$500,000 Worth of WCOOP Seats Being Given Away By PokerStars
This year will be the second in a row for the Extreme Satellites event. PokerStars is looking to give away a whopping $500,000 in additional World Championship of Online Poker seats. This is an extremely affordable event, giving players, regardless of their bankroll size, an opportunity to compete for a chance to participate in the World Championship of Online Poker, one of this year’s most exciting events.
Perhaps the tournament most people are looking forward to in this year’s Extreme Satellites event is the $5400 World Championship of Online Poker event. It is a $260 qualifier, which is one of the series most expensive. This tourney will provide an extra 25 seats and add $130,000 to the prize pool.
The World Championship of Online Poker is scheduled to begin on September 5th. Sixty-two events will be played and the guaranteed combined prize money pool is incredible at $50,000,000. Individuals interested in when the satellite tournaments are being played can find out at the official World Championship of Online Poker website. The address is wcoop.com. The schedule for this year’s event is posted on the site as well.
Individuals interested in participating in the Extreme Satellites can do so between the dates of August 21st and August 29th. Three tournaments will be played each day within that time frame. Players will need to belong to PokerStars in order to participate. Individuals that are not, must sign up. Right now is an excellent time to do so. New players are eligible for a mega bonus of up to $600. Besides this very generous bonus, members of the website are also eligible for additional promotions and have the opportunity to play at one of the biggest and best poker websites in the world.
Again, if you are interested in playing your way into the World Championship of Online Poker, you need to sign up right away. The last satellite events will be played on August 29th, less then a week away.
PokerStars Forms Special League: Only Women Are Allowed
Poker stud, Vanessa Rousso, is on board to compete in PokerStars all-female league. The Women’s Poker League is the official name for PokerStars new series. Women looking to compete with other women for great prizes and fun giveaways can now do so.
There are some who thumb their nose at the concept. These people believe that there is really no need for an all-female poker league in 2010. Obviously, PokerStars feels differently and is proceeding with play. Though women poker players have become more competitive then ever, there is still a wide disparity in live evens. More are beginning to play online but the numbers offline tell a different story.
The Women’s Poker League will play until the end of 2010. Tournaments are already being played. Women have the opportunity to compete for cash and various prizes. PokerStars Ladies Luxury Event packages are being given away to winners. The packages are believed to include entry into an exclusive tournament for ladies only. The details have not yet been announced.
Women Poker League tournaments are being played everyday. Those who would like to participate will find that they need to be available at 1:10 PM (EST) and 8:10 PM (EST). The tournaments start at these times and are played daily. Players who cash and who make it to the finals table will accumulate points. The women who have the most points will win cash and other prizes. Buy-ins start as low as $5.50, which makes the league ultra-affordable and encourages play.
At the end of each month, the top 50 players will receive monies. The woman who has the most points at the end of the year will win at least €1000 and a Ladies Luxury Event Package.
A Women’s Poker League weekly tournament has just been started. It will be played on Sundays. If you would like to join the Women’s Poker League, you can. Simply become a member of PokerStars and sign up for the league.
I wonder how Daniel Negreanu feels about this being one of the PokerStars Stars considering he has advocated against womens only events on his blog for quite a while.
Illegal Bot Uncovered At PokerStars
It took a little detective work and a lot of persistence but players helped bring down a bot. It all started when a poster at twoplustwo.com began to become suspicious of several players at PokerStars.com, the worlds largest online poker website. Several (ten to be exact) players had games which were markedly similar. Some of them would all start a session at the same table stakes, move down after a certain number of sets, not considering the results. This was just the tip of the ice burg but was enough to get ‘Mallic” interested in further sleuthing. It turned out that his snooping paid off in a major way.
It was after Mallic made his concerns known that other players at PokerStars begin noticing and complaining about the same things. Suspicion began to grow until finally a third party was asked to come in and perform their own research.
