Bring home the festivities with PokerStar
Responding to the poker craze overtaking the nation the world’s leading tournament poker site PokerStars.com makes amateur poker players’ dreams come true. Leading to a deviation of the popular European Poker Tour destination into the PCA Festival of Poker a recent growth of events is besieging next months PokerStars Caribbean adventure. Now spanning from January 5-10, 2009 the schedule of events for poker’s annual trip to Nassau comprise of numerous preliminary events in addition to the main event, which itself features an elevated $9,300+300 buy-in.
Due to an expanded schedule at the Atlantis Resort Casino on Paradise Island a “high rollers” tourney with a $25,000 buy-in starting from the seventh of January has also been included along with several consolation events later during the festival days. The events following the main event offer buy-ins ranging from$1,000 to $5,000. Bertrand “Elk” Grospellier will be making a comeback to defend his main event title from the 2008 PCA, worth $2,000,000.
In addition to that the 2009 PCA festivities are one of the most popular “battleship poker” events, along with the final matches in the PokerStars World Cup of Poker V, which will feature teams from the United States, Nova Scotia (representing Canada), Mexico, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The 36 players will be battling each other and only one man will be left standing to claim his winnings of $ 290,000 in cash prizes
Also on tap for the Bahamas is the second-ever PCA Poker Camp which runs January 7-9 featuring instructions by Team PokerStars pros Greg Raymer, Daniel Negreanu, Chris Moneymaker and Vanessa Rousso. The 60 spots presently available to the PCA Poker Camp remain up for grabs on satellites running online at Stars, with each winner receiving a travel package to the Bahamas valued at $4,500. In this the two-day videogame lifestyle festival, online poker fans can play against champion players and get a taste of the risky side of life.
The tournament schedule for the 2009 PCA Festival of Poker:
Date/Time • Tournament Buy-In
1/4: 8:00 pm • Super satellite to Main Event $1,025+75 TBC
1/5: Noon • PCA Main Event - Day 1a NLHE Freezeout - $9,700+300
1/6: Noon • PCA Main Event - Day 1b NLHE Freezeout - $9,700+300
1/7: Noon • PCA Main Event - Day 2
1/7: Noon • $25,000 High Roller Event - Day 1 NLHE Freezeout - $24,500+500
1/7: 2:00 pm • $2,000 Event - Day 1 NLHE Freezeout- $1,850+150
1/8: Noon • PCA Main Event - Day 3
1/8: Noon • $25,000 High Roller Event - Day 2
1/8: 1:00 pm • $5,000 NLHE - Day 1 NLHE Freezeout - $4,800+200
1/8: 3:00 pm $2,000 Event - Day 2
1/9: Noon • PCA Main Event - Day 4
1/9: 2:00 pm • $1,000 Event - Day 1 NLHE Freezeout - $925+75
1/9: 3:00 pm • $5,000 Event - Day 2
1/10: Noon • PCA Main Event - Final Table
1/10: 3:00 pm • $1,000 Event - Day 2
