World’s Biggest Poker Tournament Huge Success
PokerStars has added another notch to their belt as the best online poker room as they provided their poker players with the world’s largest tournament, all at the low buy-in of $11+$1 and setting a Guinness World Record in the process. There were 35,000 competitors with PokerStars adding the extra money into the prize pool to give out a whopping 500k in prizes. 1st place was able to take 30k while 2nd place took a handy 20k.
An unprecedented 8750 players made the money, allowing for many of the players to take something away from the event that lasted for around 9 and a half hours.
PokerStars certainly look to be turning up the heat on their competitors in the online poker market. On the same morning they also held a massive Sunday tournament that had a prize pool of $3.2 million for the $215 buy-in. Things only look to be getting bigger and better over there, as the team keep putting on these displays without a hitch. Perhaps the only disappointing thing about the tourney with 35k entries was that it was capped and was full the night before. Many players missed out which would have made it an even bigger event.
We have been in contact with the team over at PokerStars and they have assured us that in the very near future they will be holding a similar event that won’t be capped so everyone can have a chance at playing. They said that the reasoning behind capping it was because of the way it was structured and they couldn’t change it.
From all reports, it was a great tourney that was well run and enjoyable for all. Here all the final standings of the event:
- stan34powa – $30,000
- meiky777 – $20,000
- rumred14 – $15,000
- Goldman007 – $10,000
- Nekochan48 – $7,500
- gustave44 – $5,000
- n0ideahh – $3,500
- alepolice – $2,500
- ONE_TIMEE – $2,000
- FuFish – $1,500
Make sure you get your PokerStars marketing code.
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