Open poker league. PokerStarter School of Poker - poker leagues

Every day, thousands of players from all over the world visit this site to take part in one of the many PokerStars tournaments.

As the largest poker room on the planet, Stars offers a wide range of activities in addition to the standard cash games. Here you will find Sit&Go, Spin&Go, MTT tournaments, shootout events, heads-up tournaments, freerolls, satellites and much more. Find out which of the presented variety of events is right for you, and how to take part in all this.

PokerStars tournaments are, first of all, an opportunity to increase your bankroll many times over. The potential win multiplier here is much higher than at regular tables. If in cash games winning three or four starting stacks is considered a big win, then in a tournament you can multiply the buy-in hundreds of times. For example, by participating in a tournament with an entry fee of 10 cents, there is a chance to win $500 or more. And the higher the buy-in, the more interesting and large the rewards become.

Of course, hitting the jackpot in such a game is more difficult than at a cash table, since there are many more people participating in tournaments (with the exception of a few formats), but the potential reward is definitely worth overcoming all the difficulties.

What are the opportunities offered by PokerStars online tournaments:

1. Win a prize that is hundreds of times the size of the starting buy-in;
2. Earn money for the game without replenishing the balance. This opportunity is provided by freerolls and free satellites;
3. Win a ticket to a major event by breaking through from a smaller tournament;
4. Qualify for a prestigious offline series, including world series poker, etc.

Interesting opportunities are presented for both experienced players and beginners taking the first steps in their poker career. The main thing is to choose the right tournament based on your preferred style of play and the bankroll you have.

Types of PokerStars Tournaments

Every day, hundreds of tournaments are held on the site, which can be divided into three categories:

1. Large;
2. Regular;
3. Free.

In the first case, you can claim really big money, but the buy-ins for tournaments in this category are also high - from a few hundred to a couple of thousand dollars.

Regular tournaments are the most extensive category of events. The cost of participation in them varies from 10 cents to a couple of hundred dollars. Free tournaments usually give away small prizes or tickets to larger events in which you can already compete for serious money.

All tournaments at PokerStars are held in the following formats:

• Sit&Go. You can take part in an SNG tournament almost immediately after making a buy-in. That is, they are held not according to the schedule, but as the tables fill up. Participation in them can take from 2 to 990 people. Prize fund is formed based on the number of buy-ins - the more people, the larger the prize;
• Spin&Go. Something similar to the previous format of the tournament, only the prize pool here is formed randomly. After all the players confirm their readiness (usually 3 participants), the so-called wheel of luck appears on the screen with a set of multipliers. What multiplier will fall, so many buy-ins will be played in the tournament. Most often, the x2 multiplier drops out, but if you're lucky, the buy-in can be multiplied hundreds of times;
• MTT. Multi-table tournament with hundreds and thousands of players. They are held according to the schedule and have a guaranteed prize fund. At the beginning of the game, all players are given an equal number of chips. The tournament is played with a gradual increase in the size of the blinds and regular 5-minute breaks. The number of prizes is determined depending on the number of participants. Detailed information on the principle of prize distribution can be found in the lobby of each individual tournament;
• ZOOM. Speed ​​poker, where you can fold cards at any time, without waiting for your turn to come. After folding, you will automatically be transferred to another table, where the distribution is just beginning. This allows you not to wait for the decisions of other players for a long time, but to constantly be in the game;
• Satellites. The main feature of the satellites is their prize. The winners of the online tournament do not receive money, but invitations to larger events.

The schedule of PokerStars tournaments can be viewed in the main lobby on the site or in the downloaded client. Here you can select the events you are interested in by entry cost, game format, time and other criteria using the built-in filters.

Now let's take a closer look at the categories of major and regular tournaments on this site.

The biggest tournaments on PokerStars

A large number of prestigious events are held in the poker room, in which not only ordinary users take part, but also professional players. They are a fierce struggle for hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions of dollars. To get into the prize money, you have to work hard, but one lucky day can secure you for the rest of your life.

What are these tournaments?

