PokerStars announces a new Ladies Weekend during PCA 2010

POKERSTARS ANNOUNCE A NEW LADIES WEEKEND DURING PCA 2010

PokerStars is pleased to announce the start of online qualifying tournaments for the PCA Ladies Weekend, the highlight of the Ladies poker circuit which takes place at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas in January 2010.

The PCA Ladies Weekend is a chance for female poker players everywhere to be part of one of the greatest poker festivals on earth - the PCA - played in one of the most beautiful Caribbean locations, Paradise Island. The Ladies Weekend combines sunshine beaches with relaxation, pampering and poker for female poker players who want to improve their game, enjoy some spa treatment.

Satellites are now running on PokerStars for as little as $2.20, with packages worth $3,500 up for grabs. What does that include? Three nights’ accommodation at Atlantis, $900 towards travel expenses and a $250 spa voucher, either to unwind if things don’t go quite as well as you’d hoped at the tables, or to celebrate your big win.

You’ll also receive entry to a Ladies Poker Boot camp worth $250, where you’ll get to learn how to play like our top female Team PokerStars Pros like Vanessa Rousso, Victoria Coren and Katja Thater. And of course, you’ll also receive your buy-in to the PokerStars No Limit Hold’em $1,000 which also marks the Grand Finale of the PokerStars sponsored High Heels Poker Tour Grand Final. This is on Saturday, January 9, 2010, one of the 50 events scheduled for the PCA.

PokerStars is the proud sponsor of the High Heels Poker Tour, one of the world’s premier ladies poker organizations. The HHPT aims to give women of all ages the opportunity to expand their skills at the poker table and provide a venue for nurturing the next top female poker player.

All female players are welcome at the PCA Ladies Weekend, whether you are a member of the High Heels Poker Tour, from another ladies poker organization, or just playing for fun. Online qualifiers are now being held daily on PokerStars. You can find satellites in the tournament lobby under “Events” and “PCA”, or by typing “PCA Ladies Weekend” into the event filter. You can also buy-in directly to the grand final for $1,250 + $100, or turn up on the day to do the same.

It’s open to all women, from experience veterans to those picking up cards for the first time. And don’t worry if you don’t have a PokerStars account, you can download the software for free at PokerStars, where you’ll find tutorials and all you need to get started.

About PokerStars:

PokerStars is the world’s largest poker site with more than 28 million members around the world. It’s the first choice of the world’s top players with more daily tournaments than anywhere else with the best security online. More hands have been dealt on PokerStars than any other site, that’s over 34 billion hands dealt to date and more than 206 million tournaments played.

PokerStars operates worldwide under the license from the Isle of Man Government. A recent addition to the PokerStars family, PokerStars.IT, operates in Italy under the Italian Government license.

PokerStars is in the record books, boasting the Guinness World Record for ’Largest Online Poker Tournament’ and ‘Most Players on an Internet Poker Room’.

PokerStars regularly sets the bar high, staging some of the biggest online and live poker tournaments in the world:

• The World Championship of Online Poker (www.wcoop.com) is the premier yearly online poker tournament series in the world. The 2009 WCOOP generated a total prize pool of over $51 million
• The European Poker Tour (www.ept.com) attracts the best players and currently generates the biggest prize pool of any poker tour
• The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) staged on the shores of Paradise Island in the Bahamas is where thousands of players compete for a share of millions in prize money
• The Latin American Poker Tour (www.lapt.com) unites the best players in South America
• The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (www.appt.com) does the same across the Pacific
• The World Cup of Poker, a unique fixture on the poker calendar that combines the online and live poker worlds for a team challenge that pitches nation against nation
• PokerStars is also the official sponsor of the; Russian Poker Tour, The Italian Poker Tour, The Czech-Slovak Poker Tour, Australia-New Zealand Poker Tour

PokerStars is also home to an elite team of sponsored players known as Team PokerStars Pro – a group of established and up and coming players that travel the world competing in international tournaments. For a full list of Team PokerStars Pros visit /team-pokerstars/.

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