WCOOP» WCOOP 2008
This September is shaping up to be a “staycation” – book your vacation time off work, but there’s no need to travel. You want to be by your computer for online poker’s biggest annual event, the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). To qualify for the world’s largest online poker series, open up your PokerStars game lobby and visit the Events > WCOOP tab for a full range of Steps, Cash and FPP satellites.

This year’s WCOOP guarantees a massive $30 million in prize money across 33 events, with the $5,200 Main Event alone guaranteeing $10 million in prize money. The excitement is building, and everyone at PokerStars, including Team PokerStars Pro members, can’t wait for the 7th year of WCOOP to start. To hear what Team PS Pro have to say about WCOOP click here (high quality video), and check out the WCOOP survival tips from 2004 World Champion, Greg Raymer.

Play for your WCOOP championship bracelet and a place in online poker history – only at PokerStars.

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EPT» European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 5 – MORE VENUES, MORE MONEY, MORE MILLIONS!
The PokerStars EPT returns for its fifth season and is guaranteed to be bigger and better:

EPT LONDON: They used to say the streets of London were paved with gold…and from October 1-6 this year, they really will be. EPT London’s Main Event will feature a first prize of £1 million guaranteed thanks to £250,000 in money added to the prize pool by PokerStars. To extend the excitement, we are also adding a new High Roller event on October 5-6. The PokerStars EPT £1 Million Showdown features a £20K (+£300) buy-in and a £1 million guaranteed prize pool.

EPT BUDAPEST: Hungary is the newest stop on Europe’s richest poker tour and increases the presence of the PokerStars EPT in Eastern Europe, already featuring Prague and Warsaw.

Satellites to EPT Barcelona and all EPT London events are running right now with Steps from $7.50 buy-in, and cash satellites at $2.20 or just 111 Frequent Player Points (FPP). Play for your package worth more than $16,000 today. Read more about the EPT Season 5.

APPT» Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Season 2
Larger events, bigger prizes and a new venue.  That’s what’s in store for Season 2 of the Asia Pacific region’s premier poker tour. The tour kicks off in Macau, the Peoples Republic of China, in the luxurious surroundings of the Grand Waldo Casino. There will be two events - a $3,200 buy-in Main Event and a $19,200 High Rollers Event - both guaranteeing $10,000,000 HKD ($1.3M USD) minimum prize pools. They will be the largest poker tournaments ever held in Asia!

Qualify through our satellites from just $2.20 today. Learn more about PokerStars APPT Season 2.

LAPT» Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Season 1 comes to a close…and Season 2 is nearly here
The LAPT has been a groundbreaking tournament series for Latin America, but even more so for its Grand Final champion, Jose Miguel Espinar. The young Spaniard took home $241,735 in prize money after a phenomenal heads-up session with Alex Brenes, brother of Team PokerStars Pro Humberto Brenes…Read more.

Although Season 1 just concluded, the overwhelming response in Latin America means we will be starting Season 2 of LAPT soon…very soon. Keep an eye on your PokerStars Lobby for more info in coming weeks.

Sunday Million» TOURNAMENT GUARANTEES INCREASE
The world’s biggest weekly guaranteed poker tournaments just got bigger! We’ve increased the guarantees on many of our biggest tournaments, including the Sunday Million (16:30 ET, now $1.5 million guaranteed), the
Sunday Warm-Up (12:45 ET, now $750,000 guaranteed) and the Super Tuesday (19:55 ET, now $400,000 guaranteed). In addition, the $530 buy-in tournament (17:30 ET) now takes place weekly, plus, its guarantee has increased from $250,000 to $500,000!

And we’re not only increasing the headline tournament guarantees. Across the PokerStars schedule you’ll see our total guaranteed tournaments up from 199 per week to over 675 per week. In money terms, we used to offer $7.5 million guaranteed per week, but we’ve now upped our commitment to over $15 MILLION in guaranteed prize money every week at PokerStars. Why? What’s the point in being the world’s largest, if we don’t prove it to you, our players, every day and week? Play for your share of these world-class prize pools - go to the Tournaments page for the full guarantee schedule.

» SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENTS
The latest changes to the PokerStars software include four new games (see under "Other Games" in the lobby), the “black” lobby theme (with more options for lobby themes coming), enhanced Filtering and Sorting, visual hand
replayer (beta) and more.  We’ve also released our full version game software for the Mac.  See the Software News page for the latest changes.

» POKERSTARS.TV
Lights, camera, poker! PokerStars.tv brings top quality poker programming from the world’s biggest poker events direct to your PC.  Tune in for a variety of poker video content, including interviews, highlights and video blogs. Visit PokerStars.tv to see what’s on today

You made us the worlds biggest – we want to give you the world’s best. Enjoy.

Regards,

Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu
World Champion
Team PokerStars Pro