PokerStars Sunday Millions Keeps Setting Records

January 8, 2008

Poker Stars continues to set records with their weekly Sunday Millions tournaments with the most recent event seeing over 7,000 participants. What makes this one so interesting is the January 6th event in light of the PokerStars Carribean Adventure still accumulated a guaranteed $1.42 Million. The event came to a close with a two way deal and both 1st and 2nd place finishers walking away with $153,210 and $148,000 respectively. In December not only did they make changes and start a new Poker Stars marketing code but they seen one of online’s top players Scott Clements take down the tournament in a 3 way deal for $165,552.

Poker Stars is the only online poker room that hosts a weekly event as large as this one, and with a buyin of only $215 each week except the last Sunday of the month where the buyin jumps to $530. The Sunday schedule is impressive with back to back massive guaranteed tournaments and the majority of them can be entered through qualifiers that start as little as $3. The largest Sunday Million prize pool was back in March of 2007 where the room hosted a special Sunday Millions event with a $1000 buyin making the prize pool grow to a whopping $1.7 Million. Since than the room has seen a significant increase in not only the prize pool, but players as well.

Poker Stars is still the number one room in online poker and generates over 100,000 players daily. If you would like to try this room out you can visit PokerStars here and use bonus code “PAW49″ or you can read about the new 2008 Pokerstars bonus code.

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