Poker Stars latest free promotion, the Poker Stars Summer games, is an exclusive tournament for Poker Stars players from the United States and Canada. In the Sumer Games events players will get the chance to represent their country and win thousands of cash prizes for free.

Event Structure:
The Sumer Games will consist of 8 different tournaments featuring 8 different games for each of the two countries. The top 5 players in each of the qualifying tournaments will added to the team of their home country and be given a seat in the US vs. Canada 100,000 final. Along with the 80 possible seats in the final, more than 80,000 cash prizes will be given out along the way.

Once again entering the tournament is completely free so there is no reason not to give it a shot. However, be careful when entering a qualifying tournament because players are only offered one chance to qualify per week. So if you enter a tournament you will have to wait a week before you are able to enter again. For more information go to Poker Stars. and check out the Summer Games promotion.

This September the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is coming back to Poker Stars.net. The WCOOP is the worlds largest online poker series, and this year it is bigger than ever. Doubling last years prize pool, the 2008 WCCOP will offer a prize pool of $30,000,000 guaranteed.

Starting September 5th and ending with the main event on September 22nd, the WCOOP will host 33 different events and a wide range of poker games. Although tournaments don’t official start until the fifth, Poker Stars players can try to earn their spots in WCOOP qualifying satellites. Cash qualifiers start at as low as $2.20, and players using FPP can enter a satellite for as low as 100 Frequent Player Points.

For more information on the WCOOP including dates and event details visit Poker Stars.net and search for the WCOOP on the promotions page.

Poker Stars has announced that they will be running a $1 million dollar turbo takedown tournament on the last Sunday of every month! The tournament is unique in that 1 in 3 players will get a cash prize. To play in the tournament players will need to buy-in using 5000 Frequent Player Points.

If you don’t have 5000 fpp’s to spare you can play in satellites running daily for as little as 10 fpp credits. The tournament can be found in the Events > Special tab in the poker stars lobby. Also in that tab you will be able to register for satellites to the turbo takedown.

The winner of the tournament will receive a $100k while second takes $60k and third $40k and so on. The tournament pays up to 4,000th place and that pays $90 bucks (sweet!). This is probably the best freeroll tournament you can play. Although, you will need to have played some real money poker at poker stars it is definitely worth it. You can easily get 10 fpp’s in about 10 minutes of poker play and you will be able to enter a satellite tournament to this $1 million dollar tournament.

Poker Stars is now offering free rewards for players who perform well in multi-table tournament events. Tournament Leader Board (TLB) points are offered for every level of buy-ins, but the larger the buy-in the more TLB points you can earn. New winners are awarded each week, month, and year.

To become the weekly winner you have to record 10 good multi-table finishes between 12:00am on Sunday and 11:59pm on Saturday. The poker player with the most (TLB) points at the end of the week will be given the chance to play heads up for a minimum of $1000 against a Poker Stars pro at the game of his/her choice. If the Poker Stars pro wins, the prize money from that match will carry and be added to the next weeks match.

The top 200 poker players from the Monthly leader board will split up a pot of $30,000, with first place winning $5000. Along with that prize money, the top 1000 players will win a seat at a $20,000 freeroll. For the poker pros, the Yearly Leader Board Winner first prize is a five-stamp passport that includes hotel accommodation’s and buy-ins to five major Poker Stars hosted events.

For more information on this and other promotions go to Poker Stars

Poker Stars has launched a new sit and go promotion called “Battle of the Planets”. This marks the first time Poker Stars.net will have a SNG Tournament Leader board. Players can participate in the Battle of the Planets with buy-ins as low as $2 dollars or if your a big money player up to $500.

There are 8 different “planetary” divisions for the SNG Leader board…In english that means there are eight leader boards players can compete in with prizes from $3k-$10k.

There is never peace between planets and war is all part of the game. Poker Stars will have players from the top ten spots of each division in a $50k triple shootout. So what are you waiting for? Battle of the Planets? SNG? It’s time to play at Poker Stars!.

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.

There was a campaign earlier this year for the Poker Stars Moneymaker Millions Poker Tournament. Poker Stars.net had commercials for it showing Chris Moneymaker’s old boss and friends. This is the first commercial that they aired showing where Chris Moneymaker use to work.