Pokerstars offers freerolls following recent DDoS attacks

The recent Distributed Denial of Services assault which disrupted online tournaments at PokerStars is being addressed by the company, which by way of player compensation is running five free rolls worth $650,000 from today (Wednesday) to August 28.

The widespread attack impacted PokerStars’ dotcom pool, its shared liquidity European activity and Italian and Indian tournaments, for which the company profusely apologised.

PokerStars has announced that players who played on PokerStars between Aug. 12-14 are eligible for the series of freerolls, with the bulk of the $650,000 in prizes going to players on the dotcom client.

Each day over the period of the freeroll initiative, PokerStars will host a $100,000 freeroll on the dot-com client, a Euro 20,000 freeroll on PokerStars Europe, and a Euro 10,000 freeroll on the Italian client. All players who played in real money games Aug. 12-14 will receive three freeroll tickets to be used at the players’ discretion in the tournaments on their client.

Prizes will be doled out in the form of tournament tickets to World Championship of Online Poker (global), Galactic Series (Europe), and select tournaments (Italy). The top prize available is a $5,200 WCOOP Championship seat.

Portuguese and Czech players will unfortunately be excluded due to local regulations.