TourneyMan on May 11th, 2009
PokerStars has signed on to sponsor Season 7 of the World Poker Tour.
This will give Poker Stars even wider worldwide attention than it’s already received (arguably ever since then-amateur PokerStars player Chris Moneymaker took down the top prize at the 2003 World Series of Poker, proving that anyone really can win), as the sponsorship deal includes all televised WPT Season VII tournaments in Europe (including Germany and Italy) and the U.S., Canada, and the Netherlands.
This also means that, at least in terms of all WPT coverage in the U.S., Full Tilt Poker is out and Poker Stars is in. This is a big deal considering that these two leading poker sites have been neck-and-neck in a near heads-up battle for top position seemingly since their inceptions.
It seems PokerStars and the World Poker Tour will be working very closely to expand both companies’ reach, starting with a Spanish-language and Portuguese-language televised broadcasts for localized events in Latin America, including native commentators.
PokerStars is also the major sponsor of the European Poker Tour, and Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT), and the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT).
PokerHub on December 26th, 2008
PokerStars constantly offers satellite tournaments into larger land-based and online poker events. When you win entry into one such big table events via a PokerStars satellite, you have the option of un-registering from that event, and instead receive something called Tournament Dollars (or T$) deposited into your account.
T$ can be used at any later date to register yourself into any PokerStars tournament or combination thereof. That includes Sit & Go tournaments, special events, and other satellite tournaments too!
You can even enter multiple satellites for the same event and, should you win more than one free seat, have your extra tickets automatically converted into T$ and creditted to your account for later use elsewhere, in some other exciting PokerStars tournament.
Now here are the exceptions:
• T$ cannot be used in cash ring games
• T$ are not awarded in W$ events
Which brings us to W$.
W$ can only be used to register you into qualifying special poker events, such as (but not limited to):
• PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
• World Series of Poker
• PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker
• Asia-Pacific Poker Tour
W$ operate similarly to T$ except:
• W$ and T$ are not interchangeable
• When you win a seat into a W$ event, you must play in that event
• W$ are only creditted to your account for later use if you win multiple entries into the same event or if you win a seat into a satellite for a W$ event and choose to un-reguster from the satellite
