PokerStars Announces 2009 Caribbean Adventure Poker Tournament

PokerStars announced this week that they will be hosting a live tournament in the beautiful Bahamas. The tournament is set to take place in January on the 4th through the 10th of 2009. The Atlantis Hotel and Casino on Paradise Island will be hosting the PokerStars tournament.

The series will include a $1,000, $2,000 and $5,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em events as well as the Caribbean Adventure Main Event that has a buy-in of $10,000. A new event has been added to the adventure for next year that is a $25,000 buy-in; in the hopes that big names will be drawn in to participate.

Players on PokerStars can play in cash or Frequent Player Point qualifiers to use as a buy-in for the adventure. There will also be Steps Sit and Go satellites as well. Players can win prize packages worth $14,300 that includes the $10,000 Main Event buy in and also money for expenses, hotel accommodations.

Several members of Team PokerStars are expected to be in attendance. Chris Moneymaker, Joe Hachem, Bertrand Grospellier, Greg Raymer and Daniel Negreanu are expected to play in the tournament. So not only do players have the chance to visit a beautiful place in the world and play poker they also may get the chance to play next to a great professional in the game.

Schedule from PokerStars:

January 4th  Super satellite to Main Event
January 5th  PCA Main Event Day 1a NLHE Freezeout
January 6th  PCA Main Event Day 1b NLHE Freezeout
January 7th  PCA Main Event Day 2
January 7th  $2k event day 1 NLHE Freezeout
January 8th   $25K High Roller Event day 1 NLHE Freezeout
January 8th  PCA Main Event day 3
January 8th   $5k NLHE Day 1 NLHE Freezeout
January 9th   PCA Main Event Day 4
January 9th  $25k High Roller Event Day 2
January 9th  $5K event day 2
January 9th   $1k event NLHE Freezeout
January 10th  PCA Main Event Final Table
January 10th   $1k event day 2