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Archive for the ‘PokerStars Passport’ Category




PokerStars Passport winners ready to hit road

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

For the past 13 months, we have shared a friendship with Dustin Mele, the first-ever PokerStars Passport winner. Mele won the PokerStars Passport in December 2007, and during 2008, he and his girlfriend Tracy became friends and part of the PokerStars family. As we traveled around the world to PokerStars events, the couple came with us on Mele's worldwide passport.

Mele's trip around the world is complete for now, but we have some brand new PokerStars Passport winners to introduce.

This year, PokerStars decided to hand out more than one set of papers. In fact, eight people will be traveling the world on the PokerStars Passport.

Recently, PokerStars held three tournaments with some big time prizes on the line. Not only did the events award thousands of dollars worth of cash, they also gave away the coveted PokerStars Passports. The top 100 TLB players played in one event. The top 101-200 and 201-500 played in two other events.

The following people walked away with the top prizes.

Top 100 TLB

1. phillyJbizee (United States) -- 5-Stamp Passport
2. delfino74 (Italy) -- 4-Stamp Passport
3. Bruno GT (Brazil) -- 1-Stamp Passport

Top 101-200 TLB

1. AOthegreat8 (United States) -- 1-Stamp Passport


Top 201-500 TLB

1. jus2awsum (United States) -- 1-Stamp Passport

There are also three other PokerStars Passport winners who won their visas via the yearly Tournament Leader Board. Powerhouse Shaun "shaundeeb" Deeb won the five-stamp passport. A three-stamp passport went to derek8. BreakRibs will be traveling with two stamps on his.

For each stamp in their passports, the players will get a free prize package to a live PokerStars event. That means they can go anywhere anywhere from the PCA to the LAPT to the EPT to the APPT to the RPT to the WSOP. That's a lot of letters and a lot of different cities. There aren't many better prizes out there.

Congratulations to all of this year's winners. We look forward to seeing you on the road.

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PokerStars Passport back up for grabs

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Dustin Mele had a pretty cool year. The guy went just about everywhere in the world and played in the biggest tournaments around for exactly zero dollars out of his bankroll. How? He won the 2008 PokersStars Passport. From there, he took PokerStars' cash and jet-setted around the world as a poker celebrity.

Now, it's your chance to roll like Mele.

Another stamp in Mele's passport

The PokerStars Passport is the biggest reward a player can get for a great Tournament Leader Board performance. This year, PokerStars is giving away more than $200,000 in cash and prizes to the winners. You could end up going to Rio, Vegas, or halfway across Europe. It's up to you, as long as your traveling and playing poker (not a bad way to spend your time if you have the means).

If you're not already aware, here's how the PokerStars Passport compeition works. The top 1,000 finishers from the December PokerStars will get a chance to play for a single-stamp PokerStars Passport and thousands of dollars in cash. The top 100 finishers will be playing for an even bigger prize. On top of the cash prizes, there are single-stamp, three-stamp, and six-stamp Passports up for grabs. Every stamp gets you an entry into the main event of an live PokerStars-sponsored tournament or the main event of the World Series.

For complete details, schedules, and prize structures, visit the PokerStars Passport webpage.

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2008 World Series: Passport to the main event

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

For one guy playing today the World Series main event is just the next stop on a worldwide poker playing adventure. Thanks to his win in the PokerStars Passport competition, 23-year-old Dustin Mele gets to play ten tournaments of his choosing and in any destination he wants. Not a bad prize.

He’s already played a few, ticking off some glamorous locations across Europe as he goes - getting to grips with EPT action in Dortmund, Copenhagen, San Remo and the Grand Final in Monte Carlo, each time edging deeper into the event but yet to find that all important first score.

IJG_0037.jpg Passport winner Dustin Mele

As Dustin wrote on the PokerStars blog after his first bundle of tournaments...

“I’m getting more experience, which is very valuable as a poker player. I know that if I can avoid getting unlucky I can take down my first title.”

Dustin’s girlfriend Tracey, who travels to events with him, is not the only one watching over Dustin’s progress. A certain number of PokerStars players also have an eye on proceedings with a little more than friendly support. Ten per cent of any money that Dustin wins on his yearlong furlow on to the poker circuit will be returned, making up part of the prize pool for a special VIP event - with PokerStars matching the amount.

Ten per cent? In the next couple of weeks that could potentially be anything up to $800,000... although Dustin might have a little work to do first.

It's not his first experience of playing at the World Series, having played in 2006 where he memorably witnessed one of those hands that probably deserves its own X-File.

“It seemed that there was an ace or sometimes two on every flop, and players were betting, raising and flipping over pockets aces. Aces were everywhere. Finally I had the aces, a player raised under-the-gun and I pushed all-in.

“The player that raised was the only caller and the dealer said, ‘Turn your hands up.’ I turned over the ace of clubs and ace of spades. The other player turned over ace of spades and queen of hearts. We both had the ace of spades in our hands.”

It’s the kind of freakiness that could be a drag if the hand was declared dead. None of that happening here though as Dustin takes his day one turn, down a few grand but no major problems early one.

“I have about 22K, nothing really major. Slow but steady.”

But so far the experience has been more of a blast than anything resembling work for Dustin, who already has his timetable in place for where he’s headed next...

“We’ve picked them all – EPT Barcelona, then EPT London, then to Sydney for the APPT, back to the Bahamas for the PCA and then one last EPT in Deauville, France.”

We’ll see him there. First he has a main event to win.

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Dustin has been interviewed coutless times on his travels, but rarely by someone as lovely as the lady who took him on a tour of San Remo during the EPT event there. Kara Scott is running in Day 1C today and slipped out during her break to give us a brief update.


Watch WSOP 08: Kara Scott Break Time Chat on PokerStars.tv

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