LAPT Lima satellite tournaments run through May 16 at Poker Stars in the form of daily freerolls and cash satellites into the $215 LAPT Lima Qualifier. The freeroll satellites run once daiy at 6 pm ET and award the top 27 players in each a seat in the $11 satellite. There’s also a $0.50 rebuy satellite running daily at 7:30 pm ET Mon-Sat and noon ET on Sundays, each awarding an $11 satellite seat for every $11 in the prize pool.

Then the $11 satellite runs Sundays May 2, 9, and 16 at 2:30 pm ET, each awarding one $215 LAPT Lima qualifier seat for every $215 in the prize pool.

The next phase for each of these candidates is to win your votes to try and land them that dream job, a yearlong contract playing for PokerStars in the Australian New Zealand Poker Tour events. The way that you “vote” for a particular candidate is to register for the special satellite tournament that they are hosting, with 10 satellite tournaments in all, each one to be hosted by a different finalist. Voters may of course only vote for one candidate and therefore can only register for one satellite tournament. The candidate with most number of players registering for their tournament wins the DreamJob Australia. And you win the satisfaction of helping send them there (along with whatever prize money you cash out with from the candidate’s tournament).

To air on FOX TV, PokerStars’ The Big Game will feature a Loose Cannon each week, a poker amateur chosen from the online poker player pool at Poker Stars, playing against some of the biggest names on Team Poker Stars pro and in all of poker, such as: Chris Moneymaker, Vanessa Rousso, and Barry Greenstein.

Round 1 qualifier tournaments into the PokerStars Big Game are going on now and will continue through June 25. Finish in the highest 200 and you’ll be allowed to send PokerStars a short video explaining why you should be one of the players chosen to be a Loose Cannon in one of the PokerStars The Big Game matches.

The Big Game will be a bit tougher than other televised poker games in PokerStars history, because the matches will be deep-stack events with a $100 ante and 200/400 blinds. Players not winning their seat in The Big Game through a PokerStars qualifier (in other words, the stars themselves) each are paying a $100K minimum buy-in to sit there (up to $500K).

The idea behind the Absolute Poker Show Up, Get Paid promotion is that every player AP sends to the 2010 WSOP Main Event leaves the event feeling like a winner, no matter how they do in the actual tournament. Everyone Absolute Poker and the other poker sites in the CEREUS Network, which also includes Ultimate Bet Poker (now better known as UB.com) at least $1,000 cash, just for showing up.

Absolute Poker is also making a $750,000 final table sponsorship available to the most successful player in the Show Up, Get Paid promotion.

Play in Absolute Poker and UB.com’s multi-table satellite tournaments and Step tournaments and if you win a seat in the 2010 WSOP Main Event this way, and then agree to wear Absolute Poker branded gear. For every player that gets this far and agrees to participate in the Show Up, Get Paid promotion, Absolute Poker will add $1,500 to a progressive prize pool, with the $1,000 minimum bonus per player increasing to up to a $5,000 bonus per player, depending on how many people choose to participate in the Show Up, Get Paid promotion.

And let’s be perfectly clear—you do not even need to cash in the tournament in order to collect your bonus (thus the name: Show Up, Get Paid). Of the total guaranteed prize pool, 3/4 of the bonus will be divided up amongst all the players participating, with the 1/4 remaining split amongst those who do manage to cash.

The 2010 PokerStars SCOOP features 33 live online poker tournament events in a range of poker stakes and styles, including Holdem, Omaha, 7-Card Stud, HORSE, Razz, Badugi, and others. There will even be heads-up competition going on.

Players can win free entry into certain PokerStars 2010 SCOOP events by participating in the PokerStars satellite qualifiers into the series. Should you not win a free spot in a 2010 SCOOP event, you can buy in direclty for as little as $5.50 (depending on the event).

The event with the highest buy-in is the high-rollers event, with a $10,300 buy-in and a $5 million guaranteed prize pool. The main event happens on Sunday, May 16 and, as with the rest of the 2010 SCOOP events, has three different stakes levels. Buy-in at $109 for a shot at a share of $1 million; buy-in at $1,050 for a shot at a share of $3 million; and buy-in at $10,300 for a shot at a share of $5 million.

SCOOP 2010 is made up of thirty-three events and boasts a $36,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. Unlike the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (or WCOOP), the PokerStars SCOOP has a tiered buy-in structure with 3 different levels of buy-ins (and respective prize money) for each of the thirty-three events in the series. That makes for 99 events in all, and it gives players of any income the chance to get in on the fun.

PokerStars SCOOP 2010 buy-ins run as high as $10,300 for the high-rollers event down to $5.50 on the low end. Satellite buy-ins run even lower, including many freeroll opportunities to win a shot at a free seat in a 2010 PokerStars SCOOP event.

This will be the first time that PokerStars will be hosting a live poker tournament in a Las Vegas, Nevada casino. The NAPT Venetian Deep Stack Main Event will be an NL Holdem event with a $5,000 buy-in.

PokerStars has been running Super Satellites for $200 and $500 into the NAPT Venetian for the past couple of months, ever since the inaugural NAPT event, the always-successful PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in the Bahamas. Now, with the Deep Stack Extravaganza right around the corner, PokerStars is next offering Super Satellites into the next, and only other, scheduled North American Poker Tour event, the NAPT Mohegan Sun in Connecticut.

Stay tuned for more PokerStars North American Poker dates in both the United States and Canada as Poker Stars schedules them.

The NAPT Venetian runs from February 20 to 25 and will be a $5,000 buy-in event coinciding with the Deep Stack Extravaganza that is held each year at the Venetian Casino as part of the Wynn Las Vegas Wynn Classic Tournament (February 24 – March 17).

Satellites and Super Satellites have been running at PokerStars throughout the past several months for free seats into these events, first the NAPT Bahamas and then the NAPT Venetian. Next up after this will be the NAPT Mohegan Sun at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. With the NAPT Mohegan Sun not happening til later this spring, interested players still have plenty of time to get over to PokerStars and try and satellite their way into the event.

There has long been a Germany event in every season’s European Poker Tour schedule, but in recent years it’s always been held in Dortmund, where last year, Sandra Naukjos, herself a Berliner, took down the main event. But now it’s Germany’s capital that will host this 2010 EPT Germany event. And, as always, it will be Poker Stars hosting the low-cost satellites awarding free seats into the EPT Berlin Main Event. And this year the winner gets a guaranteed €1 million.

Satellites are running for the upcoming EPT Deauville, France and EPT Copenhagen, Denmark over at PokerStars as well.

So this latest stake in their claim of PokerStars’ world supremacy is a $1 buy-in $300,000 guaranteed tournament taking place on December 27, starting at 2:45 pm. If PokerStars reaches its minimum of 65,001 players, then this will be the third time in twelve months that the site will have broken its record.

The last one took place in July when 155 countries contributed 65,000 players to printing PokerStars’ name once more in the history books (or the Guinness Book, at least). Before that, last December, PokerStars set the original record for the most players in an online poker tournament at a “mere” 35,000.