Turnout at PokerStars WCOOP 2009 main event has gone beyond the guaranteed 10 million offered by PokerStars with 2,144 entries received despite being slightly less than last year’s event which saw 2,185 entries, contestants will now compete for their share of a massive $10.7 million prize pool with the WCOOP main event winner set to receive $1.7 million provided no deals are made on the final table with all those making the final table getting a minimum of $96k a piece for the two-day long event, a second place finish at PokerStars WCOOP pays $1.28 million this year.

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Things are truly heating up in the online poker scene with a fierce battle emerging between the current #1 online poker room PokerStars trying to outdo their #2 rival FullTilt Poker.
FullTilt have been aggressively trying to capture a bigger market share of the online-poker industry (which is still booming), by introducing new promotions, Poker TV Shows, Bigger bonuses for players and even an attempt at a Guinness World record.

Pokerstars and FullTilt still allow USA Players, both rivals already have huge poker player databases and are well populated each night however an increase in market share amounts to bigger earnings especially in the sought after US poker market that both have their eyes set on.

It seems in the battle of POKERSTARS Vs FULLTILT every move FullTilt poker make in terms of promotions gets counteracted upon by Pokerstars who do a similar slight more tweaked version of the same promotion.
We have compiled a list of some of these key moments in the rest of this article.

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Americas Cup of Poker – ACOP, is a series of daily freeroll, $0.20 and $5.50 tournaments which takes place at PokerStars from the 27th July – 16th August 2009. Poker players from North and South America can enter these freerolls, players from around the world can also participate as wildcards to win for their country.

The qualifiers will determine which Eight teams will head to Argentina to play in a live tournament with a prize pool of $250,000

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Poker Stars test out the latest Nintendo Wii poker game Excitebots: Trick Racing which is actually a racing game which includes various sport challenges including poker. Nintendo gathered some of the world best poker players to challenge their skills in a totally different poker format.

PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu and Full Tilt Poker pros Gavin Smith and Eric Lindgren, and Bodog Poker pro Evelyn Ng take on the challenge to see who will win the Main Event bracelet.

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Being the most popular online poker room at the moment, Pokerstars is quickly approaching the 25 billionth hand dealt mark. To celebrate PokerStars is running several promotions including a PokerStars reload bonus 25% up to $250, prizes for the millionth hand and Poker Stars have also increased the guaranteed prize pool for the Sunday Million and warm up tournaments.

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