PokerStars WCOOP Looming Ever Closer
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As the month of July has come to a close, we inch ever closer to September, when Poker Stars.com will host its amazingly lucrative World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) 2008. That means there’s only about one month remaining to qualify for a seat in the 2008 WCOOP, guaranteeing a minimum of $30 million throughout the series – double the GP of last year’s WCOOP.
Starting September 5th, PokerStars.com will be hosting 33 events in the 2008 WCOOP, swathed in every poker variant PokerStars offers - Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Stud, Razz, H.O.R.S.E., Triple Draw and others. Prize pools for early events vary, rising in excess of $2 million, leading up to the 2-day WCOOP Main Event on September 21st, worth a whopping $10,000,000 Guaranteed.
PokerStars began offering Multi-table and Sit’n’Go Satellites as well as Steps Qualifiers in early July. These tournaments, awarding seats in the $30 Million 2008 WCOOP, are still running daily at PokerStars with extremely cost effective entries. Cash qualifiers start as low as $2.20 while FPP satellites start at 100 points.
The WCOOP, which start back in 2002, has seen PokerStars continuously raising the bar with each year’s online poker series. In its first season, the WCOOP Main Event winner “MultiMarine” took home $65,450. The 2003 WCOOP Main Event went to “DeOhGee” winning more than triple the top prize from the previous year, $222,750. That nearly doubled again when “Radge” took down the 2004 WCOOP for $424,945. In 2005, more than half a million ($577,342) went to “Panella86”. Poker pro J.C. Tran took the top prize of $600,000 in the 2006 WCOOP, while “Ka$ino” broke the mold in 2007, earning an outstanding $1,378,330.
For those interested in taking part in the PokerStars 2008 WCOOP, visit www.PokerStars.com for further details and Satellite/Qualifier schedules. Even you don’t manage to win a seat in the 2008 WCOOP, a sizeable wallet of $5,200 will cover direct buy-in.
PokerStars Sunday Million Goes To “tEh_R3aLde4L”
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It was another great weekend for the world’s largest online poker room, PokerStar.com. The Sunday Million tournament, hosted every week by PokerStars with a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool, once again saw enough entries to escalate the GP to $1,276,400. Then again, can anyone remember the last time the PokerStars.com Sunday Million “didn’t” see a prize pool higher than the guaranteed? Me either…
An enormous field of 6,382 participants took to the tables at Poker Stars Sunday, all vying for the top prize of $158,657. Simply finishing in the top 1,017 would be worth at least a little cash in your pocket, though.
As the final table came together, nine hungry players competed for the top prize, well aware that they would all be pocketing at least $9,956 at this point in the tournament. In the end, however, it was “tEh_R3aLde4L” who emerged victorious, after defeating “Bolikk” in heads-up place for the 1st place victory.
While congratulations are certainly in order, the real pker story lies at the feet of 6th place finisher “jeffbeesdat”, who not only earned $33,825 in the PokerStars Sunday Million, but also managed a final table finish in the PokerStars $200k ‘Second Chance’ tournament, capturing 5th place an another 12,821, followed by an impressive run at the Full Tit Poker $750k Guaranteed that same day.
PokerStars Sunday Million Final Table Results
1st - tEh_R3aLde4L ($158,657)
2nd - Bolikk ($107,856)
3rd - jlost88 ($72,117)
4th - imeasy2read ($59,353)
5th - bartasPL ($46,589)
6th - jeffbeesdat ($33,825)
7th - XCappucinoX1 ($22,975)
8th - iso_o ($15,317)
9th - luke8 ($9,956)
PokerStars.com runs the Sunday Million every week and sattellites run all week long. If you want to practice first by playing free poker, check out PokerStars.net
PokerStars Sunday Million Poker Tournament Goes To ‘Iron Henry’
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PokerStars, the largest online poker room in the industry, held it’s regular Sunday Million tournament over the weekend, with a massive guaranteed prize pool of no less than $1,000,000. British online poker player ‘Iron Henry’ bested a field of 7,001 entries, accelerating the total prize pool to $1.4 million.
As the tournament dwindled to the final two competitors, ‘Iron Henry’ went heads-up against American poker player ‘ShankingYou’, who proposed to split the prize down the middle, rather than battling it out for 1st. ‘Iron Henry’ rejected the idea initially as his chip stack greatly outweighed that of the American. After a short break in play, however, ‘ShankingYou’ returned with renewed vigor, shrinking the Brit’s lead to only a few thousand chips.
‘Iron Henry’ gave over to the proposal, agreeing to split $266,842.40 ($133,421.20 each) before dueling head to head for an additional $30,000. When all was said and done, ‘Iron Henry’ pocketed a grand total of $163,421.20, and the PokerStars Sunday Million title.
Rounding out the top finishers were ‘Hobbybob’ of Germany in 3rd ($70,010), ‘Etushekki’ of Finland in 4th ($56,008) and ‘Jlost88′ of Canada in 5th ($42,006). Overall, it was the Americans who found the PokerStars Sunday Million to be the most lucrative, claiming 4 top-ten positions in the tournament. Finishing in 6th place was American player ‘Duffman08′ ($30,804), 9th went to ‘Redhookesb’ ($12,601) and 10th to ‘RckHound23′ ($8,261); each American online poker players.
PokerStars.com reported that both Sunday Million Second Chance tournaments went to Norwegian poker players, including the $215 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo tournament and the $5,200 Freeze-out.
This is not the first time the Sunday Million’s guaranteed prize pool has exceeded its expectations. In fact, recent months have proven that PokerStars truly is the largest online poker room in regards to active player volume, revealing a Sunday Million prize pool as high as $2.4 million due to so many entries.
