PokerStars and CardsChat are teaming up to make sure some lucky CardsChat members can bring in 2021 with a big blowout!

We're giving away over $5000 in tickets to the ultimate poker festival:

The Blowout Series on PokerStars!

Check out some highlights of the series:

• $60 Million Guaranteed across three and a half weeks
• $5 Million guaranteed tournaments every Sunday
• A New Year Bash with $2 Million guaranteed and an $11 buy-in
• Click here for more details about this awesome series!

TONS of guaranteed tournaments of all buy-in levels will be running from December 27 through mid-January, and we want to make sure you get a piece of the action.

What's up for grabs:
We are having two rounds giving away tickets. Here's what we're giving away with each round:

1 x $1050 ticket
3 x $215 tickets
8 x $109 tickets

How to Enter:
First round starts now!

Post in this thread with your PokerStars username, and answer this question:

If you could add $1000 a month to CardsChat events at PokerStars, what would you do?

Important Details:

• You have until 3:00 pm Eastern Time on December 30 to enter the first round
• We will pick winners for the first round that same day, and open up the 2nd round with a new thread.
• If you do not win a ticket in the 1st round, you may also enter the 2nd round
• Members can only win one ticket. If you won a 1st round ticket, please do not enter round 2. We want as many members as possible to get a chance to play.
• It is your sole and absolute responsibility to understand and comply with the laws applicable to you in your relevant jurisdiction with regards your eligibility and ability to participate or play in these tournaments. This is not open to players in the US, including PokerStars NJ players, or any other region, country, or jurisdiction where restrictions or applicable laws prohibit play.

GOOD LUCK!!

I would add them as tickets, to all the players on the final table.


Username: Kjekken212

nick: kartax12
I start posting and reaching platinum level to participate hohoho.

If I could, I would create a $ 1000 tournament for cardschat members only)

Good luck to all!

Nick: Daen27

I guess i do a draw btw rising stars & platinum to participate but this is the condition ( 75% players platinum & 25 rising) max 1500 players
User: vidal06

JanisSoprano

Hold a weekly buyin tournament that has a Monthly Leaderboard.
Award tournament tickets to the Leaderboard (on a monthly basis).

Thanks for the great offer! "Ho" "Ho" "Ho"

Originally Posted by kartax12

nick: kartax12
I start posting and reaching platinum level to participate hohoho.

You don't need to be Platinum to participate in this. Just read the instructions in the first post.

Hey Tammy & the gang,
I'd probably make it so that most can get a chance to play once in a while, but having there be a minimum weekly or monthly points to stay in the new format, maybe having any potential big winners "promise'" to set aside a % of their wins for future Cardschat giveaways/stakes? I'll pledge 5% if I go all the way
AZDABANK

I would raffle some position, outside prices, from every cardchat tournament of month and arrange them 1k "lucky loser" tournament that would be played next month. Could also be preterminated, for example bubbleboy, but not told until afterwards so none would seek to get in that position.

Pokerstars id: takapiru667

If you could add $1000 a month to CardsChat events at PokerStars, what would you do ...

I would probably do following things:
Get rid of both 2 all member games.
Bring back that 3.30$ buy-in game.
Create couple bounty tournaments.
Invent some satellite events aswell.
Cut 10 min blind levels (atleast) by half so we could have normal blind levels (3-5 minutes)
Move starting times 1-3h earlier (compared to what they are now).

Nick: Risto515

I would create a all in tournament for card chat members where 1st would get $750, and 2nd would get $250

The added $1000 should be used for one big comp. [rolly65].

I would hold a tournament for a $1000 that rewards the CC members who deserve it the most. PS:TerryKoz

would create an exclusive one-month league every Saturday (SaturdayCC) and Sunday (SundayCC) just for CC members and share the $ 1000 among the 50 ranked cousins ID Stars: nba2009

pokerstars username....rachelle2291

I would have leaderboards for each poker room based on just the freerolls. This way people that do not have quite so much time and haven't downloaded all the sites can still have a chance to win leaderboard money.

My pokerstars username is benitwapasu


I would suggest having tourneys in variants other than nl holdem -maybe also bounty tourneys and certain players could be bountys and cash awarded in this way as well

Hello Tammy and Cardschat members!

