World’s largest online poker site Poker Star is holding two Sunday Football Special Tournaments and giving away two pairs of tickets. These two Sunday Football Special tournaments will be held on PokerStars on Sunday, January 31st that will start on 19:00 ET, while the other will begin at 22:00 ET.

Both the events have buy-ins of $11 and these tickets to Super Bowl XLVI will be reward for the winner of the tournament. While each champion will get $1,000 in spending money. The winners of this tournament can spend their prize, as the 44th Super Bowl kicks off on Sunday, February 7th from Dolphin Stadium in Miami

PokerStars.com is also giving an option to their players that they can reload their online poker accounts by using the code “Football”; before the events begin and will be credited with a ticket to play in one of the $11 buy-in Sunday Football Special tournaments. While those players who haven’t make any deposit on PokerStars then they can take the seats chance of Super Bowl XLIV offered by PokerStars. So at the time of signup players just need to use the bonus code “Special”.

It’s not like the reload bonus, those players who deposit for the first time will get tickets into both Sunday Footbal Special events. Super Bowl XLIV marks the first appearance in the championship game for the Saints club and was founded in 1967.

All the online poker winners of Super Bowl XLVI should be there in Miami no later than 6:25pm ET on Sunday, February 7th, before the beginning of the game. For entertainment of audience “The rock band” will perform at halftime. You can find this tournament in the PokerStars lobby under “Tourney” and “Regional” and is open for both new and old PokerStar members of US, Canada and Mexico.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Promotions | No Comments » February 2nd, 2010

The Poker Stars are getting prepared to host one of the largest online Poker tournaments and to break their own records once again on the 27th of December. Read more!

The Poker Stars already hold the record for the largest online poker tournament that is mentioned on the Guinness Book of World Records. The previous tournament was held in July that included around 65,000 participants.

This time the Poker Stasr aim to break their own records, this new tournament will be held on the 27th December at 14:45 ET with a $300,000 prize pool for players to grab. The tournament has a $1 buy-in. Since this tournament will occur during the holiday season and the huge guaranteed prize will definitely motivate the Poker Stars.com to split their own old record. Around 49,796 people have already registered themselves to this huge Tournament and there are just three days left for it to start.

With the total prize money of worth $300,000, by assuming that if the tournament at the end does not register all the 300,000 entrants, the first winner will win $50,000 while the second one will win $30,000 and the third finisher will get $20,000.

This will be one amazing event to see how these participants compete with each other. The top 30,000 spots will pay. Initially the players will start the game with 2,000 chips and the blind levels will increase after every 5 minutes.

There are many satellites into this tournament if you don’t have the cash in your account to buy in directly. There are currently $0.10 and 5 FPP satellites running. If you want an opportunity to increase your bank account, then you have a great chance to try your luck and initially win about $50,000 from just $1 investment.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » December 28th, 2009

Launched in 2001, Poker Stars has now become a very popular site for playing online poker games with more than 28,600 real money ring game players. Poker Stars is considered the industry’s current leader as it also created the concept of “Satellite” Tournaments, which means that the winner of an online tournament gains entry to a real “Poker” tournament.

Poker Star is in a limelight again by introducing “Team Pro Tuesday” and now this week they are having their second installment of it.

Poker Stars also introduced a pair of “Outlast the Pro” tournament for playing with pros in cash games. Each tournament has a buy-in of $11 and a $1000 in cash added to the prize pool. And a prize of $1000 will be added into the funds for those pro`s who will remain longer in each tournaments than others.

This season Poker Star team includes the victor of the “World Series of Poker (WSOP)” tournament, Joe Cada, who won the $1000 buy-in tournament in November and became the youngest winner ever for that tournament. Chris Money Maker, who defeated the established Pro Sammy Farha in a feature tournament in 2003, is also a part of this team.

Other member include Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier and Humberto Brenes.Poker Stars also includes top female pros as well like Maridu Mayrinck, who was introduced in this year’s “WSOP” main event. The team also has Vicky Coren, Barry Greenstein, Chad Brown and Gavin Griffin.This year Poker Star team has also signed Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem as their ambassadors for this game. More Poker Stars Pros!

