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

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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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. [...]

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Best Poker Bonuses Get Better: PKR, William Hill, Ladbrokes

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Welcome bonuses (or first deposit bonuses as they’re also called) a one of the ways that poker sites compete with one another for your patronage. That’s why they are constantly trying to one-up each other with how much “free money” they can offer players to join their site. Most of the welcome bonuses offer 100% [...]

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PokerStars Breaks Another Of Its Own Guinness World Records

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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Back on September 6, PokerStars broke its own record in the Guinness Book of World Records for “Most Players at an Internet Poker Room”. It was a Sunday when Poker Stars had 307,016 players playing at 42,814 poker tables at once. This beats the old record by more than 100,000 online poker players. This is [...]

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PokerStars Extreme Satellites Awarded $1 Million in 2009 WCOOP Tickets, 100 At A Time

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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PokerStars is hosting Extreme Satellites awarding 100 seats or more into the upcoming 2009 World Championship of Online Poker with a $40 million total guaranteed prize pool. Extreme Satellites start today August 4 with a $7.50 Extreme Satellite adding 100 $109 seats to the prize pool, and run several times daily through August 16 on [...]

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Poker Stars Hosting Charity Tournament for Africa

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

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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 [...]

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PokerStars WCOOP Underway

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

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The eagerly-awaited, annual online poker extravaganza known as the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is underway again, and it’s not too late to enter! Sure, about a third of the tournament’s 33 events have already taken place (we’ll hold off printing any results until after the entire event is completed), but that leaves [...]

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Proof that Online Poker Rooms Protect Players

Thursday, September 4, 2008

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Anyone worried about online poker security need only read the recent story of 26-year-old Brian Townsend to have their concerns assuaged. Multi-accounting is a crime that doesn’t only hurt internet poker rooms but internet poker players as well, as it involves one player misrepresenting himself by playing at the same site under two different usernames. [...]

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