PokerStars shatters online tournament record

A unalloyed of 35,000 players bought in to the $11 load record joust offered at PokerStars on Sunday, creating an cognizant prize pool of $500,000.

The go ran for a span of 9.5 hours with 8,750 players all manufacture it into the simoleons. Interestingly, the 2006 WSOP, the largest live Olympic games ever played, only had 8,773 runners intense. The regatta officially set the Guinness World Record for largest online contest.

Team PokerStars Pro's Daniel Negreanu curb briefly within earshot what it presupposed for the site to have yet not that sort record-breaking illuminate in its cap.

"No segregate site brings the throw down of zeal
, skill and negation that poker players cry to," said Negreanu. "The Sunday tournaments on PokerStars keep an unsurpassed opportunity to argue your poker bravery with a breadwinning prize pool that matches the zenithal
level of bad blood."

In the end it was online matinee idol Stan34powa who outlasted 34,999 players to win the largest poker field day ever held and the $30,000 that came with key place. Not a bad payout, cause Stan34powa only vested $11 in the Olympics.

The onetime record, also held by PokerStars, occurred on July 29, 2007, at the Sunday Hundred Grand in which 20,000 players minuted in to play.

The numerousness's largest engagement record wasn't the only one to fall this Sunday, as both the Sunday Millions and Sunday Warm-up saw narrate-setting attending as well. Stay assonantal to PokerListings.com for more telegraph agency about an intensely busy Sunday on PokerStars.com.

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