PokerStars to Become One of the Sponsors of Rugby Union

PokerStars is going to bring its name out of the poker world as it becomes one of the sponsors of the English National Rugby Football Union.

Although this very popular poker site has been the sponsor of many sporting events like football teams and racing teams, it seems that there really is no stopping PokerStars as it offers sponsorship to the Rugby Union, which is bound to be a good step for both industries.

The Deal

The English Rugby Football Union is the umbrella group of the country's national rugby team, and the deal between them is bound to be a win-win deal. [Read][more][...]

The History of PokerStars.com

The story behind the world-famous PokerStars is indeed a true rags to riches story, and the family that owns and operates the said online poker room never thought that the simple beginnings of their site will become a huge success that it is now considered as one of the biggest and most popular online poker room not only in the World Wide Web but in the whole world as well.

The Proud Owner

The proud owner of the most famous online poker site is the Schienberg family from Toronto, Canada.

It was ten years ago that  the father, not knowing that much of the online gambling industry, decided to build a company by creating and designing his own website that caters to online players.  [Read][more][...]

PokerStars’ Asian Poker Tour Made Its Scheduled Stop in Auckland

PokerStars' Asian Pacific Poker Tour or the APPT is in Auckland right now as it makes it scheduled stop there.  The poker series started last October 14, 2009, and the festivities will end on October 18.  The said major poker tournament is being held in New Zealand's SkyCity Casino, and as expected, it has attracted hundreds to thousands of poker players from all over the world, including the big names in the poker world like Tony Hachem as well as Brian Huang.

The Highlights of the APPT

Of course, the major event of Asian Poker Tour is the Main Event which starts on October 14 and ends on October 18, the buy-in fee of which was set at $3,250. [Read][more][...]

PokerStars Offers a Porsche

A high roller drives the right car, and there is no better way to show everybody that you are, indeed, a high roller than by driving your very own Porsche.

Today, PokerStars is offering a Porsche to all its players who are located in North America, and it is so easy to get into the tournament and grab your opportunity to bring home the Porsche.

Here are the details for their Win a Porsche promotion.

The Car at Stake

The Porsche Cayman S is said to be one of the most elegant and luxurious cars among its Porsche range.  It boasts of six cylinders, and this special car can take you from zero to sixty in only seconds. [Read][more][...]

Debut of The Poker Star

September marks the start of PokerStars new reality show, The Poker Star.  Quite a creative name, right?

Anyway, creative or not-so-creative name for PokerStars' new reality show, it cannot be denied that The Poker Star received a good verdict from its viewers, both the poker fans and those who knew next to nothing about the game.  The market might be so saturated with reality shows, but this new series has a certain appeal to it.

The Contestants

The show has seen about 18,000 contestants who wanted to be a part of the reality program, and Joe Hachem, the host, trimmed down the number to 11 contestants, four of which are women.  [Read][more][...]

Grand Finale of PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker

The World Championship of Online Poker or WCOOP has just recently ended last Monday, 21st of September 2009.  The said event started last week, with all the good tourneys seen this weekend.

It can be said that the WCOOP was, indeed, a huge success as online poker players from all over the world participated in this major poker series.  Who can really ignore the huge guaranteed prize pool?  And who does not want to compete for the money against some of the best that the poker world has to offer?

Let us take a quick recap of the event's major highlights. [Read][more][...]

A Look at PokerStars’ Pro Poker Player Peter Eastgate

This year seems like a pretty busy year for PokerStars' Peter Eastgate. He has been seen in many live poker tournaments and, in fact, has done quite a bit of traveling to play poker at these major poker tournaments.  He even went to play at the EPT Barcelona that has just recently finished where, sadly, he did not do as well as he and his fans had hoped.

PokerStars' Very Own Peter Eastgate

Peter Eastgate is a 22-year-old poker player and is considered to be the youngest player who has ever won the championship title of the World Series of Poker Main Event where he played against big names in the poker world like Ivan Demidov. [Read][more][...]

PokerStars and Bluff to Sponsor Kent Senter Benefit

PokerStars wishes to give something back to a man who has been playing in its poker rooms for years now.  On September 12, 2009, at exactly 20:00H EST, the Kent Senter Benefit Tournament is going to commence.  The profits of this benefit tournament are going to go to the Senter family to help them pay for Kent Senter's, the head of the family, rising medical bills.

A Brief Background on Kent Senter

Kent Senter, a good man with a loving wife and family, was diagnosed two years ago with terminal cancer, especially since the cancer cells have already spread all throughout his spine.  [Read][more][...]

PokerStars to Sponsor High Heels Poker Tour

PokerStars is sure to make a bigger name for itself by sponsoring the High Heels Poker Tour.  These two should be able to make a wonderful partnership as they promote poker to women who are as competitive as men and as good as men in poker.  As the HHPT loves to say, «This isn't a man's game anymore!»

Watch out for these ladies as they blaze their way in HHPT and make way for them when they begin grabbing prizes in other major poker tournaments dominated by men.

The High Heels Poker Tour [Read][more][...]

PokerStars’ Very Own Poker Show to Air on Fox

In an answer to Full Tilt Poker's Face the Ace, a poker series by the said poker site in cooperation with NBC, PokerStars has made known to the public that it is going to show its own poker series, which will be shown on Fox.  This is a show they call PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge.

A Quick View on PokerStars' Million Dollar Challenge

The plot of the series is simple enough where qualifiers to the poker series get to receive coaching lessons from Daniel Negreanu as the qualifier battles it out with some of the top poker players of Team PokerStars, some of which are Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer.  Those who have qualified to get into the final event will attempt to beat his poker coach, Negreanu himself, the only pro poker player who is going to stand between the qualifier and the million dollars.

This poker show is said to air this coming October 11, 2009 on Fox with a tentative timeslot of 4 p.m., but this schedule is still very much tentative because of Fox's coverage of the regional NFL, which will begin airing on the end of September. [Read][more][...]

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