$1 Million PokerStars Turbo Takedown Sunday
On the last Sunday of every month PokerStars has a $1 million Turbo Takedown Tournament. The April tournament is already here and will be played April 25 at 2:30 EST. This tournament is fun because there are plenty of prizes, bonuses and bounties. This tournament can only be bought in with Frequent Player Points (FPPs) as a way for PokerStars to reward their players.
The Turbo Takedown isn’t just a large online poker tournament with your usual prizes. The Turbo Takedown includes a $1,000,000 prize pool and even gives away a brand new car! PokerStars isn’t going to give away a Ford focus, the winner of the tournament will receive a brand new 2010 Audi TT!
Turbo Takedown Tournament Features:
- Million Dollar prize pool
- 5000 places paid
- $100 bounty for busting ANY team PokerStars pro
- Audi TT to the winner, on top of their winnings
- Bonuses for cashing in repeat Turbo Takedowns
- Satellites starting at only 8 FPPs
- Buy in is 3,000 FPPs
If you don’t have enough point to enter directly, there are still satellites running for only 8 FPPs. If you cash in 2 consecutive Turbo Takedowns, you will get an easy $100 bonus. Cash in 3 TT in a row and get a $200 bonus. So you can get this PokerStars bonus every month, up to the maximum $1,000. This bonus is easy to earn as it has a 5x clearance rate, as compared to regular PokerStars Bonuses.
PokerStars is the largest online poker site and features some of the best online tournaments. New players will receive a $600 Bonus.
North American Poker Tour on ESPN2 Tonight
The PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) will air April 19 at 10pm EST on ESPN2. The NAPT is a brand new poker tour sponsored by PokerStars. ESPN2 plans on airing 2 episodes every Monday night for the bext five weeks and then six more episode throughout the summer.
Tonight’s premiere episode of the NAPT will kick off at the Venetian with $5,000 main event which brought 872 players in the field to create a $4 million prize pool. But that’s not all. There was also a $25,000 Invitational High Roller Bounty Shootout to add a little excitement to the episode.
The NAPT episodes are being produced by the same company that creates the WSOP episodes, so expect it to look a little familiar. The hosts will be none other than Lon McEachern and Norman Chad. ThePokerFish will post the episode up tomorrow.
NAPT Schedule:
April 19: Venetian $25,000 high-roller bounty shootout (9-11 p.m. ET)
April 26: Venetian $25,000 high-roller bounty shootout (9 p.m. ET)
April 26: Venetian $5,000 main event (10 p.m. ET)
May 3: Mohegan Sun shootout (9-11 p.m. ET)
May 10: Mohegan Sun shootout (9 p.m. ET)
May 10: Mohegan Sun $5,000 main event (10 p.m. ET)
May 17: PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25,000 high-roller (9-11 p.m. ET)
More info can be found on espn.com.
PokerStars Marketing Code for April
The PokerStars Marketing Code for April 2010 is PSP1913. New players can use marketing code PSP1913 along with the Pokerstars bonus code Stars600 for a 100% Bonus up to $600.
You will need to earn 17 VIP Play Points (VPPs) for each $10 of bonus. The bonus is released $10 at a time after you have earned 170 VPPS. Don’t worry, the points are easy to earn and you have up to 6 months to earn your PokerStars bonus.
April PokerStars Codes
April PokerStars Marketing Code: PSP1913
2010 PokerStars Bonus Code: Stars600
The initial deposit bonus is worth up to $600, which will help you add some extra padding in your poker account. This bonus works by giving you a 100% bonus on your first three qualifying deposits in a 90 day period.
Visit out PokerStars Marketing Code page for the latest updates on the Pokerstars bonus.
PokerStars Overview
Just years after opening, Pokerstars quickly became the most popular place for people to go when they want to play online poker. With an abundance of players, there is plenty of opportunities for a player to get in plenty of competitive poker time. Pokerstars stays on top of the competition by keeping their tables and tournaments packed, and this is one of the most important factors to a player when choosing a room. This site also makes a point to focus their attention on the areas which really matter; customer service and security are just two areas in which they excel. It’s obvious that this site does all they can to provide a safe and fun atmosphere for all of their players.
New Play Aces Poker Room
Sportsbook.com Poker and Players Only Poker are changing networks and merging to create “Play Aces” poker. On Thursday April 15, 2010 Sportsbook.com and Players Only will officially move from the Cake Poker Network to to the Merge Gaming Network.
The Merge network will literally quadruple over night! This is great for Merge, not so great for the Cake Network. The Cake Network will still have Cake Poker and Doyles Room bringing in a lot of players, but they are going to take a hit with network traffic. Merge Gaming is claiming that they will grow to 6 times their current network size by August 2010.
Currently Carbon Poker and Aced are the biggest rooms on Merge. I’ve always liked the Merge poker software, but the lack of traffic was a deal breaker for me. Now, I’m ready to start playing at a Merge poker room. Will others feel the same way?
For current Sportsbook.com and Players Only poker players, all of your cash, pending bonus, tournament tickets and gold cards/coins will be automatically transferred over at the following rates:
1 Cake Gold Chip = 20 VIP points
1 Cake Gold Card = 1 VIP point
$0.01 in tourney ticket from Cake = 1 VIP point
$1 pending bonus at Cake = $1 pending bonus at Merge
Also, you will not have to download the new software and create a new account. The current Sportbook.com and Players Only poker software will automatically update to the new Play Aces Merge Client.
There will be a new $100k Freeroll at Play Aces for all new and old players.
Kara Scott to Play in the Irish Open
Glamour Model to Return for Irish Open
The Paddy Power Poker Irish Open is a well known hunting ground for celebrities to take to the poker tables as they look to further build success within their lives and glamour model, television star and presenter Kara Scott is no different.
The star attended last years tournament, playing through the field to finish in second place after losing out heads up to Christer Johansson but she took home £272,574 for her placing.
Kara Scott has told media that she will be returning to the tournament again this year, this time looking to build on her success from last years event, this time gunning for the title and the first price prize money.
Recently seen on Sky Poker, the model and television star has been working on her game and a look at some of the action that she has been involved in shows that she is looking in great shape to take on the field.
The Irish Open is regarded as been the oldest Texas Hold’em Poker tournament in the whole of Europe and has been reported as been in action since 1981. During its time in yearly operation, the tournament series has gathered a large following and in the present day the tournament only plays second best to the World Series of Poker tournament event.
The sponsorship of the Irish Open was contracted to Paddy Power back in 2005, the brand taking the tournament and generating a stronger player base. It seems that the brand and online poker room will be further pushing the tournament to their online poker playing members with a view to get the tournaments player base to beat last years participation figures.
