Not long ago, PokerStars announced that they will try to break the old record of the biggest online poker tournament. The old record was already held by themselves as they had 65,000 players in the same tournament last summer. Yesterday, it was time for a new world record attempt. To make sure that this tournament would be interesting to take part in, PokerStars guaranteed a prize pool of $30[...] Read more » PokerStars set a new world record
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Latvia
Age: 38 (M)
Posts: 556
congratulations to pokerstars and to those who participated as they all set a world record together. I wasn't participating, maybe if FTP gives a shot at it I will be there.
Joined: Dec '09
Location: Belgium
Age: 42 (M)
Posts: 162
im not sure any other site is able to break that record, pokerstar has the most traffic and enough funds to guarantee that kind of prize and low buy in tournament. after all the highstakes actions putting highlights on full tilt, pokerstars had to bring attention back to them and they did it very well.
Joined: Jan '08
Location: Germany
Age: 41 (M)
Posts: 153
pokerstars just "bought" the record, look at the overlay, the record costs stars more than 150k$. thats just a stupid marketing gag, i hope they don't go on with that stuff.