1. Sunday Million PokerStars. Every Sunday, a million dollars is raffled off at the site. The lucky one who takes first place takes $150,000 for himself, and the rest of the money is distributed among other players who made it to the top places. The buy-in for the Sunday Million is $109. You can also get an invitation to it by going through the satellite grid;
2. WCOOP 2019. Perhaps the largest event in the world of online poker. Every year, thousands of poker players from all over the world compete in a fierce struggle for huge prize money. For the first place here you can get more than one and a half million dollars. And besides money, the winner receives honor and respect from the world community;
   
3. Scoop PokerStars. The annual spring series, which ran from May 12 to 27 in 2019, offered players to compete for over $115 million in guaranteed prize money. Every day for two weeks, the players were waiting for the tournaments of the spring series with prize money from one million dollars. In 2020, you can expect an equally interesting event;
   
4. Sunday Warm Up. Another big Sunday tournament with big prizes;
   
5. Sunday Billion. 1 billion chips are up for grabs in this tournament. True, conditional. So if you go to PokerStars to relax and unwind while playing for virtual money, be sure to try your hand at the biggest play money tournament in the history of poker;
   
6. micromillions. Not only players with huge bankrolls, but also ordinary poker players at medium and low limits can become a part of something large and grandiose. This series includes more than a hundred tournaments with buy-ins from 11 cents, and the total amount of guaranteed prizes is several million dollars;
   
7. Women's Sunday. Especially for the representatives of the weaker sex, the site organized a unique weekly tournament, in which only women who have verified their account and confirmed their identity can take part.
   

Anyone can try their luck and demonstrate their skills at the largest online poker events. After all, if the amount of the entry fee seems unbearable to you, you can always get into a big event through satellites.

Regular events

In the meantime, you are waiting for the next major tournament, which is still a week or a few months away, you can take part in regular events, of which there are also many on PokerStars:

PokerStars tournaments in 2020 are striking in their diversity. These are events in literally for every taste and budget. Choose the right one, register through the lobby and fight for your place in the sun!

How to take part in PokerStars tournaments for money

Any user who registers can play PokerStars online tournaments. account on site. In every tournament (with the exception of freerolls) you will have to pay an entry fee called the buy-in. Entry fees range from a few cents to hundreds of dollars depending on the event you choose.

To view a list of all available events, do the following:

All information about the event, including the buy-in size, prize money, number of participants, game format and start time is in the description and is available by clicking on the corresponding tournament.

You can also use the search bar to quickly find the series you are interested in by its name.

Free tournaments from PokerStars

Every day, the room holds dozens of freerolls, for participation in which you do not need to make an entry fee. They can be roughly divided into two groups:

1. Open, accessible to everyone;
2. Closed, which can be accessed only if you have a password or if special conditions are met.

Everything is clear with open ones - just register and play. Closed ones are a little more difficult. To some extent, they are private, therefore, in order to take part in them, you need to get an invitation password or fulfill certain conditions announced by the organizer (register using a referral link, download an application from a specific source, etc.).

In some cases, you will be asked to provide secret code, which can be obtained in the following ways:

• On the organizer's website;
• On the official pages of the poker room in social networks;
• By e-mail from the newsletter;
• From live broadcasts on streaming platforms, etc.

To take part in the freeroll, do the following:

• Through a PC client. Select the category of cash games (usually it is selected by default), open the "Tournaments" tab in the main lobby and set "Freerolls" in the buy-ins filter;
• Through a mobile application. Go to the "Tournaments" tab in the lobby, click on the pencil icon, select "Show All Games" and set the buy-in filter to "Freerolls".

After that, the lobby will display all free tournaments. If this does not happen, then freerolls are not available at the moment.

Important! In freerolls, not only cash prizes can be played, but also tickets to more high-profile events with a paid buy-in. Read the information about the tournament before taking part in it.

And other less popular varieties of poker, as well as get free tickets to play poker for real money.

By registering with the PokerStarter school, you will have access to a huge amount of useful information that will be useful to you at the poker tables. In addition, the best video courses with comments from professionals, materials from the most famous and memorable games, as well as their analysis and analysis are collected here. In other words, if you want to achieve any heights in poker, you definitely need to register with a poker school. By the way, the main advantage of this school is that it is absolutely free.

Also, as part of the training at PokerStarter, users can take part in tournaments of three leagues, each of which can provide certain benefits. It is about these leagues and will be discussed in this article.

