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Posted on March 5th, 2009 by kdollar
Poker Star.com has announced they will be having a PokerStar.com All Stark Week. The All Star week will pit the top players of team poker stars against accomplished online tournament players.
Poker Stars will be taking players from 5 popular poker tournaments including Sunday Million Winners (1-4), 2008 Yearly TLB Top 50 Finishers (1-4), 2008 WCOOP Final Table (1-5), Supernova Elites (1-5) and finally a wildcard tournament that will take 1-2.
They will be taking 20 players in total and are calling them the challengers. They will then play a special tournament and will play until the tournament field is down to 5 poker players. Those players will then decide which Team Poker Stars pro they will face off in a series of heads up matches.
Winners of the heads up match will be awarded $1,000 dollars for the team. Also, the team that wins will be given an extra $1k for each match won. If the team pokerstars pros end up winning the tournament their money will be given to the team captain Victor Ramdin's charity of choice.
The challengers will compete for the MVP of the match and will receive a 1-stamp PokerStars Passport.
Spring Championship of Online Poker – SCOOP
Posted on February 27th, 2009 by kdollar
PokerStar.com has announced they will be running a Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). The tournament will run in April starting on the second and finishing on the twelth. PokerStars has guaranteed a prize pool of $30 million dollars.
This will be the largest online poker tournament series of 2009. Beating out FullTiltPoker.org's FTOPS series.
There is an interesting twist for the SCOOP which has three buy-ins per event. They will have a low, medium and high stake poker event. There will be 22 events in total with each event consisting of 3 tournaments so 66 poker tournaments will be played when the Poker Stars SCOOP is finished.
As an example the first event will be a No Limit Hold-em with Rebuys (6-max). The low buy-in will be $5.50 and the guarantee for the tournament is $50k. The medium $55 buy-in with a guarantee of $200k and lastly the high with a $530 buy-in and a guarantee of $500k.
The last event of the SCOOP will consist of 3 million dollar tournaments! The low will have a buy-in of $109 with the guarantee a smooth million. The medium will be $1050 with a guarantee of $3 million. And finally the high event will be $10,300 (similar to the wsop main event) with a $5 million guarantee! The tournament will be played on April 12th at 16:30 and will be a 2-day event. This is for sure to bring out pros with the high buy-in and huge guaranteed prize pool.
25 Billionth Hand Drama
Posted on February 16th, 2009 by kdollar
Poker Stars.com dealt their 25th billion dollar hand early Monday morning. It was dealt at the Susilva fast $1/2 Limit Omaha H/L Table. There were 6 players sitting at the table: Confederate, NeonFrost, chris12080, n47j25s, FrtSpkndMn and tupapi777.
The players celebrated as the game went on pause as Poker Stars made sure this was indeed the right table and hand. When play resumed after about 15-20 minutes later only 5 players were given cards. As it turned out, Confedrate hadn't put in his anti and wasn't dealt in the hand missing out on the possibly huge pay day.
Confedrate was definitely bummed but took it pretty well for not having a chance at more then $250k dollars that was to be given away in the hand . It worked out for the other players because the winner took home $150k while the losers of the hand split another $100k...which meant their piece of the pie went up with him not being dealt.
When play finally restarted NeonFrost timed out and his hand was automatically folded as he didn't act in time. He was very upset about this ...typing in the chat box and very frustrated, while the rest of the table played the hand while he may have assumed he folded a hand worth potentially $150k.
When the hand was complete tupapi777 won but that was not taking into account NeonFrost's hand. Which right before the Poker Stars managment in the chat box said that the hand would be played as if every player that was dealt cards went all-in, meaning NeonFrost still had a chance. It ended up that NeonFrost indeed won the Hi of the hand while tupapi777 won the low meaning they split the $100k for the winner and both were awarded the $50k worth of tournament buy-ins. Seems like a good resolution...for everyone but confedrate.
Poker Stars.com 25 Billion Bash
Posted on February 13th, 2009 by kdollar
Poker Stars.com is currently running a 25 billion hand promotion. The promotion is celebrating the milestone of dealing 25 billion hands which is far and away more then any other online poker site can claim.
They currently have a wide array of prizes for poker players. First time depositers will be able to take part in $60k deposit freerolls. Players that already have Stars Poker.com accounts can receive a reload bonus of 25% up to $250. PokerStars is also giving players milestone hand bonuses for every millonth hand dealt in real money cash games.
You can check the current hand total in the Poker Stars lobby news section. It has a tally of how many hands until the 25 billionth hand as well as recent million bonus winners. If you are a VIP player and happen to be dealt a millionth hand you will receive a multiplier starting with 15% for SilverStar and it goes up till Supernova Elite who would receive 200%!
If you are dealt the 25 billionth hand which they call the mega milestone, the winner will receive $100k in cash, EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final , PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, WSOP package as well as a WCOOP Main Event ticket. In total, the winner will receive $150k worth of tournament tickets plus the cash.
This sunday, Poker Stars is upping the ante of their Poker Stars million tournament and are guaranteeing $2.5 million in the $215 buy-in event. The Sunday Warm Up will also be 1.25 million making it the largest warmup event ever.
Daniel Negreanu Challenge
Posted on February 4th, 2009 by kdollar
Professional, Team Poker Stars Player Daniel Negreanu is attempting to do the seemingly impossible, turn $10 into $100,000. With four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour Championship Titles under his belt, Daniel Negreanu is returning to the world of low-stakes poker to battle himself. Everynight at 11 PM, you can find Negreanu at the penny limit tables at Poker Stars attempting to turn his ten dollars into thousands within the next few years.
