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PokerStars.tv covers poker tournaments from across the globe with live webcasts, TV shows, and video blogs. Currently highlighted on PokerStars.tv are the PCA, EPT, and WCOOP tournaments. The videos on PokerStars.tv show highlights and interviews from the world largest tournaments along with live video coverage that you can’t get anywhere else.

In addition to great tournament coverage PokerStars.tv also offers interviews and tips from some of the biggest names on PokerStars.net. Once on the site click the Team PokerStars Pro tab and you can learn more about players like Vanessa Rousso, Victor Ramdin, and Luca Pagano. Whenever looking for the latest  PokerStars news, be sure to check out PokerStars.tv.

The final table was delayed 3 months and was later dubbed the “november nine” after the nine players waited for November 11th when play would be resumed. Peter Eastgate had 4-1 odds going into the final table but was able to pull off the victory against Ivan Demidov and took home $9,152,416 for his efforts.

You can now find Peter Eastgate playing at Poker Stars.net as well as live poker tournaments around the world. Eastgate is originally from Odense, Denmark and has played in the EPT and Irish Poker Tour poker tournaments as well as the World Series.

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.

Poker players with a mac computer can now play at the poker room by downloading the mac poker software by going to the regular pokerstars.net download page and there you will see a dialog box that takes you to the mac pokerstars download.

Mac computer users that aren’t familiar with PokerStars.net have a lot to look forward to. Poker Stars is the largest poker site and has hundreds of tournaments daily with more then 30 million dollars in guaranteed tournaments through out the week. They also have thousands of cash games being played at any time with penny stakes up to thousands of dollars in the high stakes poker games.

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.

Poker Stars is known for their Sunday Millions and the tournament just got bigger with an additional $500,000 dollars added to the guranteed prize pool. Making it a $1,500,000 dollar tournament!

Two other sunday Poker Stars.net tournaments also got additional prize pool money including the Sunday Warm Up now $750k and they have just announced a new $530 weekly No Limit Hold-em tournmaent with a guarantee of $250k (Also the last Sunday of every month the tournament will have a $1,050 buy-in).

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.

]]> http://www.pstars.net/uncategorized/the-wcoop-is-back/feed/ http://www.pstars.net/poker-stars/double-promotion/ http://www.pstars.net/poker-stars/double-promotion/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:03:00 +0000 kdollar http://www.pstars.net/?p=50 Poker Stars is currently running a 2x promotion for the month of July. At various times in the month they will be giving away double the VPPs, double the chance to win and at times double the prize pool.  The best part of the promotion is they will be offering 2x bonuses to tournaments and cash games across the board so chances are your favorite game will be offered at one point during the month of July.

The current offers at PokerStars.net:

Cash Games and Sit and Go’s - Double the VPPs from July 1 - July 6

2X First Time Depositors - Using code: First2x you can receive entry to 2X Depositor Freerolls running everyday with a tournament prize pool of $2,222. If you make the money in the tournament you will be automatically entered in the end of the month $22,222 grand finale tournament.

2X Chance Tournaments - Multi Table tournaments that allow you to have one re-buy in the case that you are eliminated early in the tournament.

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

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.