The EPT (European Poker Tour) have uncovered plans to host the first ever PokerStars.com European Poker Tour awards. The EPT award ceremony has been implemented in order to honour the people in the poker industry most deserving of accolades in particular those whom have performed at the highest level with exceptional performances during this fourth season European Poker Tour season.
Popular online poker giant PokerStars have upped the ante by increasing the guaranteed prize pools on most of their guaranteed tournaments. PokerStars is now host to 483 guaranteed prize pool tournaments each week a rather large increase from the previously held 199 just last week, the overall guaranteed prize pool difference is from $7,5 million to over $13 million in guaranteed Tourneys.
During the 4th week of the PokerStars 2X promotion many bonuses have been on offer, this coming week a double reload deposit bonus has been made available to entice re-loads, this re-load bonus offer is valid between 21st-31st July 2008. PokerStars reload bonus code 2X will give redepositing players a 40% redeposit bonus up to $240 when redepositing funds to their player accounts simply by using PokerStars reload bonus code ‘2X’ when reloading their accounts, which is more than double the usual bonus on offer, players using the PokerStars reload bonus codes will also receive free tickets to one of the four WCOOP satellites happening on Saturday 2nd and 9th August 2008.
27th of July PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up will be a 2X Chance tournament and have a $1 million guarantee. First depositors can download PokerStars and use PokerStars bonus code STARS50 when making their first real money deposit at the site.
A PokerStars player xanja whom has never made a deposit at PokerStars yet he almost managed to win the Poker Stars million event with this week being the busiest it’s ever been thanks in part to the frenzy brought on by the PokerStars 2X promotion running throughout July where the million dollar event was actually a $2,83 million dollar record breaking tournament.
Poker television fans will be overly enthralled that the most populated poker room PokerStars have recently launched PokerStars.tv still in the beta testing phase the site plans to bring live coverage from the biggest events on the European, Asia-Pacific and Latin American Poker Tours and will include video blogs, poker clips and instructional tuition given by PokerStars team of pro players which include some formidable names: Team PokerStars Pros; Chad Brown, John Duthie, Victoria Coren, Victor Ramdin and Tom McEvoy.
Poker Stars offer a 100% match sign up bonus to $50 for new depositing players when using PokerStars bonus code STARS50 and still allow US players.