Andy Black has finally captured the title after 20 years of playing when he won at the 2008 PartyPoker Premier League and the first prize of $250,000. 42 year-old Ireland, Dublin player Andy Black who is also known as ‘Mad Monk,’ burst into tears of joy after he defeated UK player Roland De Wolfe heads-up in an event that seats twelve of the world’s top professionals up against each other in league format.
With Sunday’s being the biggest day of the week for major tournaments and events at PokerStars this article highlights the offers available at poker giant PokerStars on the big day. You can join in on the early Sunday Warm up to prepare for the main weekly Sunday Million guaranteed tournament.
The World Championship of Online Poker 2008 has been announced by PokerStars the big daddy of online poker tournaments the WCOOP 2008, after the huge success the last event had even though it was surrounded by some controversy, satellites to the main event will be running all summer with satellite qualifiers starting from as little as $2.20 and from just 100 FPP’s there will be multi table satellites, Sit n Go satellites as well as Step qualifiers.
The latter of which are already up and running. MTT satellites are scheduled to begin on 6 July after the Sunday Million event.
The (WCOOP) PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker is set to return September 2008 and carries along with it massive guaranteed prize pool of $30,000,000 (thirty million dollars) doubling the prize from the previous year dubbing the event the biggest online poker tournament series in the world ever.
A total 33 events will be held including Hold’em, Omaha, Stud, Razz, HORSE, 2 7 Draw. Each event carries it’s own guarantee prize pool with many of the more popular games reaching in excess of $2,000,000.
The series will wrap up on September 21 with a guaranteed main event of $10,000,000.
WCOOP 2008 – PokerStars World Series of online Poker schedule
*2 day events
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PokerStars Bonus Code STARS50 will add a maximum bonus of 100% up to $50 of your first deposit when signing up.
PokerStars, now the world’s most popular poker site, is offering a 2x bonus for the month of July where players get double the bonus they did before hence the name PokerStars 2X bonus.
Players involved in both regular tournaments and cash games stand a chance winning really big. Each event will only be announced just before it starts and includes everything from double VPPs with double the chance to win and even double pots are on offer for cash games.
PokerStars 2X events will be visible via the PokerStars lobby and on their site, be sure not to miss out on what is being dubbed as the “biggest online poker promotion of all time!” by Poker Stars.
Latest PokerStars 2X Offers:
2X VPP: PokerStars are awarding double VPPs in all cash games and Sit & Go tournaments excluding Heads-Up tournys, between now until 6 July 23:59 EST. Providing an excellent way for you to boost your PokerStars VIP-Club status.
2X First Depositor Freerolls
Those new to PokerStars will get access to the 2X First Depositor Freeroll events when making their first deposits this July by using PokerStars bonus code FIRST2X this will give them entry to the 2X First Depositor Freerolls, two $2,222 freerolls running every day starting from 8th July until 30 July. Players cashing in any freerolls will get entry into the $22,222 grand final event to be held 31st July 2008.
The PokerStars bonus code will still award the standard bonus of 100% up to $50
2X Chance Tournaments
2X Chance Tournaments will be running daily giving players a chance to make one additional rebuy after being eliminatedeach tournament begins at :22 minutes past the hour.
All 2X Chance events can be found in the PokerStars lobby under ‘Tourney’ / ‘All’.
The tournaments will be marked as ‘[2X Chance]
PokerStars.com offer a sign up bonus of 100% up to $50 for first time depositing players when using PokerStars bonus code STARS50 Poker Stars has become the most popular venue for poker online offer huge tournaments and events with and still allow US players.
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