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PokerStars Next Guinness World Record Attempt: Dec. 27

Poker Stars is trying once again to break its own record in The Guinness Book of World Records for the most players in an online poker tournament. We suppose they just want to increase the distance between their lead and hot-on-their-tail Full Tilt Poker (which tried last time to beat PokerStars at their own game, but failed).

So this latest stake in their claim of PokerStars’ world supremacy is a $1 buy-in $300,000 guaranteed tournament taking place on December 27, starting at 2:45 pm. If PokerStars reaches its minimum of 65,001 players, then this will be the third time in twelve months that the site will have broken its record.

The last one took place in July when 155 countries contributed 65,000 players to printing PokerStars’ name once more in the history books (or the Guinness Book, at least). Before that, last December, PokerStars set the original record for the most players in an online poker tournament at a “mere” 35,000.

PokerStars Two for Tuesdays All December: Team Pro Tuesdays & Outlast the Pro

From December 8 through December 29, Poker Stars is running a new promotion called Team Pro Tuesdays. The promotion is made up of two parts, both happening every Tuesday.

The first part is more like a general free-for-all in which a bevy of the biggest name players on Team PokerStars Pro – like Daniel Negreanu, Chris Moneymaker, and this year’s WSOP winner Joe Cada, as well as last year’s WSOP champ Peter Eastgate, and fellow young rising poker star Bertrand Grospellier (aka “ElkY”) – will be everywhere you look on PokerStars: cash tables, tournament tables, Sit & Gos – all of it!

Then at 1 pm and 8 pm ET each Tuesday now til the end of the year, there will be two online poker tournaments called Outlast the Pros, in which the last players standing once all the Team PokerStars have been knocked out of the running splitting a $1,000 bonus added to the prize pool. Buy-in: $11.

Win a PokerStars Passport Around the World this December

PokerStars is running a promotion of a different sort, offering one player the chance to play for free at several of the world’s biggest poker tournaments.

It’s called the PokerStars Passport promotion, and it requires performing well on the December Monthly Tournament Leader Board (note that this leaderboard is for tournament play; so cash ring game play won’t help you win a passport). Players in the top 2,000 on the tournament leaderboard come month’s end (and year’s end, for that matter), will have a chance to win. Land in the top 200 on the PokerStars December Monthly Tournament leaderboard and you’ll play in the main event on January 21, 2010 at 2 pm ET to vie for a 1-stamp, 3-stamp, or 5-stamp passport, or some handy cash. Players in the 201-2,000 places will be awarded a second-chance at a passport in one of several consolation tournaments also to be held the same day and time.

Passport stamps may include seat in the APPT (Asian Pacific Poker Tour) and the EPT (European Poker Tour) among others.

Two Poker Stars Acquisitions

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

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.

Cristophe Benzimra Wins PokerStars EPT Warsaw

The winner of the 2009 PokerStars EPT Warsaw main event is Cristophe Benzimra, a businessman from France (he operates a Plexiglass factory in Romania). His prize was 358,644 Euros. Stating after his win that he feels he just got lucky and really only plays poker for fun, Benzimra bested a field of 400 players, finishing the tournament by beating poker pro, Alfio Battista of Italy, who had to settle for runner-up.

Benzimra self-description may be too modest when you consider that he has attended most of the PokerStars European Poker Tour events in the past 2 years. He cashed for $26,110 by taking 6th place at last year’s EPT Budapest and $18,604 for taking 17th at this year’s Rendez vous a Paris Spotlight No Limit Holdem Championship.

Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano, meanwhile, made his 5th EPT final table and 12th EPT cash at this event.

No Chopped Pot At Sunday Million, Priest Scoring On Million Dollar Challenge

Lots of interesting news over at PokerStars.

* After months of final table players making deals and chopping the pot. one player held out to the brutal end and came out on top. That was one “sumai” who kept the whole $225,000 first prize at the PokerStars Sunday Million for himself.
* The new PokerStars hosted TV show, the PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge, has been airing for a few weeks now, and it has a promising young champion in Reverend Andrew Trapp. That’s right, Reverend. This non-traditional Catholic priest got himself a spot on the show to play for his church and apparently he’s really good, having earned $25,000 already, plus a $100,000 seat against Daniel Negreanu for the $1 million grand prize. In order to get onto the show, Rev. Andy had to beat some 10,000 players in an online tournament (or come in the top 10, really) and then submit a winning video convincing producers to cast him on the show. Looks like they made a good call.

Freeroll Qualifiers Going Now For First-Ever Baltic Festival

PokerStars is running freeroll qualifiers now for free entry into its first ever Baltic Festival. The PokerStars Baltic Festival Freerolls run every night at 1 pm ET and 3:30 pm ET through October 20, each one awarding 4 seats in the following Saturday’s $215 Weekly Finals, at each of which 10 Baltic Festival prize packages will be given away.

The live Baltic Festival tournament will take place in Tallinn, Estonia from October 28 – 31. The $2,800 Baltic Festival prize package includes the 1,100 Euros buy-in, 5 nights of luxury accommodations at the Swissotel Tallinn (where the tournament is to take place), plus $500 to spend as you like.

In addition to the daily Baltic Festival Freeroll qualifiers, Poker Stars is also running several daily Baltic Festival qualifiers:

* one costing $1.10 and starting at 1:30 pm ET, each awarding 1 seat in the weekly finals
* one costing $22 (running Sundays – Fridays) starting at 2 pm ET, each awarding 5 seats in the weekly finals

Poker Stars is also running $33 rebuy Second Chance qualifiers every Sunday at 1 pm each awarding 5 extra Baltic Festival prize packages.

WPT Champion Wins WCOOP Heads-Up Event

The Poker Stars 2009 World Championship of Online Poker is still raging and after a power-packed weekend, there are several online poker players a heck of a lot richer. For example, one Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov is $140,000 richer after taking down Event #24, the $530 Heads-Up event. He beat out JakusKhan, who took the $120,000 second prize. The thing is, Katchalov already has over $3 million in poker winnings, including a World Poker Tour title.

In 2007 Katchalov, hailing originally from Kiev, Ukraine and more recently from Brooklyn, New York, won the Bellagio Cup III and its $118,785 top prize. But he won most of his nearly $3 million in December of 2007 with an almost $2.5 million win at the World Poker Tour Season 6: WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.

The WCOOP HU event had a $1 million guaranteed prize pool, and was the first at this year’s PokerStars WCOOP to have an overlay (1,564 players came up short $218,000.

Big Big-Money Sunday Turnout & WCOOP 2009 Kick-Off Reminder

This past Sunday, August 30, in stark contrast to the unfortunate overlays of late, so many people registered for the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up that the $750,000 guaranteed prize pool increased to $820,000 – making the first prize $128,000 which went to CucbKu after chopping the pot with the runner-up Jarfish, who got a respectable $101,000 for his showing.

Meanwhile, 8,933 players turned out for the PokerStars Sunday Million bring the prize pool to $1.7 million. In that event 1,350 players cashed, and the final 5 players chopped the pot, CesarSPA who had the chip lead, and so took the nearly $209,000 lion’s share even though he only came in second, and angiebug4 coming back from the short stack to win the event and take hom nearly $127,000.

Meanwhile, don’t forget, the 2009 PokerStars WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) starts tomorrow, with $40 million guaranteed is cash prizes.

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