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PokerHub on December 4th, 2009
As we reported recently in these pages, one of Poker Stars biggest events of every year is coming up at the start of 2010, the PCA or the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. And satellites are still running for entry into this coveted event. But today, we’re here to report to you on a lesser known part of every PCA of late, also with qualifiers running now over at PokerStars, and that’s the PCA Ladies Weekend.
Win a trip to the Bahamas where you’ll stay at the Atlantis Resort and Casino and bathe in the lap of luxury in between playing alongside some of poker’s finest female players, including PokerStars Pros Katja Thater, Vicky Coren, and Vanessa Rousso. You’ll even get a $250 spa voucher to get you in the right headspace for the game. You also get $900 spending cash and, of course, the $1,000 buy-in to the PCA Ladies Weekend Main Event. The total prize package is worth $3,500.
PCA Ladies Weekend Qualifiers start for buy-ins as low as $2.20.
TourneyMan on December 3rd, 2009
PokerStars is running a promotion of a different sort, offering one player the chance to play for free at several of the world’s biggest poker tournaments.
It’s called the PokerStars Passport promotion, and it requires performing well on the December Monthly Tournament Leader Board (note that this leaderboard is for tournament play; so cash ring game play won’t help you win a passport). Players in the top 2,000 on the tournament leaderboard come month’s end (and year’s end, for that matter), will have a chance to win. Land in the top 200 on the PokerStars December Monthly Tournament leaderboard and you’ll play in the main event on January 21, 2010 at 2 pm ET to vie for a 1-stamp, 3-stamp, or 5-stamp passport, or some handy cash. Players in the 201-2,000 places will be awarded a second-chance at a passport in one of several consolation tournaments also to be held the same day and time.
Passport stamps may include seat in the APPT (Asian Pacific Poker Tour) and the EPT (European Poker Tour) among others.
TourneyMan on November 18th, 2009
Pretty soon you’ll be able to play in Poker Stars tournaments on your cell phone. This week, PokerStars announced its acquisition of a company named Cecure Gaming. They are makers of mobile games known for operating several popular online poker brands, including: Ladbrokes, the World Poker Tour, and Aces Royal.
And as promised in the headline to this story, PokerStars has made not one but two new acquisitions of late, the second being in the form of a new player signed onto the Team PokerStars pro team. This time it’s Jude Ainsworth of Ireland, known on the site a j.thaddeus. He will, in particular, be assigned to strengthening the Team PokerStars UK & Ireland brand.
Jude was the 2008 winner of the Irish Poker Championship (for €145,000) and the 2009 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker $10,000 Main Event (for $963,338). December 11 to 14 Jude plays in the UKIPT event in his hometown of Galway.
PokerHub on November 13th, 2009
Play for your dream job at Poker Stars with satellites going on now for the Dream Job USA of a 12-month long contract with PokerStars worth of $100,000. The prize package breaks down to a monthly salary of $5,000 plus $40K to spend on buy-ins to live tournaments of your choice.
There are three ways to enter the Dream Job USA competition:
- * through freerolls running daily at 8 pm and 11 pm, each awarding 18 seats in the finals
- through Frequent Player Point events costing 10 FPPs to buy-in, each awarding 45 seats in the finals; plus 3 special events costing 1,000 FPPs to buy-in, each awarding 9 seats in the finals
- and of course, through cash qualifiers, twice daily for $1.10 and twice daily for $11, each awarding 1 seat in the finals
Satellites for the Dream Job USA run through November 28 with the winner decided in a November 29 finals at 7 pm ET. You can skip all the satellite options altogether and enter the finals directly for a buy-in of $109.
There is also a Dream Job Canada contest running simultaneously at PokerStars too.
TourneyMan on November 3rd, 2009
Poker Stars is sponsoring a brand new poker tournament on the live poker circuit, and of course will be offering an abundance of opportunities to satellite your way into its many events for low or no cost at on PokerStars.com.
The new poker tour is called the UK & Ireland Poker Tour (or UKIPT for short). It starts December 11-14 at the Irish Poker Championship in Galway, now also known as UKIPT Galway.
The tour (and respective PokerStars.com satellites) runs through Manchester, Coventry, Nottingham (at the notorious Dusk Till Dawn club), Killarney, Brighton, Scotland, and Dublin, winding up with its finale at the UKIPT London Grand Final on October 2-8, 2010, conveniently also a part of the European Poker Tour event, PokerStars EPT London.
Satellites for all UKIPT events, starting now with UKIPT Galway, run for as little as $2.22 cash, 111 FPPs, or $7.50 or 500 FPPs through the STEPS tournament program. There’s also a PokerStars UKIPT Leader Board with bonus prizes.
