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Poker Stars Breaks More Records

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

It is a favored pursuit of fans of online casinos to try to get the best of some of the enormous and incredibly intimidating world records that have been set in the realm of gambling. It seems that a recent event in the online casino and poker market has resulted in the breaking up of a world record. All the people were involved in the spectacular occasion at the Internet casino poker site PokerStars.com, this was an incredible experience. Poker Stars has already gained quite a reputation for marching forward and attempting to break world records on a regular basis.

This most recent endeavor sought the previous record row can buy quite a bit. The record in question is the total number of players resuscitating in a virtual tournament at the same time. Life is through the isle of man, Poker Stars is considered one of the top Internet poker site in the business in addition to also being one of the largest sites of its kind. The poker site has made an effort to times previously to mark a brand-new record in the same category.

The first time it happened was back in 2008 during the month of December when 35,000 casino poker players came to go for the glory. And in July of 2009 more than 65,000 different players representing more than 150 different countries across the globe came to participate in the let in the record-breaking experience. This is the kind of activity that fans of online casinos and poker rooms get really excited about. It will be interesting to see what sort of record the folks at poker stars try to break next.

PokerStars Player Scores Big

Monday, January 4th, 2010

After spending his career on the police force for New York City, one lucky PokerStars player scored huge in a recent Million Dollar Challenge. This all went down recently live on television when a 53-year-old man named Mike Kosowski went ahead and claim the victory over one of the top professional poker players in the business.

This is the kind of win that fans of online casinos to remember about. Since retiring from the police force back in 2004 this player has dabbled here and there in some online casino poker adventures. With this recent win over $1 million this poker player still is having trouble believing his incredible fortune. He feels like he is living a dream.

The winter has indicated that his wife had encouraged him to take up poker as a way to fill his time. It was his wife who actually decided to enter him into a huge Internet casino tournament at PokerStars.net. In this incredible and very substantial tournament event he scored a fourth place finish. From there he made his move to showcase why he was a good candidate to play on television.

The television event where he captured such a huge windfall of cash occurred over the same weekend of his wife and his anniversary. This is the sort of event that really makes it clear why online casinos can be such a positive influence in society. When good people can come into great things and have great experiences like this poker player just did recently that shows you that there is a lot of potential in this industry to improve people’s lives.

Asia Pacific Poker Tour Dates Set

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

As one of the top online casinos and poker rooms on the planet, the good people behind the scenes of PokerStars.com have recently had the opportunity to announce publicly their fine-tuned schedule for the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT). This is a great development for the online casino and poker world since for the third year in a row, Poker Stars is bringing some gaming magic to a fabulous region of the world that has oftentimes been overlooked in the past. But that past is history.

The Asian region of the world is one of the fastest-growing segments of the fan base for online casinos and poker and other gambling sites. And this year’s Asia Pacific Poker Tour is going to serve as a testament to how far the region has come in terms of collecting big quantities of players from all corners of the globe. It is set to begin on the 24th of August at Macau’s Grand Lisboa Casino.

The buy-in is a cool $5,160 but for every casino gamer out there who loves the thrill of being part of a world-class competition that brings together the best players from all over the world, that is a small price to pay for a shot at true glory.

Over the course of three flights this first poker event is going to have a 700-player cap. Since last year’s competition saw an unbelievable 12-hour final table event, everyone knows that the action at this particular casino gaming adventure will be fierce and intense and quite possibly very lengthy. Las time around a player named Eddie Sabat was able to walk away with the top prize of the contest, but this year it seems that it could go any way.

PokerStars Player Beats Tremendous Odds

Friday, March 27th, 2009

If you have been chomping at the bit to get in on some fabulous sit-n-go poker gaming, you just missed out on one incredible opportunity. It turns out that a player named Boku87, with the stakes set crazy high managed to turn $100 into a cool $10,000. And he did it all through a series of terrific sit-n-go games. This magical event took place on one of the top online casinos in the business, PokerStars. This deal has to go down as one of the most sensational proposition wagers in the entire history of Internet gambling.  The rules of the bet indicated that the player would be able to come out victorious on the bet if he could earn $9,900 by using only his initial $100 stake. Also he was relegated to playing only at casino games that had a maximum buy-in that was less than $16. Those are some intense rules and guidelines but by some miracle or turn of tremendous luck, the player pulled it off and scored a huge financial win.

This is the kind of event that causes big buzz among online casinos. When players make amazing comebacks or win some great prize despite all the substantial odds stacked against them, it makes for some great free publicity. For this bet, the player was given only 15 short days to achieve his goal. In addition, he was given the restriction of not being able to play at 90  and 180-player tables.

This challenge ended up being documented on a webcam for all the online casino voyeurs out there. A handful of players took advantage of this bet to wager their own money on it. They put down a total of somewhere near $40,000 against Boku87, much to their remorse when he ended up making good on his bet. The player had odds of 3/1 with PokerStars.