Following a set of seven rules, Negreanu intends to make the money by sticking to his intended budget and only buying into games that he can afford with the money made from his original $10. Before the challenge began Negreanu said “I think it will be a bit enlightening”. Already with $15.26 in earnings, Negreanu is moving up from the $.01/$.02 tables to the $.02/$.05 tables.
Starting gambling at only 15 years old Negreanu , Kid Poker, has become a world renowned poker player through hard work and good playing. Now 35, Negreanu’s live tournament winnings exceed $11,200,000, second in the all time money list only to Jamie Gold. Negreanu has his own poker strategy, which he released in 2008 in the book Power Hold’Em Strategy. With his expansive poker resume, Negreanu is going back to the basics and showing that good poker strategy is useful at all levels.
On his recent micro limit triumphs Negreanu said “If you can't beat that game you have a lot to learn! Playing limit hold'em for years is a great training ground for micro limit games in terms of understanding how to maximize value on your monster hands when you get them.” Daniel Negreanu’s new $10 challenge will show the world just how far one man’s determination and skill can take them.
World Record Poker
Posted on December 28th, 2008 by kdollar
Poker Stars is ending 2008 on a high note with their World Record Week. They currently are offering a reload bonus to all players of 25% worth up to $150 dollars. They also increasing the Sunday Warmup to $1 million dollars as well as having the regular million dollar tournament worth $2.5 million dollars! Talk about a high stakes poker sunday!
They are also trying something out of the ordinary with their Guinness World Record Attempt. They are trying to have the biggest online poker tournament with 35,000 players! The tournament will have a guaranteed $500k prize pool. If you are thinking of playing go to tournaments then special...The tournament will be played on Sunday at 15:30 ET on the 28th of December.
Poker Stars is leading the way in 2008 and I don't see anything changing in 2009. If you haven't already sign up and play at Stars Poker.
PokerStars Poker Camp
Posted on November 24th, 2008 by kdollar
Poker Stars.com has announced they will be running a poker camp taught by Team PokerStars Pros. The poker camp will be held during the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in the Bahamas. The camp will be two days January 7-9th at the Atlantis Resort.
You can qualify for the PokerStars Poker Camp with satellite qualifiers running daily. The poker camp package is worth $4500 and includes 4 nights accomdiation, $1500 for travel and two days of poker insturction as well as a $500 Camp tournament ticket.
Poker Stars has gone out of their way to get the best of the best to teach the camp. This includes Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer, Moneymaker and Vanessa Rousso. You will be learning from 3 world series of poker braclet winners and 2 wsop main event champions! There will be a variety of topics they will teach including multi table poker tournament strategy, advanced poker betting strategy as well as hand anaylsts.
To find the PokerStars Poker Camp qualifiers to go events>special. The tournaments have a buy-in for as little as $11 dollars. Every Saturday Stars Poker will run finals that will send winners to the Bahamas for the poker camp.
Poker Stars Mac Poker Client
Posted on September 11th, 2008 by kdollar
Poker Stars.com has just announced their that their Mac Poker software is out of beta and officially supported by Poker Stars. There are instructions on how to download Poker Stars on a Mac at free poker download. This is a big step for PokerStars who is currently the largest online poker room and plans to keep it that way with the introduction of a mac poker client.
Poker Stars has been beta testing the version for quite some time and has finally decided it is ready for the prime time. FullTilt Poker.com the second largest poker room and Poker Stars biggest competition has had a mac poker client for some time so PokerStars was playing catch up.
Now if you are a mac poker player you have no excuse to not play online poker. There use to be a time where there weren't very many options but that time is now long gone with most of the major poker sites having a specific mac poker download...now if only they would create a native linux poker client.
PokerStars.com Summer Games 08
Posted on August 23rd, 2008 by kdollar
The 2008 Olympics are currently underway in Bejing and Poker Stars.com is looking to have their own summer games. Poker Stars has announced they will be running the Poker Stars Summer Games with 8 different poker games including hold'em, omaha, draw and stud.
The Summer Games tournaments will be played everyday and is free for players from the United States and Canada. They will be giving away cash prizes in every tournament along with sending the top 50 players to round 2 and the top 5 players will get entry to the $100k finale.
Round 1 Qualifiers:
- Aug 22 to 28 for Limit Texas Hold-em
- August 29-Sept 4 for 7 Card Stud
- Sept 5 to 11 for Short Handed NL Texas Hold'em
- Sept 12-18 for Pot Limit Omaha
- Sept 19 - 25 for Pot Limit Texas Hold'em
- Sept 26-Oct 2 for 5 Card Draw
- Oct 3-9 for Omaha Hi/Lo
- Oct 10-16 for No Limit Texas Hold'em
The top 250 places get $5 dollars in round 1 events with players allowed to play in a summer games qualifier once every week.
The top 140 places in the weekly round 2 events will take home $20 dollars and top 5 get to go to the finale.
The finale will take place with a bunch of heads up matches with each player receiving $500 dollars. The winner gets an additional $500. If your team wins the event you will take home an additional $500. If from the all around summer games your team wins you get an additional $500 dollars!
$1.5 Million Guaranteed Poker Tournament
Posted on August 8th, 2008 by kdollar
Poker Stars.com is currently upping the ante and have announced that instead of the Sunday Million they will now have the Sunday Million and a Half! The tournament will be the same time and will still retain the $215 dollar buy-in but the prize pool is going up by a half million dollars.
They will also be increasing the Sunday Warmup and Second-Chance. The Sunday Warm-up will have a guaranteed of $750,000 and the Second-Chance will have $300,000 guaranteed.
It won't be long until Poker Stars will have a $2,000,000 dollar weekly tournament. The growth of the room after 2006 UIGEA has been austounding and players have stuck with Stars Poker.
Poker Stars will soon be running the 2008 Poker Stars WCOOP with satellites currently running now.
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