Two Poker Stars Acquisitions
November 18, 2009
Pretty soon you’ll be able to play in Poker Stars tournaments on your cell phone. This week, PokerStars announced its acquisition of a company named Cecure Gaming. They are makers of mobile games known for operating several popular online poker brands, including: Ladbrokes, the World Poker Tour, and Aces Royal.
And as promised in the headline to this story, PokerStars has made not one but two new acquisitions of late, the second being in the form of a new player signed onto the Team PokerStars pro team. This time it’s Jude Ainsworth of Ireland, known on the site a j.thaddeus. He will, in particular, be assigned to strengthening the Team PokerStars UK & Ireland brand.
Jude was the 2008 winner of the Irish Poker Championship (for €145,000) and the 2009 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker $10,000 Main Event (for $963,338). December 11 to 14 Jude plays in the UKIPT event in his hometown of Galway.
Introducing the UK and Ireland Poker Tour
November 3, 2009
Poker Stars is sponsoring a brand new poker tournament on the live poker circuit, and of course will be offering an abundance of opportunities to satellite your way into its many events for low or no cost at on PokerStars.com.
The new poker tour is called the UK & Ireland Poker Tour (or UKIPT for short). It starts December 11-14 at the Irish Poker Championship in Galway, now also known as UKIPT Galway.
The tour (and respective PokerStars.com satellites) runs through Manchester, Coventry, Nottingham (at the notorious Dusk Till Dawn club), Killarney, Brighton, Scotland, and Dublin, winding up with its finale at the UKIPT London Grand Final on October 2-8, 2010, conveniently also a part of the European Poker Tour event, PokerStars EPT London.
Satellites for all UKIPT events, starting now with UKIPT Galway, run for as little as $2.22 cash, 111 FPPs, or $7.50 or 500 FPPs through the STEPS tournament program. There’s also a PokerStars UKIPT Leader Board with bonus prizes.
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