedingly brutal.

Omoplata – The omoplata is notoriously hard to finish and typically used to “sweep” an opponent (or reverse position so the defending fighter on the bottom becomes the top attacker). On occasion, however, this arm attack using the legs leads to a highlight reel finish.

OMOPLATA!!!

Adam Wieczorek gets the omoplata submission against Bhullar in round 2 at #UFCGlendale!! WOW!!!! pic.twitter.com/GvG92SgomE

— UFC (@ufc) April 14, 2018

Heel hook – Heel hooks are one of the submissions with the most immediate risk of injury. Leg locks attack the knees and/or ankles, notoriously injury-prone joints. A heel hook involves capturing an opponent’s leg and isolating the food in a position where slightly too much torque will shred their knee. The speed with which people will tap to a deeply locked heel hook rivals any other submission.

Big time win for @ryanhall5050 defeating the legend @bjpenndotcom! pic.twitter.com/FVqnnG1eyC

— FOX Sports: UFC (@UFCONFOX) December 30, 2018

For further information on what you need to know heading into a UFC event, check out our “Idiot’s guide to the UFC.”

You might dream of entering the Octagon to compete on the UFC’s biggest stage. Or you might just watch and admire one of the most intense sporting spectacles anywhere.

Whichever one you are, you likely realise it’s a pretty tough gig.

Even with the training, the dedication, and hard work, few fighters enjoy the kind of success that gets their face on a poster, or their name on a Pay Per View undercard.

Poker and UFC involve very different attributes. But in a few crucial ways they rely on the same thing

And that’s before considering those other qualities possessed by every successful UFC fighter.

Determination, courage, and resilience.

Not everyone has the time or ability to dedicate themselves to reaching standards like you’d see from Junior do Santos or Amanda Nunes. But there is some consolation to be had.

Those same skills can be used elsewhere.

The surprising similarities between UFC and poker

The same qualities that make successful fighters make for great poker players.

Determination, courage, and resilience work just as well at the poker table. Only in poker there’s no waiting, and those years spent in the gym are, well, let’s say optional.

In poker, you get to compete right away.

It might not involve a flying knee, or Superman Punch, but you could try a check-raise or four-bet in much the same way.

Which is one of the things that makes the new UFC Spin and Go’s a great place to start playing poker.

If you’re familiar with UFC, but not as much on poker, you can follow the same pre-fight routing.

First you can get in shape

This is where your determination comes in.

It means learning a bit more about the game (PokerStars Schools is the place to start), but also about Spin & Go strategy.

For instance, what are the things that make three-handed turbo poker different?

Think of these high-speed games like you would a one-round scrap. Albeit with two opponents not one — each less likely to inflict significant physical punishment.

Then you judge what level you should play

This is where you can use some of that courage.

Buy-ins start at as little as $0.25, and go all the way up to $25. So even beginners have a place to pay.

Then it’s up to you when you try a higher level (or not), and tougher competition.

You could add some faith to this part too. The same faith in yourself than gets you to that next level.

Delivering the winning blow

Then there’s the resilience.

Spin & Go’s move quickly, and that means they can be unpredictable.

The turbo structure means you can’t sit around and wait. If you don’t take action you’re likely to suffer.

And like in UFC, one moment out of sync with everything else, can change the result in an instant.

Then there’s how to finish. Heads-up play is a little different. Strategy comes into play very quickly. Experience and preparation are invaluable.

One more thing fighters and poker players have in common

There’s one more similarity.

How you react to winning or losing can make all the difference.

It takes that resilience to pick yourself up, get back in the gym (or PokerStars Schools) and getting back at it. But it’s something all good players have in common.

Before you know it, you’ll have out-prepared, out witted, and out fought your opponent.

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

You can find out more about UFC Spin & Go’s on PokerStars, here. You’ll get all the details on how to play, and about some of the great prizes to be won. Some of them being life changing.

Catch up on all of this week’s PokerStars Blog content…

• Kalidou Sow joins Team PokerStars

• Michael Soyza wins Super High Roller with APPT Korea in full swing

• What does it take to win the Sunday Million? Find out…

Don’t forget!

There’s a €530 five-package guaranteed EPT Monte Carlo Main Event satellite at 20:35 WET on Sunday, April 14th.

KALIDOU SOW JOINS TEAM POKERSTARS

There was some exciting news out of PokerStars head office this week as Frenchman Kalidou Sow was unveiled as the newest member of Team PokerStars.

“To become an ambassador for PokerStars, it’s a dream for me,” the 38-year-old from Paris, France, said. “Amazing, amazing.”

Welcome to the team, Kalidou Sow!

What was really amazing was Sow’s poker playing over the past year and a half. In December 2017 he took down the PokerStars Championship Prague Main Event, earning €675,000 for his efforts. He followed that up just a couple of weeks later with a win in the PokerStars Festival London Main Event for £121K (and a Platinum Pass). Since then he’s won several other major titles, plus he led Team France at the 2019 PokerStars Players Championship in the Bahamas.

Welcome to the team, Kalidou.

MORE ABOUT KALIDOU SOW: ANNOUNCEMENT
CAREER TIMELINE AND QUOTES | PRAGUE CHAMPION | PSF LONDON WINNER

SOYZA WINS SUPER HIGH ROLLER AT APPT KOREA

The action is well underway at APPT Korea, with a champion already being crowned in the Super High Roller.

