PokerStars has announced a new promotion called Norske Ess. Norske Ess allows players to be a TV star on top of winning 250 000 NOK plus a PCA 2012 package! Norway is proud to announce that they will have its own celebrity poker TV show for the first time ever.

PokerStars is having qualifying tournaments for players to be on the show starting July 4 all the way up to August 6. Each top finishers of the qualifiers will receive a ticket to the weekly finals played on Sundays. And from there, the top players get to post their casing videos to the Norske Ess Facebook page and readers will have a chance to vote for their favorite.

All in all, three winners will be chosen for the trip to Nova Gorica, Slovenia on August 31. There, they will spend five days playing poker to be filmed. When returning to Norway on the 5th of September, it could be anyone who has won the 250 000 NOK and PCA package. Second place receives a nice 50 000 NOK.

Qualifying is easy and can be chosen between three choices. There is a Daily Freeroll, Daily $1.10 rebuy and a Daily $11 Freezeout. The freeroll sends 25 seats to the weekly final and the others send 15 seats (+ prize pool) and 5 seats (+ prize pool) respectfully.

Come out today to get your 15 minutes of fame! Tournaments have been underway for a week or so now, so players need to step it up!