I would choose the best 15 comments to the post threads every day and for 210 winners do 500 dollars freeroll every two weeks. This will motivate members to make a good quality post and participate to the amazing freeroll.

PS username: Johnny78B

I would put together a new tournament for the members and I would compensate the moderators with a part too since they are always there for what we need us.
Id:sampa1717

If you could add $1000 a month to CardsChat events at PokerStars, what would you do?

hughdhat on Pokerstars,
I would put $1000 a month into horse racing some type of a fun staking challenge that all FRC members can apply for and play at some stage.
What a wonderful promotion good luck to all who get an opportunity here hope you run deep in The Blow Out series it looks epic if I receive a ticket and cash with it I will invest the winnings and start a stake thread for the FRC community to give more members an opportunity to play more of these games in the series.

Pokerstars: je otramas

I like the idea of ​​poker orifice, to make a kind of league with a leaderboard.
Or you could also do homework and participate in a contest, or enter a contest with VIP points.

I would organize a tournament every week, on Sunday.
With all the first and second places of a daily Freeroll from Monday to Saturday (12 players).

$250 in prizes:

1: $90
2 to 6: $20.
7 to 12: $10.

PokerStars Username: AYAHUASKA-IN

Thank you so much for this opportunity to play the Series!!! !

I would create a huge event called The Cards Chat World Cup with 6K Gtd: A tournament at the end of year for the best players of CC community.

There would be Monthly Qualification Tournaments with $500 Gtd for platinum members. The best 18 players of each month would qualify for this CC World Cup.

The format of World Cup Tournament would be 6-max with 108 players.

I think everybody of CC community would like to participate in this tournament.

nick: guenzito

If I could add $1000 a month to CardsChat events at PokerStars, I would add weekly freeroll bounty tourneys. Bounties are fun and some sites have now started adding the freeroll bounties where half prizepool goes to a bounty on each player.

Username: abrantes1974

If you could add $1000 a month to CardsChat events at PokerStars, what would you do?

PS username: MGL11

- Two $ 500 biweekly tournaments on Sundays for users of the freeroll club (Platinum Level).

- Larger stacks, more time in blind levels, aiming to provide a game of higher quality, creativity, skill, with more post-flop action

My idea would be based on my experience as a user of the site and player of the weekends freerolls.

I think two $ 500 freerolls would be excellent, fortnightly on Sundays for users of the freeroll club (Platinum Level).

And the main thing: the starting stack of the players should be 5k or 10k and the levels of blinds rise more slowly, providing a greater post-flop game.

Justification:

Only for members of the freeroll club (Platinum Level):
I assume that everyone who likes to access the site, post, read, learn and play, tends to enter the freeroll club (Platinum Level).

Larger stacks and longer blind levels:
Another important issue is that people who like to be here, and, beyond interactivity, to talk about various subjects, read opinions of various users on politics, culture, sports, the most varied subjects from various countries and mainly about poker, we also seek develop our game, learn from the courses, with the debates of some posted hands. And unfortunately the structure of the current cardschat freeroll on PokerStars means that there is basically no post-flop. So, much of what we learned, such as in the course: "Become A Winning Poker Player In 30 Days", we cannot see in practice, as the game basically boils down to all in pre flop in the intermediate stage to the end of the tournament, without post -flop, becoming a much more mechanical and less thoughtful game.

Just to make it clear that this is not a criticism, I am very grateful for everything that the site provides us, a lot of leisure, prizes, all for free, it is just an opinion and a suggestion so that we can test our skills and try to apply what we learned here.

To conclude, I think that two $ 100 freeroll club tournaments (Platinum Level) would stop happening in the two days of $ 500 tournaments. Therefore, these $ 200 could be used in tournaments available to any user, aiming to prospect new users for the site.

I would create a LeaderBoard to add more competition
PS: LegagyCC

I would distribute it among the 4 weekly freerolls on Saturdays, so they would go from having $300 guaranteed to $550, which leaves a first place prize of around $100, more than enough for those who need a bankroll to start their poker career

Nick: kume23

Nick: coringas man
I would create 1 freeroll on Saturdays and 1 freeroll on Sundays with a prize of $ 125 each, and with a rebuy of 0.50 to be included in the prizes.

There would be 4 different formats.
Hold'em, Omaha, Razz and Stud.
One format every week.
First week of Hold'em.
Second week Omaha.
Third week Razz.
Fourth week Stud.

