Posts Tagged ‘Poker Stars’
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.
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.
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.
PokerHub on August 13th, 2009
In January of this year we told you about the exciting World Championship of Online Poker hosted by PokerStars each year. Well, the time is almost upon us for the next running of this rewarding series.
The buy-ins for the 33 events in the series range mostly in the hundreds of dollars, but you can get yourself into the running much cheaper by entering one of the site’s Extreme Satellites. These satellites will each award either 50 or 100 seats of a particular value. For example, the top 100 placers in one Extreme Satellite may each win a $215 buy-in that they can then apply to any 2009 WCOOP event with a $215 buy-in.
What’s more, the site is running a Satellite Challenge to see who can notch up the most number of satellite wins during the promotion.
Visit the PokerStars site for all the scheduling and details, but hurry. The first deal of the 2009 WCOOP comes on September 3.
TourneyMan on June 26th, 2009
If getting inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame could be called winning the tournament of tournaments, then this news qualifies as PokerStars Tournament News big time, because the site has named its choice of nominee for the 2009 induction: Tom McEvoy.
This is the same Tom McEvoy who just beat out the toughest playing field perhaps in poker history, the Poker Champions Invitational held at the 2009 WSOP in honor of the 40th Anniversary of the World Series of Poker in which the only players allowed entry were prior winners of the WSOP Main Event. Tom McEvoy won the World Series of Poker Main Event in 1994. And he won the Champions of Poker Invitational, against such greats as Doyle Brunson and Phil Hellmuth as well as the several main event winners who won their ticket into the event free through satelliting at PokerStars: Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker, Joe Hachem, and the 2008 Main Event winner Peter Eastgate (who at 22 y.o. unseated Phil Hellmuth from his longstanding record of being the youngest WSOP Main Event winner in history).
PokerHub on March 13th, 2009
The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker – All Stakes with $30 million guaranteed in cash prizes is coming soon–April 2-12, to be exact. And satellites for free entry into many of its 22 poker events, not least of which is the $5 million guaranteed high stakes main event, are already underway.
Satellites for the PokerStars SCOOP, as it’s also called, are being held in the from of FPP reward points qualifiers, STEPS qualifiers, Sit & Go qualifiers, and cash ring game qualifiers. All of these satellite tournaments can be reached by going to your PokerStars lobby and clicking on “Events” and then clicking on “SCOOP”. There you’ll see the full SCOOP satellite schedule.
This year’s SCOOP is particularly exciting as there are really 66 events and not just 22. To explain, we point to the term “All Stakes” added to the end of the annual events usual name, referring to the fact that each event will will actually consist of three different levels: Low Stakes, Mid Stakes, and High Stakes–so that players in every different income bracket can afford to join in on the fun.
Of course, if you win your way into the high stakes events through a PokerStars SCOOP satellite then you don’t really have to be concerned with how much money it costs to buy-in, now do you?
