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As 600 SnG champs cashed in their tickets earned throughout the month for 2009's final $50,000 Battle of the Planets Triple Shootout freeroll, we had some well-known players make their runs at the $12,000.00 first prize sitting at the end of these three SnGs. New minted Team PokerStars Online Pro...more

November was a special month for the Battle of the Planets promotion. From November 8th-21st PokerStars handed a challenge to all the SnG players out there to break the current point records (read here for details on point distribution). The two week celebration of paying out over $5 million since...more

Autumn time in North America, NFL football on the TV, good beer in hand, and a steady stream of leaves in different shades to rake into 30 gallon lawn bags until your hands resemble a war zone of blisters. The term freeroll is a misnomer here as players worked hard...more

As a Minnesota Vikings fan watching the future Hall of Famer Brett Favre throw a last second touchdown to win today (tune into ESPN for the next two months as they show the replay on loop) was similar to what are final nine will be facing today. PokerStars' monthly Battle...more

Over 600 SnG players (602 to be exact) from all walks of bankrolls gathered here at PokerStars this Sunday for the monthly running of the Battle of the Planets $50,000 triple shootout freeroll. One such SnG player has been featured on the PokerStarsBlog page for his epic quest to turn...more

SnG kings, queens, princes, princesses, and court jesters found their way into this month's $50,000 Battle of the Planets Triple Shootout freeroll. 572 SnG royalty grabbed their tickets to the freeroll ball in attempt to make way with the $12,000 sitting on the throne for one lucky player. The 81...more

No man or woman left their freeroll tickets behind today as 673 players cashed in their freeroll tickets for today's Battle of the Planets $50,000 triple shootout. As compared to last month's much smaller 466 player field, these players today still had the same walls of two sit and go's...more

While most PokerStars fan's eyes today will be on Team PokerStars Pros Greg Raymer and Lex Veldhuis at the final table of the $40,000 NLHE WSOP Event #2, we have big things going down at home today with PokerStars' monthly promotions. First up was the final table of the monthly...more

Before the 466 players lined up for this month's $50,000 PokerStars Battle of the Planets Triple Shootout freeroll, many of them snacked on the weekly prizes for this promotion that has awarded over three million dollars to our Sit and Go regulars over the past year. For example: the top...more

Word must have gotten out to qualifiers of the monthly Battle of the Planets freeroll. Last month saw 442 qualifiers cash in their freeroll tickets for a chance at the $12,000.00 first prize. This month 536 players started the day at the first table of this triple shootout with the...more

Champions of the Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter divisions all lined up again at the end of the month to face off for the a big chunk of the monthly Battle of the Planets SnG promotion. Having given away over $3 million to date for SnG...more

A new poker fiscal year, and a great way for a Sit and Go player to start off the year right with the PokerStars' Battle of the Planets $50,000 Triple Shootout freeroll. 439 SnG specialists lined up today after qualifying during weekly point races, to take their shot at the...more

What better way to end a successful year (or slide back into the black) with a nice four to five-figure score from a freeroll? PokerStars rewards its players in many ways, but for the serious SnG players the biggest perk is a free entry into the Battle of the...more

PokerXFactr was cruising along towards today’s Battle of the Planets $50,000 Triple Shootout final table as he was the first to get the second leg of the shootout heads-up. But, GB2005 had other ideas as flipped a 3:1 deficit into a victory over PokerXFactr and became the fourth person to...more

The October edition of the Battle of the Planets $50,000 Triple Shootout saw 426 SnG specialists drop by the special tournament tab on your PokerStars interface after qualifying for the event through the weekly points race in which additional prize pools of $3,000 for the Mercury division up to $10,000...more