PokerStars, one of the world’s finest card room and tournament website, has reached a milestone by crossing 100,000 poker players mark. This is a milestone, first of its kind in the history of poker industry. It was not long ago, when PokerStars crossed the 10,000 player mark, and now it has gone past 100,000. In order to celebrate this milestone
Joe Hachem, World Series of Poker champion said, “I started playing poker online at this cardroom almost 5 years back. Back then, I recognized many of the opponents I regularly played against. Now, each time I log on at PokerStars.com, it’s like walking into the world’s largest sports stadium. It is almost like a never before experience. Every time when I get into this room, there might be 100,000 people there. Players are logged in from countries all around the world, it’s amazing. I don’t think anyone could have possibly foreseen how popular poker would become and how fast PokerStars would feather out in such a short period of time.”
Now, PokerStars has introduced an unprecedented guarantee in the form of No-Limit Tournaments with buy-ins of $215 and $530. The prize money for this extraordinary would be at least $1,000,000. This tournament is expected to take on 27th February 2006. On the final Sunday of every month, the buy-in would be $530. For all other remaining weeks, it would be $215.
This tournament would be accessible to all the players, irrespective of their bankroll. PokerStars, in fact, is offering many satellites to this famous event with the buy-ins starting from $3.
PokerStars Cardroom Manager Lee Jones opines that “A year or two ago, a $1 million guarantee on a Weekly Poker Event would have been unthinkable, but now everything has changed. Thanks to PokerStars. Players have responded to the quality of our tournaments, and we have recognized that by increasing our guarantee from $750,000 to $1 million. We are absolutely delighted to do it, and look forward to some monster final table prizes in the coming weeks."
PokerStars already carries a reputation for monster weekly prizes. Last week, the No-Limit Hold’em Tournament attracted a stunning 5,326 players. Similarly, last January $140 million was awarded to players in all tournament prize pools, which would soon be eclipsed.
PokerStars has been the preferred cardroom for thousands of poker players, especially when it comes to hosting big tournaments. It also sends players to many prestigious events like World Series of Poker (WSOP), World Poker Tour (WPT), etc. It is also an exclusive sponsor for the European Tour and has also sent many players to the EPT championship, which was held in March 2006.
Finally with $1 million up for grab every single week, players can log into PokerStars.com and play for the highest prize money tournament ever to be telecasted.
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