Poker players in the United States may have been locked out of Poker Stars but not all of North America has suffered such a fate. Players in Canada are now being invited to try and win a free seat in Poker Stars’ first ever Canada Cup, featuring a main event with a guaranteed prize pool of $250,000.
The PokerStars Canada Cup I will take place at next year’s PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in the Bahamas, on January 9, 2012. Qualifiers for this event started on PokerStars on September 26, 2011.
Qualifier winners will meet up on Sunday, October 23 at 5:30 pm ET for the PokerStars.net Canada Cup Final. This event will play out until the player pool dwindles to a final table of 9 players. These 9 players will then finish out the competition live in person at the 2012 PCA. Poker Stars will cover all travel and luxury accommodation expenses for the 9 final table players with extra expense cash to boot.
The final table will be recorded for televised broadcast during which the $250,000 prize pool will be distributed and the PokerStars.net Canada Cup trophy will be awarded to the winner. In addition to the lions share of that quarter-million dollar prize pool, the winner of the Canada Cup I will receive free entry into an additional tournament, a PCA High Rollers event with a $25,000 direct buy-in.
This promotion is only open to players from Canada. Visit Poker Stars to see what other regional-based tournament and promotions they currently have running.