Three online poker tales from PokerStars to catch up on with news of Russian dominance throughout MicroMillions 11, a Canadian winning the Main Event, and Brazilian poker gets a shot in the arm from the presence of Neymar Jr.

MicroMillions 11 is done and dusted. The Russians dominated, a Canadian picked up the biggest score, and a herd of Brazilians were buoyed by their Barcelona home boy.

100 events were squeezed into a 10-day period in the greatest low buy-in online poker series anywhere in the world. The Russians were the biggest contributors: 161,939 players got involved, they cashed 23,843 times, produced 15 winners and took home a combined prize pool of $777,209.32.

The Germans were the second most successful country with 96,763 entrants, 13,968 cashes and $483,864.83 in prize money, and then there were the boys and girls from Brazil. Fuelled by the PokerStars signing of their home boy Neymar Jr. 81,495 players competed and $423,492.94 was dragged into the economy.