North America Poker Tour
PokerStars now has a live poker tour in the United States.
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The biggest online poker site in the world announced today that it was launching the North American Poker Tour (NAPT), which it bills as “the first major poker tour in North America created by poker players, for poker players, with accessible buy-ins, expectations for massive prize pools, and thousands of players from around the world all competing for millions of dollars.”
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas will serve as the tour’s first event, but the site also announced two new venues today for the tour’s inaugural season — the Venetian in Las Vegas and Mohegan Sun in Connecticut.
“I am both pleased and excited about our new relationship with the North American Poker Tour and PokerStars.net,” said Kathy Raymond, executive director of poker operations at the Venetian. “I believe that the Venetian poker room will serve as the perfect home to the hottest new poker tour in North America.”
The NAPT Venetian event will run Feb. 20-24 and also serve as the main event of the casino’s very popular Deep Stack Extravaganza I series. The NAPT Mohegan Sun event will run April 7-11 as part of a new poker festival at the Connecticut casino. Both the Venetian and Mohegan Sun NAPT events will feature $5,000 buy-ins, as well as a variety of side events similar to the PCA.
“We are extremely excited and honored to partner with such an amazing brand, PokerStars.net,” said Bruce Dixon, director of poker operations for Mohegan Sun.
Mohegan Sun will begin running satellites to its NAPT main event starting tomorrow, Jan. 7, and running until the April event. The casino will host $200 satellites every Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday, as well as on Monday, Jan. 18 and Monday, Feb. 15. Mohegan Sun will also run $300 satellites every Saturday and Sunday, and also on Jan. 18 and Feb. 15.
PokerStars.net will be running satellites into the live events, which will be filmed and broadcast for a major television audience. The broadcast sponsor has not yet been announced, but that news is expected within the next few weeks.
Dancing with the Stars and PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge competitor Joanna Krupa will serve as the tour’s TV host. Krupa talked to Card Player TV’s Kristy Arnett about her new role:
The news of another major poker tour servicing the United States is exciting to a lot of players, especially Team PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu.
“I’m really looking forward to the launch of the NAPT,” said Negreanu. “With the addition of the NAPT, I’ll have a chance to play some tournaments on home soil, and I’m very excited about that.”
PokerStars already runs the European Poker Tour, the Latin American Poker Tour, and the Asia Pacific Poker Tour, as well as a number of smaller international tours. The site is expected to announce additional venues for the NAPT in the months ahead.
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Another new poker tour has been added to the ever-growing calendar of live poker events across the globe, the DeepStacks Poker Tour.
Another new poker tour has been added to the ever-growing calendar of poker events across the globe, the DeepStacks Poker Tour.
Following on from the announcement of the 2012 Deep Stack Extravaganza series of 44 tournaments in Las Vegas’ world-famous Venetian Resort Hotel Casino for next year – which kicks off on January 26 – website DeepStacks have boosted the soon-to-be crowded schedule by introducing the DeepStacks Poker Tour.
The tour – which will be televised as it make numerous stops across North America – will be packed with DeepStacks pros, such as triple World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow, World Poker Tour (WPT) champion Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi, his older brother Robert, who is a one-time WSOP champ, and high stakes specialist and WPT champ Justin ‘Boosted J’ Smith.
Fans can also expect to see other big-name players, including Vietnamese star Karina Jett, Tristan ‘Cre8ive’ Wade, who picked up his first World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) title in Cannes this year, 22-year-old sensation Randal ‘RandALLin’ Flowers – who became the youngest player to win two WPT events with his Festa Al Lago main event success in October – and experienced pro Adam Levy.
DeepStacks chief executive officer Chris Torina is thrilled by the prospect of tournament novices facing up to the best the game has to offer.
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He said: “DeepStacks has established itself as a leading brand in the poker industry. Now we’re giving players a chance to play against some of the best pros in the world on TV, without having to go broke.”
“The DeepStacks Poker Tour is tournament poker how it should be – great value, top pros and exciting television programming.”
The tour’s organisers promise enjoyable event structures, as well as impressive guaranteed prize pools, for the many stops across North America – starting in February at the Seneca Niagara Casino in Niagara Falls, New York State.
The $1,500 buy-in DeepStacks Poker Tour Western New York Poker Championships, which will be staged from the 15th until the 19th, will guarantee a minimum prize pool of $200,000.
The event will also, of course, be televised, with host Joe Stapleton – a video blogger and award-winning commentator – being joined by analyst and Team DeepStacks Pro Wade.
The inaugural DeepStacks Poker Tour season will also make visits to Quebec, Oregon, Nevada and California, although very few details of these upcoming events are available. We here at Poker News report will most certainly keep you updated on any poker news released by DeepStacks.
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If you are looking for any additional information on the DeepStacks Poker Tour, get yourself on over to deepstackspokertour.com.