Online Poker Qualifiers for The PokerStars Americas Cup

The world’s leading online poker room is pitting the countries of the western continents against each other in the PokerStars Americas Cup of Poker. Online qualifiers and Team PokerStars Pros will compete on behalf of their country in the $150k live final at Iguazu Falls.

Online poker qualifiers will run for one month, beginning March 15th and ending April 14th. The live final will be held in South America’s beautiful Iguazu Falls this May. Nine individual countries will be represented in the live final:

USA
Mexico
Canada
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Peru
Venezuela

The Latin American countries not listed above will be represented in a tenth group, “Rest of LATAM”. The 10 countries will face off in three tiers of matches with freeroll, $0.11, and $1.10 buy-ins.The top 100 finishers of each online poker tournament will be awarded points. The country that accumulates the most points in each match will secure that fixture. Each country that makes it to the final will be represented by that countries top four point earners.

Once all of the online poker matches have been completed, the top six countries will qualify automatically for the live final in Iguazu Falls. Two more final positions will be up for grabs in an online playoff between the remaining 4 countries April 16th through 18th.

Free-to-enter Sit & Gos will be running constantly throughout the Americas Cup of Poker qualifier games, allowing the chance to win tickets to the $0.11 tournaments. The Sit & Gos are available in the lobby under ‘Tourney’ and ‘Regional’.

A total of eight countries will compete in the live Americas Cup final at Iguazu Falls. Each team will consist of the top four players for each qualifying country, plus a Team PokerStars Pro acting as team captain. The final payout structure will be as follows:

1st – $50,000
2nd – $35,000
3rd – $20,000
4th – $15,000
5th – $10,000
6th – $10,000
7th – $5,000
8th – $5,000

See the PokerStars promotions page for more details about the Americas Cup of Poker.

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Natalie learned to play 5 Card Draw and Blackjack before she could shuffle the cards. She and her sister would tag along with their parents to the Saturday night poker game at her grandparents' house, and finally was allowed to sit in on the games at the age of 12.

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