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August 2011 is PokerStars VIP Club Mega Month

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This August, 2011, all you have to do is earn 75 VIP Points at Poker Stars and you will be given Silver Star player status for the rest of this month and all of next, through to the end of September. Ordinarily you have to earn 750 VPPS to achieve that status.

What does SilverStar status bring you? You get 1.5 FPPS for each VPP instead of just 1 for 1, as BronzeStar players do. You also get a better monthly rewards rate: 16-18 percent starting the first month at $22 and previous months 19-21 percent starting at $26 instead of 9-10 percent for up to $12 the first month and 15-17 percent for up to $21 the second month.

And what if you’re already a SilverStars VIP player? Then you can gain GoldStars status for earning only 300 VPPS instead of the normal 3,000. GoldStar VIP players the same–earn 750 VPPs for PlatinumStar status instead of the usual 7,500 VPPS. Now, once September ends, to retain the boosted status you will have to earn the normal requisite number of VPPS or be downgraded to your previous status. But for two months at least, you can get a feel for the view “up there” and perhaps an added incentive to try and climb your way back to those heights.

Each status level brings you a better FPP for VPP rate and higher monthly rewards potential.

During VIP Club Mega Month, Poker Stars is also holding a VIP Store Sale.

Poker Stars Women Get Extra WCOOP Treatment

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The Poker Stars World Championship of Online Poker is coming up, and in keeping with the continuing effort of PokerStars to appeal to its growing numbers of women at the online poker tables (and to attract even more), they’re holding a special WCOOP 2011 promotion for ladies only.

Here’s how it works. All women who reach a final table at either a Women’s Sunday event or a Women’s Poker League event will automatically win a free seat in a WCOOP Step Satellite.

Women’s Poker League events take place twice daily with a $0.10 buy-in and twice daily with a $1.10 buy-in. The final table players at each of these will earn themselves a $7.50 WCOOP Step 1 Satellite tournament ticket regardless of how they fare at the final table from that point onward. The Women’s Sunday event takes place every Sunday and offers its final tablers a $27 WCOOP Step 2 satellite tournament ticket.

In addition, once the 2011 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker comes and goes, the woman who finishes highest on the WCOOP Player of the Series Leaderboard will be named Woman of the Series and win a $3,500 2012 PCA Women’s prize package that, just like it sounds, includes free entry into the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Women’s event.

The 2011 WCOOP takes place from September 4 – 26 and spanning the 22 days includes 62 poker tournament events with a combined guaranteed prize pool of over $30 million.

All unused Step Ticket prizes from this promotion will expire on September 25.

Poker Stars Doubles Battle of the Planet Prize Pools All Week…And Then Some

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This week at Poker Stars is Battle of the Planets Week, taking place from Sunday, August 7 through Saturday, August 13, 2011. During this time, a leader board contest that usually promises players $3,000,000 per year in cash winnings ups the ante to $10,000,000 for just this one week only.

In the Battle of the Planet, Poker Stars players compete in multiplayer sit and go tournaments with varying buy-ins and equally varying prize pools. Each sit and go stakes range is named for a certain planet in our solar system. Each planet has a leaderboard Poker Stars tracks to find the most successful players in each group. Prizes are awarded weekly in two categories for each planetary group, each with its own leader board: one for casual players called the Low-Orbit leader board and one for frequent players called the High-Oribt leader boards.

During this Battle of the Planets week, all of the weekly prize pools have been doubled, ranging from $1,500 for each orbit in the lowest stakes, or Mercury Sit and Gos, to $10,000 for each orbit in the highest stakes range, or Jupiter Sit and Gos.

All players finishing in the top 10 in any of the 16 weekly leaderboards wins a seat in a monthly triple shootout worth $50,000.

You must play in at least 20 BOTP Sit and Gos in any given group in order to be eligible for a share of that group’s prize pool. Low orbit players can compete in up to 5 blocks of 20 tournaments, or 100 BOTP Sit and Gos before being bumped to high orbit, in which players must compete in at least 100 BOTP Sit and Gos to qualify.

Poker Stars Goes Goa: Seeks Players to Send to Casino Pride Poker Event in India

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Poker Stars is holding satellite tournaments awarding seats in the Casino Pride Poker Festival taking place Septembe 2 – 4, 2011 in Goa, India. With a guaranteed prize pool of INR1,000,000, the Casino Pride Poker Event takes place in the SOL Poker Room of the docked cruise ship, Casino Pride.

Poker Stars online satellites into the Casino Pride Poker Event include freeroll tournaments taking place at 9:30 am and 11:30 am ET daily, with a freeroll final happening August 22. Feeder satellites with buy-ins starting at just $0.55 or 10 Frequent Player Points (FPP) leads to one of three different satellites, each offering a slightly different prize package for the winners.