I have participated in multi format events and I find it very interesting to learn and vary.
I hope you like the idea.
I appreciate the opportunity to share ideas.

I think it would be good to add a leaderboard surrounding the 8-game variants.
Would be set up in the home game club and would feature 1 tournament of each 8-game variant ($100 gtd prizepool) and then people earn leaderboard points based on where they finished in each tournmanet. The remainder of the money would go towards the top x amount of players.

Also, to give the NLHE players more of a chance, non-leaderboard mixed game tournies would be set up in the club beforehand to give people some practice before jumping in.

As a mixed game lover, anything which can get more people playing mixed games is always a good thing.

PS ID - KidCarterXDA

Originally Posted by MarkAbrantes

If I could add $1000 a month to CardsChat events at PokerStars, I would add weekly freeroll bounty tourneys. Bounties are fun and some sites have now started adding the freeroll bounties where half prizepool goes to a bounty on each player.

Username: abrantes1974

I'm confused... how do you have a bounty tournament in a freeroll? Would each player have a portion of the overall prizepool added to their player? (wouldn't that get difficult to do... and I don't think the pokersite's software is setup to even do such a thing). I'm fairly certain it would need to be a buyin tournament in order to hold a Bounty tourney.

BUT.. maybe that's a good idea! How about a buyin BOUNTY series, 1 game each week with $250 added to the prizepool along with a $2 micro buyin, where half of your buyin also gets added to the prizepool!
??????

one big monthly freeroll with them being all ticketsand not cash
PSID: Somersetlad9

mtl mile end on PokerStars

Since there is already more than $4000 a month in PS tourneys for CC, it would be nice if an extra $1000 a month (25% increase) could go to something special and secure (sorry, that's the way I think). Like a tournament series with quarterly/monthly final games. The field could initially qualify through some pertinent process, then this (relatively small) field could be whittled down to the finalists who play the biggest game of the series. If done monthly, it could run like a Special Event with different themes, games and configurations. In the end, only a few would be playing in the final game, but everyone could enter and the field could change every month.

January: "Tournament of Champions" - everyone who made the top 100 in "Non US Site" leaderboard gets a go

February: Omaha Month - have a bunch of Home Games in January to set your field for the big Omaha Tournament

etc

monthly league of one tournament per week and at the end of the month it would distribute the 1000 among the best 20 of the month ID PS: ARsergio

I would add the $1000 as bounties on mods in the monthly freeroll. Rider$Fan100

PokerStars username: joeisi

How about a $1000 monthly Champions of Champions tournament.
The winner from each day frreroll for the month gets to play in that tournament.
Elite on elite fighting for the $1000 prizepool. Maybe even stream the game with commentary on Twitch.

No you do not need buyin for a bounty game.

The have the weekly Star Rewards game setup like this. There is no late registration as soon as game start they take the prizepool (5K or 10K) and divide by number of players and assign everyone the bounty amount.

Originally Posted by Poker Orifice

I'm confused... how do you have a bounty tournament in a freeroll? Would each player have a portion of the overall prizepool added to their player? (wouldn't that get difficult to do... and I don't think the pokersite's software is setup to even do such a thing). I'm fairly certain it would need to be a buyin tournament in order to hold a Bounty tourney.

BUT.. maybe that's a good idea! How about a buyin BOUNTY series, 1 game each week with $250 added to the prizepool along with a $2 micro buyin, where half of your buyin also gets added to the prizepool!
??????

Originally Posted by Poker Orifice

I'm confused... how do you have a bounty tournament in a freeroll? Would each player have a portion of the overall prizepool added to their player? (wouldn't that get difficult to do... and I don't think the pokersite's software is setup to even do such a thing). I'm fairly certain it would need to be a buyin tournament in order to hold a Bounty tourney.

I can't speak for other poker sites as I don't use them but PokerStars has freerolls like this available every week on Saturdays. Works as normal really. Total prizepool divided by the number of entrants to get the head prizes. Tickets come via rewards chests and all the money is in the bounties. In theory, someone could finish in 2nd but get no money at all if they haven't been KOing people.