PTR conducted an investigation into the 10 screen names accused of bot activity. They found that there were significant similarities in the players’ statistics. Every one of the players would change their table stakes simultaneously, and their betting patterns were exactly alike. Overall, the company compared 28 metrics such as saw flop percentage, pre-flop rise, flop aggression and 3 bet percentages. What they found was that the play variety in terms of style was no more 2.39. To give individuals some perspective, for most players, this percentage is at least 30.
Upon hearing (or seeing) the evidence offered by Poker Stars players, PokerStars kicked out the 10 players accused of bot activity.
Those players were
- 7emenov
- Bakabar
- Crazier
- Feidmanis
- Mvra
- Daergy
- Nakseon
- Koldan
- Kozzin
- and Demidou
PokerStars gave no details about whether or not punishment of nay kind was meted out. However, there is an assumption that no monies owed to the individual who owns these 10 accounts would be paid out.
PokerStars Begin Playing Tournaments in Mexico
PokerStars recently announced that it will be hosting two non-U.S. tournaments. They are The First National Poker Tournament and the PokerStars Balkan Poker Festival. Both will feature hundreds of players battling it out for supremacy.
As poker becomes increasingly popular overseas, poker websites and companies are looking to take advantage by creating tournaments and special events branded with their names and images.
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The Bulgarian tournament is scheduled to take place September 2nd and is to last until the September 5th. The field will include no more then 200 people. The event itself is set to take place along the Black Sea at the Grand Hotel Casino International at the Golden Sands Resort. The buy-in for the event will be €900 + €90. The payout structure has not been determined. However, one prize that will definitely be given out is a seat in one of the European Poker Tour (EPT) events. This prize package has a value of at least 5000 Euros. These regional events make PokerStars presence more well known and allows them to go into localized markets like the recent move into France with the French PokerStars online poker site at PokerStars.fr.
The Mexican tournament will take place on August 19th and is slated to last until August 22nd. Mexico City will play host. Games will be played at the Casino Life del Valle. The First National Poker Tournament will include a maximum of 300 players. The field will eventually be decreased until only 90 players remain. These 90 will duke it out for a chance to participate in the finals, an event which will include only 10 players. The winner will receive the title of First National Poker Tournament champion along with $78,000 (1 million Mexican Pesos).
Each of these events marks an exciting time for Poker Stars. As their reach increases, the brands gets bigger which begins to attract more players to the website. Individuals interested in participating in either of the aforementioned events can play their way in via the site or utilize the buy-in option.
Win The Ultimate Dream Car At PokerStars: Lamborghini Freeroll Event
PokerStars is one of the preeminent poker websites in the world. It is the largest such site and has more ring game and tournament players at any one time participating in games then any other internet poker room on the globe. They offer generous promotions, one of the latest being the Lamborghini Freeroll event.
PokerStars have the opportunity to win one of the most luxurious cars on the planet, the Lamborghini, for free. Along with winning this great car (worth $200,000), the winner also receives $250,000. For weekly final events, $100,000 in cash and prizes is up for grabs.
PokerStars members will be able to sign up for the event at the website. Information to do so can be found under the ‘Tourney” tab, players will then need to click the ‘All’ link. The information regarding sign up, along with a listing of all of the scheduled events should be found there.
The Lamborghini promotion will include 24 daily freeroll qualifiers. There will also be a small number of satellite tournaments. Satellite events will cost the player $1.10 or $11. All players are competing to win the car and the $250,000 in cash. There also a large number of generous cash giveaways throughout the promotion. Each week $100,000 is given away.
This event will likely go down as one of the coolest in PokerStars history. Not only is a tremendous amount of money being given away but the opportunity to win a car as cool as the Lamborghini is pretty awesome. Those who wish to participate will find that even if they don’t win the big prize, they still have to opportunity to win a piece of the $100,000 prize amount, given out each week.
The Lamborghini event looks like another fantastic promotion from PokerStars. Individuals interested in this promotion or others, need to check out the website to see what it currently on the schedule of promotional events.