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TourneyMan on October 26th, 2009
The winner of the 2009 PokerStars EPT Warsaw main event is Cristophe Benzimra, a businessman from France (he operates a Plexiglass factory in Romania). His prize was 358,644 Euros. Stating after his win that he feels he just got lucky and really only plays poker for fun, Benzimra bested a field of 400 players, finishing the tournament by beating poker pro, Alfio Battista of Italy, who had to settle for runner-up.
Benzimra self-description may be too modest when you consider that he has attended most of the PokerStars European Poker Tour events in the past 2 years. He cashed for $26,110 by taking 6th place at last year’s EPT Budapest and $18,604 for taking 17th at this year’s Rendez vous a Paris Spotlight No Limit Holdem Championship.
Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano, meanwhile, made his 5th EPT final table and 12th EPT cash at this event.
PokerHub on October 23rd, 2009
The ultimate in online poker satellite tournament promotions is the PokerStars Passport – an opportunity to multiple prize packages to many of the biggest money live poker tournaments events around the world. And best of all, the opportunity to choose which event or events you win seat into.
Now if you want to get nitpicky about it, you could argue that the PokerStars Passport is not a satellite or satellite series at all, since victory depends not on one’s performance in a specific event or “STEP”-like series of events, but a Leader Board that tracks players’ performance in all PokerStars real money tournaments throughout the year.
Depending on your ranking you can win a passport with a certain number of stamps, each stamp good for a prize package to one live event, of your choice. The list of possibilities includes any of the PokerStars Tour events in the European Poker Tour, Latin American Poker Tour, Asia Pacific Poker Tour, Russian Poker Tour, and Australia New Zealand Poker Tour.
TourneyMan on October 12th, 2009
Lots of interesting news over at PokerStars.
* After months of final table players making deals and chopping the pot. one player held out to the brutal end and came out on top. That was one “sumai” who kept the whole $225,000 first prize at the PokerStars Sunday Million for himself.
* The new PokerStars hosted TV show, the PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge, has been airing for a few weeks now, and it has a promising young champion in Reverend Andrew Trapp. That’s right, Reverend. This non-traditional Catholic priest got himself a spot on the show to play for his church and apparently he’s really good, having earned $25,000 already, plus a $100,000 seat against Daniel Negreanu for the $1 million grand prize. In order to get onto the show, Rev. Andy had to beat some 10,000 players in an online tournament (or come in the top 10, really) and then submit a winning video convincing producers to cast him on the show. Looks like they made a good call.
PokerHub on October 7th, 2009
It’s time once again to head over to Poker Stars and try and win yourself a seat in one of online poker’s most popular sponsored land-based tournaments, the European Poker Tour Caribbean Adventure. The 2010 PCA, as it’s fondly known for short, runs January 4 – 15, 2010.
The 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is made up of fifty different poker events, including the World Cup of Poker, a popular high-roller’s event (won last year by the young poker upstart known as ElkY), two Battleship events (one Head-Up and one Multi-Table), a Mixed 8-Game Championship, and more.
Satellites into the PokerStars 2010 EPT Caribbean Adventure are happening right now and running through the end of the year. Buy-ins start at 111 FFPs and $2.22 and go up to 500 FPPs and $7.50. PokerStars also has live qualifiers intot the 2010 PCA Main Event taking place at the Atlantis Hotel and Casino in the lovely Bahamas during the Jan 4-15 period, however most at-home players will probably want to secure their seat long beforeNew Year’s.
TourneyMan on September 28th, 2009
PokerStars is running freeroll qualifiers now for free entry into its first ever Baltic Festival. The PokerStars Baltic Festival Freerolls run every night at 1 pm ET and 3:30 pm ET through October 20, each one awarding 4 seats in the following Saturday’s $215 Weekly Finals, at each of which 10 Baltic Festival prize packages will be given away.
The live Baltic Festival tournament will take place in Tallinn, Estonia from October 28 – 31. The $2,800 Baltic Festival prize package includes the 1,100 Euros buy-in, 5 nights of luxury accommodations at the Swissotel Tallinn (where the tournament is to take place), plus $500 to spend as you like.
In addition to the daily Baltic Festival Freeroll qualifiers, Poker Stars is also running several daily Baltic Festival qualifiers:
* one costing $1.10 and starting at 1:30 pm ET, each awarding 1 seat in the weekly finals
* one costing $22 (running Sundays – Fridays) starting at 2 pm ET, each awarding 5 seats in the weekly finals
Poker Stars is also running $33 rebuy Second Chance qualifiers every Sunday at 1 pm each awarding 5 extra Baltic Festival prize packages.