I would add a 1k heads up freeroll to the schedule. [ufc_57]

I would give the $1,000 to a 10 table sit n go tournament JBCD71

If you could add $1000 a month to CardsChat events at PokerStars, what would you do?


Well, that's very easy and I'm glad you asked (because I was literally just about to PM you on this very topic), I would invest the funds into a series of games based around the principle of a new twitch/cardschat/PokerStars channel run by hardcore poker cardschatters for anyone with an interest in anything poker, freerolls, cardschat, PokerStars, vibing, tunage, fresh out of the bakery!

I'd happily front the channel as an irrepressibly-positive, whilst inexhaustibly curious, avenue for exploration of the poker dimensions.

To go where no amateur pokerist with everlong dreams of actualisation has ever been before!


**fireworks**


**Buzzlightyear-esque SFX**


Stick that in the corporate pipe and smoke it! Ithoughtwetoldyoutoshutthe****uprecords

(That's just a bit by the way, we don't really mean that. We love you at least as much as we hate you!)

THE END...?

~EDiT:- 'Course not! Didn't even get the chance the tell you it's Tr4cid yet!

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If anyone needs clarification with regards to what might be implied by 'fresh out of the bakery'...

It means Danishes. As in the pastries.

And coffee!

Work to be done.

Schemes...

Plans...

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If it could only be, if you'd dated an Aquarius with me..!

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All you young kids better run BETTER RUN faster than my bullets!

About $200 a month would go into a kick-ass cardschat freeroll which would bear all the hallmarks of a regular cardschat freeroll but with added twitch awesomeness!

The other $800 would go towards production costs, writing killer material, Danishes, sourcing epic beats and hot talent. Lots of coffee, I'm not gonna lie, straight up fair-trade honest about the caffeine (it's a deal breaker)!

You know you need that hot cup of Joe though!

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one quick snooze later
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Ok, so.. It's possible last night cardschat and PokerStars announced a pretty uber-exciting collaboration in celebration/honour of the Blowout Series..

Now, it's furthermore possible that emotions were running high and in the revelry of the occasion there might've been some things said, some fanciful and fantastic talk over a dirty martini or two which.. Err.. Aha.. Haha.. *ahem*

Anywayyy.... While we all might enjoy a dash of light banter with our Angostura bitters, I think we'd all agree that in the cold light of day it's usually a good thing when... Err.. Calmer heads prevail.



Hopefully none will begrudge the conditional offerings of both sober and.. Umm... Tipsy..? Suggestions as entry into the awesome competition?

Now, poker, cardschat and PokerStars are my life. It's difficult for me to admit that openly but the fact is I've loved these three entities, wholeheartedly, for years.

It's of course not always been plain sailing (is love ever?), but at the end of the day, for all the toys I've thrown outta the pram along the way, the love is true.

I sent Stars emails, pages long, offering my services in any way possible, professing my love for poker and that I'll never give up on my goals.

I've always been waiting for Stars to look at me, I've known that they'd see someone who lives, eats, sleeps, breathes and dreams poker (and Danishes). I feel like this is that moment. Just hope that they'll give me the shot.

People always talk about how poker needs characters, how poker doesn't have the characters it used to. How it's just become boring, mathy, timebanking. Where are the Scotties, the Devilfishes, the Chans, the Ungars?

I'll roll them all into one big fat one for you right now and light it up on twitch!

What'd I'd do with $1000 a month to put into cardschat community PokerStars games?

As drunk me said, I'd run a kick-ass cardschat PokerStars twitch channel. Unlike drunk me, sober me would put all $1000 into the channel and games for the cardschat community on PokerStars.

Because sometimes you're just on another level, I'd let the community decide how that money is distributed and in what type of games on a month-to-month basis where everyone gets to poll and perhaps there could be a lucky marble race or two.

While I doubt anyone here would argue against me being 'a character', it might seem that I'm turning on a dime.

I like to think that my open-mindedness and outspoken nature will be refreshing, encouraging and positive.

Plus I already think the world of Pyeface, GJ and could be the missing link between cardschat and Stars!

I promise you, it's me!



Merry Christmas everyone at cardschat and PokerStars, Big Love and success to you all!

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In summary, merging all previous posts relevant to the cardschat/Stars/twitch/freeroller-channel-concept entry represents the coming together of great things..

The Blowout Series, cardschat, PokerStars, twitch and my insatiable passion for poker!