The experience of playing with such experts is similar to the main rival of online poker site called “FULL Tilt”. This tournament has two separate time blocks each Tuesday. One is from 12:00 to 15:00 ET and other is from 19:00 to 22:00 ET.You can find out online pro`s on the “Team Pro Link”, located at the bottom of the Poker Star lobby. You also can find a Poker player by hitting “Find a team Poker star player”.

But as a whole, it will be a great opportunity for all the players for having good experience with great winnings. Another good thing is that they are also accepting U.S players. So now U.S players have a chance to try their luck as well.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Pro Players | No Comments » December 17th, 2009

PokerStars aims to provide its players with the best of online poker services in every form. The group is well known for their interesting and tempting promotions, and yet again they have proved themselves with another offer that has come up

 Being open only to USA players, PokerStars is running the Dream Job USA promotion to lead players into a tournament. This offer has a reward like the other promotions PokerStars has had. It is a twelve month contract paying $100,000 dollars to play poker under the PokerStars name.

The twelve month contract will not only include the fabulous salary, but also a $5,000 dollars monthly and $40,000 dollars to spend on buy-ins in the worlds largest live poker events. The main event of this promotion will be a $109 dollar buy in tournament and the winner of this tournament will get the amazing contract and a chance to play classic poker.

Though $109 dollars can be somewhat steep, PokerStars is not without sympathy. Every day until November 28th, the day before the main tournament, steps and satellites are running for cheap entrance into the main event. For $1.10, players can enter the $11 dollar main satellite to the main tournament. Frequent player points can also be expended in order to enter these satellites. For 10 frequent player points, entrance into a step tournament is allowed. For 1,000 FPP’s, players will be able to enter the satellites directly. There are also freerolls running in order to enter satellites, allowing all kinds of players to have a shot at this once in a lifetime opportunity.

This great opportunity, by PokerStars once gone, may never return. Satellites and steps are running until November 28th, but the main event does not kick off until November 29th at 19:00 ET.

Buying into the final is the easiest way to enter and requires only $109 dollars. This means a minimum bonus of $109 dollars free for those players who would be making their first deposit, thus taking advantage of the 100% match to $600 dollars up for grabs by all new players.

PokerStars is one of the Most Trusted USA Online Poker Rooms around and you will find many PokerStars Reviews that have been written by poker fans, who have had a very rewarding gaming experience at PokerStars poker room.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Uncategorized | 1 Comment » November 25th, 2009

The PokerStars EPT London main event was a huge success and played down to the final 24 Monday and it appears that the young crowd was pretty active.Along with older poker players like John Juanda, Jeffrey Lisandro and Chris Ferguson there were also younger ones who did quite well. More PokerStars pros!

“I think they have an edge just because they are so fearless,” said 2007 WSOPE main event champ Annette Obrestad. “They’re used to playing so many tournaments and they really don’t give a shit if they bust. At this stage of a tournament they’re really not scared of four-betting all in with like six-seven. If they have a read on someone they are just going to go with it”

2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure winner Benny Spindler reached the top of the chip counts as the tournament went on. The 24-year-old from Darmstadt, Germany starting playing online three years ago and believes the style he learned on the Internet is as effective live.

“The young players all come from the Internet and have a much different approach to the game than the older live players,” he explained. “It’s much more aggressive and it seems that it’s much better.

Another player, Seattle’s Vivek Rajkumar, 23, also sits among the leaders here in London, and he says adding another gear to your game is just as important.

“I used to play like that one or two years ago, but people are really too good now,” the Full Tilt pro said. “People know how to play back at over-the-top aggression, so you have to tighten up, especially if you have an aggressive image. More Full Tilt poker pros!

Obrestad, who’s been playing since the age of 15, says she’s matured as a player and is starting to understand that patience in poker is almost as important as aggression.

“I actually started out playing live (very aggressively) and after a while I saw it wasn’t working,” said the Betfair Poker pro. “I was busting with stupid hands and pots I shouldn’t be involved in – stuff that’s just so unnecessary.”You have so much time and the blinds go up so slowly, you can just grind it out; take it easy”.

Obrestad is now starting to reap the benefits of playing tighter with a loose image.