The top prize packages for the PokerStars Casino Pride Poker Event are valued at $1,726 and include the buy-in of INR25,000 into the main event, a three-night stay plus breakfasts at the Taj Vivante, a 5-star hotel located in Panjim, Goa, transfers to and from the airport and $750 cash to apply toward travel expenses. The satellites for these packages cost $215 and take place every Sunday through August 21.

Alternatively, players can win value-added seats, which include the INR25,000 main event buy-in and stay in a local 4-star hotel. The satellites for these packages cost $109 to buy-in directly and are happening every Tuesday and Thursday until August 23. Satellites running every Saturday and Sunday until August 21 with $66 direct buy-ins are also taking place for just the INR25,000 main event buy-in alone.

The action at the Casino Pride Poker Event is made up of three tournaments with cash games taking place throughout.

Poker Stars Releases 2011 WCOOP Schedule

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It’s time once again for another World Championship of Online Poker, courtesy of the slightly smaller but still world’s largest poker site: Poker Stars.

The 2011 World Championship of Online Poker (or WCOOP, for short) consists of 62 tournaments ranging from No Limit Hold’em to Fixed Limit Badugi and everything in between. Over half-a-dozen events have prize pools topping $1 million, several reaching $1.5 million. The action takes place from September 4 – 25 with most days seeing at least two, sometimes three or four, events. It all leads up to the main event, of course, taking place September 25 for a direct buy-in of $5,200 and a guaranteed prize pool of at least $5 million with a guaranteed 20% (that’s $1 million minimum) going to first place.

Buy-ins for WCOOP 2011 start at $109 and climb to $10,300 for the several high-roller events. But the site is already holding satellite tournaments awarding seats in the series’ various events for much lower cost, starting at only 100 FPPs (Frequent Player Points) or $1. There are also STEPS Sit and Go satellites into the 2011 WCOOP as well.

There will also be a leaderboard running to determine the WCOOP Player of the Series, who will win a massive prize package that includes a Champions Trophy, an EPT (European Poker Tour) Season 8 Grand Final prize package, a 2012 SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker) main event entry, a prize package into the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and a special edition poker chip set.

Meet Chris Moneymaker at Poker Stars Eureka Poker Tour

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Winners of satellite tournaments into the latest Eureka Poker Tour, Eureka Zagreb, will not only get a free seat in the live event worth €1,400. They will also get to meet 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event winner, and the man who paved the way for online poker amateurs to take on professional live championship poker, Chris Moneymaker. What’s more, one of these lucky satellite winners will also get the chance to play against Chris Moneymaker heads-up in a €1,000 buy-in event.

Poker Stars is giving away four Eureka Zagreb prize packages. Freeroll and cash entry satellites into the Weekly Final satellites at which the prize packages will be awarded are running around the clock at the site. In addition, all players to reach one of the weekly finals will also be invited back to play in the Grand Final, at which the heads-up seat opposited Chris Moneymaker will also be awarded. In addition the Grand Final has a €2,000 guaranteed cash prize pool, which the regular weekly finals also have an added €1,000 cash prize pool.

Players can enter one of the Weekly Finals in one of several ways. The freeroll path runs Mondays through Saturdays, July 25 through August 12 with the top 50 winning seats in the Freezeout Qualifier. The Freezeout Qualifier has a €1.10 direct buy-in and runs Mondays through Sundays, July 25 through August 13, awarding the top 9 finishers seats in the weekly final. Alternatively, there’s a €3.30 Rebuy Qualifier running the same days, with the same guaranteed awards.

Eureka Zagreb weekly finals take place Sundays, July 31 and August 7 and 14, while the grand final takes place Tuesday, August 16.

Poker Stars Sunday Majors Line-up Gets Biggers

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Poker Stars just made Sunday an even better day to play online poker with the newest addition to its selection of big money tournaments known collectively as the Sunday Majors, that being the $50,000 guaranteed Sunday Cubed.

The Poker Stars Sunday Cubed launched on July 31 and now runs each and every Sunday at 5:00 ET, a time intended to attract players from New Zealand, Australia, Asia and countries East of Central Europe.

The Sunday Cubed has a buy-in of $55 + $1 and is a rebuy/add-on event, permitting one of each per player per event.

That brings to nine the full total number of tournaments in the Sunday Majors held each Sunday at Poker Stars, the others being:
• The Sunday Kickoff worth $75,000 guaranteed
• The Sunday Rebuy worth $200,000 guaranteed
• The Sunday Storm worth $200,000 guaranteed
• The Sunday 500 worth $250,000 guaranteed
• The Sundy Second Chance worth $125,000 guaranteed
• The Sunday 6-Max worth $60,000 guaranteed
• The Sunday Supersonic worth $40,000 guaranteed
• The Sunday Million worth $1 million guaranteed and a first place prize of at least $150,000

There are also big $215 buy-in tournaments every Sunday at Poker Stars in Omaha, Stud and Draw poker.

