As PokerStars leads up to the 40 billion Mega Milestone hand, it is now awarding cash prizes on all the table games. Prizes will be awarded every millionth hand to all players dealt into the pot. Also, the winner of the hand will get double cash prize.

There is a special 40-man Super Sit & Go tournament for Poker Stars.com sit & go players and will start from February 14 till 21st February. These tournaments will have $1.10, $11, $22, and $55 buy-ins. While winner of these tournaments will get a prize of $40,000, that will be distributed between all winners at each buy-in level. If you win one tournament, an extra $44.44 ($40,000/900) you will be awarded at the end. And if you win four tournaments, you will be given $177.76 as a reward.

Poker Stars is also hosting a variety of special tournaments for its multi-table tournament players. These Special F40 FPP tournaments will have a prize pool of $40,000 with an entry fee of 40 FPPs. These tournaments will start between 13:40 ET and 21:40 ET each day.

A special Micro Million $1,000,000 guaranteed tournament will take place at 14:30 ET on Sunday, February 14th. For a buy-in of $40, you can win a portion of a guaranteed $1,000,000 prize pool. Read more!

As PokerStars is celebrating the 4th anniversary of the Sunday Million on February 21st, therefore it has increased the prize pool to $4,000,000. And the first place will get at least $1,000,000. The Sunday Million will start at its standard time (16:30 ET) and will have the standard $215 buy-in.

And finally PokerStars is helping all the players to increase their bankrolls during this huge occasion. For the duration of the F40 promotion, players are allowed to a $40 cash credit for only 2,500 FPPs!

So if you want to be the part of this huge celebration then log into PokerStars because enormous prizes are offered to be won while free money to be claimed!

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » February 17th, 2010

Recently in its February issue Bluff Magazine has featured the power 20, about the most powerful individual of the poker industry! And give the list of the top 20 poker game providers. You can check the Bluff Power 20 list is given below:

1. PokerStars
2. Full Tilt Poker
3. Mitch Garber
4. Howard Lederer
5. Ty Stewart
6. Doyle Brunson
7. Barney Frank
8. Daniel Negreanu
9. Tony G
10. Joe Cada
11. Phil Ivey
12. John Pappas
13. Mike Sexton
14. Mori Eskandani
15. Brian Balsbaugh
16. Lance Bradley
17. Joe Sebok
18. Barry Shulman
19. Matt Savage
20. Per Hagen.

As we all aware of the Full-Tilt’s debuted Rush Poker that permits their player to change tables immediately following their actions in a hand ending. While up to four poker tables can be opened at once and have poker tracking software like Holdem manager and poker tracker. This software allows players to see critical stats on opponents. Not only this but Full-Tilt also have some other innovations like Matrix Sit and Gos and the quarterly Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS), whose 15th cycle kicks off on Wednesday. PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker are the only ones that are representing companies; the other 18 list members are the individuals.

Power 20 has mentioned both the poker rooms as one of the peak poker rooms in the gaming industry and added in the top of the list. PokerStars is the world’s biggest online poker site that features World Series of Poker (WSOP), Main Event champions Chris Moneymaker (2003), Greg Raymer (2004), Joe Hachem (2005), Peter Eastgate (2008), and Joe Cada (2009). Last year, Eastgate and Cada, become the youngest winners ever of the $10,000 buy-in tournament. PokerStars is famous for its reputation in media, fro sponsoring ESPN’s “Inside Deal” and purportedly the sixth season of GSN’s “High Stakes Poker.”

Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) is on the 7th number in the power 20 list and is the online poker’s leading promoter on the legislative front. Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, HR 2267, is up to 65 co-sponsors on both sides of the political spectrum and may be marked up before the month of February comes to an end.

Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Executive Director John Pappas is on the 12th number. Pappas was instrumental in moving the PPA from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. and bringing former three-term Senator Alfonse D’Amato (R-NY) into the PPA’s ranks.

Cada is on 10th number in power 20 list and is featuring a media circus following his Main Event win in November. Cada appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” and ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” among other high-profile series, bringing the PokerStars brand name and youthful nature of the game to the mass media.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » February 14th, 2010

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 group has yet again created a chance for players to play classic poker and make lots of money. PokerStars is finally carrying out its UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT). Initially it was only heard that PokerStars were sponsoring the Irish Poker Championships in Galway, and now their entire details of the tour have come out.

This tour will go to Ireland, England and Scotland starting in December and running throughout 2010. Nottingham is one of the key venues, as are the G Casinos in Coventry and Manchester. The grand final will be none other than the 2010 EPT London in October.

One of the main attractions of this particular tour is the buy-in, as it looks relatively cheap with buy-ins as low as £500 plus £50 in some festivals. Along with this there are also higher buy-in events between £1000 and €2000, as well as of course the £5000 EPT main event. There will probably be some high profile ‘High Roller’ events on the tour, as has been the case in some of PokerStars poker tours. There will also be a leader board for the tour, with the overall point’s winner getting a package into EPT London as well as packages for all of season 2.

