PokerStars Beats Their Own Record For Tournament Size
Posted on: January 3rd, 2009 8:47 am | By: helenPokerStars finished out the year of 2008 with quite a send-off. On Sunday, the 28th of December, they threw everything they had towards a thrilling – and record-breaking – online poker tournament. All told, the popular online poker room had more than 35,000 individuals choose to participate in their big end of the year event.
Of course, PokerStars wasn’t competing against anybody else in particular in order to break the record. They only would have found their own name in the record books under this particular entry. The previous Guiness World Record holder was a special Sunday Hundred Grand tournament that PokerStars held wayback in July of 2007. Back then they took the lead in the record race with a measily 20,000 participants.
The buy-in event was particularly lucrative since PokerStars added an additional $150,000 to the $10 plus $1 event. So altogether the prize pool was a grand total of an impressive $500,000 guaranteed. It is hard to beat those kind of numbers. About 8,750 players were able to get their hands on some of the money. When all was said and done, a player who goes by “Stan34powa beat out the other 34,999 of his rivals to walk away with some $30,000. That was pretty good considering he only invested $11. Best of all, he now gets to brag forever and ever about how he was the big winner in the biggest life tournament of all time. Avid online poke fans have long looked to PokerStars for delivering some of the best and most enjoyable tournament action to be found anywhere online.