Michael Soyza was the defending Main Event champion

Michael Soyza, who not only won the Main Event at this stop last year but also ended Day 1A as the second largest stack yesterday, took down the ₩10,000,000 APPT Super High Roller ($8,767) for ₩178,890,000 ($157,423) after defeating China’s Jiang Chen in a brief heads-up encounter.

You can read about Soyza’s victory here.

Meanwhile, the ₩1,800,000 Main Event got going yesterday, with Soyza almost topping the 222-strong field. Ultimately it was Japan’s Takao Shimizu who bagged biggest, with 59 survivors at the end of play.

APPT KOREA MAIN EVENT: DAY 1B LIVE UPDATES | DAY 1A COVERAGE ARCHIVE

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO WIN THE SUNDAY MILLION?

The 13th anniversary of the Sunday Million takes place this weekend (14th April), and trust us, it’s going to be a big one. There’s a massive $10M guaranteed in the prize pool, and whoever takes it down is guaranteed a minimum first-place prize of $1M.

Take notes from former Sunday Million winners

But what does it take to win a tournament as large and prestigious as the Milly?

We asked several former winners including Anton Wigg and two-time champ Paul Vas Nunes for their tips and advice.

Find out what it takes to win the Sunday Million here.

MORE ON THE ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY MILLION: TIMELINE
WHO’LL WIN: PART 1, PART 2 | STRATEGY ADVICE | QUALIFY FOR FREE
ANNOUNCEMENT | SAVE THE DATE: APRIL 14, 1pm (ET)

MORE CONTENT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED:

All the latest from the UFC

You know what they call a Big Mac in Estonia? (Poker in the Ears pod w/ Patrik Antonius)

Spin of the Day: “My dream is to be a poker player”

Poker stereotypes: Have you met them all?

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We’re a week closer to SCOOP 2019, which starts on Sunday May 12.

And while we’re still finalizing the schedule for this year’s Series, we can now announce more details of this year’s Series. Including guaranteed prize money, what you can win, and how you can win it.

So if you’re already actively planning your SCOOP campaign, take note of what follows.

The tournament schedule is getting the finishing touches. So stay tuned for that later this month.

For now the key numbers are:

SCOOP 2019: Sunday May 12 to 27

* $75 million guaranteed over 67 events and 15 days – a new record for SCOOP

* 201 tournaments across low, medium and high buy-ins

* $115 million to win on PokerStars during the series

* $5 million guaranteed Main Event

* $1 million plus guaranteed tournaments every day during the Series

There’s also SCOOP’s own “Super Sunday” on 26 May.

On that day they will be $11.5 million guaranteed across three Main Events.

Main Event Low: $109 buy-in. $2.5 million guaranteed

Main Event Medium: $1,050. $4 million guaranteed

Main Event High: $10,300. $5 million guaranteed

They’re the standout tournaments, but they’ll be lots going on before then.

Play for low, medium and high stakes

Once again you’ll find three tiers of buy-in for each SCOOP event. We want this to be a SCOOP series for everyone. That includes new and low stakes players.

So you’ll be able to play low tier SCOOP tournaments for as little as $2.20.

And, you can also take advantage of satellites to win seats in more series events. They start on Monday April 15, and cost just $0.11 to play.

Those are just a couple of ways into SCOOP this year. But there are more.

Other ways to play SCOOP

You can also play SCOOP Spin of the Day.

We’ll have more details of this special promotion soon, but the premise is simple.

Win entry into special freerolls that award SCOOP tickets, everyday. And all by taking a free bonus spin.

You’ll also notice special Spin & Go’s starting on Monday. You can play those right the way through to May 27.

These three-handed turbo tournaments will be awarding SCOOP tickets, and Main Event seats worth $10,300. They cost just $2 to play. Or $22 and $215 depending on your bankroll.

All that and the full schedule still to come.

Still more to come

We’ll have that later this month on the PokerStars Blog.

For now, you can check out more details about how to play SCOOP, including how to win seats for just a few dollars, on the SCOOP homepage.

It took 23 fights in the hallowed Octagon, but Dustin Poirier ended UFC 236 as a UFC champion.

UFC 236 took place at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Ga. with a pair of interim titles on the line. The featured bouts included Poirier (25-5 MMA, 17-4 UFC) taking on UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway (20-5 MMA, 16-5 UFC) for the interim lightweight title. The bout was a rematch of a February 2012 bout in which Poirier beat Holloway in the Hawaii native’s UFC debut.

Poirier opened the frame with big leg kicks that opened up strikes to the head before Holloway started to land his own big shots in return, appearing to hurt the lightweight regular.

Poirier began landing heavy bombs to the head of Holloway repeatedly, briefly stealing control of his legs on multiple occasions. The fighting spirit and instincts of Holloway allowed him to survive the first round and the shock of the power he was tasting at 155 pounds.

Another big night in the world of UFC

Despite having just survived one of the worst rounds of his professional career, Holloway opened Round 2 with a smile for Poirier. The smile may have been born of the decision to begin working to Poirier’s body.

As Round 2 wore on, Holloway landed strikes at a higher rate, but Poirier’s power shots were still able to find the increasingly bloody and swollen face of the featherweight champ. With a minute left in the second, Poirier again appeared to hurt Holloway and force him to retreat to add some question to the winner of a round in which Holloway was gaining traction.

Holloway continued to have moments in Round 3. But every time he appeared to gain momentum he was stung by the heavier counters of Poirier. He ended the round with his face showing a large amount of damage and time slipping away for him to do enough work to win a decision.

