Pokerstars Partners With U.s. Land Casino

By Brian Cullingworth, Last updated Aug 8, 2014

Live tournament plans sealed with the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Florida

Pokerstars has augmented its already extensive list of international live poker tournaments by signing an agreement with the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
The deal will see the development of a Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship (SHRPOC) series, through which Pokerstars online players will be able to buy-in from their online accounts.
The inaugural event in the new partnership kicks off August 14 and runs through September 3, with a massive main event guaranteed prize pool of $10 million, and an additional $100,000 Super High Roller event with re-entries scheduled for September 1.
The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship (SHRPOC) series features 24 events including a $5,300 buy-in Main Event.
In related news, Pokerstars has pulled out of the Montreal live poker festival at short notice, a move confirmed on the twoplustwo forum by spokesman Lee Jones.
"Due to unforeseen circumstances, PokerStars will not be continuing its participation in the upcoming festival," Jones wrote. "However, the tournament will continue as planned as the 'Playground Festival of Poker' and we will, of course, honor our previous commitment to players and satellite winners. No other PokerStars services in Canada are affected."
The Montreal Poker Festival is scheduled to run from August 22 and September 3 at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada, and features 16 events including a $1 million guaranteed, $1,100 buy-in main event.
Some Canadian media reports have linked the sudden exit from the tournament with the acquisition of Pokerstars' parent group Rational by the Montreal-based Amaya Gaming group.

Online Casino News Courtesy of Infopowa

Brian Cullingworth

Infopowa news was a staple of Casinomeister’s news from 2000 until 2019. Brian Cullingworth was the main writer, contributor, and was one of the most knowledgeable persons I have ever known involved in the online casino industry.

We first met in January 2001 at the ICE in London where I observed him going booth to booth interviewing online casino, software, and licensing jurisdiction representatives. Brian was also heavily involved with our forum as “Jetset“, he was involved as an informal consultant to eCOGRA, the OPA, and was a player advocate who assisted countless aggrieved players with his connections to industry folks. He also published “Casino Cautions” via Infopowa news for quite a number of years. These can be found in our news archives.

His passing in February 2019 was a dark day for us. He will be forever missed.


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