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PokerStars.com breaks 100K member logins
PokerStars.com reached a new milestone in online poker last week, when the
world’s largest internet poker site recorded an unprecedented 100,000
players were logged in simultaneously. Ten times as many players are now
playing on PokerStars than were three years ago, when the site celebrated
its 10,000 player milestone.
Joe Hachem, current World Series of Poker champion, comments on the massive
growth of PokerStars, “I started playing online at PokerStars back in 2001.
Back then, I recognized many of the opponents I regularly played against.
Now, each time I log in to Pokerstars.com, it’s like walking into the
world’s largest sports stadium. There might be 100,000 people there! Players
are logged in from countries all around the world. It’s amazing! And I don’t
think anyone could possibly have foreseen how popular poker would become and
how fast PokerStars would grow in such a short period of time.”
PokerStar is planning on celebrating its growth with an unprecedented
guarantee. Beginning February 27th, all Sunday afternoon no limit hold ‘em
tournaments with buy-ins of either $215 or $530 will pay out at least
$1,000,000 in prize money to the top finishers.
All poker players will have access to these million dollar tournaments,
regardless of bankroll size. Weekly tournaments at PokerStars have also
begun to set new records. Last week the $215 buy-in Sunday afternoon hold
‘em tourney had 5,326 players-almost the same number as attended the 2005
World Series of Poker. $140 million was awarded to players in all tournament
prize pools combined. No other poker site or casino comes close to this
amount of prize money.
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