The Pokerstars Shark Cage is your opportunity to play poker on TV against Team Pokerstars and win $1,000,000. The four heats, all of which will be filmed, are to be held at the next European Poker Tour (EPT) event – EPT Barcelona. Each lucky Shark Cage online qualifiers will be up against five professional Pokerstars players and will be playing for a place in the final to be held at EPT London where the $1m will be won by the winner.
The four lucky prize winner are all set for an all inclusive VIP poker holiday of a lifetime in Barcelona courtesy of Pokerstars.
Tickets for the Shark Cage Online Qualifiers
You can’t buy in to these extra special qualifier tournament tickets, there’s only one way to get in on the action! There are ten free tickets available to all Pokerstars poker players who deposit £12, €14 or $20, you must use the bonus code SHARKJUNE in the cashier when you deposit into your online Pokerstars account before June 8th. There are only 10 precious tickets allowed per player, they are non transferable and there is no cash alternative.
The Shark Cage Online Qualifiers
The online qualifier tournaments, with $1,500 added, are taking place daily at:
- 2.05pm UK time
- 5.05pm UK time
- 8.05pm UK time
Briefly, the maximum number of players allowed at each qualifier tournament is 15,000, minimum 21 and the starting stack of chips will be1,500. These Shark online qualifier tournaments can be found through the Pokerstars lobby tournaments / freerolls.
Last chance to qualify and use up your 10 free tickets is June 9th, after this time your tickets for the Shark Cage Online Qualifiers are worthless so don’t hang about.
The top 20 finishers in each qualifier tournament will be invited to audition for the TV show in the Casting Stage.
Casting Stage – Auditions
This is your opportunity to impress Pokerstars and convince them that you’re up to facing the cameras and five members of Team Pokerstars at EPT Barcelona in August.
So, plug in your personality and make a video that is no more than 2 minutes long and must be in English. Once you are happy that you have expressed yourself well and told them a little of your life, apart from poker, upload to YouTube and email the link to sharkcage@pokerstars.com.
All the videos will be looked at and then Pokerstars will decide on a shortlist. If you are on the shortlist you will be contacted and then have to complete a telephone interview. The four winners will be announced on July 25th.
Shark Cage Winners Prize Package
The four Shark Cage online promotion winners will be on there way to EPT Barcelona, Spain 20th to 23rd of August for one of the televised four heats. The winners will receive:
- Return flights for two so you can take a friend.
- 3 nights double room at the Pullman Skipper Hotel – www.pullman-barcelona-skipper.com
- $600 credited to your Pokerstars account for expenses
The Pokerstars Shark Cage
The four heats held at EPT Barcelona, with five pros and one online qualifier, resulting in the winner going through to the final of the Shark Cage to be held at the EPT London in October. In London it will be ‘winner takes all’, ‘all’ being a cool $1,000,000! The final will include a host of Team Pokerstars so you can expect exciting play and plenty of banter.
The Shark Cage heats and final will be tournaments the like of which has never been seen before, you’ll be playing against the clock with only 30 seconds to act, make sure you don’t get bluffed on the river or you’ll miss an orbit and be confined to the Shark Cage!
There will be a strictly no deals allowed policy and you’ll have to sign a contract confirming you won’t.