Celebrate The Summer Festival of Free Poker at PokerStars
Celebrate UK & Ireland Poker with the Summer Festival!
This summer, PokerStars players in the UK & Ireland have got it good. The Summer Festival of Free Poker is your chance to play in regular free-to-enter tournaments and win cold hard cash. The range of events on offer means you can win money every night of the week, and it won’t cost you a penny to play.
The highlight of the Festival is the £100,000 Freeroll on Sunday, May 30, and there are lots of different ways to qualify for free. Qualification is running now and there’s thousands of dollars added to prize pools every step of the way. But that’s not all, as part of the Festival you can also win seats for the eagerly-anticipated UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) events in Nottingham and Brighton completely free!
Use the links below to find out more about the Summer Festival of Free Poker, including information on dates, times, buy-ins and prizes.
Qualification Routes | £100,000 Summer Festival Freeroll | UKIPT Freerolls
All of these tournaments are exclusively for players in the UK & Ireland, and there’s an event to suit players of all levels. There’s loads of cash and $215 tournament tickets added across all of the events, making the whole Summer Festival fantastic value for players. With all this and more, there’s never been a better time to play at PokerStars.
If you haven’t already played at the world’s largest poker site, it’s easy to download the free PokerStars software and get started. It’s also worth taking the Virtual Tour which shows you step-by-step how to get the most out of your experience.
Qualify for the £100,000 Summer Festival Freeroll
Freeroll qualifiers run every night of the week April 23-May 28 at the times stated below. The tournaments are located under the ‘Tourney’ and ‘Regional’ tabs in the PokerStars lobby.
| Event | Buy-in | Date | Time | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £100,000 Qualifier | Free | Every Day, April 23-May 28 | Monday-Friday, 21:15 UK Time (16:00 ET); Saturdays and Sundays, 20:15 UK Time (15:15 ET) | Top 90 win £100,000 Freeroll seats |
| $300 Turbo Freeroll | Free | Monday – Friday, 23 April-May 28 | 22:15 UK Time (17:15 ET) | $300 added +Top 9 win £100,000 Freeroll seats |
| $11 Sunday Satellite | $11 | Saturdays and Sundays, 24 April-May 28 | 14:15 UK Time (09:15 ET) | 5 x $215 tickets + Top 20 win £100,000 Freeroll seats |
| $1,000 Added Freeroll | Free | Saturdays and Sundays, 24 April-May 28 | 22:15 UK Time (17:15 ET) | $1,000 added to prize pool + Top 9 win £100,000 Freeroll seats |
| Daily $1,000 Summer Freeroll | Free + $0.50 Rebuys | Every day, 23 April-28 May | 19:15 UK Time (12:15 ET) + Saturdays and Sundays 22:15 (17:15 ET) |
$1,000 prize pool + Top 9 win £100,000 Freeroll seats |
| $2 Summer Festival Freezeout | $2 | Monday – Friday, 23 April-May 28 | 20:15 UK Time (15:15 ET) | $500 added to prize pool + Top 54 win £100,000 Freeroll seats |
£100,000 Summer Festival Freeroll
The main tournament takes place on Sunday, May 30 at 20:15 UK Time (15:15 ET), with an incredible £100,000 prize pool up for grabs. This will be one of UK & Ireland poker’s biggest online tournaments of the year, and you can qualify now. You can find the event in the PokerStars lobby by selecting ‘Tourney’ and ‘Regional’.
Win UKIPT seats
The Summer Festival of Free Poker also lets you get hands on UKIPT seats for free. There are prize packages for UKIPT Nottingham and Brighton up for grabs, with tournaments running at the times stated below.
| Event | Buy-in | Date | Time | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UKIPT Freeroll | Free | Saturdays, 24 April-May 28 | 21:15 UK Time (16: 15 ET) | UKIPT Nottingham and Brighton prize packages |
| UKIPT Bounty with $500 Added | Free | Sundays, 25 April-May 28 | 21:15 UK Time (16:15 ET) | UKIPT Nottingham and Brighton prize packages + $500 Bounties |
The Bounty tournament will see members of Team PokerStars Pro like Victoria Coren and Julian Thew join you at the tables, with bounties on their heads. Knock a pro out of the tournament, and you get the cash.
The UK & Ireland Poker Tour is the region’s premier live poker event series. After hugely successful stops in Galway, Manchester and Coventry, the tour now moves on to Nottingham and Brighton, and you can be there too.
If you have any questions about the Summer Festival of Free Poker, please contact support@pokerstars.com.
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