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.
Poker Stars has recently raised their first time deposit bonus from $50 up to $600! This is excellent news for players waiting for a good reason to deposit and will be a huge boost to any poker players bankroll.
New PokerStars.net Deposit: 100% up to $600 dollars
Players can deposit as little as $25 dollars up to $600 and PokerStars.net will match the deposit! Poker Stars.net has one of the easiest bonuses to clear so you will see the additional bonus funds in no time once you begin playing.
The best part of the bonus is that the bonus applies for 3 deposits or until you get to $600 dollars. So you can deposit $50 and will be matched with another $50, if you deposit for a second time you will be able to get another bonus up to $550. Let’s say that time you deposited $100 then you will be matched as well as have $450 dollars for your 3rd and final deposit bonus!
Poker Stars ran the largest tournament last Sunday breaking the previous record by 30,000 players! The tournament was a $1 buy-in and was announced last Friday and registration in less then 24 hours had reached more then 35,000 players (the previous world record).
The tournament had 65,000 entrants and each player started with 2,000 chips. In less then ten hours 004 license took down the record breaking tournament lasting the biggest online tournament field and taking home $13,000 dollars for his accomplishment.
Poker Stars doubled the prize pool of the tournament to $130,000 and paid more then 16k players!
Poker Stars held the record before the tournament but was challenged by Full Tilt Poker and decided they would go over the top and make sure they would keep the record.
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
PokerStars.net will be holding a PokerStars Poker Camp in Monte Carlo. Many of the top Team PokerStars Pros will be at the camp helping players with strategy and will be hosting multiple instruction sessions. Topics will include the differences between online and offline play, final table strategy and how to analyze hands while playing live poker.
Play at Poker Stars and get a 100% deposit up to $50.
Team Poker Stars Pros that will be teaching the sessions include Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker. This is your chance to have some of the best poker coaching from top poker players who have made a living from playing poker.
You can qualify at Poker Stars.net for your chance to be apart of the poker camp for as little as $11 dollars. If you are a serious poker player and would like to buy in directly, this is also an option. To check out the Poker Stars Poker Camp satellites go to tourney>satellite.
The camp will start with a welcome party on April 25th and the training sessions will be held on the 26th and 27th. Players that qualify via Poker Stars will be given three nights hotel accomodation, camp entry as well as a gift bag and $1,000 dollars spending money.
If you have been waiting for the next major online poker tournament series, wait no more because on April 2nd Poker Stars is kicking off the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). The SCOOP is the largest tournament series anywhere online with a guaranteed prize pool of $30,000,000. Hosting 2 events a day from April 2-12 the SCOOP will feature 22 events in total and a variety of poker games.
For those concerned that the SCOOP will be for high stakes players only, don’t worry because the SCOOP features tournaments for every level of player. Each of the 22 events will include three tournaments: one for low-stakes players, one for medium stakes players, and finally one for players who play in high-stakes games.
To register for one of the SCOOP – All Stakes satellite tournaments, go to the Poker Stars lobby and under events click ‘SCOOP’.
If you are up to the challenge and want to find out more about specific events go to Poker Stars and click the SCOOP banner on the promotions page, or go to http://www.pokerstars.com/scoop.
Poker Stars.net has a new commercial with team poker stars member Daniel Negreanu playing a pick up game of hockey. Daniel Negreanu is Canadian so guessing from the commercial as well as where he is from…he must have played a lot of hockey when he was younger.
The commercial shows Daniel Negreanu playing hockey and then cuts to him playing poker. He explains how they are both similiar in that you need to know your oppoenents as well as when to make your move against them.
PokerStars.net will be hosting two final qualifying tournaments giving participants a chance to win a seat at the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. The final round two tournament kicks off on February 21 and that tournament is followed by a last chance tournament going on later that day. 56 of the top finishers from the round two tournament and 8 players from the last chance tournament will win seats to the Grand Final.
The Grand Final will take place the following day on February 22, and the top two finishers from this tournament will win a prize package that includes a seat in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. The National Heads-Up Poker Championship is a 64 person, invite only tournament, with a field that features the best players in the Nation. Only on Poker Stars is this opportunity available so to learn more about the promotion go to PokerStars.net.
Poker Stars offers the best rewards program on the web with their generous PokerStars VIP club. The VIP club rewards loyal online players with cash bonuses, free tournament entries, and other prizes from the VIP store. In 2008 alone, poker stars gave away over 100 million dollars with the VIP club.
To become a member of the PokerStars VIP club all you need to do is sign up on pokerstars.net and once you make your first deposit you will instantly become a member of the club. The more you play the more VIP points you will earn, and with enough points you can earn your way up the VIP rankings and recieve even better rewards.
To learn more about the VIP club visit PokerStars and check out what you can gain from the VIP club rewards program. Also visit PokerStars to see the VIP club tournament schedule so you can be sure to cash in on your VIP points.
