October 26 2011, Josh Bell

It’s not too late to download PokerStars and start accumulating points in the exclusive $10,000 PokerStars PokerNews League

The second $10,000 PokerStars PokerNews League event entered the record books last week and ”srtft” took down the victory.

“Srtft” rocketed up the league leaderboard after receiving 21 points for his victory in the second league event, but “plstrider” sits atop the leaderboard with 26 points after posting very impressive consecutive fourth-place finishes.

$10,000 PokerNews League Leaderboard

The next event will be played Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 2100 EDT (0200 BST) and will be played as a $4+0.40 pot limit six-max tournament and features a $100 added prize pool.

The $10,000 PokerNews League is open to players from all regions and the weekly league events are played every Wednesday at 2100 EDT (0200 BST).

Weekly $10,000 PokerNews League Tournaments

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Each tournament features a generous added cash prize pool, but it is the league points that every player is looking to get their hands on. Even if you aren’t one of the players to finish in the top 10 each week, there is one point awarded to each player just for participating.

Don’t forget to choose one event as a wild card tournament, where you will earn double league points. This means that regardless of the outcome of your chosen event, you will receive two league points, but you could go home with 41 league points for a victory. In order to receive their double points, players must announce their wild card tournament in the dedicated forum thread prior to the start of the chosen event.

League Point Payout Structure

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When the weekly league events have finished, the top 27 players on the league leaderboad will advance to the PokerStars PokerNews League Final on Dec. 21 at 2100 EST (0200 GMT). The top 18 finished in the league final will receive a share of the handsome $10,000 which is up for grabs thanks to PokerNews.

$10,000 League Final Payout Structure

In addition to the $10,000 PokerNews League which is open to everyone, there will be seven additional region-specific leagues. The Australasian League is also open to all players, but each of the other leagues will be locked to specific countries and will feature the same payout structure as above, but with varying prize pools depending on the region. This means that players from each region have the ability to take part in three PokerNews leagues! That means some players have the potential to cash in on a free $24,000 of added prize pools!

Click on your country below to view all the details of your league and become the champion of your region!

Iberian League: The league features a $4,000 prize pool and is locked to players with accounts based in Portugal and Spain.

Western European League: The league features a $9,000 prize pool and is locked to players with accounts based in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Liechtenstein, Austria and the Netherlands.

Central European League: The league features a $9,000 prize pool and is locked to players with accounts based in Solvenia, Balkans, Czech Republic and Hungary.

Eastern European League: The league features a $9,000 prize pool and is locked to players with accounts based in Romania, Bulgaria, the Russian Federation, Poland and Ukraine.

Nordic League: The league features a $4,000 prize pool and is locked to players with accounts based in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Baltic League: The league features a $9,000 prize pool and is locked to players based in Estonia, Israel, Turkey, Lithuania and Latvia.

Australasian League: The league features a $5,000 prize pool and is targeted at players with accounts based in Japan, Korea, China, India and Australia. (This league is also open to everyone.)

If you don’t already have an account but would like to take part in any of the PokerNews leagues, be sure to download PokerStars through PokerNews and use our 100% up to $600 first-deposit bonus when using the marketing code “POKERNEWS.COM” and the bonus code “STARS600.”

Now that you have an account, take to the tables and start accumulating enough points to become a PokerStars PokerNews League Champion!

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August 04 2011, Marc Convey

Day 2 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Tallinn has come to an end. The remaining 198 players returned to the Swiss Hotel on Thursday and after six levels of action that number was whittled down to 63. At the top of the chip leaderboard is Swedish player, Nikolas Liakos who bagged up 460,200.

Liakos began play with 86,000, and after a couple of levels, he had turned that into more than 250,000 chips. That is where his stack hovered for most of the day, until the last level that is. He went on a charge and surged into a lead that sits at more than 60,000 chips ahead of second.

A lot of those last-level chips came from local player, Katri Kasper, who was happy to get the last of his chips in the middle preflop on the second to last hand of the day. Why? He was holding pocket aces. His aces were powerless to the Swede’s force and his flopped set of fours however. Liakos seemed genuinely apologetic, but Kasper looked as pale as a ghost as he wandered off.

The chasing pack includes Lari Sihvo (400,100), PokerStars qualifiers Michael Graydon (349,800) and Liutauras Armanavicius (337,600) and Jani Sointula (333,300). All of these players had or threatened to take the lead throughout the closing two levels, but the really interesting stories of the day came from two players a little further down the list.

Lauri Meidla finished in 14th place with 204,800 chips. When half of Day 1a was completed, Meidla had accumulated a stack of 50,000. That’s when he decided to buy in to the “5000 Omaha Turbo event and after a couple of hours of multi-tabling he finished in third place for “17,812. He was eliminated from the Omaha tournament just after he had bagged his 37,250 chips in the Main Event. That didn’t stop him performing admirably on Thursday, and he’s now freerolling!

The other great story belongs to Johan van Til. This online phenomenon, who plays under the handle “busto_soon”, came to play on Day 2 as the short stack with only 5,300 in chips. He somehow managed to turn that into 199,000, way ahead of the end-of-day average of 132,000. To add more grandeur to his feat, he managed to do this despite being drawn alongside the likes of Praz Bansi, Jani Sointula, Matt Frankland and Team PokerStars Pro Ville Wahlbeck on the “Table of death.”

Other notables who made it through the day included the already mentioned Bansi (120,200), along with Sami Kelopuro (224,800), Jeff Sarwer (102,900), Fernando Brito (46,600), John O’Shea (44,800), Joe Ebanks (41,600) and Anton Ionel (32,900).

We also cannot forget the two remaining EPT champions. Roberto Romanello (80,800) and Arnaud Mattern (58,200) will be trying to make history as the first double EPT champion. Mattern is yet again the last remaining Team PokerStars Pro in Tallinn. Last year he went on to take the third spot for “160,000.

Play for Day 3 begins at 1200 EEST (0200 PDT) on Friday and the field will be reduced to 24 players. This is expected to take around five 75-minute levels. Please come and join the PokerNews Live Reporting Team as they bring you all the action, through the bubble and beyond.

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