As part of the training at the School of Poker, players are invited to take part in three poker leagues:

• PokerSchool Open Skill League
• PokerSchool Premier Skill League
• Premier Skill League Qualifier

The first is initial. Everyone can take part in it: you just need to register. The second is the main one. By participating in it, you can compete for large prizes, but a ticket is required to participate. The third acts as a satellite to the second. By participating in it, you can get a ticket and the opportunity to participate in the Premier League next month.

Below we will talk about each of the leagues in more detail.

Everyone can take part in Open Skill League tournaments. Six events are held daily with a small prize pool of $10. By participating in them, you can gain experience in playing with PokerStars users for free, as well as win small amounts to accumulate your first bankroll.

In addition, players who regularly participate in PokerSchool Open Skill League tournaments and take high places in them are rewarded with more valuable prizes at the end of the month. Thus, these tournaments are a great opportunity to practice without spending a dime.

How to find Open League tournaments?

To register for one of the Open Skill League events, go to the "Tournaments" - "Freerolls" tab and find the tournament called "PokerSchool Open Skill League".

They start at intervals of four hours: 04:00, 08:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00 and 00:00 Moscow time. The prize fund of these tournaments is $10.

Each month, the top 2,000 players in the PokerSchool Open Skill League tournaments share a prize pool of over $11,800. This is done as follows:

• Those participants (out of the top 2,000) who scored less than 20 VPP points, will share $1,800 among themselves, while the best of them will get a prize of $150.
• The rest of the participants who accumulate more than 20 VPPs will be divided into a prize pool of $11,800, of which $1,500 will go to the best player.
• In addition, the best participants in the Open Skill League will receive tickets to the Premier League, but more on that later.

Note that participating in tournaments Open League All interested PokerStars users can, however, only those who are registered with the PokerStarter School of Poker will be included in the leaderboard.

The PokerStarter School of Poker Premier League has been in existence since 2011. Its members can play in special tournaments and compete for a share of the $33,000 monthly prize pool. There are four Premier Skill League tournaments with a prize pool of $10 every day, but the main thing in them is not the opportunity to win a few dollars or cents, but the chance to get to the top of the leaderboard and compete for much more valuable prizes.

Note that you can participate in the tournaments of this league for free. To do this, you need to qualify through the Open League. Thus, you will receive a "promotion" only through your own experience and skills, which is the best indicator of your skills. It is the School of Poker that will help you gain knowledge and skills.

How to get into the Premier League?

There are three ways to become a member of the PokerStarter Premier League:

• Be among the top 500 players in the Open League. By playing in the PokerSchool Open Skill League tournaments and placing high, you have a chance to get a ticket to the Premier League
• Get into the top 200 participants of the Qualifying League. They were created specifically so that even more players could get into the Premier League. There are also tournaments as part of the Premier Skill League Qualifier, however, to participate in them you need to pay a small buy-in, as well as get a special ticket
• Be in the top 800 Premier Skill League participants (not suitable for those who are not yet in the Premier League). To qualify, you need to place in the top 800 players, as well as score at least 20 VPPs and play at least 5 tournaments.

How to find Premier League tournaments?

To register in the Premier League tournaments, you need to go to the "Tournaments" - "Private" tab. They are called "PokerSchool Premier Skill League" and start four times a day: 09:00, 15:00, 21:00 and 03:00 Moscow time.

These tournaments are available only to those who are in the Premier League in the current month. The prize fund of each tournament is $10.

Based on the monthly results of the PokerSchool Premier Skill League, a $33,000 prize pool will be distributed among the top players.

• Players with 20 to 150 VPPs will split $3,000, with the top player receiving $500.
• The amount of $30,000 will be distributed among participants who accumulate more than 150 VPPs. The best of these users will be awarded the sum of $5,000.

Note that Premier Skill League members cannot participate in the Open League leaderboard. They can participate in Open League tournaments, but their results will not be taken into account.

At the same time, Premier Skill League players are eligible to participate in the Premier Skill League Qualifier leaderboard to be able to guarantee their place in the Premier League for the following month.

In addition, the 700 Premier Skill League members who fail to earn more than 20 VPPs will not be able to participate in the Premier League next month.