As with all Sunday Majors, Poker Stars is holding qualifier tournaments throughout each week leading up to the big event, giving players a way to enter the Sunday Cubed tournament without paying the buy-in. You’ll find the Sunday Cubed schedule and registration button under Regular in the PokerStars Tourney lobby.

Daniel Negreanu Invites High Stakes Poker Players to Daniel’s Room at Poker Stars

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Daniel Negreanu hosts his very own poker room at Poker Stars for high rollers only. If that sounds like you, then you’re invited. All you need is the proper bankroll and you can play cash poker for the kind of money most players can only hope to encounter in tournament play. Daniel’s Room features cash tables at different stakes – all of them high.

While more games at different stakes may be offered in the future, currently Daniel’s Room hosts No Limit Hold’em only, currently at three different stakes ranges: $20/$40 with a $10 ante, $50/$100 with a $25 ante and $100/$200 with a $50 ante. All tables are 6-handed, with a minimum 100 BB buy-in and a maximum 250 BB buy-in.

Players interested in high stakes poker but currently lacking the bankroll to sit in and play can still observe the action in Daniel’s Room as these tables are open to railbirds. Watch how the high rollers play without having to risk taking a hit for it.

Find Daniel’s Room tables by browsing to the High stakes section of the Hold’em No Limit/Pot Limit tab and looking for the red DR symbol. You can also use the Hold’em Ring Game Filter option labeled “Show Daniel’s Room Only”.

Daniel Negreanu, nicknamed “Kid Poker”, is considered one of the best No Limit Hold’em poker players alive. Member of Team Poker Stars and host of the recurring poker TV show “PokerStars Poker Million”, the Canadian poker star has won first, second or third place in no less than a dozen and a half major league poker tournaments, including World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker events.

Poker Stars Road to 100 Billion Nears 65

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The latest Poker Stars milestone hands promotion has begun and this time it’s heading straight for the 65 billion mark. Part of the larger Road to 100 Billion promotion, oftentimes as Poker Stars nears a particular milestone number of hands dealt, they run a promotion offering big cash bonuses to all the players participating in the incremental minor milestone hands leading up to the major milestone, with even bigger rewards for the winners of those hands. The latest of these promotions has been the Road to 100 Billion and currently that road is about to hit the 65 billion hand milestone.

At the time of this writing, Poker Stars has dealt 64,603,040,777 hands and promises to deal the 65 billionth before the month of July 2011 is out. Be playing at any cash game table for any of the millionth hands between 64.7 billion and 65 billion and you’ll win a cash prize. The player who wins the 65 billionth hand stands to win at least $65,000, on top of however much money he or she wins from the pot of that hand.

The amount that players win for participating in a milestone hand depends on how many VPPs they earned in the previous 50 hands leading up to that milestone. Multiply that number by $50 and add $50 and you’ll determine your cash prize for participation in a milestone hand. Double it if you’re the winner of that hand.

In this stage of the Road to 100 Billion hands promotion, PokerStars will honor 300 milestone hands leading up to the mega-milestone of 65 billion. After that, the next Road to 100 Billion promotion will occur as the site approaches its 70 billionth hand.

Poker Stars Invites Players to Challenge Viktor Blom Heads-Up

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Poker Stars invites all comers to challenge Viktor “Isildur1” Blom in heads-up poker with the Superstar Showdown.

The PokerStars SuperStar Showdown consists of a single session lasting exactly 2,500 hands spread across four tables of NL Hold’em tables and PL Omaha with stakes of at least $50/$100. Whichever player wins the other’s bankroll before those 2,500 hands are up is the winner. If no one busts out then the player showing a profit at the end of 2,500 hands is declared the winner.

Poker Stars will not be funding challengers in the SuperStar Showdown, meaning you have to supply your own bankroll. But if you can do it, then this is a chance to play against one of the world’s best and most notorious online cash game poker players. Poker Stars requires challengers to place the equivalent of 1,500 big blinds (or $150,000 at $50/$100 stakes) in escrow with the site in order to secure the match. This indicates to PokerStars and Isildur1 that you’re actually serious about your challenge.

Since December of 2010, 11 players have participated in the SuperStar Showdown (or 10 players really; Daniel Negreanu played twice). Of all those matches only the first challenger, Isaac Haxton, and Daniel Negreanu on his second attempt managed to best Isidlur1. To challenge Viktor Blom to a SuperStar Showdown of your own, email PokerStars at showdown at pokerstars dot com.

You can find the SuperStars Showdown tables under the Showdown tab in the No Limit/Pot Limit part of the Hold’em Cash Game lobby.