Excitement continues to grow for the PokerStars Lessons With The Bear Tournament, particularly now as the dates have been finalized, and all the bounties set.

Along with the $1,000 bounty on the Bear's head during this $11 buy-in PokerStars event, we now know the names of the other four players sporting bounties as well, which includes PokerRoad's Thuy Doan, Amanda Leatherman, multiple World Championship Of Online Poker bracelet winner Ryan "g0lfa" D'Angelo and World Series of Poker Main Event champion Joe Cada.  Each of these four players will now be worth $500 to the man or women who knocks them out, money added to the tournament from PokerStars, along with the $1,000 they added to the prize pool itself.

With so much money added to this event, it's almost easy to forget about the grand prize, which in this case would be difficult to even put a price on.  The winner of the Lessons With The Bear Tournament will win exactly that, an hour's worth of one-on-one instruction from PokerRoad's own Barry Greenstein, a player with nearly $7,000,000 in tournament winnings and three World Series of Poker bracelets to his credit.

This unprecedented event is now set to go down on Sunday, March 7th at 4PM ET on PokerStars, and to get even more people to take part, PokerRoad is promoting a deal with PokerStars to get new players a huge first deposit bonus worth up to $600, simply by joining through PokerRoad and using the Bonus Code "STARS600."

To sign up for a PokerStars account while taking advantage of this offer, click here.

For more details as they become available, including the password for the event (set to be released March 4th), visit the active thread on the PokerRoad forums.


Story by Mark Anderson