PokerStars smashes World Record with 35,000 players in a single tournament
POKERSTARS SMASHES WORLD RECORD WITH 35,000 PLAYERS IN A SINGLE TOURNAMENT
PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site, has shattered the Guinness World Record for the 'Largest Online Poker Tournament'.
ISLE OF MAN, UK, JANUARY 05, 2009 - The results are in. PokerStars - the world’s largest online poker site has shattered the Guinness World Record for the ‘ Largest Online Poker Tournament’.
As part of PokerStars’ ‘World Record Week’, 35,000 poker players - enough to fill a Premiership football stadium - took part in the special $11 buy-in tournament on Sunday 28th December 2008, with PokerStars guaranteeing a $500,000 prize pool. PokerStars had set the previous record with a field of 20,000 players in the Sunday Hundred Grand on July 29, 2007.
The tournament, which sold out well in advance, played for over 9.5 hours with a record 8,750 players reaching the money. The winner Stan34powa from France, outlasted the world’s biggest-ever field to win a $30,000 first prize.
“When I read about the PokerStars record breaking tournament, the huge field, the $500k prize pool and all for only $11 buy-in - I knew I couldn’t miss it. When I won the $30k prize after less 10 hours of play I was so happy“ said Stan34powa after his historic win.
It was a weekend of milestones during the PokerStars ‘World Record Week’. Aside from hosting the largest online tournament, PokerStars also hosted its largest ever Sunday Warm-up tournament. A record 5,836 players took part in the special event which boosted the guaranteed $1 million prize pool to an amazing $1,167,200. Eventually 855 players walked away with a slice of the money with winner Hr_Herman getting $147,067.20 for his efforts.
The world-renowned Sunday Million tournament also reached record levels - pulling in a whopping 16,260 players and creating a $3,252,000 prize pool. This easily surpassed the $2.5 million that PokerStars had guaranteed in honor of ‘World Record Week’. A remarkable 2,475 players made the money, with winner lp_SakiSaki banking an astounding $331,378.80.
To read more about World Record Week, please visit the PokerStars blog: http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/2008/12/world-record-week-stan34powa-tops-field.html
“No other site brings the level of excitement, skill, and challenge that poker players crave,” said Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu. “The Sunday tournaments on PokerStars provide an unrivaled opportunity to prove your poker prowess with a lucrative prize pool that matches the highest level of competition.”
Every month, PokerStars awards more than $400 million in cash prizes, and trips to some of the most alluring travel destinations and world-famous casinos. With tournaments like the Sunday Million and annual events such as the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), PokerStars consistently hosts some of the richest and best-renowned online tournaments. Over $39 million was awarded to players during the 33 events that comprised the 2008 WCOOP.
For more information and a full schedule of PokerStars’ tournaments, go to: http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/schedule/
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About www.pokerstars.com:
PokerStars (www.pokerstars.com) is the world's largest online poker room (with 16 million players worldwide). It’s the premier destination for the world’s top players - with numerous tournaments running every day. PokerStars is renowned for offering the best software and security in the online poker world. PokerStars:
- Is the first online poker room to host over 30,000 real money cash game players simultaneously
- Has dealt over 23 billion hands
- Has run more than 100 million poker tournaments
- Pays out more than $300 million in tournament prize money every month
- Have had over 213,000 simultaneous players, and entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the first and only poker website to reach the 160,000 simultaneous players mark
PokerStars hold the biggest online poker tournament series in the world - The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). This is the premier online poker tournament series in the world. It has just completed its 6th season with 33 events, 55,578 entries from 119 countries and a total prize pool of $40 million.
PokerStars is the official sponsor of the: European Poker Tour (www.ept.com), PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Latin American Poker Tour (www.lapt.com), Asia Pacific Poker Tour (www.appt.com) and The World Cup of Poker.
PokerStars.com is the home of Team PokerStars Pro - a group of veteran and up-and-coming players from around the world who play online at PokerStars and are sponsored by the site in international tournaments around the world. For more information please visit www.pokerstars.com.
