PokerStars Summer Series from August 22 to October 16th

PokerStars is kicking off an eight-week-long promotion called the Summer Games that pits Canadians vs. Americans in a fight to snag some of the more than 80,000 cash prizes to be given away and seats in the $100,000 final, it started Friday, Aug. 22 and ends October 15th.

Each week features a different poker variation, and players get one free round-one entry for each week's poker variant. Each country has a separate set of tournaments, and the free entry can be used for any of the round-one Summer Games tournaments running during that week for the player's home country.

Those who finish well enough in the round-one event move on to that week's round-two final, and the weekly finals send five players from each country to the $100,000 main event. Then, the next week, players can try their hands at a different poker variation with another free round-one entry.

The round-one and round-two events aren't just qualifiers, though; plenty of cash prizes are being awarded in each tournament.

Here's the schedule of events:

Event	Game	Qualification Period	Final (ET)
1	Limit hold'em	Aug. 22-28	Aug. 31, 4 p.m.
2	Seven-card stud	Aug. 29-Sept. 4	Sept. 7, 4 p.m.
3	Five-card draw	Sept. 5-11	Sept. 14, 4 p.m.
4	Omaha	Sept. 12-18	Sept. 21, 4 p.m.
5	Short-handed no-limit hold'em	Sept. 19-25	Sept. 28, 4 p.m.
6	Pot-limit hold'em	Sept. 26-Oct. 2	Oct. 5, 4 p.m.
7	Omaha eight-or-better	Oct. 3-10	Oct. 12, 4 p.m.
8	No-limit hold'em	Oct. 11-16	Oct. 19, 4 p.m.