Online Poker News » Germany http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:39:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Poker Stars Takes Bigger Stake in WPT VII http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com/poker-stars-takes-bigger-stake-in-wpt-vii/ http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com/poker-stars-takes-bigger-stake-in-wpt-vii/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 17:12:46 +0000 PokerNews http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com/?p=16 World Poker Tour Season 7 is upon us – having just started last Wednesday, May 6 – and the largest poker room in the world, PokerStars, is upping its stake in the series.

Now Poker Stars will be the title sponsor and have exclusive in-show branding in any Season VII World Poker Tour event that is hosted by Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten, and is broadcast in Canada, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. Such localized World Poker Tour broadcasts have already been done successfullyin the U.K., France, Macedonia, South Korea, and the Philippines.

PokerStars and the WPT are also helping each other to branch out further in Latin America, with Spanish and Portuguese language broadcasts to localized areas in Latin America.

This isn’t the first collaboration between Poker Stars and the World Poker Tour. Until the 2006 passage of the UIGEA, the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure was part of each year’s World Poker Tour Schedule.  Read more about the PokerStars WPT news here.

]]> http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com/poker-stars-takes-bigger-stake-in-wpt-vii/feed/ 0 Time is Running Out to Win a Seat in the EPT Season 5 (But it’s Not Too Late Yet…) http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com/time-is-running-out-to-win-a-seat-in-the-ept-season-5-but-its-not-too-late-yet/ http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com/time-is-running-out-to-win-a-seat-in-the-ept-season-5-but-its-not-too-late-yet/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:34:11 +0000 PokerNews http://www.onlinepokernewsblog.com/time-is-running-out-to-win-a-seat-in-the-ept-season-5-but-its-not-too-late-yet/ PokerStars is now giving its players a chance to win a seat in one of the many widespread European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 5 Events. The PokerStars EPT Season 5 has been running since September of 2008 and made stops in Barcelona, Spain; London, England; Budapest, Hungary; Warsaw, Poland; Prague, Czech Republic; Deauville, France; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Dortmund, Germany. Still on the docket is San Remo, Italy, and then its on to the EPT Grand Finals, which will be held from April 28-May 3, as always in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Also a favorite event on every year’s EPT schedule, and Season 5′s no less, is the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, the singular EPT event, perhaps, to which Poker Stars offers the most opportunities to satellite in.

It’s a perfect case of “it ain’t over ’til it’s over”. There’s only one event left before the Grand Finals, but its still not too late to win a seat there. Just go to PokerStars to find out all the details.

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