Latest Battle of the Planets Post

The recent success of the MicroMillions tournament series is another way that PokerStars gives low stakes players a shot at the spotlight usually reserved here at the PokerStarsBlog for the big Sunday Majors and the live poker tours like the LAPT and EPT. Tonight's $50,000 Battle of the Planets Triple...more

The Red Spade open would invade our usual action packed line up of Sunday Majors. With a $1 million guaranteed for just a $55 buy-in which over 20,000 players (24,736 to be exact) would pile into the ring looking for a $200,000 pay day along with $100 bounties on anyone...more

Double the fun this month for SnG grinders as the monthly Battle of the Planets $50,000 triple shootout kicked off twice. jusTTsmile took home the $12,000.00 first place prize at the beginning of the month but failed to become the first player to win the tournament twice in the same...more

We will call this the Battle of Planets: Holiday Edition. Nothing different about awarding $50,000 to our SnG champions from the various "planets" buy-in levels except the timing. Usually the big freeroll happens during the last Sunday of each month but since PokerStars recognized that the players might want to...more

While it used to mean long, hard fought hours on the real felt at a local casino or the basement home games using a table that needed exactly two chips under one leg so it would not wobble, the online games at PokerStars give players an express poker education by...more

Pumpkin carving, mounds of candy, and of course the guy from accounting dressed as Elvis. No, it's not another night in Las Vegas but Halloween sitting right around the corner and 527 players tonight were looking to pad their recent SnG dominance with the PokerStars Battle of the Planets $50,000.00...more

As the World Championship of Online Poker winds down with the $5 million guarantee Main Event (with a final prize pool of $8,135,000.00) some folks not in the Main Event choose to do so even if they had the bankroll to pony up the $5,200 buy-in. Tonight those players will...more

While most of the recent tournament talk for the next month at PokerStars is going to contain the letters W.C.O.O.P. for the next month, today's $50,000 Battle of the Planets Triple Shootout freeroll is a reminder that SnG players need some love as well. No bracelets would be awarded to...more

The monthly Battle of the Planets $50,000 triple shootout freeroll attracted 498 sit and go enthusiasts who qualified during weekly competitions spread out along the eight planets which represent different buy-in amounts from the $1-$2.99 Mercury division to the $300+ Jupiter. Each week the top ten in all eight division...more

From $3,000.00 in the micro Mercury division to $10,000.00 the high-rollers in the Jupiter division up for grabs each week, the Battle of the Planets SnG promotion lets those masters of the Sit and Go tournament know that they may not get the cameras rolling on their table like the...more

Players on PokerStars who perform consistently receive regular awards in the way of points, status, and opportunities. One such award is the chance to participate in the monthly $50,000 Battle of the Planets, a freeroll that seats the top ten players from each weekly Sit & Go leaderboard. The fight...more

Spring is here even in the normally frozen landscape of my backyard. The buds popping from the trees, woodland creature quickly gathering up winter's spoils, and PokerStars coming out with yet another round of the Battle of the Planets $50,000 triple shootout freeroll. 330 players would try to turn their...more

Today's Battle of the Planets $50,000 freeroll starts on the heels of several promotions that have all tables running into overdrive. As the first round of the triple shootout completed, over at the $1 million guarantee Sunday Storm which for the mere price of $11 the 100,000 player mark was...more

After several months of delays, the space shuttle Discovery took to flight earlier this week on its last mission. A blast out of the earth's atmosphere to deliver supplies to the International Space Station over the next eight days bringing needs to those in space. Our flight into the cosmos...more

While the bloggers battled it out to prove the pen is mightier than the check-raise at the WBCOOP Main Event with thousands of SCOOP dollars in the mix, our SnG kings and queens settled in for this month's Battle of the Planets $50,000 triple shootout freeroll. A sizable 624...more