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Poker Stars Satellites Running Now For 3 Poker Tours: EPT, LAPT, UKIPT

Poker News Man — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:34:26 +0000

Satellites galore going on at PokerStars, awarding free entries into every stop on the several live poker tours that Poker Stars now sponsors. Schedules are just coming out for the third season of the Latin American Poker Tour, the sixth season of the European Poker Tour, and the inaugural season of the eagerly anticipated U.K. & Ireland Poker Tour. And with the announcements of the schedules for each of these poker tours comes the launching of the satellite schedule for awarding players free seats in these various events.

Season 6 of the EPT is already underway, but the schedule for the second half was only just released. It has the next event on the EPT schedule coming November 17 to Portugal.

Season 3 of the LAPT starts next, with LAPT Costa Rica coming up on November 19 in San Jose. Other stops on LAPT 3 are Uruguay, Chile, and the Grand Final in Argentina.

Season 1 of the UK & Ireland Poker Tour starts December 11 with UKIPT Galway, better known as the Irish Poker Championship. The other events in this first-ever UKIPT will be held in Manchester, Coventry, Nottingham, Killarney, Brighton, Scotland, and Dublin.

Satellites for the first stops on each of these tours are going now at PokerStars.

Poker Stars Hosting Charity Tournament for Africa

Poker News Man — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:20:39 +0000

PokerStars has announced that it will be hosting a charity poker event called “Ante Up For Africa Europe Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament“. This will be a star-filled event now added to the weeklong schedule of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final in Monte Carlo, Monaco, with the money raised to go towards addressing the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.

One day before the PokerStars EPT Season Five Grand Final Main Event, on April 27, 2009, a slew of poker stars will come out in droves to support this great cause, including members of Team PokerStars itself, like Joe Hachem, Vanessa Rousso, and Daniel Negreanu. The No Limit Texas Holdem event has a €4,000 buy-in and the winner of the event will receive a free seat in the PokerStars EPT Bahamas Event in January 2010.

Ante Up for Africa, the organization running the event, has held two similar charity poker tournaments in the past, both as part of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Coming Up: PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (WBCOOP)

Poker News Man — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:13:10 +0000

On December 21, PokerStars will begin its World Blogger Championship of Online Poker, or WBCOOP (not be confused with their recent, and ever-popular, World Championship of Online Poker, or WCOOP). To play you should first get your PokerStars bonus code here so you can max out your deposit bonus. This poker bonus code is one of the best online today.

The World Blogger Championship of Online Poker is open to all poker playing bloggers. To enter, you must have your own blog, whether poker related or otherwise. Beyond that prerequisite, entry into the 2008 WBCOOP is free. Interested players must register their blog PokerStars.com to get started.

The top finisher in the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker is the $14,300 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.

Plus, the event pomises cash and prizes worth over $100,000 to the top 100 placers, with prize packages including:
• Various $7,500 packages to European Poker Tour events
• the inaugural Spring Championship of Online Poker (coming up in early 2009)

Freeroll qualifiers in various Pot Limit, Limit and No Limit versions of Texas Holdem and Omaha run from December 15 to December 20.

Last year’s WBCOOP attracted some 1,300 competitors. This year’s event promises to top that turnout.