Poirier wanted the takedown early in Round 4 but when he couldn’t secure it Holloway tried again to turn up the pressure with flurries of punches. With Holloway’s increased focus on attacking to the body, Poirier appeared to start running low on energy. However, a massive Poirier knee caused Holloway to begin gushing blood from a deep gash over his left eye.

In the final five minutes of the fight, the story of Holloway’s volume vs. Poirier’s power continued to play out. With a face covered in blood and a clear power disadvantage, Holloway continued slinging punches and eating counters down the stretch but Poirier smothered with a takedown attempt in the final minutes to run out the clock.

All three judges scored the fight 49-46 for Poirier, awarding him the interim lightweight championship.

Next up for Poirier could be a bout with “full champion” of the lightweight division, Khabib Nurmagomedov.

Israel Adesanya vs. Kelvin Gastelum

With the interim UFC middleweight championship on the line, Kelvin Gastelum (16-4 MMA, 10-4 UFC) and Israel Adesanya (16-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) appeared as relaxed as could be expected coming out of their corners for the opening round.

Adesanya scored a few strikes in the early stages of Round 1, but a Gastelum right hand briefly buckled the legs of the younger challenger. After feeling the early power of Gastelum, Adesanya seemingly took his foot off the gas a bit and attempted to figure out a plan of attack.

Round 2 proved to be Adesanya’s first showcase of his own power as he scored with a right hand for his own knockdown. After Adesanya had to make the adjustments in Round 1, Gastelum found himself eating heavy strike after heavy strike in Round 2. He seemed one or two strikes away from being finished before making it to the horn, which signified the end of the five-minute period.

Adesanya drops Gastelum in round 2! #UFC236 pic.twitter.com/dfkOdR5bDm

— UFC (@ufc) April 14, 2019

Both men would have their moments as the fight pushed into the “championship rounds” (rounds 4 & 5) but Adesanya’s shots were still scoring knockdowns, even in the fifth and final frame.

Gastelum refused to back down, continually trying — and often succeeding — to land his heavy punches but Adesanya was slightly more accurate and his clean shots were able to do more damage.

That was enough for the judges who scored the competitive bout 48-46, 48-46, 48-46, all for Adesanya, who captured

Rountree Jr. dominates after trip to Thailand

Light heavyweight Khalil Rountree Jr. (8-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC) wanted to improve his muay Thai game so badly he traveled to Thailand ahead of his bout with Eryk Anders (11-4 MMA, 3-4 UFC). This proved to be a wonderful career investment as Rountree scored a dominant unanimous decision victory on the strength of his striking game.

Rountree’s leg kicks were coming fast and hard early in Round 1, reddening the lead leg of Anders. As Anders’ attention drifted to defending his leg, it opened up his head for Rountree’s heavy punches.

With leg kick after leg kick landed for Rountree going into Round 2, a left hand briefly dropped an increasingly overwhelmed Anders to his back.

Anders got back to his feet only to eat another flurry ending with a right hand that dropped him again. Minutes later, the double-tough Anders was dropped again. But he refused to quit, and survived to the end of the second frame.

Anders was in survival mode for Round 3 as Rountree stalked him, with any strike he felt like throwing seemed to land to little resistance. But the tale of the final round was little different from the preceding frames as Rountree landed seemingly any strike he felt like throwing.

Anders scored a moral victory by making it to the final bell. But it was the only victory he came anywhere near to as Rountree and his 71-19 advantage in significant strikes landed took the official judge’s decision. Scores of 30-26, 30-26 and 30-26 earned the win.

Alan Jouban vs. Dwight Grant

Alan Jouban (16-7 MMA, 7-5 UFC) entered the Octagon for his welterweight bout against Dwight Grant (10-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) with a nine-fight experience advantage on the world’s biggest fighting stage. But that mattered little over the course of three rounds. Jouban was unable to produce the offensive output needed to overcome his inexperienced opponent.

Jouban also had a slew of surgeries following his previous bout, a TKO win in February 2018. Despite potentially his best health in years, Jouban often seemed unable to pull the trigger as quickly as Grant over the first two rounds of action.

With Grant seemingly pulling away through over the opening frames, the crowd met the fighters with a chorus of boos to express their dissatisfaction at a slow-paced affair.

The pace picked up a bit down the stretch of Round 3 when Jouban scored a takedown and some impressive punches in the final 10 seconds, but it was too little, too late for the Louisiana native as the judges sided against him.

The official judges scores were 29-28 Grant, 30-27 Jouban and 29-28 Grant. Grant is now on a two-fight winning streak.

Krylov avenges five-year old loss to Saint Preux

UFC 171 feels like a lifetime ago and five years was enough time for Nikita Krylov (25-6 MMA, 7-4 UFC) to catch up to Ovince Saint Preux (23-13 MMA, 11-8 UFC).

Saint Preux defeated Krylov by submission at the March 15, 2014 event, but could not hang in the rematch before tapping out in the second round.

Krylov started the fight looking to attack the neck with choke submissions only to find himself in trouble when Saint Preux’s defense allowed him to survive, score a takedown and end up in dominant position on the ground.

Saint Preux wasn’t able to do much with the advantageous position and looked as though his gas tank was nearing empty as Round 1 came to a close.

Despite Saint Preux’s corner telling their fighter, “You’re not tired, you don’t get tired,” before the second round, it was clear the former college football player was battling his own endurance as well as the Ukrainian standing across the cage.

Krylov was able to work inside on his fatigued foe, score a takedown and force Saint Preux into panic mode where he exposed his neck and was caught in a rear-naked choke before tapping out at the 2:30 mark of Round 2.

