Tons of Free $30,000 Platinum Passes Still Up for Grabs in 2018; Ditz Latest Winner
Guillaume Diaz, Miguel Romero, Paul-Francois Tedeschi and Franz Ditz. These four guys all have all one thing in common: they're rocking a $30,000 Platinum Pass! Each of them won the elusive pass at the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino EPT and will be travelling to the Bahamas in January 2019 to play the event of a lifetime: The PokerStars Players NL Hold'em Championship (PSPC).
The Pass is worth a whopping $30,000, consisting of the following:
• $25,000 entry to the PSPC event
• Six nights' accommodation at Atlantis Resort, Nassau, in The Bahamas
• $2,000 in food and beverage allowances
There's still tons of free $30,000 Platinum Pass packages up for grabs throughout all of 2018. They can be won online at PokerStars, as well as at PokerStars live events. See the table below to see which upcoming PokerStars live events award Platinum Passes.
| Date | Event | Platinum Passes |
|---|---|---|
| May 1-8 | Italian Poker Open Campione | 1 |
| May 11-14 | London Series | 1 |
| May 24-29 | BSOP Natal | 2 |
| May 28-June 3 | Mammoth Dublin | 2 |
| May 28-June 3 | Manila Super Series | 1 |
| June 1-3 | MEGASTACK London | 1 |
| June 4-10 | PokerStars Festival Marbella | 3 |
Four free Platinum Pass packages have already been awarded at the 2018 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo©Casino EPT, with one more being awarded to the EPT Main Event winner. Romero (in the €1,100 EPT National) and Tedeschi (in the Main Event) proved their skills at the flipout tables, winning three flipouts in a row to collect their Pass. Diaz received one on top of winning the €1,100 EPT National.
Besides Passes in the EPT National and EPT Main Event, a €1,650 live satellite qualifier to the PSPC was held at EPT Monte Carlo on May 1. To spice things up, PokerStars added a free package to the prize pool. The tournament attracted 43 unique entries and 12 reentries, who created a total prize pool of €80,025. This was enough to award three packages for a dream trip to The Bahamas, plus the added one with coveted Platinum Pass. Franz Ditz, Jeff Hakim, Pablo Melogno and Nicolas Chouity were the four players that punched their tickets to The Bahamas by outlasting the other players. They kept playing for the Platinum Pass to receive the VIP perks and personal attention on top of the package. After Melogno and Chouity lost, Ditz and Hakim did five Omaha-flips (with a card added each time for good measure) for the Platinum Pass and Ditz became the winner.
The PokerStars Players NL Hold'em Championship (PSPC) is a taking place in the Bahamas in January 2019. PokerStars is adding $8 million to the prize pool, plus an extra $1 million to the first place prize! PokerStars is giving away more than 300 $30,000 Platinum Passes over the course of the year, giving everyone a shot at a dream trip of a lifetime.
