Poker Stars Passes 5,000,000 Online Poker Members

Onlinecasino.org News | 04.04.2006 | 13:20:37 | Views: 1131 | Casino News

In a historic event, Poker Stars has announced they have passed 5,000,000 members to their poker website.

This comes on the heels of their announcement to have a weekly tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of one million dollars. Poker Stars was formed in the latter part of 2001 and has seen tremendous growth in the past 12 months. Just how tremendous? One year ago, Poker Stars had roughly 2,500,000 members. They have doubled in a short one year span. Part of the reason might be their commercials, which show the last three World Series of Poker champions as being Poker Stars players.

Poker Stars is now an industry leader. Their marketing campaign has definitely paid off. George Draper, of Las Vegas, became the 5,000,000th member to Poker Stars. He is thirty-five and new to the world of online poker. Poker Stars has become a powerhouse of poker playing action. During peak times, it is common to find over 100,000 players playing at the same time. This translates into an insane amount of games for players to choose from. Poker Stars is, by far, the busiest poker room in the world.

According to their company data, Poker Stars has dealt over five billion hands. That?s a lot of poker. They have run more than 20 million tournaments to date and these numbers keep accumulating at amazing rates. One wonders if there is any end in sight. As mentioned earlier, the last three WSOP champions are Poker Stars players. Poker Stars sends more players to the WSOP than any our source. According to Poker Stars, they have sent 1,116 entrants to WSOP, which is 19% of the field. It won?t be any surprise if the next winner of WSOP is a Poker Stars player.