Every year on December 31st, we look back at the previous twelve months and think, "There is no way PokerStars will be able to outdo itself after this year." Every year, we are proven wrong. In 2008, PokerStars broke nearly every record on the books. It topped itself in as many ways as it could. Its Team PokerStars Pro members continued to astound, … [Read more...]
World Cup of Poker: the British are coming!
December 31, 2008 By
Team Ireland landed in the finals of the World Cup of Poker IV, England did it the year before, and Scotland did it the year before that. 2009, however will see these nations gathered together under the banner of Team United Kingdom as they go for the gold in the Bahamas. Under World Cup of Poker regulations, Team U.K. received an automatic berth … [Read more...]
World Cup of Poker: Team Germany returns to the finals
December 30, 2008 By
Joined by Team PokerStars Pro Katja Thater, Team Germany made the finals of last year's World Cup of Poker, but unfortunately had to say "Auf Weidersehen" in seventh place. Now, after plowing through five teams of their fellow countrymen, Team Germany 1 is set to make a repeat appearance with Thater again as its fearless leader. Yes, you read that … [Read more...]
World Cup of Poker: Viva Italia!
December 29, 2008 By
In the poker year that was 2008, Italy made a lasting impression. Luca Pagano was voted the EPT Player of the Year. Dario Minieri won his first World Series of Poker bracelet and Max Pescatori won his second. San Remo hosted their first EPT event, and though American Jason Mercier took down that title, three Italians went on to make the final table … [Read more...]
PokerStars World Record Weekend Results
December 29, 2008 By
We may be in the middle of PokerStars' World Record Week, but this weekend was where the biggest action happened. In just the span of one day, we saw the world's biggest ever poker tournament, the biggest ever Sunday Million, the biggest ever Sunday Warm-Up, and more than $12 million in real cash tournament prizes awarded to PokersStars players. Oh...and … [Read more...]
Stockholm’s lp_Saki Saki is no Swedish fish, topping record Sunday Million field
December 29, 2008 By
The fields were super-sized during World Record Week and December 28th's special edition of the Million drew a mind-boggling 16,260 players to the felt creating a prizepool of $3,252,000, easily surpassing the $2.5 million guarantee placed on the event in honor of World Record Week. As the tournament neared the end of its fourth hour, 2.475 of those … [Read more...]
World Record Week: stan34powa tops field of 35,000 to win in Guinness World Record tourney
December 29, 2008 By
PokerStars went for the record books this weekend--the Guiness Book of World Records to be precise, putting together the largest poker tournament in history--a 35,000 player, $10+1 buy-in event with a guaranteed prize pool of $500,000. Selling out days before cards ever went on the screen, the capped starting field hit the felt at 4:30 p.m. EST and … [Read more...]
perky246 Was Wide Awake For Victory in $1 Million Turbo Takedown
December 29, 2008 By
On a weekend laden with free money getting tossed into the ring, why not join PokerStars' biggest monthly freeroll? For 5,000 FPPs you receive a seat in the ring for a shot at a prize pool worth $1 million and a $100,000 first place prize. Tonight's $1 Million Turbo Takedown featured 9,532 players that "bought-in" or worked the satellite circuit to … [Read more...]
Hr_Herman Knocks One Out of the Park in Sunday Warm-up Win
December 29, 2008 By
As part of World Record Week here at PokerStars, several tournaments received a money injection into their guarantees. Tonight's Sunday Warm-up normally a guaranteed $750,000 became a $1 million guarantee, and just so people would not confuse this tournament with the "Sunday Million" the marquee weekly PokerStars tournament's guarantee was bumped up … [Read more...]
World Record Week: Ramdin Victorious in Team PokerStars Pro Championship Match
December 28, 2008 By
Every team needs a captain and why should Team PokerStars Pro be any different? The details are still under wraps about the PokerStars All-Star Weekend, a new online team competition debuting next year, but to settle the captain's job, Team PokerStars Pro decided to do it as only poker players know how-- they played for it. All 29 members of the team … [Read more...]