Krylov is now 5-1 in his six most recent bouts while Saint Preux, who entered the fight as the UFC’s #12 ranked light heavyweight, has now lost three of four.

With one day of poker in the books, more than 60,000 players have been eliminated from the Sunday Million 13th Anniversary. Today the 980 competitors who outlasted their rivals will return and play until only one new millionaire remains.

One day down, one to go in the Sunday Million 13th Anniversary

Five hours of late registration built a truly enormous field for this anniversary Milly on the strength of 45,929 unique entries and another 15,413 re-entries. That total of 61,342 gave us a prize pool worth $12,268,400, more than 22 percent above the guarantee. And the scheduled prizes are befitting a tournament of this scale. First place will receive just over $1 million, with $700K+ for second and $500K+ for third.

Standing alone ahead of the rest of the field after 35 blind levels of poker was Brazil’s Deputado1414. After finishing in 58,097th place on the first bullet, the Brazilian player re-entered and rode a stack worth well above the average for the rest of the day. About half an hour before the end of play Deputado1414 seized the chip lead, ending with 8,064,114 chips — good for about 165 big blinds when Day 2 begins.

Blinds and antes will be at 25,000/50,000/6,000 when play resumes. Here’s a glance at the top 10 overnight chip counts:

As for other notables, there are a few. Last week our own Howard Swains had a look at some players who had already proven they had the ability to win a massive tournament like this one. (Check out Part 1 and Part 2 for the full rundown.)

Two-time Milly champ Rob Tinnion is still in it after Day 1 of the Sunday Million 13th Anniversary.

Of those profiled in the first piece, only Anatoly “NL_Profit” Filatov remains in the hunt after the conclusion of Day 1, holding a stack worth 1,217,020 chips. From the second piece, two players remain. Two-time Sunday Million champ Rob “robtinnion” Tinnion is still in with 1,252,124 chips. And Poland’s T3G3S, who has averaged a profit of $1,331 over the course of more than 300 large-field $215 tournaments, is in great shape with 1,366,779 chips.

As of now there’s still no way to know where the eventual champion hails from. The top of the leaderboard features players from Brazil, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic. Other powerhouse poker nations like the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Denmark, Hungary, and Canada are well-represented as well. The only thing sure is that the final table is going to produce some very happy players: everyone who lasts that long is guaranteed at least $62,745.

The Sunday Million 13th Anniversary resumes play at 1 p.m. ET today.

A recap of the major results from this weekend on PokerStars…

• Sunday Million plays from 60,000 down to 980; $1M up top
• Niklas “lena900” Åstedt wins Sunday Cooldown ($57K)
• Ben “jenbizzle” Jones defeats Steve O’Dwyer to win Sunday HR ($64K)
• All the big High Roller Club results
• All the big results from the weekend majors

980 MAKE SUNDAY MILLION DAY 2

With one day of poker in the books, more than 60,000 players have been eliminated from the Sunday Million 13th Anniversary. Today the 980 competitors who outlasted their rivals will return and play until only one new millionaire remains.

Yep; there’s a massive $1,000,061 up top for the eventual champ, after 61,342 entries created a $12.26 million prize pool. Former Milly champs including Anatoly “NL_Profit” Filatov and Rob “robtinnion” Tinnion are still in, as is PokerStars Ambassador Lex Veldhuis (albeit with two big blinds).

Streamed till 5 AM, deep in the $215 Anniversary. 1000 out of 61.000 people left. Lost most my stack in the last 2 orbits. Made day 2 with 2 bb's. Don't even … Restarting tomorrow at 7 PM CEST. #!$%@$#!~

— LexVeldhuis (@RaSZi) April 15, 2019

Click here for the biggest stacks and a full recap of yesterday’s Day 1 action.

Niklas “Lena900” Åstedt

NIKLAS “LENA900” ÅSTEDT WINS SUNDAY COOLDOWN ($57K)

Another weekend, another huge score for one of online poker’s all-time greats.

Sweden’s Niklas “Lena900” Åstedt emerged victorious in the High Roller Club’s $2,100 Sunday Cooldown PKO for $31,485 plus an additional $25,531 in bounties.

The tournament received 150 entries and was wrapped up in three hours and 47 minutes when Åstedt defeated Bulgaria’s “Kraskata85” heads-up. For his runner-up finish “Kraskata85” banked just over $40K (including bounties).

Steve “Mr. Tim Caum” O’Dwyer

BEN “jenbizzle” JONES DEFEATS STEVE O’DWYER TO WIN SUNDAY HR ($64K)

Any railbirds out there? If so, here’s hoping you were tuning in to last night’s High Roller Club $2,100 Sunday High Roller. This prestigious tournament is always stacked, but yesterday’s final table was something else.

The UK’s Ben “jenbizzle” Jones would come out on top, banking $64,110 and taking his lifetime online earnings up to $2.82 million.

Linus “LLinusLLove” Loeliger

To get the win though, Jones had to overcome a final table which included runner-up finisher Steve “Mr. Tim Caum” O’Dwyer ($49,360), Patrick “pads1161” Leonard (3rd – $38,004), Connor “blanconegro” Drinan (6th – $17,345), Kristen “krissyb24” Bicknell (7th – $13,354), and a man many consider to be the greatest No Limit Hold’em Player in the world right now: Linus “LLinusLLove” Loeliger (8th – $10,282).

The tournament got 159 total entries, creating a $318K prize pool that was split between the top 20. Others who made the money but busted prior to the final table include Lucas “Bit2Easy” Reeves, Niklas “Lena900” Åstedt, and “bencb789”.

