If you ever wanted to invite a famous partypoker player to your home game, say Matt Staples or Jeff Gross, no need! partypoker instead are inviting you to join their Team Online streamers’ home games – a new series of low buy-in hosted tournaments launching these days.
The daily home-games – Kevin Martin’s ‘Crush City Chaos’ game among them - will see fans, followers and bounty hunters all chasing their favourite partypoker streamers, paying a buy-in of just $2.20 to $5.50 for the privilege, and a $25 cash bounty on each stars’ head.
There’s more, though, much more – because if you make the final table in any of the home games, you win a seat into the ‘Twitch Open’ – an $11 buy-in regular Saturday evening game where there will also be a $25 cash bounty for eliminating Team Online members plus guest bounty players.
Team Online’s newest recruit, Jaime Staples, said:
“We are incredibly excited to launch home games for each member of our Team Online. People that watch Twitch want to play with the broadcaster as well. Now we can do that 13 times a week on partypoker.”
The Team Online home games will all be streamed live on each host’s individual Twitch channel, with the current schedule below…
| Streamer | Tournament Name | Buy-in | Day | Time (ET) | Time (BST) |
| Twitch Open | Twitch Open | $11.00 | Saturday | 15:00 | 20:00 |
| Jaime Staples | PokerStaples Homegame | $5.50 | Friday | 15:00 | 20:00 |
| Jeff Gross | PokerFlowShow | $5.50 | Sunday | 17:15 | 22:15 |
| Matt Staples | MattStaples Homegame | $5.50 | Monday | 13:00 | 18:00 |
| Hristivoje Pavlovic | ALLinPav Homegame | $5.50 | Wed/Thur | 21:00 (Wed) | 02:00 (Thur) |
| Kevin Martin | Crush City Chaos | $5.50 | Thursday | 13:00 | 18:00 |
| Alan Widmann | Hotted's Homegame | $2.20 | Wednesday | 13:00 | 18:00 |
| Ryan Schoonbaert | RSchoonbaert Homegame | $5.50 | Mon/Tues | 21:00 (Mon) | 04:00 (Tues) |
| Patrick Tardif | Egption Homegame | $5.50 | Friday | 16:00 | 21:00 |
| Travis Darroch | Degen's Homegame | $5.50 | Thursday | 17:00 | 22:00 |
| Courtney Gee | Courtiebee Homegame | $5.50 | Saturday | 17:00 | 22:00 |
| Monika Zucowicz | HeyMonia Homegame | $3.30 | Tuesday | 15:00 | 20:00 |
| Steven Kok | DiggingWinning Homegame | $4.20 | Monday | 06:00 | 11:00 |
The games can be located by searching the Tournament Name under the ‘Tourneys’ tab.
As if that wasn’t enough incentive to get your home game face on, partypoker have arranged it so that anyone who plays in any Team Online home game will receive a ticket to a ‘MILLIONS Qualifier’ freeroll.
Up for grabs in the freeroll is a prestigious partypoker LIVE MILLIONS seat worth $10,300 (or the equivalent in other currencies, such as CAD$ as in the recent MILLIONS north America).
There are five such freerolls running throughout the year, as detailed below:
- June 15th: MILLIONS Vegas Freeroll
- July 27th: MILLIONS Europe Freeroll
- October 26th: Caribbean Poker Party Freeroll
- November 30th: MILLIONS Online Freeroll
- December 14th: MILLIONS UK Freeroll
According to partypoker, ‘the freerolls are ticket-only, exclusive to players who have participated in at least one home game, and therefore represent excellent added-value for players’.
If you somehow haven’t heard of partypoker’s new Team Online, it was created in February of this year as part of ‘a wider streaming strategy adopted by the company, comprising a collection of some of poker’s top content creators and streamers’.