PokerStars Launches Italian Poker Tour with IPT San Remo
June 4, 2009
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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