The live final of The Americas Cup of Poker (ACP) can be held at Resorts Casino Hotel, Atlantic City from June 23-27, 2016, PokerStars revealed today. This year, the Grand Final will coincide with the massive soccer event going down in New Jersey.

Teams representing countries from North and South America will each be composed of 5 players, who will each qualify online at PokerStars.

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The eighth edition of the preferred team poker competition will happen on PokerStars from May 9 to June 6 and encompass 12 regions from Canada to Argentina. Team USA could be made of a mixture of the most productive players from PokerStars' NJ Spring Championship of Online Poker, and the Americas Cup of Poker Freeroll hung on Sunday May 29, both played out on PokerStarsNJ.com. This year america will play host to the live final, to be held at Resorts Casino Hotel in New Jersey. Because the host of the Americas Cup of Poker, the us team automatically qualify for the general. This year also sees Team Canada return to the contest after a five-year absence.

As in previous years, the Americas Cup of Poker will gather the most efficient poker players from around the Americas to symbolize their countries in a singular competition. Twelve teams will compete in three groups over four weeks with the highest 5 players from each qualified country winning some of the five available seats to symbolize their country within the Grand Final and play for his or her share of the $100,000 total prize pool.

Outside of Team USA the rest online qualifiers will all be determined through an Americas Cup of Poker leader board.

Each group will include four countries. Group 1 will include Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay; Group 2 will include Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Other Latam, and Group 3 will include Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico and Venezuela. PokerStars will run online qualifiers for four weeks with buy-ins as little as $0.11 and freerolls also happening daily at 18.00, 19.00 and 20.00 EST.

"The Americas Cup of Poker was growing for the last seven years and this year is probably not an exception. This year not just sees a higher structure and more tournaments, but in addition a really perfect live final in New Jersey to wrap up all of the action. The question is will Brazil beat Argentina this time around or will or not it's the USA's time to polish"? said Andre Akkari, Team PokerStars Pro.

2015 AMERICAS CUP OF POKER RESULTS1st Argentina $32,500; $6,500 per player2nd Brazil $25,000; $5,000 per player3rd Venezuela $17,500; $3,500 per player4th Uruguay $12,500; $2,500 per player5th Mexico $7,500; $1,500 per player6th Chile $5,000; $1,000 per player)

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