Sunday Million 10th anniversary (and how you can play it for free)!

Hi guys!

I just wanted to let you know that this weekend on March 20th the Sunday Million is going to be celebrating its 10th anniversary!

That means that the prestigious PokerStars tourney will have even better prizes than usual! We're talking about 10 million total prizepool guaranteed and a sweet 1M+ for the first!

If you're thinking "Okay, that sounds great but that $215 buy-in is too high for my bankroll", do not worry! I will be running a special freeroll qualifier at my newly created home game where the winner gets a ticket for the Sunday Million 10th anniversary! Yep, you heard it right! You could be winning your ticket in this big celebration for free!

Now, this is going to be a winner takes all tournament since there's only one ticket for the first and second place gets nothing at all. But hey, it's free to participate so you have nothing to lose! Plus, if you do manage to take down all competition and win that ticket then you will have had an excellent warm-up for the actual Sunday Million!

The freeroll qualifier will take place on Saturday March 19th, at 17:30 WET. Registration will only open 3 hours in advance (so at 14.30 WET) but if you want to play it, make sure you enter my Home Game earlier as I will have to manually accept everyone and that requires some time.

My Home Game is named From Zero To Poker (what else?), the Club ID is 2051583 and the invitational code is getintheclub.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment below and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. May the best man (or woman) win! Good luck!

The Daily Double & Giveaway

Hello!

I just wanted to make a quick post to let you guys know about the Daily Double Christmas Festival! The Daily Double is PokerStars' latest promotion (you can find more info about it here). In this series of daily tournaments you can claim a piece of the $4.5 million that they give in total. They have already started running, so if you're interested don't delay any longer!

If you'd like to participate but your bankroll doesn't allow it, look for the 500 FPP satellites, or those of 5 FPPs and fight your way to the top! (More info about the satellites here).

I actually have 15 $5.50 tickets to share with you for the $55 Daily Double Sat that will run tomorrow. If you would like to win one, leave me your screen name. I will pick 15 winners at random. Please note that only players with real money accounts are eligible to win.

Good luck!

EDIT:

The winners of the contest are:

panosgsxr100
Zaboomafu
dwarek
paulosp2013
Chrissi2k
markvolendam
Shyvatrip
geego11
Palko90
leoneedius
veruswelt
unsen1
LONISBET70
mute07
Tsitsolkos 

You guys will receive one ticket for the $5.50 Deep Turbo Satellites today at 14:05 (Tournaments #1390736473 and #1390736475). Congratulations and good luck at the satellite!

Common Cents

Hello guys!

In case you haven't heard, PokerStars has come up with a new exciting series of tournaments called "Common Cents". As the name suggests, you only need a few pennies to participate in this series. But that doesn't mean that the prizes aren't exciting... In fact, the kick-off tournament of this series that will take place on October 5th has a guaranteed prize pool of $100.000! And the buy in is... one cent!

You could turn this...

If you're a micro-stakes player or if you are trying to build a bankroll from scratch, then this series is for you! And if you're a more experienced player that can't pass up the opportunity to claim a big prize with hardly any risk, then this series is for you too! My point is that no matter who you are and what you're usually playing, you want to be in these tournaments. Period.

...into this!!!

Just to add to the fun, PokerStars will be randomly giving out tickets to the Common Cents $25.000 GTD Main Event during the first hour of every Common Cents tournament. Every minute during that hour a table will be chosen and all the players sitting there will get a ticket. And let's not forget the leader board which is just another way to grab yourself a prize during this series. You can find more info on the Common Cents here and here.

I have a total of 50 tickets for the Common Cents Kick-Off tournament to give away. So stay tuned at my pages on facebook and twitter and get yourself one! You could be the one turning one single cent into the first prize of $10.000! Good luck!

Προσκλήσεις για το VIP Πάρτι

Γεια σας!

Η αντίστροφη μέτρηση για το πάρτι έχει ήδη αρχίσει! Δεν απομένουν παρά λίγες μέρες... Αν θέλετε να πάρετε πρόσκληση αλλά ακόμα δεν τα έχετε καταφέρει μέσω κάποιου διαγωνισμού ή τουρνουά, τότε τώρα είναι η ευκαιρία σας!

Την Πέμπτη στις 22:00 θα γίνει το τουρνουά 1312429710. Κοστίζει μόλις 100 FPP και δίνει 15 προσκλήσεις! Περισσότερες δηλαδή από οποιοδήποτε άλλο τουρνουά που έγινε μέχρι τώρα. Αυτό είναι το τελευταίο τουρνουά που θα μοιράσει προσκλήσεις για το πάρτι, οπότε μην το χάσετε.

Η βραδιά αναμένεται να είναι καταπληκτική και αυτό από μόνο του είναι αρκετό, αλλά όσοι παρευρεθούν θα πάρουν και ένα μικρό αναμνηστικό δωράκι από την PokerStars. Ξέρω τι είναι και το βρήκα πολύ καλή ιδέα, αλλά δεν μπορώ να πω! Θα δείτε το Σάββατο!

Τα λέμε από κοντά στο Balux!

Τουρνουά για το πάρτι στην Αθήνα

Γεια σας!

Όπως ξέρετε, κάνω καθημερινά διαγωνισμούς μέσω του facebook και του twitter και δίνω προσκλήσεις για το VIP Club Live πάρτι που θα γίνει στην Αθήνα στις 5 Σεπτεμβρίου. Αυτοί οι διαγωνισμοί θα συνεχιστούν μέχρι την ημερομηνία του πάρτι, οπότε θα έχετε ακόμα πολλές ευκαιρίες να συμμετάσχετε.