ALL THE BIG HIGH ROLLER CLUB RESULTS

ALL THE BIG RESULTS FROM THE WEEKEND MAJORS

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In less than two decades you, and millions of other poker players, have helped us reach milestone after milestone on PokerStars.

Now the PokerStars odometer is about to tick over to another milestone: 200 billion hands.

The stories intertwined with those are impossible to tell.

Whether it was picking up the blinds and antes, or winning a major tournament, each hand meant something to someone. And over the years that story has been our privilege to tell.

So, while we watch that 200 billionth hand approach, we want to reward as many players as possible who got us there.

Here’s how you can be a part of that.

Coming up over the next two weeks

To mark the occasion, we’ll be having two weeks of festivities ahead of this milestone hand.

Every day you can earn a free spin simply by playing one hand on PokerStars. Those spins could earn you a variety of prizes, including up to $2,000 cash.

Play one hand on PokerStars to earn a free ticket to the $200K mega freeroll

We’re also giving away tickets to what we’re calling a Mega Freeroll, with a prize pool of $200,000.

All you need to do is play a single hand of poker over the next two weeks. Do that, and you’ll receive your freeroll ticket in a rewards chest.

When the 200 Billionth hand hits

And then there’s the 200 billionth hand itself.

If you’re one of the players dealt into that hand, you’ll automatically win $10,000. Regardless of the outcome of the hand.

We’ll also be delivering surprise chest drops during tournaments and cash games. For instance, you could suddenly find the blinds in your cash game multiplied by 20.

Biggest ever Spin & Go’s

And if you’re familiar with Spin & Go’s, we have those too.

They’ll be the biggest we’ve ever held.

For $5 you can win up to $2 million in new Spin & Go’s

A $2 million jackpot for a $5 buy in – with countless spin ups in between.

Those are the details, but they’ll be more promotions and giveaways announced between now and that 200 billionth hand.

Thanks to our players

We’re the first poker site to get that far, something we find incredibly humbling given that it is all thanks to PokerStars players like you.

Whether you play high stakes, micro stakes, or just for play money. It’s as much your achievement, as ours.

That’s thanks to you, our players.

So, check back on the blog for more over the next two weeks. And be sure to follow us @PokerStarsBlog on twitter.

APPT Korea Main Event
Dates: April 11-14, 2019
Buy-in: KRW 1.8 million ($1,580 approx)
Entries: 581
Prize pool: KRW 912,983,400 ($805,250 approx)

In just about every conceivable way, the Sunday Million 13th Anniversary was enormous.

Two days of online poker. More than 61,000 players from around the world. Twelve million dollars distributed among the top 10,000 finishers. And for five players from Europe and Asia who outlasted the field to strike a deal among themselves, a six-figure score that will forever associate them with this historic anniversary.

Day 1 wrapped up after 35 levels of play, giving the 980 remaining players the night off before returning at 1 p.m. ET today to play down to a champion. That task would take a total of eight hours and 19 minutes, and at the end of it all a player from China by the name “wangli0402” would take top honors.

From the very beginning the Day 2 action was brisk, and past performance was not an indicator of future results. Lex Veldhuis came back with a few big blinds and stretched them as far they would go, finishing in 741st place for $1,345. Two-time Milly champ RobTinnion made a little further to 685th place and earned the same payout as Veldhuis. Even overnight chip leader Deputado1414 of Brazil was only able to last until 141st place ($3,920).

As the day’s sixth break approached, the bubble burst. The U.K.’s patpef open-jammed for 49.8 million chips with K♦Q♣ and ended up heads-up with kacer148’s A♠J♠. patpef was drawing dead after the flop came A♥A♦9♠ and finished in 10th place for $44,367.

That gave us this final table lineup with blinds and antes set to rise to 3,000,000/6,000,000/750,000 after the break:

The final table of the Sunday Million 13th Anniversary

Seat 1: t4rz4n_21 (250,012,046 in chips)
Seat 2: RMarland (104,076,802 in chips)
Seat 3: sega1989 (48,183,574 in chips)
Seat 4: idzake (287,972,826 in chips)
Seat 5: xbambi (366,875,807 in chips)
Seat 6: wangli0402 (141,211,309 in chips)
Seat 7: pantherwang2019 (57,307,975 in chips)
Seat 8: ZoMbiE2808 (78,106,863 in chips)
Seat 9: kacer148 (199,802,798 in chips)

The first knockout came early on in a standard race. Georgia’s ZoMbiE2808 jammed for 62.3 million over the top of xbambi’s 12 million opener, only to see RMarland successfully isolate from the big blind. The latter’s J♣J♥ held up against the former’s A♠K♥ and ZoMbiE2808 was gone in ninth.

RMarland finished in 8th for $88K

That win turned out only to be a stay of execution for RMarland. Two orbits later the player from the U.K. opened in the hijack seat with 8♦8♠ for 84 million chips, leaving 5.2 million behind, and picked up a call from idzake on the button. idzake called and showed J♥J♦ when RMarland moved in on the 4♣2♣Q♦ flop. RMarland needed a two-outer but didn’t find it on the turn or river and left the tournament in eighth.

idzake and t4rz4n_21 tangled a couple of times over the next 10 minutes and shipped a few hundred million chips back and forth in the process, but it was sega1989 whose tournament would next come to its conclusion. The Russian player opened for 48 million chips under the gun with A♠J♠, leaving 28.7 million behind, and then called those off when wangli0402 re-shoved for 97 million in the cutoff seat. wangli0402’s A♣K♦ had the pre-flop edge and nothing changed when the board fell 10♥7♦3♦3♠8♦, sending sega1989 to the rail in seventh.

pantherwang2019 lost a race to finish in 6th

A second final table KO for idzake would shrink the lineup again after another two trips around the table. All the chips went in before the flop, with idzake min-raising 3♥3♠ to 20 million, pantherwang2019 jamming for 74 million with K♠Q♠, and idzake calling. idzake jumped out front with bottom set on the K♦Q♥3♣ flop and dodged the remaining kings and queens in the deck on the turn and river, showing pantherwang2019 the door in sixth.

