POKERSTARS prides itself in its online poker tournaments. It claims it is the “Home of the biggest weekly tournament on the planet!” That's a big label to uphold, but PokerStars.com is on top of its game when it comes to online tournaments. Sundays are big tournament days at PokerStars.com. This is the day of the week that they offer the $1,000,000 guaranteed no-limit hold ‘em tournament, the Sunday Million. The average buy-in is $215 (with the exception of the last week of each month, when the buy-in is raised to $530), but the 1 st prize is more than $100,000 every week! Players can enjoy $50 free to use at Pokerstars tourneys by using the marketing code PAWSUB403.
The Sunday Million begins at 4:45 pm Eastern time, every Sunday. For players who are itching to play earlier, they can play in the Sunday Warm-up tournament with a $400,000 guaranteed prize pool. This is a no-limit hold ‘em tournament and is especially beneficial to players in European time zones who want to start their online tournament play early.
Not only does Poker Stars offer monster payouts, they have satellite tournaments, as well, which yield their winners seats at live events, sometimes monumental events, and are much cheaper to buy into than other tournaments. Let's not forget to mention here Chris Moneymaker, World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2003 winner, who won his spot at the WSOP by winning two Poker Stars satellite tournaments that initially cost him only $39. There are regulations, however, that players should be aware of before winning, mainly that you cannot sell your seat or transfer the seat to any other player and winners will have to wear Poker Stars marketing logo-wear at the event. Also, winners must meet the age requirement code of the live event tourney in order to play in it.
Another special type of tournament offered by PokerStars.com is multi-table Shootout tournaments. In these online poker tourneys, there is no shifting of players to other tables as their opponents are eliminated, like in traditional tournaments. Players stay where they originally seated at the start of the tournament until only one player remains. Winning your table advances you to the next table where you start the process over against players who were also first table winners. Double and triple shootouts require the player to win two or three tables (or even more if necessary— e.g., quadruple shootouts).
Freerolls are another tournament option on Poker Stars providing by the marketing department. They are free on-line tournaments that pay out cash prizes and are limited to 1000 players during peak hours on Poker Stars. There is no special PokerStars marketing code needed for these, it is first come first serve. Another type of online poker tournament at Poker Stars is the Sit-&-Go tournaments. These tournaments are unscheduled; players just sit at a table and when it's full, they play. Multi-table tournaments are also available to Poker Stars. These are the run-of-the-mill tournaments, in which players are eliminated and re-ordered to balance out tables. The Pokerstars marketing code PAWSUB403 will get new players a $50 bonus to use in these tournaments or in cash games.
Other tournaments on PokerStars include Rebuy tournaments, Deep Stacks tournaments, 6-max tournaments, and Turbo tourneys. Rebuy tournaments provide players with the option to rebuy into the tournament if they run out of chips completely. Deep Stacks tournaments start players out with more chips than usual, and 6-max tournaments by code limit tables to 6 players, as opposed to the traditional 9. Turbo poker tournaments have an accelerated blind increase, resulting in a faster game.
The best word to describe poker tournament play on PokerStars.com is options.
Whether a poker player is looking for limit, pot-limit, or no-limit, poker tournaments, stud or stud hi/lo poker tournaments, satellite poker tournaments, or frequent player tournaments, PokerStars.com has got a table for every player. The marketing code PAWSUB403 will help get players on a winning track.
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