NEW ONLINE POKER RECORD....TWICE! (Update)
24 July 2009
Full Tilt Poker does it in style, but Poker
Stars reclaims record for biggest ever online poker
tournament
Sunday's attempt by Full Tilt Poker.com to stage the
biggest online poker tournament ever (and upstage its
main rival Poker Stars in the process) was a resounding
success, with a massive 50 000 entrants for its $5
buy-in, $500 000 guaranteed event, generating cashes for
the top 7 500 spots and a first prize of $45 000.
The record entry field eclipsed the previous record
set by Poker Stars earlier this year of 35 000 players
in a single tournament, and was observed by the Guinness
Book of Records.
Unfortunately for Full Tilt, the
Poker Stars people, alerted by the pre-publicity for the
record attempt, had planned their own brand of immediate
retaliation.
The world's largest online poker
site staged a prompt comeback to build an entry field of
65 000 before closing its lists, thus retaining the
title. The Poker Stars $1 buy-in, $130 000 guaranteed
surprise tournament packed the pokerheads in, leaving a
number of players unable to enter due to the enforced
cap of 65 000.
The PokerStars event was roughly
eleven times the size of the 2009 WSOP Main Event and
finished after just 10 hours of play. PokerStars
generously boosted the prizepool from $65 000 to $130
000 and the final 16 250 players all made it into the
money with online player '004 license' eventually taking
first place for $13 000 - a great ROI on his $1 buy-in!
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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