The online poker series will feature 135 guaranteed poker tournaments scheduled from 4-18 May with a wide range of buy-ins to suit players of three different stake levels.
The guaranteed tournaments also have a Movado SCOOP Champion watch as a trophy prize for the winner of each event.
There are three ways to win extra cash in the PokerStars Carnival of Tournaments promotion: million dollar guaranteed tourney, Golden Sit & Go’s and increased prize pools on the Daily Bigs tournaments.
The PokerStars Tourney Number 900 Million will be a million guaranteed tournament with an additional $100k in prizes awarded to random players during the first two hours.
There is $500k in cash to be won playing SNG’s, random Golden Sit & Go’s will feature increased prize pools up to six times.
The PokerStars Daily Bigs tournaments will have prize pools increased by up to three times the regular guaranteed amount.
The regular guaranteed prize pool will be increased from $300k to a million but the buy-in remains the same at only $11.
The PokerStars Sunday Storm Special Edition is scheduled for the 13th April 2014, to add even more value it will be a bounty tournament.
Knockout Team PokerStars Pros: Isaac Haxton, Joe Cada or Humberto Brenes. Win addition prizes which include: Sunday Million tournament ticket, PokerStars leather jacket and branded chip set with cards.
Satellite tournament will be running daily offering players the chance to win a seat to the PokerStars Sunday Storm Anniversary starting from only $0.10.
The bill is exclusively for online poker cash games and tournaments with 15% tax on players revenue. The New York Online Poker Bill will include a bad actor clause preventing poker sites that operated in the US after 31st December 2006 from qualifying for a license.
This is bad news for PokerStars and may affect their chances of getting into the Big Apple intrastate poker list of regulated poker rooms. Unregulated poker sites are will soon be liable for taxes and penalties
The population of New York is similar to New Jersey which is proving to be a success with several poker sites: PartyPoker, 888Poker, WSOP and Ultimate Poker.
The PokerStars WCOOP Challenge Series is scheduled for the last weekend in March 2014.
Winners of every tournament in the series will get a tournament ticket to the next PokerStars WCOOP Main Event plus a special PokerStars money clip.
These events are mostly for high stake poker players, satellite tournaments with low buy-ins make it accessible for all players. Micro stakes poker players can get their piece of the action in the MicroMillion 7 series where there is 100 tourneys with low buy-ins and more than $5 million guaranteed.
See the full schedule of the PokerStars WCOOP Challenge Series