This league can be called a satellite of the Premier League. By participating in it, players, paying a small fee for tournaments, will be able to qualify for the Premier League and fight for part of the prize pool. Thus, each player has a choice: to qualify for the Premier League for free due to their own experience, or to simplify their task by paying a certain amount. According to the results of the month, 200 best participants of the Qualifying League will receive such tickets.

How to find Qualifying League tournaments?

To register for one of the Qualifying League tournaments, you need to go to the "Tournaments" - "Private" tab and find a tournament called "Premier Skill League Qualifier" on it. They are held daily at 10:00, 14:00, 18:00, 22:00, 02:00 and 06:00 Moscow time.

Note that these tournaments have a buy-in of $1.10 + ticket. The prize fund of the tournament depends on the number of registered participants, as it is formed from buy-ins. The more users register in the tournament, the bigger the prize money will be for those who get into the ITM zone.

To get a ticket to these tournaments, you must pass a test at the basic rate. This means that to begin with, you will have to familiarize yourself with the training material and learn some new information. After that, you will pass a kind of exam in the form of a test and, based on its results, you may receive a ticket. Note that users mobile applications To take the test, you must go to full version site PokerStarter.

By the way, after completing the basic course and successfully passing the test, think about whether it is worth spending money on participating in tournaments of this league? Maybe you already have enough knowledge to be selected through the Open League due to your own skills? In the case of selection in this way, you will be sure that you did it yourself and the award was deservedly received.

The top 200 players on the leaderboard will qualify for the Premier League next month. In addition, you must earn at least 20 VPPs in a month to receive a ticket.

Additional prizes for participation in the Qualifying League are not provided, since its main goal is to conduct a selection of participants in the Premier League.

Examples of ways to get tickets to the Premier League

So, we talked about the three leagues of the PokerStarter School of Poker, as well as how to get into each of them. Next, we will analyze a few specific situations in order to consolidate the above information. Using examples, we will analyze how to get tickets to the Premier League.

1. In May, player A was in the Open League and finished 450th with 17 VPPs. Despite making it into the top 500 on the leaderboard, he will not qualify for the Premier League in June as he has not earned 20 VPPs.

2. Player B was in the Open League in September and ranked 601st with 25 VPPs. Despite earning enough points to qualify for the Premier League, he is not in the top 500 on the leaderboard and is ineligible for the Premier League in October.

3. Player C was in the Premier League in February and finished 450th with 1,300 VPPs. Thus, he qualifies for the Premier League next month, as all the conditions for this are met.

4. Player D was in the Premier League in January and finished first in the Premier League with only 7 VPPs. Despite winning the race, he does not qualify for the Premier League next month as the points requirement has not been met.

5. Player E was in the Open League in August and ranked 510 with 21 VPPs. At the same time, of those players who made it into the top 500, 10 people could not score 20 VPPs. This means that Player E qualifies for the Premier League next month, as tickets are issued to lower-placed players, provided they reach the required number of points.

School Poker Starter, opened by the largest poker room PokerStars, conducts not only training for players, but also various promotions during which you can win cash prizes. Of course, you don't get money just like that, and an example of this is the PokerStars Open Poker League, whose members can win up to $1,500 per month and get the opportunity to move to a more prestigious league.

Open Poker League PokerStars - a community of players who compete with each other in the rating standings. Poker players who have made high achievements in the game are awarded by the poker school with cash prizes, the amount of which depends on the place in the ranking. Every player can become a member of this league! Get to know the rules:

How to become a member of the PokerStars Open Poker League?

As the name suggests, this poker league is open - every player can enter it and there is no need to qualify. However, two conditions must be met:

• Register at PokerStars– If you already have an account, you do not need to register again. If you have not yet played in the largest online room, register on the PokerStars website, the link to which is on this page;
• Register forPokerStarter– create an account at the poker school by entering your login in the poker room (the player's nickname that is displayed at the tables while playing at PokerStars) to link your profile.

After completing two simple conditions, you will become a member of the league. The open poker league PokerStars holds its own freerolls, playing in which you can move up in the rating table. Of course, you need to play successfully!

How to Succeed in PokerStars Open League?

