Win prizes worth $20,000 this Christmas at PokerStars

The holidays are here. Trees are up. Everyone's in the mood to celebrate. And the same goes for PokerStars who are dishing out massive prizes this December!

It's the season of giving and PokerStars doesn't need a second invitation to dish out prizes, worth up to $20,000, simply for playing your favorite games.

Everyone getting involved in the Bauble Blast until December 24 has the chance to get his hands on entries to a $50,000 draw, or to shoot down baubles for a chance at scoring a small, medium, or large prize.

The bigger the bauble, the bigger your potential prize. Here are all the details:

• Opt-in to the PokerStars Rewards program and the Bauble Blast Challenge.
• Play real money games to complete progress bars. Your first completed progress bar each day will count.
• Blast a red bauble and to get an entry to the $50,000 draw on January 5. Take out a blue, green, silver, or gold bauble to progress towards a prize worth up to $20,000.
• Prizes inside blue, green, silver, and gold baubles can be unlocked by completing several progress bars.
• Track your progress in the Challenges Window. You will see how many draw entries you've won, and how close you are to grabbing a small, medium, or even large prize.

Ultimately, you can then go on to claim your small, medium, or large prize in the "My Rewards" section of the PokerStars client, which will be send over to you via the familiar PokerStars Chests.

Rewards of up to 65% Rakeback

While jumping into the Bauble Blast, don't forget that a new rewards system at PokerStars worth 65% rakeback was made available to all players.

Pokerstars Rewards scored a 78% jump in customer satisfaction for the 20% of players who tried it. The new system aims to be more generous and transparent. 

You can get up to 65% rewards in the form of a baseline rakeback up to 25% and up to 40% more in the form of Monthly Challenges. All formats earn the same points including high stakes cash games, sports and casino. 

The rewards are all fixed value rather than random, as per the previous Chests programme. It will still be in the form of Chests which are Blue, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond and Black respectively.

These are the benefits you can expect from the new system:

The new PokerStars Rewards program is available for players on .BG, .COM, .CZ, .EE, .ES, .EU, .FR, , .PT, .RO, .SH, .UK. Monthly Challenges are not available in the Czech Republic or Greece due to local regulation.