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U.K. London – January 23, 2018 www.zonadeazar.com [2] Welcome to PokerStars LIVE at The Hippodrome Casino, where a full week of poker tournaments, cash games and special events have begun at PokerStars Festival London. The Festival runs from January 22-28, 2018, kicking off the New Year with a £500,000 guaranteed £990 Main Event, nine side events and the awarding of three Platinum Passes to the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold’em Championship [3] (see below for details).
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Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody will take his place among the multitude of online qualifiers, live satellite winners and international PokerStars Festival players this week. “I’m really looking forward to the festival in London,” said Cody. “It’s not often I get to roll out of my own bed to go and play a big PokerStars event with friends. Players can expect a great atmosphere and schedule. Plus, there are three free $30,000 PSPC tickets to be won throughout the event!”
Cody will warm up with tomorrow’s £2,200 High Roller before taking part in the Main Event. His history at PokerStars LIVE at The Hippodrome Casino stretches back four years, when he won the inaugural UKIPT Series – his first tournament victory after completing his Triple Crown in 2011.
Last year, 23-year-old law student Rehman Kassam [5] from London played a live £120 PokerStars satellite and took home the Main Event’s first prize of £89,320, the largest win of his poker career. Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree said, “Anyone can follow in Rehman’s footsteps and turn a small investment into a big win. That’s the beauty of the PokerStars Festival series.”
The first event of PokerStars Festival London – the two-day £170 NL Hold’em Super Deep Stack – is already under way, with Day 2 combining survivors from two flights tomorrow at noon.
POKERSTARS FESIVAL LONDON HIGHLIGHTS
• Super Deep Stack: January, 22-24, 2018 – £170
• PokerStars Festival High Roller: January, 23-24, 2018 – £2,200
• PokerStars Festival Main Event £500,000 guaranteed: January 24-28, 2018 – £990
• London Cup: January, 27-28, 2018 – £330
• PL Omaha Double Chance: January 28, 2018 – £220
These events include Platinum Passes for the winners.
Full schedule details for PokerStars Festival London 2018 can be found on pokerstarslive.com [6].
Live coverage of the £2,200 PokerStars Festival High Roller will begin tomorrow at 16:00 on the PokerStars Blog [7].
POKERSTARS FESTIVAL LONDON MEDIA EVENT
Stars of the UK poker scene will compete with media and celebrities on Thursday, January 25. PokerStars Festival London will welcome former England International and Gloucester Rugby player James Simpson Daniel and Sky Sports Rugby presenter Alex Payne to the tables. Warmed up from the Media Event, Daniel will join former England International and Premiership Rugby player Andy Goode (who is also a regular rugby analyst for BT Sport and Sky Sports) in the Main Event on Day 1c, Friday January 26. Keep an eye on the PokerStars Blog [8] for reports on how these friends of PokerStars get on in the hotbed of poker that is the UK capital.
THREE PLATINUM PASSES TO BE AWARDED AT POKERSTARS FESTIVAL LONDON
PokerStars Festival London is proud to announce its participation in awarding Platinum Passes to the PokerStars Players Championship (held in the Bahamas, January 6–10, 2019). Each package is worth around $30,000, including the $25,000 tournament buy-in, accommodation at the Atlantis Hotel and Casino Resort, and $2,000 in cash towards travel costs. The winners of the Main Event, High Roller and London Cup will all receive one of these coveted Platinum Passes, a free ticket to one of the biggest and most highly anticipated new events in the poker calendar.
Throughout the year, PokerStars will be giving away more than 300 Platinum Passes (worth an estimated $8 million) at live tours around the world, online in tournaments, cash games, promotions, and via the Stars Rewards loyalty program, plus contributing an additional $1 million to the Players Championship’s first prize.
At least one Platinum Pass will be given away at each EPT, LAPT and APPT stop, as well as at each PokerStars Festival and PokerStars MEGASTACK event. PokerStars Festival events are mainly tailored for recreational players and take place in destination cities around the world, while PokerStars MEGASTACK events offer deep-structured tournaments at a low, accessible price in cities around Europe and the United States.
UPCOMING POKERSTARS LIVE 2018 STOPS
New PokerStars Live events have been added to the 2018 PokerStars Live calendar [9]:
- PokerStars Festival London – January 22 – 28, 2018
• Macau Poker Cup 28 – January 26 – February 11, 2018
• PokerStars MEGASTACK London – February 23 – 25, 2018 (New Addition)
• LAPT Chile – March 8 – 13, 2018
• PokerStars MEGASTACK Sanremo – March 12 – 18, 2018 (New Addition)
• APPT Macau – March 14 – 25, 2018
• EPT Sochi – March 20 – 29, 2018• APPT Korea – April 6 – 15, 2018 (New Addition)
• PokerStars And Monte-Carlo© Casino EPT – April 24 – May 4, 2018
• Manila Megastack – April 27 – May 6, 2018 (New Addition)
POKERSTARS FESTIVAL 2017 MAIN EVENT RESULTS
• PokerStars Festival London: 944 entries, £824,112 prize pool, Rehman Kassam for £89,320
• PokerStars Festival Rozvadov: 1,126 entries, €1,089,310 prize pool, Petr Svoboda for €124,346
• PokerStars Festival Chile: 329 entries, $500,000 prize pool, Christopher Franco for $97,360
• PokerStars Festival Marbella: 949 entries, €911,040 prize pool, Ignacio De Maturana for €168,700
• PokerStars Festival Lille: 800 entries, €768,000 prize pool, Philippe Le Touche for €143,000
• PokerStars Festival Korea: 285 entries, KRW 414,675,000 prize pool, Taehoon Han for KRW 83,130,000
• PokerStars Festival Manila: 594 entries, ₱28,809,000 prize pool, Uday Bansal for ₱4,676,000
• PokerStars Festival Bucharest: 736 entries, €706,560 prize pool, Sam Grafton for €117,707
• PokerStars Festival Uruguay: 169 entries, $379,755 prize pool, Julio Belluscio for $66,748
• PokerStars Festival Dublin: 544 entries, €679,000 prize pool, Gary McGinty for €91,808
• PokerStars Festival Sochi: 544 entries, ₽40,681,800 prize pool, Aleksandr Merzhvinskiy for ₽7,700,000
• PokrtStars Festival Hamburg: 567 entries, €549,990 prize pool, Ulrich Pauls for €105,850
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