Poker Stars.com is currently upping the ante and have announced that instead of the Sunday Million they will now have the Sunday Million and a Half! The tournament will be the same time and will still retain the $215 dollar buy-in but the prize pool is going up by a half million dollars.

They will also be increasing the Sunday Warmup and Second-Chance. The Sunday Warm-up will have a guaranteed of $750,000 and the Second-Chance will have $300,000 guaranteed.

It won’t be long until Poker Stars will have a $2,000,000 dollar weekly tournament. The growth of the room after 2006 UIGEA has been austounding and players have stuck with Stars Poker.

Poker Stars will soon be running the 2008 Poker Stars WCOOP with satellites currently running now.

Poker Stars.com has announced the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker (2008 WCOOP). The tournament will be played in September with  satellites tournaments running for as little as $2.20. There are a variety of ways to qualify with steps tournaments running now and multi table satellites will be starting July 6.

The 2008 WCOOP tournaments can be found under the ‘events’ tab. There will be 33 tournaments starting September 5th and running through September 21st. The WCOOP poker series has a guaranteed prize pool of $30 million dollars. The No Limit Hold-em main event will be a $5,200 buy-in with a guaranteed prize pool of $10 million dollars! This is double the guaranteed prize pool of the main event in 2007.

There will be a variety of poker games played in the tournament including Hold’em, Omaha, Stud, Razz, HORSE and 2-7 Draw.

PokerStars.com is currently running its final 2008 WSOP Satellite tournament qualifiers for the 2008 WSOP Main Event. They have already given away 1,867 seats and are looking to send more players before the PokerStars satellites end on June 30th.

Poker Stars has announced that they will be doubling the VPP points for all the WSOP Satellites! This is a unique opportunity to win a seat to the most prestigious tournament in the world and earn a large amount of VPP points while you are at it.

When you qualify with Poker Stars you will be given $10k for buy-in to the main event and $2.5k for expenses (plane) and $1k for hotel. Even better, If you decide to wear poker stars gear while playing in the tournament you will also be given $1 million dollars if you make the final table (nice chunk of change considering you will probably be getting another million by getting 9th or better).

What are you waiting for? Check out our StarsPoker.com review and start playing qualifiers!

Poker Stars is currently running 2008 WSOP Freerolls. This is your chance to win a seat to the WSOP without having to buy-in! The 1 million dollar giveaway started on April 13th and will run through June 2008. In total Poker Stars.net will be giving away 80 free seats to wsop main event.

The million dollar giveaway (round 1) tourney’s run at 5 past the hour every hour of each day until June 27th! Pstars players will be allowed to enter one round 1 tourney each week and the top 50 players of each tournament will win a seat to the Million Dollar Giveaway Weekly Final.

The weekly final tournaments are held on saturday at 7:31 ET, 13:30ET and 20:00PM ET with 1 seat given away at 7:31 and 3 wsop packages given away at each of the following times.

Each wsop main event package is worth $12k and includes a $10k buy-in, Hotel stay at Palms and $2.5k for expenses and spending money.

Poker Stars the largest online poker site has already given away over 500 seats to the WSOP Main Event and they will continue running wsop satellite qualifiers for another 2 months until the start of the 2008 WSOP! If you would like to find out more about Poker Stars WSOP qualifiers we have information discussing all the ways you can qualify through Poker Stars.

Poker Stars.com has one of the best player retention programs of any online poker room. They offer the Poker Stars VIP program. There are 6 levels: BronzeStar, SilverStar, GoldStar, PlatinumStar, Supernova and the most VIP level is Supernova Elite!

Each level entitles you to rewards including freerolls, bonuses, gear and makes it easier to earn FPP’s.

Everyone starts out as BronzeStar so there isn’t much of an advantage of being a member of that group.

SilverStar is 1,500 VPPs and player get 50% (1.5 FPP per 1 VPP)

GoldStar is 4,000 VPPs and players get 100% (2 FPP per 1 VPP)

PlatinumStar is 10,000 VPPs and players get  150% (2.5 FPP per 1 VPP)

Supernova is 100,000 VPPs and players get 250% (3.5 FPP per 1 VPP)

Supernova Elite is 1,000,000 VPPs and players get 400% (5 FPP per 1 VPP)

Poker Stars VIP levels reset after the year.  Supernova Elite is one of the most sough after VIP levels where Poker Stars gives players weekly, monthly freerolls and exclusive access to the VIP Store. They also get a free entry into the WCOOP main event and two entries to any live tournament including the WSOP main event!

