PokerStars NHL Freeroll Poker Tournament Offers Dallas Stars Prizes & Vegas Trip
The PokerStars NHL freeroll poker tournament is currently offering a Vegas trip to the NHL Awards, Dallas Stars prizes, and more! 
Play PokerStars freeroll to win four tickets to the NHL Awards in Las Vegas and various Dallas Star hockey team prizes —available February 1 – April 2, 2010.
The online PokerStars NHL freeroll tournament takes place every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (at 8 pm ET), and is comprised of the following:
- The top 90 players from each of these qualifiers seeds into a biweekly weekend Semi Finals, held on February 28, March 14, and March 28 (at 9 pm ET), respectively.
- Also seeding into the Semi Finals are $1.10 buy-in qualifiers held on Tuesdays and Thursdays (at 7 pm ET) til that date, with a single winner form each advancing to the Semi Finals. From here, the top 50 players will seed into a Sunday, April 4th Grand Final (at 9 pm ET).
The winner of this PokerStars NHL Grand Final on April 4th will win four tickets to the NHL Awards Ceremony, and a Dallas Stars prize package that includes a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada – including hotel accommodations and spending money for the winner and three of his/her friends!
Additional Dallas Stars and NHL merchandise will be awarded to all those who make it to the Grand Final, with the top 5 finishers receiving special bonus prizes as well.
Be advised, the PokerStars NHL Awards With The Dallas Stars promotion is open to U.S. residents only. Check out our PokerStars Review for bonus codes, game strategies, and more!
2010 PokerStars SCOOP Schedule Released
The 2010 PokerStars SCOOP schedule is out, featuring different events/levels and $3 million guaranteed cash awards!
From May 3 – 16, 2010, the Spring Championship of Online Poker, PokerStars SCOOP, is comprised of 33 different events – each with 3 different stakes levels that people can choose from!
Here’s what makes the PokerStars SCOOP schedule so unique:
- A tiered poker tournament structure with a low stakes, mid stakes, and high stakes variant of each series.
- 33 vast and varied online poker events – including Hold’em, Stud, Omaha, Badugi, H.O.R.S.E., Razz, heads-up match play and more.
- Events in the 2010 SCOOP are There’s Limit, Pot Limit and No Limit. There are also events with rebuys and addons, knockouts and six-max options.
- The prizes, of course, are also tiered accordingly – meaning you can get in on the 2010 PokerStars SCOOP action no matter what your bank roll.
The PokerStars SCOOP buy-ins range from as small as $5.50 to the top tier main event buy-in of $10,300. That event, a $5 million guaranteed tournament, takes place on May 16, along with the other two tiers of main events – the middle tier with a $1,050 buy-in and $3 million awards, and the low tier with a $109 buy-in and $1 million prizes. All totalling a guaranteed cash pool of $36 million!
Players can also skirt the direct buy-ins by playing (and winning) in any of PokerStars ongoing satellite tournaments and qualifiers for free seats in many of the 2010 SCOOP events, including of course the main event.
Check out our PokerStars Review for bonus codes, game strategies, and more!
PokerStars Freeroll Promotion Offers Ireland & UK Players Rugby Game Tickets
The PokerStars England Rugby Challenge promotion is awarding UK and Ireland poker players (and friends) tickets to various 2010 RBS 6 Nations Championship rugby matches held at Twickenham stadium in London.
In the England Rugby Challenge, PokerStars freeroll players from Ireland and UK can win trips to watch various RBS 6 Nations Championship rugby matches:
- There are 5 PokerStars England Rugby Challenge prize packages overall, each including four executive box seat tickets at Twickenham stadium, hotel accommodations, $200 in spending cash, and entry to an exclusive live poker tournament the night before the game.
- Joining with RFU (Rugby Football Union), there are two rugby matches included in the PokerStars promotion: England v. Wales (on Feb. 6) , England v. Ireland (Feb. 27)- both at Twickenham stadium in London, England.
- Winners have the chance to win a share of $1,500 in the exclusive tournament (the night before). Plus, one lucky freeroll winner will receive a rugby ball signed by the entire England Elite Squad!
Do you live in Ireland or the UK? To qualify, click on the image above to play PokerStars freeroll throughout the rest of this month, February ‘10:
See PokerStars for the full qualifier schedule. Just keep in mind that the competition is open only to PokerStar players from Ireland and the UK . The final for the game against Wales is on Jan. 31 and the final for the game against Ireland is on Feb 21.
Check out our PokerStars Review for bonus codes, game strategies, and more!
EPT 2010 Deauville Poker Champion – 21 Year Old Jake Cody
The EPT 2010 Deauville Poker Champion, Jake Cody, is one of the youngest to win the EPT poker title thus far! For his first time playing in the EPT, this 21 year old poker player proved his talent both online and off.
Today, it seems that the younger poker generation is now comfortably sweeping up the tables along with the old-school set. The most recent example of this phenomenon is Jake Cody, a 21-year-old (just like Joe Cada) who won the EPT 2010 Deauville Title in France. Never playing in the EPT (European Poker Tournament) before, Jake Cody qualified after netting $198,000 in an online win, and then finishing in the money at the UKIPT (UK and Ireland Poker Tour) 2010 kickoff event in Galway.
Other young players proving their poker game (both online and off):
- Peter Eastgate (in 2009) and now Joe Cada (in 2010) have both have successively broken Phil Hellmuth’s long-standing record for the youngest player ever to win the World Series of Poker Main Event title.
- Along with the oldest of old-schoolers, the Godfather of Poker himself Doyle Brunson, four young guns are playing in the Brunson 10 team of hand-picked online poker players.
What’s most important, however, for all you readers to take note of (whether you’re young or old) is that all of these players won live tournament seats through online poker satellites. Just like them, you could win a major title as well!
Satellites are taking place right now at PokerStars for all the upcoming EPT (European Poker Tour) events, as well as satellites for upcoming events in the UKIPT, Asian Pacific Poker Tour (LAPT), Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT), and the newest addition to the live poker series’ sponsored by PokerStars, the North American Poker Tour (NAPT).
Check out our Online Poker Room Reviews to qualify for tournaments like Jake Cody did for the EPT 2010!
Get Ready For PokerStars 40 Billionth Hand
Poker Stars is getting set to celebrate its 40 billionth hand dealt, and the way their doing it is sure to have the world’s largest poker site’s members celebrating right along with them.
Throughout the month and up to the big 40 billionth hand, Poker Stars.com will be hosting a bunch of cash ring games with special bonus prizes, all based around number 40. Every player that is dealt into one of the one millionth hands on the way to the 40 billionth had will receive a bonus $40 for every VIP player point (VPP) that the players at the table have collectively earned over the prior 40 hands at that table. What’s more, whoever wins each benchmark millionth hand will have their prize money from the pot doubled.
During this cash table portion of the Poker Stars 40 billionth hand promotion the count starts at hand #39,601,000,000.
On the 40 billionth hand, every player dealt in will receive a bonus of $400 for each VPP point earned collectively over the past 40 hands played at that same table. Additionally, the winner of that hand, again, will have their cash prize from the pot doubled. And if a split pot occurs, then all the players involved in the chopped pot will have their shares doubled.
But the highlight of PokerStars’ 40 billionth hand celebration will no doubt be the largest ever PokerStars Sunday Million tournament, taking place on Sunday, February 21 and featuring a guaranteed prize pool of $4 million.
