Americas Cup of Poker Tournament Series Announced by PokerStars
Posted on July 27, 2009
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PokerStars is known as the number one online poker room for many reasons. They offer large guaranteed tournaments, they have the best poker pros on their team and they offer several land tournaments each year for player’s enjoyment. The list could go on and on but let’s focus on tournaments.
PokerStars recently announced a new tournament series called the Americas Cup of Poker or ACP. The new series will begin on the 27th of July and see players from thirteen countries located throughout the Americas and three wildcard teams competing for big money.
The countries eligible for the new series are the United States, Mexico, Ecuador, Canada, Columbia, Uruguay, Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. The point of the series is to split players up into teams by country. Each country will be split up into four groups with each group having four countries in it.
The teams will then face off against each other in daily free rolls which will be $.20 and $5.50 tournaments. The top 100 individual finishers of each tournament will earn points for themselves as well as their team. Tournaments that players buy-in to will offer more points than the free rolls. For example a first place finish in a free roll is worth 600 points while a $.20 player will earn 1,500 points for first place.
The top two countries in each group will move on to the live final. Each team in the live final will have one PokerStars pro and then the five players who earned the most points for their team during the online qualifiers.
The live final will take place at a ski resort in Bariloche in Argentina. The top eight players will be paid at the live final. Fifth through eighth place will earn $10,000, fourth will earn $20,000, third earns $30,000, $60,000 goes to second and first earns $100,000 and their country will be named the winner of the Americas Cup of Poker.
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