Poker Stars Million Dollar Men Freeroll

To celebrate the six Poker Stars players who made it to the final table of the World Series Of Poker (WSOP), PokerStars.net is throwing daily freerolls where participants will have the chance to go up against the 6th WSOP finalists and take home as much as $100,000 for first place. The daily freerolls start September 27 and will continue until October 17. The big prizes will be rewarded to anyone who can make it to the final table, but for those less fortunates numerous other cash prizes are dished out along the way.

When the WSOP continues later this year, the 6 Poker Stars players to watch are Dennis Phillips, Ivan Demidov, Peter Eastgate, Ylon Schwartz, Darus Suharto and David ‘Chino.’ To learn more about these 6 finalists and Poker Stars freerolls go to Poker Stars.

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 Star’s pros Daniel Negreanu and Barry Greenstein are currently second and third on the World Series of Poker player of the year chart. Daniel Negreanu is in second with 170 points, 15 points behind leader Eick Lindgren, with one braclet and 4 cashes. Just below him Barry Greenstein has 165 points with one braclet and 3 cashes. Together the two players have combined for a total of $769,001 WSOP earnings.

Daniel Negreanu 2008 Finishes:
* 7th place on 6/14 at Event 28 Pot-Limit Omaha $123, 437
* 1st place on 6/10 at Event 20 Limit Hold’em $204,874
* 11th place on 6/7 at Event 14 Seven Card Stud $33,417
* 22nd place on 6/3 at Event 5 No-Limit Hold’em $16,496

Barry Greenstein 2008 Finishes:
* 1st place on 6/13 at Event 26 Seven Card Razz $157,643
* 46th place on 6/12 at Event 23 No-Limit Hold’em $7,582
* 3rd place on 6/9 at Event 18 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball $225,552

For more information go to www.worldseriesofpoker.com

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!.

 If you are wondering how Daniel Negreanu became the poster boy for Poker Stars.net all you need to do is check out the video clip below. In this clip Negreanu loses the hand, but is able to get a good enough read to get out before it is too late and save chips. Even in losing the hand Daniel looks like the winner when he tells his apponent what he has without seeing the cards.

 To watch more video on Daniel Negreanu, and learn how to start playing go to Poker Stars and check out their new tutorial page at, www.pokerstars.net/tutorials. On the tutorial page Daniel Negreanu goes through everything you need to know to start playing on Poker Stars.