In the rating of participants, the Poker Stars Open Poker League takes into account only the results of special freerolls, which are called PokerschoolopenLeague with prize pools of $10. They take place every four hours - registration is free, tickets and passwords are not required. You can find them on the Freerolls and Private Tournaments tabs in the poker client lobby.

By playing in these freerolls, you can earn rating points. The number of points that a player receives for participating in a freeroll PokerschoolopenLeague, depends on several parameters:

• Occupied space– the higher you move in the tournament result table, the more points you get. If there are many participants in the tournament, it is not necessary to hit the prizes in order to earn points.
• Number of participants - the more players who register in the tournament, the more points are awarded to the players who take the scoring places. For example, playing in a tournament with 7000 opponents, you will get more points for the 100th place than for a similar place in a freeroll with 2000 participants.
• Top places - There are only 100 prize places in each freeroll, and if you win one of them, you will get extra points.
• final place– final table participants get even more extra points.

If you are eliminated in the early stages of the tournament, the player loses the points earned earlier! Therefore, his position in the leaderboard may worsen due to a loss, and not due to the fact that one of the other players will overtake him in points.

The correct strategy for playing the Poker School Open League freerolls, which are held by the Poker Stars Open Poker League, is careful play in the early stages of the event. It is important to get into the zone of the results table in which the players receive points. Since there are a lot of loose players in freerolls, to achieve good results not so difficult!

What do successful open poker league players get?

For successful players, the PokerStars Open Poker League has prepared pleasant cash gifts based on the results of the game for the month. At the end of each month, players ranked from 1 to 2000 in the rating table receive cash prizes from $0.50 to $1500. In total, prizes go to 4000 players, as the league maintains two ratings:

• First, the achievements of all players who earned less than 20 VPP in any games in the previous month are taken into account. The first place prize is $150;
• The second one takes into account the achievements of poker players who earned from 20 to 150 VPP in any games in the previous month. The prize for the first place is $1500.

In addition to cash prizes, players can get tickets to the Premier League, which hosts similar rating competitions, but the cash prizes are much larger, and the number of participants is smaller. Only the top 500 players in the open league can advance to the Premier League.

Open poker league PokerStars - an opportunity to win cash prizes. This is an exciting rivalry that does not require any additional investment from the player, since the league's freerolls are held for free. If you do not manage to take high places in them and earn points for the rating table, do not be discouraged, you will have the opportunity to do this next month. In any case, you will get an invaluable gaming experience that will come in handy in the future!

In addition to improving the skill of the game, teaching at school Poker Starter has a lot of other benefits. Students receive free tickets to tournaments and satellites to expensive events.

PokerStarter users have the opportunity to practice in online poker for free, even by choosing the “play for real money” mode! How to “get everything from Poker Starter”? First, register. Secondly, go through step-by-step training in courses. And thirdly, do not ignore the offers of the PokerStarter Leagues.

What is League PokerSchool

There are 3 poker leagues on the official PokerStarter training site:

• Open League - PokerSchool Open Skill League
• Premier League - PokerSchool Premier Skill League
• Premier Skill League Qualifier

Open League

Open league tournaments pokerstarter, in which every user who has an account on the site can join PokerStars.com, pass 6 times a day. These events have a small prize pool ($10), but good rewards await those of the League participants who will be at the top of the leaderboard at the end of the month.

Participation in Open Skill League gives you the opportunity to practice well in the poker game. Since there is great motivation here, the players in the hands act as if they were playing for quite a lot of real money. That is, tournaments of the Poker School Leagues are the best practice, as opposed to playing for play money. You can find Open League games in the PokerStars lobby as follows: “Tournaments”⟶”Buy-in” select “Freerolls”:

Do not forget to mark “Money” under the “Cashier” button.

• Level 1: Players with less than 20 points will share more than $1,000, $150 of which will go to the top poker player of that level.
• 20+: Players with exactly 20 points or more will share $10,000. $1,500 of which will go to the top poker player.

It turns out that participation in the freerolls of the Poker School Leagues is not only useful for improving the skill of the game, but also extremely useful for the bankroll! Here is a table with payments to the tops from the Open League rating (the size of the prize pool may vary):

Attention: to the leaderboard Open Skill League only those who are registered at the poker school are eligible PokerStarter. If a school student has access to tournaments Premier Skill League, can also play in Open League tournaments, but in this case they will not be included in the rating.

