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PokerStars Americas Cup of Poker

February 26, 2025

PokerStars is well known for great poker tournaments and promotions and the America’s Cup of Poker continues this well established tradition.

The PokerStars Americas Cup of Poker is a team event where players that qualify online at PokerStars plus the Team PokerStars Pros will compete for their country at a live event that will be held in Argentina. The live event will have a total prize pool of $250,000 with the winner earning the grand prize of $100,000. The action starts online, where you can help your team qualify for the live final. The eight teams who win qualification through their group will then make it to Argentina to play for the huge cash prize.

The live tournament will take place at a ski resort in Bariloche, situated against the backdrop of the Andes, in the region of Patagonia.

Here are the details:

Players in the following 13 countries have the chance to compete and help their nation make it to the live final: USA, Mexico, Ecuador, Canada, Colombia, Uruguay, Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.

If you are in one of these countries, you can play in any of the Americas Cup of Poker daily tournaments. The countries are split up into groups and play against each other week by week. During each weekly round, you can play in any or all of the daily freerolls, $0.20 or $5.50 tournaments for your country. You’ll be playing to score as many points as you can for your team To register for the Americas Cup of Poker you need to have a player account at PokerStars. If you are not a registered player at PokerStars just visit PokerStars, download and install the free software and create a player account. Then just open the PokerStars lobby, click ‘Tourney’ and ‘Regional’.

When all the group matches are over, the two countries with the most wins in each group will go on to the live final in Argentina.

Don’t worry if you are not from one of the 13 countries listed above. There are places for three wildcard country teams in the group stages, and you can help your country get a place. PokerStars is running three freeroll tournaments, taking place February 24, 25 & 26 at 21:00 ET. The winner of each will earn their home country a place in the group stages. To register, open the PokerStars lobby, click ‘Tourney’ and ‘Regional’.

The Live Final:

A total of eight teams will advance from the group stages to the live final in Argentina. Each team will be made up of the five players that won the most points for their team during the group stage (for Wildcard countries, the team will be made up of the top four point scorers and the player that won the freeroll that gave their nation entry into the group stages). The eight finalist countries will then battle for their share of the $250,000 prize pool. And to boost your country’s chance of winning the big cash, PokerStars is adding a member of Team PokerStars Pro to each team!

Visit PokerStars to play in the America’s Cup of Poker.

Written by Michael Vall · Filed Under PokerStars Promotions 

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