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Freeroll Qualifiers Going Now For First-Ever Baltic Festival

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.

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PokerStars Poses WCOOP Challenge to Players from U.K. & Ireland

PokerHub on August 24th, 2009

It’s not too late too win a free seat in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker. Every evening at 7 pm ET Poker Stars is running a WCOOP Challenge freeroll tournament in which, at each freeroll, the site is giving away 9 seats in a September 12 final qualifier, in which the top 3 finishers will will $5,200 seats in the 2009 WCOOP Main Event.
Players have an additional chance – many chances, actually – to qualify for the September 12 final, in which, also at stake are prizes of other WCOOP seats with values ranging from $27 to $1,050, for buy-ins ranging from just $1 to $10.

The only catch to all this: these WCOOP Challenge events are only open to players from Ireland and the U.K..

With 45 events over 18 days, the WCOOP is set to be one of the year’s biggest online poker tournaments – again.

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