What is Premier League

Access to freerolls PokerSchool Premier Skill League receive the best 500 participants at the end of the month of the Open League. Players from the Premier League must prove their skills on a monthly basis in order to stay here. The top 800 participants advance to the next month, 500 people are picked up from Open Skill League, and another 200 poker players get here through Qualifying League. Thus, 700 players return to the Open League at the end of the month.

What is so special about Premier Skill League poker school PokerStarter? The prize fund of her rating is already $30,000! There are fewer daily tournaments here - 4, so you will need to try hard to be among the top 800 participants. But the prizes are worth playing:

As you can see, the best player in the Premier League gets $5 000 !

Attention: players from Premier Skill League do not participate in the division of prizes Open Skill League, even if they play in the freerolls of this League. But all students of the Poker Starter School of Poker can be on the leaderboard Premier Skill League Qualifier.

What is a Qualifying League

Premier Skill League Qualifier created in order to give "schoolchildren" PokerStarter one more chance to break into the prizes of the Premier. True, here you will need a small contribution for participating in the tournament - $ 1.10 and another ticket, which is given for passing the test at the basic course of the poker school.

Poker School Exclusive Bonuses Poker Starter

If you are studying poker at the PokerStarter school, then you will regularly receive various bonuses. And the better the user learns, the more prizes there will be!

Tournament tickets School Pass are given to poker players to participate in hundreds of freerolls. The goal of the school is to improve the practical skills of students. But these are not just trainings, but real tournaments where tangible prize money is won. The first ticket is credited to the player's account in PokerStars after registering for Poker Starter.

Stock Beginners Bankroll Challenge designed to create newcomers to the school of their bankroll. By completing exciting mini-tasks, you can learn a lot and at the same time get prizes for each completed mission. For the first passed test, you will be credited with a ticket to the game with a buy-in of $0.10.

A series of famous tournaments "Big Bang" is available only to students of the School of Poker PokerStars. Big Bang guarantees every month $ 5 000 prize money, which is distributed among the best players. To become a member of the series, you need to either become a good PokerStarter blogger, or qualify through the Open League, or get into the Big Bang through VIP School Pass satellites (School Pass tickets come in handy here).

Also, promotions are constantly held on the website of the Poker Starter poker school. For example, at the moment, tournament tickets, FPP points and other prizes are being raffled off as part of the Lucky Card. To participate in the promotion, you need to select a card and erase the fields with asterisks. If you collect 3 identical bonuses, you will receive 1 real one.

In the room PokerStars heard about problems Global Poker League and decided to become the exclusive sponsor of the project! After all, the goal Alex Dreyfus- to bring poker competitions closer in terms of entertainment to sports ones - very successful. It's just that Alex alone couldn't cope with the Global Poker League. It doesn't matter, now Stars will support a good poker project!

Get $30 on free game

Company Dreyfus Mediarex recently faced financial difficulties and was unable to realize the idea of ​​the arena The Cube fully. Recall that Alex expected to hold the GPL-2016 final in London at the legendary Wembley Stadium, but was forced to leave the Cube in Las Vegas due to the expensive transportation of the facility.

Maybe after help PokerStars, a unique live poker site will become more mobile and able to travel around the world?

« Global Poker League helps to raise poker to a new level and develop the team spirit of the game. We will be happy to help Mediarex, which, like us, is trying to attract new people to poker,” said Eric Hollreiser from PokerStars.

Gendir GPL, Alex Dreyfus, gave a speech:

“We are excited to partner with PokerStars. This is a huge step towards making the GPL stand out as the best poker entertainment for the general public. The people at PokerStars have already given us so many opportunities to develop and grow. It's good that the room supports our goal of making poker part of the mainstream entertainment sector in the world."

Basically, in partnership GPL And PokerStars there is nothing unexpected. On the contrary, it is strange that the companies did not cooperate earlier. After all, many PokerStars team members play in the Poker League teams: Liv Boeree, Jason Mercier, Chris Moneymaker, Vanessa Selbst, Bertrand ":ElkY": Grospellier, Randy ":nanonoko": Lew.

Games next week GPL will take place as scheduled.