These final (I promise) videos encapsulate my feelings and desire for this idea..

If I win, this is the frenzied drive I'll apply to the tournament and to igniting the channel in such a way that it burns fiercely...

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If one of the many other brilliant, creative, funny, smart and thoughtful entries win- I'll be just as happy as any other day on which I wake up with the ability to cardschat and PokerStar!

Big Love!

Originally Posted by Poker Orifice

I'm confused... how do you have a bounty tournament in a freeroll? Would each player have a portion of the overall prizepool added to their player? (wouldn't that get difficult to do... and I don't think the pokersite's software is setup to even do such a thing). I'm fairly certain it would need to be a buyin tournament in order to hold a Bounty tourney.

BUT.. maybe that's a good idea! How about a buyin BOUNTY series, 1 game each week with $250 added to the prizepool along with a $2 micro buyin, where half of your buyin also gets added to the prizepool!
??????

I'm guessing you don't play on Pokerstars? They changed their Weekly Rewards Freeroll to a bounty a while ago. Players love it, other sites are doing it now too.

Nick PS: rancing87

With $ 1000 a month it would help me to increase my bankroll and go to another level of Cash and Tournaments

Hello everyone!
answer to the question?
PS name: ra-kref


1- Tournament for other players who cannot participate in the new $ 1000- $ 300 for the UK Canada Germany and Brazil.
2- Tournament for those who donated money weekly!
3- Tournaments for those who dad in the points of the top 60 players
4- Platinum level tournament
5- League Leaders Tournament


The holiday is coming to us
The holiday is coming to us
The holiday is coming to us

Hello Team CC,

what a great promotion.
Thanks again for all what you guys do for all of us.


PS UID: bosanac-man

I would add 1 monthly Bounty Tournament where would be a extra bounty price on eliminating our Mods/Admins and Loyalers, and the rest of the crew.
I would set for all FRC members.
Next I would leave the last monthly for championship round with extra bounty for previous game top 10%

That would be great promotion and let FRC members to play agains our Team members.

I know that some of you guys cannot play on PS money games, since you're in US, but still IMHO would be great for the rest of us.

PokerStars username: cverglan

Every month I would organize a tournament with a prize pool of $ 500, NL Holdem. The schedule of prizes should be determined when the number of players who apply is known. The 30 best placed players would gain the right to play in a tournament that would be organized every 3 months, and whose prize pool would consist of the remaining 3 parts of $ 500 each. Should a player qualify for the final tournament in 2 or all 3 qualifying tournaments, that player would start the final tournament with double or triple the number of chips in relation to the other players. I would allow all CardsChat members to access the competition.
At the beginning of each quarterly cycle, a topic should be launched on which players wishing to participate would register with their PokerStars name, because when there are tournaments for all members, the password always leaks and thousands of players register and such a tournament looks more like bingo than poker.

Hajinho

What I would like would be a freeroll for the winners of the previous month. As far as I know there is a list taken with every PS freeroll result. I would work with that list since it already exists and additional work is kept small. Top 50 or maybe 100 of the Month will participate in next month "$600 Champions Freeroll"

The other $400 i would divide into four and make it four $100 freerolls of different games. So there will be some PLO action, such as Horse, potentially Stud, Razz, Draw... Giving the whole poker experience.

Happy Holidays

Pokerstars ID: Dolfinn11

I'd add half to the existing freerolls, and use the other 500 for a monthly leader board tournament for the top 100 players from the existing freerolls for that month.

Nick: deyvsontrump

I would turn the daily freerolls into satellites for the $ 1000 monthly freeroll without changing the daily payouts. For example, only the big final of the month (freeroll $ 1000) qualifies for those who arrive in the FT of the daily freerolls. That would be amazing.

There are only tournaments, but for example there are no promotions for cash players or sit and go players. So I have 2 options:
1) Monthly or weekly Home Games Cardschat cash game leaderboards with prize pools of $ 1000 or $ 250 respectively.
2) Cardschat spin and go with a buy-in of 10 cents and the possibility of winning up to $ 1000 monthly.

Pokerstars username is lekain.

PS+ millya5

I would increase the prize money in the winter league!

And I would call a super winter league 2021 !!!

I would do marbles on twitch to giveaway the money. username on pokerstars sanderosis