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PokerStars is ten years old on 12 December. In this short space of time, the red spade room has reached the top and leads the industry so incontestable. This indicates the comparative data between the user and competence PokerStars. With an average of 20,000 simultaneous players per day, with peaks of 40,000 at peak hours in February this year,
PokerStars broke the record with over 508,000 players connected to their online poker room. No one in competition matches these figures.
From his birth on December 12, 2001, spent six months just so you could play the first World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), which accumulated a prize pool of $ 730,000. Ten years later, brings into play PokerStars $ 10 million, two for the winner in the Sunday Million on December 18 to celebrate its tenth birthday.
In addition to the myriad of tournaments offered daily users, PokerStars has brought together a team of professionals in the poker galactic. Of these, Chris Moneymaker was the pioneer. Thanks to a $ 89 satellite on PokerStars who won, Moneymaker earned his spot in the WSOP 2003 and managed to prevail in the final for a prize of 2.5 million euros.
The effect Moneymaker, an accountant full-time and occasional poker player, was a final salvo for the popularization of the room he saw as many people wanted to get to the top of the game by repeating the steps taken by the amateur Moneymaker. Also, according to tournament attendance succeeded, analysts realized that many of the qualifiers for the final table came from PokerStars satellites, demonstrating the convenience of playing online to improve performance in live tournaments.
The popularity of the red spade room reached its penultimate peak in February this year, when 508,097 simultaneously connected players playing cash games on PokerStars tables. This fact introduces another major feature of PokerStars. With so many users, levels of play are very different, but they are well distributed in multiple tables with multiple limits of play. In the lowest, it is normal to be casual gamers, but when the level of the stakes rise, so does the players.
A point spread his hand 70 000 million, which will come into play € 750,000, PokerStars has decided to offer its users a $ 10 million prize in the Sunday Million on December 18 and a free trip to the 10th anniversary promotion Gift to participate in the 2012 Main Event in the Bahamas. In addition there are 100 packages to compete for prizes, each valued at over $ 15,000, including an entry for the $ 10,000 Main Event, accommodation in a luxury hotel and spending cash.