Επειδή όμως εγώ δίνω μόνο ένα εισιτήριο την ημέρα, μπορείτε να προσπαθήσετε να κερδίσετε και μ'έναν ακόμη τρόπο: τα online τουρνουά που θα γίνουν στις 29, 30 και 31 Αυγούστου. Συγκεκριμένα:

• Τουρνουά 1289594875: Αυτό το τουρνουά θα γίνει στις 29 Αυγούστου στις 21:30 ώρα Ελλάδας. Το buy-in είναι $5.50 και πέρα από τα χρηματικά έπαθλα θα δώσει 5 εισιτήρια για το VIP πάρτι.

• Τουρνουά 1289594882: Αυτό το τουρνουά θα γίνει στις 30 Αυγούστου στις 21:00 ώρα Ελλάδας. Το buy-in είναι $1.10 και πέρα από τα χρηματικά έπαθλα θα δώσει 5 εισιτήρια για το VIP πάρτι.

• Τουρνουά 1289594868: Αυτό το τουρνουά θα γίνει στις 31 Αυγούστου στις 21:30 ώρα Ελλάδας. Το buy-in είναι μόνο 100 FPPs και πέρα από τα FPPs που μπορείτε να κερδίσετε θα δώσει όχι 5 αλλά 10 εισιτήρια για το VIP πάρτι!

Επίσης, μην ξεχνάτε ότι μπορείτε πάντα να αγοράσετε απευθείας μια πρόσκληση από το κατάστημα VIP έναντι 1500 FPP. Με τόσες ευκαιρίες για να κερδίσετε, πραγματικά δεν έχετε δικαιολογία για να μην παρευρεθείτε στο πάρτι! Μην το χάσετε! Τα λέμε από κοντά στην Αθήνα στις 5 Σεπτεμβρίου.

We have a winner!

Hello!

Yesterday was the end of the best contest my blog has seen so far... And one lucky guy is walking away with the big prize: a trip to Greece to go to the VIP Club Live Party!

I got several creative photos, but I could only choose one to win. The winner is from Austria. Here is his photo:

I don't even know how many times he had to jump to get the photo right. But it looks great: a wonderful scenery by the sea and someone jumping in the water in a way that it looks like flying. Amazing! I also really like the way he found to incorporate the PS logo: on his hat. It's subtle,  but it's there. And it all goes very nicely with the summer theme of the VIP Party in Athens.

So congratulations nFruit, you are the winner! Pack your bags, cause the next time you'll be jumping into the water it's gonna be in the Aegean sea! And of course, you'll have the pleasure of attending the awesome VIP Club Live Party on September 5th! See you there!

Win a trip to Greece

Hey guys!

In my last post I promised you some exciting news, didn't I? Here we go!

Over the past year and a half that I joined PokerStars Team Online I've run quite a lot of contests on my blog and social media pages. The prizes varied from a ticket to the monthly Team Online freeroll, to a percentage of a Team Online Members' winnings of the Sunday Million and other prizes in between.

But today I will present you with what I think is the best contest I've ever had on my blog: a chance for you to win a trip to Athens and attend the PokerStars VIP Club Live party!!! How awesome is that?!?

Winning a VIP Package for the party in Athens includes:

• $750 for travel expenses
• 2 nights at a 5-Star Hotel in Athens
• Transportation from the airport
• 2 tickets to VIP Club Live: Athens

You're probably wondering what you need to do in order to get a shot at this amazing prize... Well, this is a summer party by the sea we're talking about. So sticking to the theme, I want you to send me a photo inspired by the summer that has the PokerStars logo somewhere in it. It can be a photo from your summer holidays. It can also be the summer cocktail you enjoyed after work. It can be you playing poker on your laptop at the beach. Pick whatever you want and snap a photograph, it just needs to instantly make me think of summer and have the PokerStars logo appear somewhere in there.

You can send your photos through facebook or twitter. 

To participate through facebook, post your photo on the wall of my page with the title "PokerStars VIP Package Athens Contest" and your PokerStars user ID.

To participate through twitter, send me your photo at @katerina0289 with the hashtag #PokerStarsAthensParty and your PokerStars user ID.

Only one entry per person is accepted. I'm just running this on facebook and twitter at the same time so that it's easier for you guys. If I do get more than one entry per person, only the first one will be taken into consideration. Photos that are not accompanied by a PokerStars user ID will not be considered valid entries, so please don't forget to include it. All photos must be submitted by August 25th at noon Lisbon time. That gives you a week, so grab those cameras and get to work! The winner will be announced through my blog.

I'm so excited about this contest! Over the past 5 years that I've been living in Portugal I've talked quite a bit about my travels back to Greece. This time I get to invite one of my readers to participate in this trip! And apart from giving you the opportunity to visit my home country, I will also get to meet one of you in person! That's so great!

But wait cause there's more! As you may have guessed, this VIP Package contest is exclusive to non-Greek players. The idea is that someone wins the package and travels from a country abroad to visit Greece and experience the Greek way of partying. But I couldn't leave my fellow countrymen empty-handed!

So exclusively for Greek players, I'll be having daily contests from now and until the day of the VIP Club Live party where I'll be giving away tickets to the event. There will be one winner per day, so you will have plenty of chances to win an invitation. Look for these contests everyday on my social media pages (facebook and twitter) and of course here at my blog.

I want to thank PokerStars for giving me the opportunity to run such an amazing contest. Can't wait to sip cocktails by the Aegean sea with some of you guys!

Good luck to everyone and I'll see you in Athens!