Starting May 3rd poker players and fans can look forward to the first ever LAPT event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hoping to repeat the success of the European Poker Tour and Asian Pacific Poker Tour, the LAPT will bring major poker tournaments to Latin America. The first season of the LAPT will offer the largest tournaments ever to take place in the area.

Currently the LAPT consist of three different tournaments hosted in three different countries. For more information on when and where the events will take place go to the PokerStars LAPT page.

For the best and cheapest way to qualify for an LAPT event, create a Poker Stars account and look for the name LAPT in the tournament lobby. Poker Stars sends hundreds of players to different Poker Tour events, where qualifying for a major event is possible for any level of player.

Poker Stars.net has just announced their 2008 WSOP satellites and qualifiers for players looking to win a seat to the 2008 WSOP main event. Satellites are already underway and will be played up until late June. Pstars winners will receive the $10k buy-in and $2.5k spending cash. Players will also get 8 days of hotel stay at Palms Hotel and Casino with free shuttle service and cash bonuses if players make the final table. ($50k for a regular event up to $1 million for the main event…you do have to agree to wear poker stars gear).

There are currently three ways to qualify at Poker Stars.net. You can buy-in to satellites via FPP points. You can buy-in to cash qualifiers and lastly you can win your seat with the steps sit and go’s. Poker stars will be sending over 100+ players to the WSOP main event!

Qualify now at Poker Stars!

If you would like to find out more information check out Poker Stars 2008 WSOP Satellites and Qualifiers at Poker Splendor.

The EPT(European Poker Tour) still has three more events until the grand final in Monte Carlo, Monaco on April 12-17. The next upcoming event, the Scandinavian Open, gets kicked off today in Copenhagen, Denmark. The buy-in for the event is 50,000 and can it can be watched live on EPTLive.com.

460 players chipped in to create the biggest poker prize pool in Scandinavian history. The large buy-in and nearly €3 million prize pool has attracted some big names to the event. The pros coming from pokerstars.net include Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Katja Thater, Tom McEvoy, Bill Chen, Noah Boeken, Luca Pagano and Dario Minieri.

To learn more about this or other EPT tournaments check out PokerStars.net, or check out our EPT page.

Poker Stars has been known for their large poker tournaments and on Sunday they have three of the largest tournaments of any online poker rooms.

In the early afternoon (12:45pm EDT) they have the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up that has a guaranteed prize pool of $500,000 Guaranteed and has a $215 buy-in.

Poker Stars then has their most popular (and well known) tournament the Sunday million. It has a million dollars guaranteed prize pool and  starts  at 16:30pm EDT. This is always the biggest online poker tournament of the week (for any site) and usually has about $1.3 million dollars in the prize pool.

To finish the day they have a Sunday Second Chance tournament that starts at 18:30 and has a $215 buy-in with $200k Guaranteed.

Poker Stars is currently running a poker promotion called Poker Stars Passport. They are giving away $250,000 dollars in live tournament packages and also cash prizes to poker players that rank in their tournament leader board.

The top 100 players will play in a poker tournament with the winner receiving a PokerStars Passport to ten big buy-in poker tournaments running from January 2008 to January 2009! Second place will get a EPT Monte Carlo Package and 3rd-9th get $10k, $5k, $3k, $2.5k, $2k, $1.5k and $1k respectively.

They will also have tournaments for players that are 101-200th, 201-500th and 501-1000. They will be playing for a EPT Monte Carlo package and $15k in cash. The tournaments will take place on January 13th at 13:00 ET.

To qualify you will need to play at any poker stars real money poker tournament and rank in the top 1,000 on their December leaderboard.

For the next couple of days Poker Stars will be hosting a free tournament that gives players the chance to win a trip to the Caribbean where they will be able to play poker with poker star Daniel Negreanu. The prize package includes an $8,000 buy in, 7 nights accommodations at the Atlantis Resort and Casino, $1,000 cash for travel, and poker training with Daniel Negreanu. The tournament is hosted twice daily once at 6:30 and then again at 9:30PM ET. Along with the grand prize their will be $110,000 up for grabs in cash prizes ranging from $1-600.Once again the tournament is free to enter and all you need to do is go to http://www.pokerstars.net/millions/ and sign up.

In the world of poker it looks like we will have something new and exciting to look forward to after the WSOP. In Card Player Magazine, Doyle Brunson announced that ESPN will be televising a high stakes golf tournament featuring top poker pros. According to Brunso,  there will be two different setups at the event. The first event will comprise of two man teams, with a buy-in of $200,000 per team. The payout for the event will be: First - $1 million, Second - $500,000, Third - $250,000, Fourth - $150,000, Fifth - $100,000.

In the second event of the day, which will begin immediately after the completion of the first event, they will raise the stakes to a $3 million buy-in per player. A total of nine players will be competing in this event on three different teams. The format the players are going to follow is a combination of skins and best ball. There will likely be lots of ties on the course, but for each hole a team is able to win they will receive $500,000.

Many of the players competing at this event will be representing online poker rooms. Doylesroom will of course be represented by Doyle Brunson along with Dewey Tomko, and Al DeCarlo. Full Tilt will sponsor David Grey and Huck seed, and as you would expect Poker Stars is sending Daniel Negreanu.

The only handicapping for the tournament will be tee off positions, and that will be decided by the players who know each others power and skill. Overall, with the amount of money at stake and the ridiculous side bets that will  take place, this should be a fun and exciting event to look forward to.

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Due to the shutdown of Full Contact Poker, Daniel Negreanu has decided to join the team at poker stars.net. Although rarely online, Daniel promises to start playing more now that the 2007 WSOP has completed. He said all the promotions that players enjoyed at Full Contact Poker will be a part of poker stars. At Full Contact Poker they will continue to offer forums and video blogs by Daniel Negreanu. Daniel Negreanu also mentioned in the video how Poker Stars.net has over 9 million players which makes it the largest online poker room.

The Poker Stars Sunday millions has just finished with 6567 players registering for the tournament. The tournament paid 900 players with a prize pool of $1,313,400. The tournament went for 10 hours. The respected payouts are 188, 866, $98,373, $70,792, $55,162, $42,160. Although the top 4 finishers made a deal and split the money so each player got 107k, 103k, 90k and one 80k (approximation). I forgot the exact breakdown but it was close to that.  At the time of the deal Omoneyman0 (Westminister) was in 4th place and got the 80k but then by winning the tournament got an additional 30k.

Top 5 Finishers

1.Omoneyman0 (Westminister)
2. tilerman(march)
3. Guesty001(helsby)
4. tetergold(Decatur)
5. Dsnyder9521(Mt Juliet)

Poker Stars Sunday Millions Bubble

Well it looks like stealurmoney (Upper Malboro) missed the money by one spot! He finished in 901th place missing a pay day of $262. He is the pstars bubble boy for the week…looks like whoever got him out stole his money.

sw6977 (redwood valley) takes home the worst performance in the tournament. Finishing dead last and wasting $215 in near record time. Congrats, maybe try a different hobby.