PokerStars.com are the industry leader for a reason and will have a well organized tour; they will no doubt bring a huge number of online qualifiers to each and every event. The qualifiers for the Galway event in December are now running exclusively at PokerStars.

This tour could be a great hit in the poker world and for live poker in the UK and at the same time could be pretty bad news for some of the other tours and festivals. It is yet to see whether this tour be televised, because if so, we can expect to see some massive pro heavy fields and possibly a lot of new faces being tempted onto the live felt pretty soon.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » November 6th, 2009

This September proved to be a profitable month for Poker Stars.com with the completion of its eighth annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Along with the successful run of the top online poker series for Poker Stars, the WCOOP also helped to provide another world record for the number one site worldwide.

The Guinness Book of World Records, observed on September 6th saw PokerStars defeat its own world record for most players hosted by an online poker room. That day PokerStars recorded 307,016 players taking part in tournament, cash game, and free poker games. There were also 42,814 tables which beat the previous mark by over 100,000.

PokerStars, which has held the record since its inception in 2008, and its major competitor, Full Tilt Poker, went at each other only two months ago to set the previous mark for most players online at once. Back in July, both ran tournaments to set the record for the largest online poker tournament ever held. PokerStars had 65,000 players for its, while Full Tilt had 50,000. PokerStars was close to 200,000 total players once the tournament and other action was counted.

The latest record for PokerStars was due to the huge outpouring of players during the WCOOP and its various satellite events. On September 5th, WCOOP Event no.6, the $109 No Limit Texas Hold’em tournament, had 15,675 players alone!

On September 6th, a Sunday, the WCOOP featured three huge events that drew traffic. In addition to Event no.9, a $215 No Limit Hold’em tournament had attracted 11,131 runners and was won by Slovakia’s “ternoplayer,” Event no.10, the $10,300 High Roller tournament” and the first day of Event no.11, the two day $530 No Limit Hold’em event” were also in action. Once the numbers were counted up, it beat the previous record by PokerStars back in July.

It is apparent that PokerStars has proved its existence in the poker world and has set a benchmark for the other poker groups!!

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News | No Comments » October 4th, 2009

As Christmas time nears this year, the online casino industry is getting in shape as well. PokerStars now gets ready to kick off the latest edition of its World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). This magnificent Championship is featuring 45 events and a total prize-pool guarantee of $40 million, so there is more temptation this time when it comes to online casino poker.

This year’s WCOOP offers three high-roller events that will without a doubt bring out the game’s elite thanks to the huge buy-in. The high-roller events include a $2 million guaranteed No-Limit event on September 6th, an $800,000 guaranteed No-Limit Match Play event on September 13th, and a $1 million guaranteed H.O.R.S.E tournament on September 20th.

Just like the event has always had a line of games ready, the WCOOP offers something for all types of players this time as well including No-Limit, Razz, Pot-Limit Omaha, Fixed-Limit Hold’em, 8-Game Mix, Pot-Limit Hold’em, Badugi, Omaha Hi-Lo, Fixed-Limit Omaha Fixed-Limit Triple Draw, H.O.R.S.E, 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo, Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, and the newly introduced No-Limit Omaha.

Last year, PokerStars awarded $39,958,000 in prize money for players through 33 events. The biggest winner was “ckingusc” after he dragged the Main Event championship and the $1,265,432 first-place prize.

To make the event more special a number of top players are expected to participate including Team PokerStars players: Daniel Negreanu, Chris Moneymaker, Barry Greenstein, Vanessa Rousso and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier.

Although PokerStars offers action and entertainment to numerous countries worldwide, the players in the U.S. have dominated the action, landing 535 final-table appearances, $59,472,430.22 in earnings and 11,094 cashes.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments, WCOOP | No Comments » September 2nd, 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

The renowned PokerStars online poker room is believed to be one of the most classic and finest poker rooms in the industry. Apart from the diverse variety of poker games it offers, the Poker Stars is also appealing due to its regular bonuses and tournaments, whether they are offered at land based casinos or online. Be it the Asia Pacific Poker tour to the European poker tour, the poker room continues to cater to its players.

Yet again the PokerStars.com has started a poker tournament titled the America’s Cup of Poker. The 2009 America’s cup of poker will comprise sixteen teams from 16 different countries. These teams will compete to reach the live final which is going to be held in Patagonia, Argentina at the Cerro Catedral Ski resort. The player’s are basically fighting for am amount of $250,000 out of which $100,000 will be split amongst the winning team’s players. More information!

To take part in the America’s cup of poker the players can compete online at the daily free rolls or the regular qualifiers. The free rolls give all types of players a chance to play since they start at as low as $0.20.