“It’s unbelievable how some people just don’t give me any credit at all,” she said. “To be honest, I would really like to be able to get away with more stuff, but I don’t. I can’t do anything about that. My image is already there, now I just have to take advantage of it.”

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Posted by Diana Sterling in EPT, Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » October 12th, 2009

The World Championship of Online Poker has once again come to an end and from this event have emerged some great winners! The recent addition to the list of winners is the Ukrainian player, Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko who brought down the field of 2,144 players in the PokerStars World Championship of Online poker to bring home $1.7 million dollars.

An entire month of high stakes tournaments ended Monday, with the main event yielding the largest prize pool of all of the events. The game was No Limit Texas Hold ‘em, and the stakes were $5,200. The top 306 of the tournament brought down a prize, with the lowest prize still being a gain of $3,000 from the $5,000 dollar buys in. Even the second place winner took home $1 million dollars, causing this tournament to create two millionaires over night.

In total, the WCOOP gave out prizes equal to $51,652,800. More than 112,000 players took part, and over 104 different countries watched players in the money. Among these 104 countries involved, the United States won the most first place positions.

Twenty-five of the bracelets handed out by the WCOOP went to USA players, with the United Kingdom taking the next largest set of four. One player, djk123, minted money more than any other player, making money 11 times, and was at more final tables than the rest of the field. More USA Online Poker!

The WCOOP comes once a year, and this year the games featured 45 exciting events over 18 days. The next WCOOP starts in around a year’s time, and all PokerStars pro players are legible to attend. Anyone else who is legally able to gamble in their jurisdiction may sign up for PokerStars, and feel the magnetizing power of their newly revamped deposit bonus; a 100% match to $600 dollars.

PokerStars is the largest and most reputable online poker room, and there is not a day that goes buy that over 100,000 players are not actively tossing chips around the tables.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Pro Players, Poker Tournaments, WCOOP | No Comments » September 28th, 2009

The recent edition of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) continued with Event 9 which was the $215 buy-in NLHE competition which alone had an entry field of around 11 131. Event number 10, registering 300 poker aces prepared to pay the $10 300 buy-in for the High Roller action.

The High Roller field had a prize pool of almost $3 million and the main prize which was won by a Swedish player from Linkoping, was $611 455. Sumpas survived the field to enter the heads up with a 5 to 1 chip lead over the experienced Mike Sowers. It still took him another hour to put Sowers away in second place with $448 500 runner-up cash.
This was Sumpas’s second major win as he also won in the WCOOP Main Event last year receiving $415 150.

The two had bested some of the most well known names in poker, including Chris Moneymaker, Joe Hachem, Peter Eastgate, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Barry Greenstein, Vanessa Rousso, Ylon Schwartz, Steve Paul-Ambrose, J.C. Alvarado, Katja Thater, William Thorson, Dennis Phillips, Alexandre Gomes, John Duthie and Hevad Khan.
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Event 9; the $215 buy-in NLHE tourney created a prize pool of over $2.25 million, and a main prize of $303 876 which showed the popularity of the event.
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The 20 hour competition was won by a Slovakian player who made a remarkable recovery from starting heads up against ‘maxisou’ at a significant chip disadvantage to gaining the ascendancy and finally claiming the main $303 876 prize. Maxisou’s second placing was at $214 828.

So far the WCOOP of its players and among the eight events that played as InfoPowa and went to press, only three didn’t reach the guaranteed prizepool limit and required relatively small top-ups from the organiser. $5.1 million has been paid to contestants whilst almost 25 500 players have participated from 124 nations across the globe.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Uncategorized | No Comments » September 16th, 2009

The PokerStars World Series of online poker has always had high achievers throughout the event. Following on from the United Kingdom’s great run of form at this year’s World Series of Poker, another British player has maintained the country’s fantastic recent record by taking down a World Championship of Online Poker event on PokerStars.

The Briton, who plays under the online handle MUSTAFABET, took down the Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max event to secure a first prize of $86,247 and an all-important WCOOP bracelet after surpassing a total of 2,738 runners that included Bertrand ElkY Grospellier and Barry Greenstein.

