PokerStars Successful in Breaking World Record

This past weekend PokerStars attempted to break their own world record of having the largest ever online tournament attendance and succeeded. The online poker room reached their cap of 35,000 players and broke their current record.

The event cost only $11 to enter and had a prize pool of $500,000 with first place taking home $30,000. It took nine and a half hours before a winner would be named but in the end it was stan32powa who would be victorious.  8749 players finished in the money during the world record breaking event.

Final Results for Top Ten of the World Record Event:

1.stan34powa $30,000
2. meiky777 $20,000
3. rumred14 $15,000
4. Goldman007 $10,000
5. Nekochan48 $7,500
6. gustave44 $5,000
7. n0ideahh $3,500
8. alepolice $2,500
9. ONE_TIMEE $2,000
10. FuFish $1,500

Along with the record breaking, PokerStars also hosted a Team PokerStars Pro Championship Match where PokerStars Pros competed against each other to see who would become the Team Captain of Team PokerStars for a special team event in 2009. Victor Ramdin took the title after beating Daniel Negreanu in heads up play.