The teams will be divided into 4 groups and they will be representing 13 nations from the American continent, out of which three will be wild card entries. The first group has the U.S, Ecuador and Mexico. The second group has Canada, Columbia and Uruguay. The third group has Chile, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Peru and the last group has Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

The top 8 teams will reach the live final over a three week competition. The top 5 players from each team will represent their group in Argentina and this will be determined through the points earned. There will also be a poker star pro competing at the live final to make things more interesting.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » July 30th, 2009

On June 14 at 16:30 ET, PokerStars will be holding a World Series mega Main Event Qualifier satellite that will guarantee at least 200 prize packages to the WSOP 2009 Main Event; and since the Main Event is rapidly approaching, this just may be the best and last chance to see what it takes to be the next WSOP World Champ.

This special Main Event Qualifier will be held in place of the normally scheduled Sunday Million on June 14th, with a direct buy-in available for just $370. But why not try to get in cheap by playing in the full range of qualifier satellites? These satellites provide the chance to win seats in the mega Main Event Qualifier, starting at only $2.20 or 460 FPPs (Frequent Player Points). PokerStars will award an extra bonus when someone plays in the Mega Satellite Main Event Qualifier; thus, doubling VIP points.

The World Championship Main Event prize package is worth $12,000 that includes; the Main Event buy- in, hotel accommodations and $1,000 cash for travel and expenses. The Main Event party starts on July 3rd at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

The freebies, however, do not end at just winning the WSOP Main Event seat because once there, PokerStars.com will give a shot at winning $1 Million Dollars for free. Click here to read more!

At Las Vegas, PokerStars will be hosting a series of live FreeRoll Sit n’ Go Satellites and every one of them will have a cash prize pool with the top finisher being awarded a ticket to play in the online final. These FreeRolls will give away a total of $1 Million Dollars in prizes. These events and the cash to be won will be only for those players who won their seat through PokerStars and played in the Main Event. Moreover, by wearing PokerStars logo gear while playing in the WSOP Main Event, anyone can automatically be a PokerStars SuperNova VIP when credited 100,000 FPPs.

Team PokerStars Pro Peter Eastgate who is the reigning WSOP Champion said; “The World Series is the tournament to play if you are going to take a shot at fame and fortune and there is no better place to take that shot than by winning your PokerStars WSOP package in the biggest online qualifier to be found.”

Even if someone misses the $370 Mega Satellite, they can still jump in the daily FreeRolls which gives a shot at winning the chair in the World Series for free. Until June 20th, every day there will be 14 quadruple shootout FreeRoll tournaments on PokerStars which will award 10 players a ticket to play in the Weekly Final.

The Weekly Final takes place every Sunday at 19:00 ET.  Each of the Weekly Final winners will receive a World Series Main Event package worth $12,000.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News, Poker Tournaments, WSOP | No Comments » June 12th, 2009

PokerStars is known as one of the most sought after online casinos on the web offering an array of enticing casino games. Now PokerStars has added another grand title to their list of achievements namely the largest tournament in history thanks to Sunday’s record breaking no-limit hold’em poker contest. The tournament was the result of their Poker World Record Weekend Promotion and saw an exciting and unbelievable 35,000 participants. With such an astounding number of entrants willing to become a part of history everyone was awe-stricken. With buy-ins as low as $10+$1 poker stars felt like being generous and offered up a $150,000 cover to reward its loyal customers, as if the buy-ins weren’t tempting enough.

Registration had been open to the public for several weeks now and every last seat was sold out days before the tournament ever took place. The record itself was not even questioned. This sudden increase in traffic was welcomed by every corner of the site and spread far and wide. PokerStars com boasted a record high of 250,540 players occupying 33,582 tables. If setting the Guinness world record for the largest tournament wasn’t enough PokerStars set another record for the most players simultaneously logging on at once.

Though many talented individuals were not able to avail this chance of a lifetime and were disappointed at being left out of the historic tournament, many changed their routes to other tournaments and cash games flooding their poker rooms and cramping into their prized bonus games. This sudden traffic being directed toward the site created a slight lag to the sites.  Quickly restoring order a few hiccups were still experiences throughout the night as the servers stayed cramp with obsessive poker players. Despite the gigantic field size the players reached the money in less than three hours and during the hand-for-hand play, a total of 80 players were eliminated launching the unavoidable sprint of players towards the final table.

Here are the final table results:
1. stan34powa — $30,000
2. meiky777 — $20,000
3. rumred14 — $15,000
4. Goldman007 — $10,000
5. Nekochan48 — $7,500
6. gustave44 — $5,000
7. n0ideahh — $3,500
8. ale police — $2,500
9. ONE_TIMEE — $2,000
10. FuFish — $1,500

PokerStars is proud to have had the ability of breaking the Poker World Record, one that they had set out to overthrow. With their highly popularized online poker room Pokerstars is now fully equipped to tackle any endeavors that they may face in the New Year.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker Articles, Poker News | No Comments » January 6th, 2009