If you were thinking that once the Easter weekend things might now return to a quieter, steadier tempo you would be wrong. Even I BELIEVED there will not be much to notice this weekend, just the standard schedule of high stakes weekend majors, etc., etc. But I USED TO BE wrong. There's plenty. 

So let's start on the top. Or should that be the bottom?

If you have not already seen details of our mountain series (I DO NOT learn about you but this always makes me bring to mind the yodelling mountaineer at the "Price is true)" we're making a gift of greater than $4 million in guaranteed prize money in what's our newest tournament festival. 

As crazy as this sounds the Mountain Series features ten events over four days (April 7-10) with progressive buy-ins starting from $11 (Mount Sugarloaf) to the $2,100 (that may be Mount Everest). Get all of the details, the nuance, and the fun, at the Mountain Series homepage.

We don't usually do weather forecasts but it surely is solely right to show that there is a storm brewing, a Sunday Storm to be exact, scheduled to blow in on April 17 at 13:30 ET at the dot. 

This one though is the Fifth Anniversary edition of the Sunday Storm, which makes all of it right. 

With a buy in of just $11 the Storm is without doubt one of the more accessible Sunday Majors, and with a $1 million guarantee it's desirable too. What's more the standard slate of satellites could win you entry for as low as $0.11 - that's back of the sofa money folks - while a VIP Bash satellite can also be entered for just 100 StarsCoin. Surely you will need the details, all of that are found at the Sunday Storm homepage.

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Our friends over in New Jersey have wasted no time in any respect in stirring up headlines. Like this one: "$50,000 guaranteed within the PokerStarsNJ Sunday Special Big Game". 

That occurs this Sunday at 18:00 ET, but it is not almost about the poker. Reading throughout the details for a second it seems, yes... that's right... it says here that players who participate in the development also get the risk to pick out" a team to win the school Basketball Championship game". 

Choose correctly and you will get a ticket to 2 All-in Shootout Freerolls happening on April 6, with $15,000 to be won. Choose incorrectly and what the heck, you will get the consolation of an All-in Shootout Freeroll with $5,000 to be won. 

Quite frankly you're by yourself with the school pick, but find all of the details of the development at the Sunday Big Game homepage.

By happy coincidence $5,000 also happens to be the volume won each day through the PokerStars CardHunt promotion, which runs through to April 15. 

Once again, the folk within the promotions department have excelled themselves (we lock them in a room and force them to), making a daily poker puzzle which you will find on your Challenges window. Follow the instructions to finish the puzzle. In brief that entails winning hands with certain cards. We've explained everything here just in case.

There are actually just five days until the uk and Ireland Poker Tour returns for its sixth season, kicking off on the Hippodrome Casino in central London. UKIPT6 London begins next Tuesday, April 5, with the overall table of the primary Event bringing the festival to an end on April 10, all of with a view to be covered at the Blog. 

In between there are 70 scheduled tournaments, with the standard online satellites offering the risk to win your seat for a fragment of the cost. Either way the Hippodrome is often an excellent spot to play poker, and to celebrate and/or commiserate afterwards. Here is what we wrote concerning the festival earlier.

That's everything. Play well on PokerStars this weekend, be nice for your dealer, and as always send any thoughts and comments to us on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog.

Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.

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