PokerStars Promotions

It was only just over a month ago that PokerStars dealt its 70-billionth hand and gave away more than $750,000, and now, as part of the 10th Anniversary Celebration, the site is holding a Special Edition Milestone Hand, as the site approaches the 72-billionth hand mark.

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Starting from hand 71.7bn, cash prizes will be awarded to all players dealt into every millionth hand based on the amount of VPPs accumulated at that specific table until the 72-billionth Mega Milestone Hand. For that final hand all players dealt in at the table will net $10,000 bonuses in addition to the cash earned via VPPs accumulated.

In total, more than $750,000 will be awarded to more than 1,000 players. The first few milestone hands have already hit, but there are lots more to come over the next few days, so check out www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/100-billion to find out the current hand number and the best time to hit the tables in search of a big cash prize.

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10th Anniversary Double Battle of the Planets
For one week only, the Battle of the Planets Sit & Go Leaderboards will have double prize pools as part of the 10th Anniversary Celebration. From December 11-17, players can accumulate points across eight different divisions, via either low or high volume leaderboards, in a bid to share thousands of dollars in prizes.
For information about how to make the leaderboards go to the Battle of the Planets page, while details of the prizes available can be found at www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/10th-anniversary/botp.

Sunday Storm Special
Don’t forget that this coming weekend will see the $1 million Sunday Storm Special, featuring an $11 buy-in, a $1 million guaranteed prize pool and $100 bounties on the heads of all Team PokerStars members who compete in the tourney.
The tournament takes place on December 11 at 13.30 ET (19.30 CET) and has a guaranteed $150,000 first place prize. Satellite qualifiers into the event are running all week at PokerStars.com. For more information, go to www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/10th-anniversary/storm-special.

Sunday Majors
Last weekend’s $215 buy-in Sunday Warm-Up attracted 3,585 players and generated a prize pool of $717,000. In the end, “raulbcn” from the UK won the tourney and pocketed $83,683.90, although “3591omanyd” from Germany actually won more ($93,000) for second place as a result of a deal which was done when play became three-handed. Team PokerStars Pro Nacho Barbero, from Argentina, came 14th for $3,226.50.
Meanwhile, the Sunday Million, which got under way a few hours later, garnered 6,899 players and a total prize pool of $1,379,800. Walking away with the first prize of $143,666.05 was “traxxart” from Russia, who came from behind heads-up to take the title. A four-way chop was done though, which resulted in second-placed “gabriel171” from Brazil, emerging as the biggest winner with $149,496.62.

EPT Prague
The latest European Poker Tour event is now under way in the Czech capital of Prague. The main event, which began Monday, December 5 and finishes on Saturday, December 10, is a €5,300 tourney that has attracted an EPT Prague record field of 722 players (a huge increase on last year’s 563 players) and generated a prize pool of €3,501,700. Several members of Team PokerStars are vying for the first prize of €750,000, including new World Champion Pius Heinz, former tennis pro Boris Becker, Jonathan Duhamel and Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier.
As an additional event, the day before EPT Prague kicked off, PokerStars held a World Record Tournament media party in the Hilton Prague hotel, with several members of Team PokerStars, various members of the media, and other EPT players. PokerStars celebrated setting a new world record for largest ever online poker tournament when 200,000 players competed in the 10th Anniversary event.
For live updates from the EPT Prague event, follow the PokerStars Blog all this week.

PCA 2012
With a month to go until the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure shuffles up for action in the Bahamas, the total number of registered players now stands at 459, with 415 having qualified for a seat in the main event online and another 44 having bought in directly. It puts the prize pool at more than $4.5 million with still scores of online and live qualifiers to go over the coming weeks.
The PCA isn’t just about the No Limit Hold’em action of the main event though, with several mixed games tournaments taking place from January 9-11. The first is a two-day $1,100 H.O.E. event with $25k guaranteed, the second is a two-day $1,100 Omaha 8/Stud 8 tourney also with $25k guaranteed, while the third is a $5,250 8-Game Championship, which also takes place over two days and is sure to attract some of the world’s biggest players.
For a full schedule of the 41 PCA events, check out the PCA website

FPS SunFest Mazagan
The French Poker Series SunFest Mazagan event in Morocco took place last week, and at the end of three days’ play Anas Tadini was crowned champion of the €1,200 main event. The tourney saw 305 players compete for a share of the €320,045 prize pool.
For more information, see the PokerStars Blog at www.pokerstarsblog.com/2011/anas-tadini-wins-fps-sunfest-mazagan-089034.html.

Belgium Poker Series
Next week sees the BPS Grand Final take place at the Casino de Namur, with the €1,700 main event scheduled from December 10-18. That includes four Day 1s and two Day 2s, which should make for a big field of national and local poker players. In total there are 11 events across the nine days, with buy-ins to suit players of every level.
Check out www.belgianpokerseries.com/tournaments/bpsfinal for more information.