The victory was certainly a very challenging one for the UK-based player who, playing in a different time zone did not finish his night’s work until 9.00 in the morning UK time, which means a full 14 hours after the tournament had kicked off. Although, when the final hand did eventually come about, the chips found their way into the middle in no time.

With MUSTAFABET sharing a 4-3-5-3-Q board with his only remaining competitor, Brunswick Dave, an all-in and a call saw both players turn over absolutely huge heads-up hands. Brunswick Dave showed 7-3-J-Q for threes full of queens, but MUSTAFABET had him jagged with 5-4-9-5 for a bigger boat with fives full.

The hand ensured that MUSTAFABET picked up his first WCOOP bracelet and finally put the UK on the board for PokerStars’ flagship series, with his victory coming on the back of a solid performance at this year’s Spring Championship of Online Poker, where he also made the final table in the Eight Game event.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments, WCOOP | No Comments » September 8th, 2009

Among one of the biggest events in the poker world is the World Championship of poker (WCOOP). Once again the world’s premier online poker tournament series returns, and this year the PokerStars.com World Championship of Online Poker 2009 will be bigger than ever.

In this event the most profound and professional players are seen contesting on fair grounds of classic poker. This is the event where the rewards are huge and the players gather to play for millions of dollars. In this year’s series there’s a guaranteed combined prize pool of $40,000,000 and for as little as $1 which is put at stake. This time legends of the game will be made, fortunes won, and every player has an equal opportunity.

This major event starts from August 4th and goes up to the16th at 14:00 ET and 21:00 ET daily. During this period a total of 26 WCOOP Extreme Satellites will award a guaranteed 2,350 seats with more than $1 million of combined added value. Join the WCOOP Extreme Satellites!

This mega poker tournament series WCOOP 2009 will comprise 45 events, including three High Roller events, and will conclude with the No Limit Hold’em Main Event. The last event of the series, the No Limit Hold’ em has a guaranteed prize pool of $10,000,000.

This year the poker series group has also (WCOOP.com) launched a dedicated site with details of everything players need to know about the world’s most prestigious online poker series. The site will feature the latest qualification information, as well as detailed statistics, in-depth tournament coverage from the team of expert bloggers, video highlights and analysis, and a history of previous year’s poker series action.

The 2009 WCOOP is believed to be the biggest event series in the history of online poker and will is being conducted on a very large scale.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » August 14th, 2009

When it comes to online poker, the PokerStars provides its players the best it can whether its monetary terms or the games it offer.

Recently the PokerStars.com has added a total of one million dollars for the 2009 World Championship of online poker seats, which are running daily from August 4th to 6th.

According to a Poker room manager, Mike Jones “We’re calling them the WCOOP Extreme Satellites, harkening to extreme sports in the sense that we’re having a massive giveaway in the satellites,” he further went on “In every satellite, we’re going to be adding 50 to 100 seats to the prize pool. We’re throwing in literally $1 million worth of seats completely as added value, and those satellites start as low as $7.50.”

For the Extreme Satellites, players will win their way into a WCOOP tournament of a certain buy-in such as $109, $215, etc, instead of specific tournament, so that players are able to choose their desired tournament.

There WCOOP tournament also has special qualifiers running every day until the start of the series, which commences on September 5th. Just like the World Series of Poker satellites, PokerStars also has Steps tournaments which start at $7.50. The 2009 WCOOP will feature 45 events, and this is expected to be the biggest online poker series it has ever held. Read more!

“Despite the issue with the economy, we still had good growth in our business over the last year, so I think we can expect that, to some extent, at least to translate into participation,” said Jones.

The WCOOP will feature new tournaments such as, a $109 no-limit hold’em with a $1 million-guaranteed prize pool, as well as new formats, like the $215 “big ante” no-limit hold’em tournament.

There will be no mini-WCOOP with similar events with lower buy-ins, a trend PokerStars employed for its most recent Spring Championship of Online Poker.

According to a manger Alex Scott” We wanted to keep the prestige of the WCOOP intact,” “The WCOOP is the World Championship. At the same time, we’re offering cheap ways to get into these tournaments.”

The WCOOP includes faster dealing compared to last year’s series, synchronized breaks for its events, and new payout and blinds structures.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News, Poker Tournaments, WCOOP | No Comments » August 5th, 2009