Poker Stars has beaten the record, running the largest weekly tournament in history.

Poker Stars Runs Huge Weekly Tournament

A regular Sunday No-Limit Holdem poker tournament at Poker Stars.com has recently beaten the record. With 2,556 players taking part and 511,200 US dollars prize pool, it has become the largest online or land based weekly tournament ever. Global poker events such as World Series of Poker or World Poker Tour collect much larger prize pools, but no other weekly tournament has ever approached this level.

The main prize of 102,240 US dollars was won by a player under nickname Dsavo from Arhus, Denmark. Another 270 Poker Stars players also received money prizes paying only 215 dollars entry to Poker Stars Sunday tournament.

About Poker Stars

Poker Stars is the most popular and successful poker tournament venue on the internet. It is the second largest poker site in the world that focuses on organizing vast variety tournaments for all budgets and tastes. Up to know Poker Stars has run over 5 million poker tournaments. Poker Stars weekly tournament is the largest weekly tournaments in online and land base poker realms, and the World Championship of Online Poker, held at Poker Stars once a year is the largest online poker tournament that awarded over 6 million dollars in prize money the last season.

Both 2003 and 2004 winners of World Series of Poker, the worlds most prestigious poker tournaments, qualified to WSOP at Poker Stars.com. Chris Moneymaker, the 2003 champion, won 2.5 million dollars, only paying 39 dollars buy-in at Poker Stars WSOP satellite tournament. Greg Raymer, who won in 2004, spent 160 dollars to enter WSOP and took home the record sum of 5 million dollars. Thus, Poker Stars has earned its slogan: Where poker players become World Champions.