The five remaining players were all guaranteed $250,991 at this point. After t4rz4n_21 doubled through idzake with K♠K♣ against J♣J♥ to take over the lead and even out the stacks a bit, they decided to forgo the shot at a million dollars and strike a deal to lock up major money for everyone. As soon as the moderator presented the numbers, everybody typed the magic words — “I agree” — and the new minimum payout at the table was $509,000.

With two days of poker in the rear-view and just $50,000 left to play for, the action moved quickly. t4rz4n_21, who as chip leader had already locked up the largest share of the deal, pushed the action. But it was wangli0402 who ended up taking charge of the proceedings.

With the deal locked in, wangli0402 took charge of the proceeedings

wangli0402 min-raised to 20 million under the gun and t4rz4n_21 flat-called on the button to bring the 8♣6♣K♦ flop. wangli0402 check-called 30 million there and another half-pot bet of 60 million on the 2♦ turn, before leading out for 120 million — more than half his remaining stack — on the 8♥ river. t4rz4n_21 raised to put wangli0402 all-in and showed J♥Q♦ for kings and eights when the Chinese player called. But wangli0402’s trip eights with A♠8♠ took down the 662-million-chip pot to claim a significant chip lead.

Five hands later t4rz4n_21 open-shoved for 78.9 million (just under seven big blinds) with K♥2♥ on the button. idzake isolated in the small blind with A♥9♥, but t4rz4n doubled up with a pair of deuces on the Q♥2♦7♦Q♠6♥ board.

t4rz4n_21 finished in fifth but still earned the largest share of the deal

t4rz4n_21 open-shoved again on the next hand, this time for 175 million with K♠10♦, and wangli0402 called with 7♥6♥. That went from slight pre-flop underdog to a pair of sixes with a flush draw on the 4♥6♣Q♥ flop, to two pair on the 7♠ turn, to a flush on the J♥ river. King-high didn’t cut it and t4rz4n_21 swung free in fifth.

wangli0402 struck again three hands later. After limping in for 12 million under the gun with K♠9♠, the Chinese player called when kacer148 shoved for 177 million on the button with A♦3♣. The board ran out 8♣7♦K♥3♠K♦, giving wangli0402 trip kings and ending kacer148’s tournament in fourth.

wangli0402 took another swing on the next hand and jammed with 9♣8♦ in the big blind after xbambi limped in from the small blind. It was a trap, though, and xbambi’s A♠K♥ made top pair on the flop to double to 541 million chips. But wangli0402 got it all back five hands later after raising with A♥A♠ on the button. idzake jammed with K♦Q♥ and got no help from the board, exiting in third.

That win gave wangli0402 the edge with 973 million chips to xbambi’s 559 million as heads-up play began. The duel would only last three hands.

xbambi opened the betting with a min-raise to 24 million on the button. wangli0402 called and checked the 5♥10♣4♦ flop, then raised xbambi’s 16.8-million-chip bet to 45.6 million. xbambi three-bet to 108 million and then snap-called when wangli0402 moved all-in. xbambi had the edge with A♣A♥, while wangli0402 had an open-ended straight draw with 7♣6♠. That draw came home on the 3♦ turn and brought this truly massive tournament to a close.

The European Poker Tour (EPT) is once again stopping in Monte Carlo this month. Here’s all you need to know, and more, about this most celebrated gambling destination.

OVERVIEW

Europe’s historical gambling capital plays annual host to one of the continent’s most celebrated poker events when the European Poker Tour (EPT) swings into Monte Carlo every springtime. Ten of the first 11 EPT Grand Finals took place here, awarding some of the era’s richest prizes. They include the €2.3 million won by Pieter de Korver in 2009, which is still the biggest single score at an EPT event in mainland Europe, and the legendary Season 9 tournament which produced the best ever final table for a Main Event in poker’s history. The tournaments are invariably well attended — including a €100,000 entry Super High Roller event — and the limits rise high in the bustling cash game area too. Meanwhile the Salle des Etoiles at the Sporting Club, part of the Monte Carlo Bay Resort & Hotel, is the most spectacular tournament room in all of world poker, and it is just one captivating location in Europe’s glitziest city.

The Salle des Etoiles at the Sporting Club, Monte Carlo

LOCATION

Everything you have heard about the tiny principality of Monaco is true: it is lavish, ostentatious and eye-wateringly expensive. But it is also exceptionally beautiful with a fine beach and stunning views across the Mediterranean. It is full of high quality restaurants, galleries and museums, not to mention the world’s most famous casino and grand prix racetrack. Monte Carlo is the only place in the world where the low-priced practice of “watching the world go by” feels like attending the most illustrious international boat show, car show and fashion show at the same time.

The most spectacular tournament room in world poker

The main tournament room for the EPT — the Salle des Etoiles, or Room of the Stars — is perched on a promontory jutting into the Mediterranean Sea. It offers floor-to-ceiling views over Monte Carlo Bay and has a retractable roof to allow the sun to sweep across the room. (Don’t worry, it closes again before play begins.)

