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

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

If you are one of those guys who always desire for a poker-Starts sponsored tour in the states, then the announcement by PokerStars is for you. In this announcement they said that they will be launching the North American Poker Tour (NAPT), a three-stop tour with tournaments in the Bahamas, Lass Vegas and Connecticut. This tour is arranged by the poker player for the poker players with lots of huge prizes. Like other PokerStars-sponsored tours, Caribbean Adventure (PCA) will also be the part of its schedule.

The next event will be $5,000 buy-in at the Venetian Casino of Las Vegas fro 20th –24th of February. This Vegas tournament will serve as the Main Event for the spring part of the Venetian’s well-liked Deep Stack Extravaganza tournament series.

Mohegan Sun Casino Uncasville, Connecticut will be the final stop of this tour. Northeastern casino is going to host a festival of poker that will feature twenty events with buy-ins that will range from $200 to $25,000.The Northeastern casino will play host to a festival of poker featuring twenty events with buy-ins ranging from $200 to $25,000. The series is set to take place sometime in April and is planned to last for two weeks.

Head of PokerStars.com, Jeffrey Haas said that as the NAPT will grow and develop; hopefully there will be more events across the US and Canada. It will be broadcasting in the coming few days but they said that the production team for the show will be 441 Productions.

So in the meantime, the first season will be filmed for television with supermodel, dancing with the stars contestant and poker enthusiast Joanna Krupa serving as the show’s hostess. Krupa, as well as pros of PokerStar Team Daniel Negreanu, Luca Pagano and John Duthie were all on hand at the press conference announcing the new tour.

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Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News, Poker Tournaments | No Comments » January 11th, 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

This week a big news roaming around the world of poker is that 60% of the market have been acquired by the popular online poker giants Poker Stars.com and Full Tilt Poker.com.

This news is tracked by the independent online poker tracking site “Poker Scout”, according to them both the sites have obtained the online poker traffic of about 0.2%. Since, there are almost 500 operators in the whole poker industry but this has been a remarkable achievement for the two popular poker sites that they have acquired the 60% of the market combinely. However, it seems that a large number of players are converting from small poker rooms to the current giants of the poker industry “PokerStars” and “Full Tilt” .This has been a tremendous accomplishment for the two giants.

Another important aspect of this figure is that, both the poker sites accept U.S players and this has become a plus point in terms of player numbers. Although analyst do not term this the only reason which is making them the best poker play site, because there are so many other factors involved in it like good service, huge bonuses, Customer satisfaction, fair play and fantastic promotions.

Though, this should not been a bad news for other poker sites as they are also sharing the overall growth of 12% of the poker industry.

It was not long ago, that these two giants were considered “toddlers” for the poker world but with their dedication and on going hard work they are now on top of the list from all other poker sites. Infarct, a year ago “Poker Star” and “Full Tilt” were claiming for acquiring the half of the poker traffic to their names.

Since the two company’s weekly event shows that PokerStar have acquired $1.5M GTD known as the PokerStars Sunday Million, Full Tilt Poker’s biggest weekly is the Sunday $750k GTD and Party Poker, with a $300k GTD each week.

Posted by Diana Sterling in Poker News | No Comments » December 22nd, 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 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

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