Newsletter - June 2006


In This Newsletter:


1. 20% Deposit Bonus Now
2. VIP Club Gets a Boost
3. Coming Soon...
4. Meet Vanessa Rousso
5. Greg Raymer WSOP Tips
6. Featured Testimonial


It's that time again! PokerStars is about to give you a 20% bonus just for reloading your account and playing on PokerStars. Make your next PokerStars deposit before Tuesday, June 20th at midnight and we'll add a 20% bonus up to $120. Click here for complete bonus details.

Are you wondering what to do with all your free cash? Well, it is big money season at PokerStars and the sky's the limit. With a fraction of the free money we give you, you could get on the road to becoming a millionaire.

World Series of Poker satellites could win you a $12,000 prize package
• The PokerStars Sunday Million guarantees a $1,000,000 prize pool every Sunday, at 4:30pm ET

Making a deposit to your PokerStars account is simple. PokerStars players in the United States and Canada can now instantly fund their PokerStars accounts with our newest depositing options, Instant eCheck and instaCASH.




PokerStars has poker's richest rewards program, and we're always working to make it better. Well, we've done it again. The PokerStars VIP Club now offers more merchandise in the VIP Club store, and now you earn two Base Frequent Player Points (FPP) and VIP Player Points (VPP) instead of one in larger pots. Visit our FPP information page for complete details.

To further recognize and reward our most frequent players, Supernova status can now be extended through the end of June of the year following qualification. For details visit our Supernova information page.

What's new in the PokerStars VIP Club Store?

• Amazon.com® gift certificates for the US, Canada and UK*
• LCD and Plasma TVs
• Digital Cameras
• iPod Nanos, Video iPods and iPod Docking Stations
• PC Monitors and Much More

Browse the VIP store now!



PokerStars 5 Billionth Hand

PokerStars recently dealt its five billionth hand. We celebrated in the biggest way we knew how. We gave away more than a million dollars in cash and prizes. The celebration climaxed with PokerStars player "MaraJade" winning the pot in our five billionth hand. To learn more about our big winner, visit the PokerStars blog.


Coming Soon...Resizable Tables and New Themes

Soon you will be able to resize your PokerStars table, view our games with new "Theme" backgrounds and even save your personal favorite layouts for later.

If you're the type of person who has to have the latest features and gadgets before everyone else, you need PokerStars beta. See all our upcoming features and use them before they are released on the main site. This includes table resizing and themes. Click here to download our beta version now.


The PokerStars Sunday Million

At PokerStars, you have the chance to play in the biggest weekly no-limit hold'em tournament on Earth. The PokerStars Sunday Million guarantees a prize pool of at least $1,000,000 every Sunday at 4:30PM ET. Click here for complete details.



Q. Welcome to Team PokerStars Pro, Vanessa. You're still fairly young. What are your biggest accomplishments so far?

A. I'm proud of a number of things I've done so far in the poker world. At 22 years old, I was the youngest woman to ever make the final table of a WSOP circuit event. In the year since then, I have made the final tables of several other WSOP and WPT events. However, the most exciting thing so far was placing seventh in this year's World Poker Tour Championship. I had my sights set on a win, but got unlucky on the TV bubble. It is very difficult to win tournaments of this caliber and sometimes you need to get lucky to survive. As they say in the poker industry, that's the way the cards fall. I am also quite pleased to join Team PokerStars Pro and look forward to a long and prosperous relationship with the best poker team around.

Vanessa Rousso
Team PokerStars Pro


Want to know more about Team PokerStars Pro? Click here for a complete roster and bios.

Subject: Comment about the VIP program

Dear Poker Stars Team

I'd just like to say that the VIP program is absolutely the most amazing thing any site has ever done or could ever do. Beyond the extremely generous valuation of FPPs for items to buy, I have the to say that the partnership you guys have with the Mavericks is out of this world. The fact that I was able to get tickets to the NBA Finals through this is unbelievable (I truly can't put into words how amazing it is, going to something I've been dreaming about since I was 5). That's not even to mention the beyond ridiculously fair price for the tickets, only 15,000 FPPs!!

I can't even begin to describe the reactions I get from my friends when I tell them I got tickets to the NBA Finals through a poker site. You really make your customers feel like they are #1 and its things like this that absolutely blow me away. And yet another reason why anytime my friends ask me what's the best site to play on I tell them Pokerstars.

-Ben

Ask "FossilMan" about the WSOP

Q. How can I win a seat to the World Series of Poker?

A. If you want to be sure you have a seat before you go to Las Vegas, PokerStars is your best bet. In 2004, I won my seat in a $160 double shootout. PokerStars also has satellites for almost every bankroll, from Frequent Player Point buy-ins to the $650 Sunday super satellite. Your absolute best chance to win a seat in the WSOP will come on Sunday, July 16 when PokerStars will host the world's largest WSOP qualifier. This tournament will send the top 150 finishers to the WSOP, guaranteed. PokerStars satellites are fantastic because winning one also gets you travel money and a free room in Las Vegas during the main event.

If you want to try your hand in a live satellite in Las Vegas, the Rio will be running satellites all the time. You can play $1,060 single table satellites to the main event. The Rio also spreads $225 super satellites twice a day in the weeks leading up to the main event.

Good luck. I'll see you in Vegas!


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*Neither Amazon.com nor any other manufacturer of products contained in the FPP store are sponsors of this promotion.



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