Address: Sporting Monte-Carlo, 26 Avenue Princess Grace, Monte-Carlo 98000, Monaco. The license holder and operator of this event is Société des Bains de Mer.

2019 TOURNAMENT INFO

Festival dates: April 25 – May 4, 2019

April 26-29 – French National Championship
Buy-in: €1,000; Three starting flights
Re-entry permitted into following flight

April 27-29 – EPT Super High Roller
Buy-in: €100,000
Unlimited re-entry

April 29-May 4 EPT Main Event
Buy-in: €5,300; Two starting flights
Single re-entry permitted

May 2-4 – EPT High Roller
Buy-in: €25,000
Single re-entry

Full tournament schedule

GETTING THERE

The closest airport to Monaco is Nice (NCE), which is about a 45-minute taxi ride away. However, it’s also possible to get to Monte Carlo via bus, train or helicopter. As you might expect, the latter is the quickest, but also the most expensive.

BUS: The 110 Express between Nice Airport and Monaco runs every hour, seven days a week. It leaves Terminal 1 at 15 minutes past the hour, then makes an additional stop at Terminal 2, before travelling on to Monte Carlo. The journey takes approximately 55 minutes and there are nine stops in Monaco, including outside the Monte Carlo Bay Resort, the Meridien Hotel and the Fairmont. The first bus is at 9.15am and the last at 8.15pm. Full details: https://www.niceairportxpress.com/en/home

TRAIN: A direct train runs from Nice’s central station to Monte Carlo four or five times per hour and costs less than $5 for a single ticket. The first train is around 5:30 a.m. and the last at 11 p.m. Trains run in the opposite direction at between similar times and with similar frequency. Local buses 98 and 99 link the airport to Nice’s central railway station. English language websites, including TheTrainLine.com have full timetable and reservation details.

TAXI: PokerStars Travel can arrange a taxi service from Nice Airport to your hotel in Monaco, as well as a return trip. There are several taxi companies that will also fulfil your booking for around €70 (if arranged in advance). Uber also operates in Nice and quotes around €50 for a ride to addresses in Monaco. However, the service is not licenced in Monaco itself so cannot pick up from addresses in the principality.

HELICOPTER: If you want to arrive to Monaco in real style, then the seven-minute helicopter ride from Nice Airport is the answer. Prices are between €130 and €170 each way (a return trip is slightly cheaper.) You can book directly through PokerStars Travel or Monacair, whose desk is located in Nice Airport. Price includes a transfer from the heliport in Monaco to your hotel.

ACCOMMODATION

The closest hotel to the EPT Main Event is the five-star Monte Carlo Bay Resort. The Salle des Etoiles tournament room is in the Sporting Club towards the back of the resort property.

The Monte Carlo Bay resort

Monaco is small and numerous other hotels are within walking distance or a short taxi ride away. They include the four-star Méridien Beach Plaza (22 Avenue Princesse Grace, Monte Carlo 98000 Monaco), only a few minutes from the tournament venue and with its own beach, and Fairmont Monte Carlo, which sits on the iconic hairpin of the Monte Carlo grand prix and has an exceptional view across the bay.

Cheaper options are also available, including the four-star Riviera Marriott Hotel La Porte de Monaco and the three-star Novotel Monte Carlo. The former is around 10 minutes by car through the centre of Monaco, but PokerStars provides a free shuttle service between the hotel and the tournament room. The Novotel is closer to the centre of the town.

You can book rooms for many Monte Carlo hotels through PokerStars Travel.

Several AirBnB properties are also within walking distance of the tournament.

INSIDER TIPS

There’s more to Monte Carlo than meets the eye. Specifically: not everything is as expensive as it might seem. PokerStars Blog has been travelling to the principality with the EPT every year and we are only too happy to share a few insider tips.

DINNER IN FRANCE?

Cross the line into France for cheaper eats

If you want to spend a few satellite buy-ins on your dinner, Monte Carlo is truly the place to be. Food options are spectacular here, but there’s no denying that they’re pretty pricey too. That said, there are options that won’t break the bank.

The Monte Carlo Bay Resort is at the northern end of Monaco and is only a few hundred metres from France. You can therefore take a walk across the border and find yourself in the French commune of Roquebrune Cap Martin, in which there are at least three options for food. Le Vietnam is a perfectly serviceable Asian restaurant (Chinese as well as Vietnamese food); Zamane Couscous, across the street, is a Moroccan restaurant serving delicious tagine (which also delivers); and Pizza Di Famiglia is a takeaway pizza outfit.

The quickest, though lung-busting, route to the area is via a staircase up to the hillside directly over the roundabout outside the Monte Carlo Bay Resort. Alternatively, walk down to the Meridien and take the elevator up, or wend your way on the street past the Monte Carlo Tennis Club.

Other reasonable options close (or close-ish) to the tournament include:

Miami Plage — Decent pizza and salad on the beach level, just beyond the Meridien. La Note Blue is also next door, which is pretty good too.

Meridien — There’s a daily dinner buffet open to anyone in the Meridien restaurant. The price isn’t exactly a giveaway, but you can go back as many times as you want.

Il Giardino — A small family-run Italian restaurant with a neighbourly feel, which is not to be underestimated in an often standoffish place like Monte Carlo.

A CHEAP NIGHT OUT? LOOK NI FURTHER
The Ni Box in Monte Carlo has one of the most recognisable locations in the city: just at the end of the tunnel, by the hairpin on the Grand Prix racetrack. But this is also your best option for an affordable night out — and one that will bring back memories of being 16.

