Poker Stars latest promotion, the Million Dollar Challenge, gives players a once in a lifetime chance to compete heads up against team Poker Stars pro Daniel Negreanu. The first prize winner will get the opportunity to compete against Daniel on TV for a chance at winning up to $1,000,000.

The best part about this promotion is that it cost no money to enter. To become qualified, all you need to do is play in one of the daily Million Dollar Challenge freerolls (tournaments run four times per day) and finish in the top ten. The top ten winners will then need to submit a two minute video where they can make a claim for why they should be chosen to star in the new poker show.

Any player lucky enough to be chosen will get sent to the TV studio along with two friends, where he or she will get to compete in a series of heads up matches against team Poker Stars pros and other celebrity poker players for large chunks of money.  To help you advance, Daniel Negreanu will also be offering player’s expert advice along the way.

To find out more about this poker players fantasy go to Poker Stars and find read about the Million Dollar Challenge under the promotions page.

When it comes to promotions, nobody offers you a better chance to win free money than Poker Stars. All June long Poker Stars will hosts five freerolls a day, giving players the chance to win hundreds of cash prizes. A total of $300,000 will be given away by the end of the month, all in freeroll prizes.

To be eligible for the reload freerolls all you need to do is reload money into  your account and then you automatically quilify to participate in as many freerolls as you wish. The best way to find freeroll tournaments is to type “Reload” into the tourney filter, or to go to the Poker Stars loby and select “tourney” and then “freeroll”.

Every tourney the top 400 finishers all win a cash prize and a ticket to the final reload freeroll tournament at the end of the month that offers even greater cash prizes. To find more information about start times and a breackdown of the cash prizes visit the Poker Stars site.

Poker Stars wants to send you to the 2009 WSOP Main Event. They are currently running satellites and it is estimated that they will end up sending over 1500 players!

Poker Stars has many different ways for players to win their seat. Players can play MTT (multi table touraments) with buy-in’s for as low as $2 and work their way up to a $12k package including a seat to the Main Event.

There are also the popular steps poker tournaments where players start at Step 1 for 7.50 cents and work their way up to Step 6 where a player will receive packages to the WSOP and 5 other spots pay!

The last way to qualify at Poker Stars is using Frequent Player Points (FPP) and play in the daily tournaments that cost as little as 40 FPP.

If you win a seat at Poker Stars.net you will be automatically upgraded to SuperNova VIP which has many VIP features and is one of the most enticing offers of any online poker site.

Graph of players that have qualified so far at PokerStars.com for the 2009 WSOP

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.