Satellites to get into the PokerStars Sunday Million run all week long and start at just $2!
Also, don’t forget that you can practice for free at PokerStars.net
World Series of Poker Satellites at PokerStars
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PokerStars is once again leading the online poker community sending at last count over 500 players to the 2008 World Series of Poker. Every year PokerStars offers up some of the best satellite tournaments available to online players to this prestigious event.
This year PokerStars.net will continue with its $12,500 prize package to the satellite winners, where $10k goes towards entry to the Main Event and $2k may be used for traveling expenses. However, PokerStars does not stop there in making sure your 2008 WSOP Main Event is as good as it can get.
Satellite winners will also receive their hotel stay at the Palms paid for as well. This covers hotel costs from July 2-9th. If you chose to wear PokerStars.net gear, then your accommodations are paid through July 15th If you are a Supernova Elite VIP players at PokerStars your rooms will be automatically upgraded.
Players will also be eligible for bonus payouts from PokerStars. A $50,000 bonus will be paid to players who make a TV table and are wearing PokerStars gear. And a $1,000,000 bonus will be paid to any PokerStars qualifier who makes the final table of the 2008 WSOP Main Event.
So head over to PokerStars to qualify for this years Main Event before it is too late.
Poker Stars WarmUp
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The online poker community is well aware of Poker Stars Sunday Millions Tournament, but who wants to wait until the evening to start winning big? No one Poker Stars could think of, so they have a great tournament warm up for the early birds.
The PokerStars Sunday WarmUp is the best way to start your tournament week. Every Sunday at 17:45 GMT (12:45 pm ET) they feature a 500 thousand dollar guaranteed prize pool for a NoLimit Hold’em Tournament. The competition is stiff and the interaction is PokerStars.com typical exciting style! First place is 75 thousand dollars. What a way for any poker player to enter a work week!
Satellite games are held daily for the Sunday WarmUp event. Many of them start as low as 3 dollars. When doing a search for them on PokerStars, they are highlighted in purple to make them easy to identify. Should the direct approach be more your style, it has a 215 dollar buy in.
Poker Stars EPT Monte Carlo Grand Finale
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If you have ever wanted to play in an European Poker Tour (EPT) Event now is your time at PokerStars. The folks over at PokerStars are offering up a super satellite tournament that will award 16 guaranteed prize packages to the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo on April 12th - 17th, 2008.
The super satellite will take place January 19th at 13:00 and cost $1,050 to enter. However, as usual the king of all satellite tournaments will be running satellites into this super satellite until January 7th for as low as $5.50. So any player on any budget has a chance to take part in this amazing satellite tournament offer to the EPT Monte Carlo.
To find the super satellite and qualifiers to the super satellite Monte Carlo, once your PokerStars application is open, simply click on the Events tab and then you will find the EPT tab under that.
Good luck!
PokerStars New Year Bonus
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With the New Year comes your chance to get a big bonus at PokerStars. The PokerStars bonus of 100% deposit match up to $50 is back for you to take advantage of. This gives you a free $50 at PokerStars to qualify for great upcoming EPT tournaments, World Series of Poker satellites and the PCA 2008!
Deposit at PokerStars today to earn your 100% deposit match.
PokerStars Sunday Million
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Every Sunday night PokerStars is hosting a guaranteed $1 Million Poker Tournament and you can qualify for just $3! With first prize in this event always over $100k, you can’t afford to miss out on this tournament at PokerStars.
There are a couple different buy in amounts that PokerStars.com choses to use throughout the month as well. Most weeks the buy in to the Sunday Million is $215. Then, PokerStars ups the ante to $530 on the last week of each month. Then about once per quarter there is a mega buy in of $1,050 which simply singles out the top players at PokerStars to compete for a massive prize pool. All of these buy in levels have satellite tournaments running to them throughout the week, so access to this tournament is not limited to the mega bankrolls.
Always remember, you are just a couple satellite wins away from turning a night at the poker table into a night of fortunes at PokerStars!
PokerStars APPT Final Table Live Online
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Poker Stars will be offering its final table coverage live online for the first time every. The Asian Pacific Poker Tour finale, that is taking place in Sydney, will aire live December 16th via the PokerStars APPT Video Blog.
Players making the final table will be battling it out for the 1st place prize money of $1,000,000 AUD. The final 9 players will be paid out the following:
Final Table Payouts
| PLACE | PRIZE |
|---|---|
| 1st | 1,000,000 AUD |
| 2nd | 621,540 AUD |
| 3rd | 322,280 AUD |
| 4th | 230,200 AUD |
| 5th | 158,830 AUD |
| 6th | 115,100 AUD |
| 7th | 92,080 AUD |
| 8th | 69,060 AUD |
| 9th | 46,040 AUD |
With 561 starting the tournament those who make the top 9 will have certainly made it this far with their poker skill and probably a little bit of luck.
You can check out the PokerStars Video Blog for up to date action here, http://www.appt.com/news/apptlive/.
Then tune in on December 16th to catch all the live coverage of the final table for FREE from PokerStars.
PokerStars eCheck Options
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PokerStars offers players the opportunity to instantly fund their player accounts with their EFT or electronic funds transfer options. Players then do not have to wait for middle men such as ePassporte, Neteller, etc. to deposit funds into their Poker Stars.net account.
Right now players who chose to deposit via eCheck will receive a reload bonus from PokerStars worth up to $50. This can be a great way to make your bankroll grow quickly and have enough cash to enter one of the great satellite tournaments going on right now at PokerStars.
Current events PokerStars satellite tournaments are running for:
Asia Pacific Poker Tour Grand Final in Sydney
European Poker Tour Prague
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
Aussie Millions
PokerStars Passport
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