There’s a bowling alley in the basement, whose bar sells the cheapest beer we’ve found in Monte Carlo. There are pinball and air-hockey machines too, just to continue the teenage date-night vibe. Oh, and McDonalds is upstairs (which also sells beer).

NEED TO KNOW

They do their best to disguise it, but Monégasque need groceries too. Arguably the world’s most hidden Spar can be found in the Metropole shopping mall close to Casino Square. Look for the bakery counter on Avenue des Spelugues and the door to the supermarket is beside it, leading downstairs. There’s everything you’d expect in there — including wine, beers, and bathroom essentials — at relatively normal prices.

A DAY AWAY FROM THE TABLES

Although it’s easy to miss if your focus is on either the poker tables or the boutiques and bars, Monaco also has a historical old town. It’s located on high, on a hill surrounded on three sides by the Mediterranean, and with dramatic views over both major ports, the winding streets that comprise the grand prix racetrack and the football stadium, among other sights.

More to see in Monaco than just the inside of a tournament room

This is also where you’ll find the royal palace, replete with attendant guards, the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, which is the final resting place of a succession of royals (including Grace Kelly), and the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. The latter is part aquarium part national history museum and offers the most charming respite from the high pressure environs of the gambling halls. (Who wouldn’t prefer to live under the sea?) You can while away several hours up here in Monaco-Ville, where the restaurants tend to be more basic and affordable, and your major battle is only with the hundreds of jutting elbows of fellow tourists, rather than pinchers of your big blind.

EPT MONTE CARLO TV EPISODES

There’s been a TV show from Monaco on every season of the EPT, and you can watch pretty much all of them on the PokerStars YouTube channel. It doesn’t take much more searching around to find footage dating from the very first year, when Rob Hollink prevailed and production values and commentary were, well, let’s say developing.

However, if you only have time to watch one episode, make it the one where all of Daniel Negreanu, Steve O’Dwyer, Jake Cody, Johnny Lodden, Jason Mercier, Noah Schwarz, Andrew Pantling and Grant Levy made the final table. It’s never been matched.

Only three EPT tournaments in Europe have ever awarded winners’ prizes of more than €2 million, and all were in Monte Carlo. In addition to Pieter de Korver’s €2.3 million Main Event triumph in 2009, Glen Chorny won €2.02 million at the 2008 Main Event and Erik Seidel won €2.015 million in the 2015 Super High Roller.

A FULL RECAP

Here’s the full list of results from former visits to Monte Carlo. Click the winner’s name for the tournament reports.

HIGH ROLLER

SUPER HIGH ROLLER

Monte Carlo winner’s gallery (swipe left to right)

UFC and poker fans should take note of a new contest running this week.

It’s called Tap Out or Bluff. And for one winner, it will mean a trip of a lifetime to UFC237 in Rio next month.

That includes flights, accommodation, plus two tickets to the weigh in and the fight itself.

So, if you like the idea of being ringside for one of the fights of the year, here’s how to take part.

Guess your way to Rio and UFC 237

This week we’ll be posting three competition videos on Social Media. One today, tomorrow, and on Thursday.

Each video will feature part of a live poker hand. All you have to do is guess what happens next.

Will the players involved tap out (give up)? Or will they bluff?

When you think you know the answer let us know on social media before 23:59 ET, being sure to use the hashtag #UFCPokerStars and your [Stars ID].

You’ll get the answer the next day.

If you guess right, you’ll win a ticket to the UFC 237 Social Media Freeroll this Sunday. The winner of that will be Rio bound for UFC 237 on May 12.

Be ringside for a night to remember

And if UFC isn’t yet your thing, this is the kind of trip that will make it one.

After you fly to Rio we’ll transfer you to a four-star hotel for three nights in one of the world’s most vibrant cities.

You’ll get two tickets to the weigh in (an event in itself) and to the fight itself. That’s where the likes of local UFC superstars Anderson Silva, Thiago Alves, and Jessica Andrade will enter the Octagon.

No bluffing. It’ll be an unforgettable night.

Get your hands on more prizes

And if you tap out, and don’t make it to Rio, you could still win any of the other prizes we’re giving away.

We’ll be dishing out some UFC Spin & Go tickets to randomly-selected correct entries made on Twitter.

Plus, the freeroll itself will give away thousands of dollars in prize money.

So if you’re ready to get started, the first video is below:

Will Shak attack? 🦈
For a chance of a freeroll seat for a UFC 237 package to Rio, tweet ‘Tap Out’ or ‘Bluff’ with [Stars ID] and #UFCPokerStars by 23:59 ET.
Plus, 10 correct entries win a $7 UFC Spin & Go ticket.
T&Cs: https://t.co/baPqchC1sH pic.twitter.com/lOfkCN4JfH

— PokerStars (@PokerStars) April 16, 2019

A recap on how to enter

To enter, remember to Tweet Tap Out or Bluff to @PokerStars, using the hashtag #UFCPokerStars and including your [Stars ID]. Or do the same on the PokerStars Facebook page.

You can only enter once, but there will be another video, and another chance to win a freeroll ticket, tomorrow, and again on Thursday.

Then it’s all to play for in the UFC 237 Social Media Freeroll.

You can enter on Twitter or on Facebook. But as always there are some Terms and Conditions.

The contest is only open to global equity players. And you’ll need to be free to travel and have valid documents to allow entry into Brazil.

But you can get the full T&Cs by clicking here.

So watch the video above and then make your guess. Will they tap out or bluff?