On March 27, 2008 the first player of 2008 has reached Supernova Elite status. George Lind III reached the status and even more impressive, did not start playing until January 13 and still was able to beat the rest of the VIP poker stars.com field to become the first player of the year.

It took George (Poker Stars name: jorg95) two months and five days to reach the Supernova Elite status. Congrats to him and I am sure mid year there will be a lot of players in the club with 39 players reaching that Supernova Elite status in 2007.

Poker Stars has recently announced that they will be sending over 1,000 players to the 2008 WSOP. Poker Stars is currently the largest online poker site and plans to send the most players to the wsop.

Poker Stars 2008 Satellites began running earlier this month and will be running up to the tournament in early July. Poker Stars is currently offering three ways to qualify with multiple chances everyday! Poker Stars offers players $10k buy-in and 8 nights at the Palms.

Pstars also offers players incentives for players wearing Poker Stars.net gear. They will give $50k for a final table appearance in any 2008 WSOP event. And a million dollars for players that make the final table in the main event.

There are so many ways to qualify for the 2008 wsop what are you waiting for? Play at Poker Stars now!

Poker Stars is currently running freerolls everday at 7pm ET and 10pm ET to qualify for the NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship Tournament. The top 200 players of the round 1 freerolls then play in a second round of freerolls the top 50 of that tournament will then play for a seat in the final satellite tournament where the winner will win a seat at the televised poker tournament.

The winner(s) will receive a $20,000 buy-in to the tournament, 4 nights hotel stay in Las Vegas (February 28 – March 2) and $1,000 cash for travel!

The NBC National Heads Up Poker Championship is filled with poker professionals including Daniel Negreanu, Scotty Nguyen, Phil Hellmuth and more. It is an invitation only tournament where top players and celebrities compete for the championship every year.

Past National Heads Up Winners

2005 -Phil Hellmuth

2006 - Ted Forrest

2007 - Paul Wasicka

Poker Stars will be running one of the biggest freerolls in history with their recently announced PokerStars Turbo Takedown tournament. To play in the poker tournament players can register by using 10,000 FPP or can play satellite tournaments for as little as 10 FPP. FPP’s or Frequent Player Points are earned when players play at real money tables.

The tournament will be played on February 17 at 14:30 ET. Poker Stars.com is advertising the tournament saying that “1 in 3 players in the tournament will win cash!”. They are paying 4,000 players with first prize taking home $200k! The final nine will pay at least $11k!

To play in Turbo Takedown satellites look for FPP Events in the Special tab bar under tournaments.

Poker Stars is currently the largest online poker room and run the most poker tournaments of any internet poker site. Last month, they announced a new promotion called the Poker Stars Passport. This challenged frequent tournament players to a compete in a tournament leaderboard.

Every real money poker tournament that poker stars runs is part of the TLB leaderboard. For the original promotion they were offering $250k in seats to live poker tournaments around the world. The promotion was a huge success and thousands of players tried to compete for the passport prizes.

Poker Stars.com has now decided to continue the promotion but changing the prizes a bit. The top 200 TLB leaders will split $30,000 in cash with the monthly winner taking home $5,000 dollars.  The top 1,000 players on the TLB leaders will compete in a special freeroll with $20,000 as the prize pool.

They have also announced that they will keep track of the leaders on their TLB Board with stats of the top players of the week, month and year and have a hall of fame for the very best players.

The Asia Pacific Poker Tour has announced that they will be holding the first real money poker tournament in China. The tournament will be held in Macau and will be a USD $2,500 buy-in and will be played on November 22-27. The tournament will be held at the first five star resort in China the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino.

Poker Stars.net is the sole sponsor for the tournament and has stated that team poker stars pro’s will be playing in the tournament. The $2500 buy-in main event will not be the only tournament played at Macau. There will be a few other poker tournaments including a high roller $15,000 event.

The APPT is a new poker tournament and in it’s first season will have had poker tournaments in the Philippines, Korea, Macau and Australia.