Archive for April, 2009.

PokerStars Adds Charity Tournament to EPT Season Five Grand Final Schedule

25 April, 2009

Poker Stars has introduced a new event into its famed European Poker Tour Grand Final Week, and it’s a charity tournament no less. The charity is the current crisis in Darfur, and the event is the Ante Up For Africa Europe Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament. The event, a EUR 4,000 buy-in, No Limit Texas Holdem shootout tournament is scheduled for April 27th at 6 pm ET, the day before the Season Five PokerStars EPT Grand Final Main Event takes place.

Poker pros from Team PokerStars will be in attendance, including “Kid Poker” Daniel Negreanu, WSOP Main Event Champion Joe Hachem, and GoDaddy spokesmodel/up-and-coming poker sensation Vanessa Rousso.

The winner of this Ante Up For Africa Europe charity tournament will receive prize package centered around free entry into the January 2010 Season 6 EPT Bahamas event.

So far, the Ante Up For Africa organization has raised more than $2 million to provide aid to the survivors of the violence in the Sudan.

All PokerStars EPT Season Five Grand Final events will be held in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

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PokerStars and FullTilt Sends Mac Players to Big Events Too

10 April, 2009

Thanks to two great poker sites–Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars–Mac users can now get in on all the best poker action, including satellites and qualifiers into the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, and the World Series of Poker.

Both Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker have downloadable poker software clients, making them stand out from all the rest of their peers whose best offering for online poker players using a Mac is a cheaper, uglier, slower, pared-down, web-based No Download version of the software written in either Flash or Java. This lack of support elsewhere precludes Mac players from participating in many of these other sites biggest promotions, not least of which are those satellites and qualifiers for free entry into some of the biggest-money live land-based and online tournaments.

But on Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker, Mac poker players can now sit in at the felt with their PC-owning online poker peers. And players on a Mac can win their way into the FTOPS, the PokerStars Spring Championships Of Online Poker, the 2009 WSOP, and many other exciting live events just like everybody else.

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