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PokerStars Picks Tom McEvoy For Poker Hall of Fame Nomination

If getting inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame could be called winning the tournament of tournaments, then this news qualifies as PokerStars Tournament News big time, because the site has named its choice of nominee for the 2009 induction: Tom McEvoy.

This is the same Tom McEvoy who just beat out the toughest playing field perhaps in poker history, the Poker Champions Invitational held at the 2009 WSOP in honor of the 40th Anniversary of the World Series of Poker in which the only players allowed entry were prior winners of the WSOP Main Event. Tom McEvoy won the World Series of Poker Main Event in 1994. And he won the Champions of Poker Invitational, against such greats as Doyle Brunson and Phil Hellmuth as well as the several main event winners who won their ticket into the event free through satelliting at PokerStars: Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker, Joe Hachem, and the 2008 Main Event winner Peter Eastgate (who at 22 y.o. unseated Phil Hellmuth from his longstanding record of being the youngest WSOP Main Event winner in history).

PokerStars EPT Season 6 Schedule Released

Poker Stars has just released the schedule for the sixth season of the PokerStars European Poker Tour. In terms of total prize pool distributed, this is promised to be the richest European Poker Tour yet. EPT Season 6 will debut on August 17 in Moscow, Russia.

Of course PokerStars will be running satellites throughout the season, awarding many of its players the chance of a lifetime, to stay in an exotic international locale and compete in a live poker tournament with a multi-million dollar prize pool. Stay tuned here and to PokerStars for more details on these golden opportunities.

EPT Season 5 set some pretty high benchmarks for EPT Season 6 to follow, with many record setting prize pools and player fields. At the EPT Season 5 Monte Carlo Grand Final, for example, the prize pool reached an unprecedented $9.3 million. That event, by the way (and in case you didn’t see it) was won by Pieter De Korve. His prize: $2.3 million.

PokerStars World Series Mega Main Event Qualifier Satellites

PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, is hosting one of the largest WSOP 2009 Main Event qualifiers available to poker players.  The Mega Main Event Qualifer is set to take place on June 14th and PokerStars is going to be giving away 200 prize packages to the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event!

This special Main Event Qualifier replaces the Sunday Million on June 14th.  You can buy in directly to the mega satellite for just $370.  However, there will also be a full range of qualifier satellites available to win your seat in the mega Main Event Qualifier, starting from as little at $2.20 or 460 FPPs.  All satellites are located together with the main tournament under the Events > WSOP tab in your PokerStars.com lobby.

The PokerStars.com Main Event prize package is worth $12,000 and includes the Main Event buy-in, hotel accommodations and $1,000 in cash for expenses. The World Championship begins July 3, 2009, at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Can’t make it to the Mega Main Event Qualifier?  Don’t worry, PokerStars has got you covered.

If you miss the $370 Mega Satellite, you can also take part in their daily freerolls which give you a shot at reaching the World Series for FREE!  Every day until June 20th, 14 quadruple shootout freeroll tournaments will give 10 players a ticket to play in the Weekly Final which will take place each Sunday at 19:00 ET.  The winner of the Weekly Final will be awarded a World Series Main Event package worth $12,000!

With so many ways to qualify for this years WSOP Main Event, it’s know wonder PokerStars.com sends the most players to the Main Event each year.

PokerStars Launches Italian Poker Tour with IPT San Remo

On Thursday, May 28, Poker Stars announced the start of a new major land-based poker series it would be sponsoring, the Italian Poker Tour. In collaboration with Luca Pagano, a member of Team PokerStars and major player commonly seen at the final tables of many European Poker Tour events, Poker Stars

What this means for amateur poker players like ourselves is that Poker Stars will now start offering low-cost satellite tournaments (€5 or 100 Frequent Player Points, or FPPs) awarding free entry into larger satellites in which the ultimate top prize is free entry into the various IPT events.

The inaugural event in this new series, known as the IPT for short, kicked off June 1 in San Remo. Not to be confused with the popular fledgling EPT San Remo event that PokerStars only just introduced into the European Poker Tour last year, Season 4, IPT San Remo is still underway. The winner of this first Italian Poker Tour event, won’t be discovered for another few days yet – as it’s a 6-day event – but one thing is for sure. Whoever it is, their name will surely go down in PokerStars history.

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