The list of PokerStars blocked countries include:
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Cuba, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Palestinian, Qatar, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, UAE, Vatican, Yemen and Zimbabwe.
PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker brands will now focus on players from countries that have regulated poker markets with no prohibition on online gambling.
Qualifiers and satellites are running until 9th November for players to secure their seats to the WPT Montreal 2014.
Canadian players can win their prize package for free by playing the weekly Canadian-only freerolls to win WPT Qualifier tournament tickets.
There is also a monthly WPT freeroll where the winner gets a prize package valued at $5,000, the freeroll is open to Canadian players who have registered for any of the WPT Montreal qualifier tournaments.
Players are required to opt-in each week and earn leaderboard points by playing SNG games on PartyPoker between 6th October – 2nd November, 2014.
Also running this October is the Party Poker Hit or Miss Tournaments a unique new tournament format with an interesting payout structure.
The PartyPoker Pokerfest Championship series also kicks-off between 19th October – 2nd November with $2 million in guaranteed tournaments.
Complete the easy, medium or hard level missions between 29th September – 26st October 2014 to get your bonus.
All missions require players to hit the PartyPoker Casual Cash Games tables and see as many flops needed to complete their mission objectives.
Most of the tournaments on the schedule are repeated in three different stake categories low, medium and high and offers buy-ins from as low as $1.
Players can qualify for the Pokerfest Championship through Mega satellite tournaments or by completing the PartyPoker missions to get bonuses and tournament tickets to the PartyPoker Pokerfest Championship series.
