bizzocasino:In December 2009, PokerStars set the world record for the biggest online tournament. The tournament entry fee wasR$1, and the 🌝 number of entrants reached 149,196.[14] They broke that record in December 2011, when 200,000 players played in aR$1 buy-in tournament 🌝 with a first prize ofR$50,000.[15] PokerStars was so busy during the early stages of the tournament, all tournaments had to 🌝 be stopped for 20 minutes because the heavy traffic crashed their servers. This record had been broken again in June 🌝 2013, with 225,000 participants. The buy-in wasR$1 and went completely into the prize pool, with no rake.
PokerStars also has had 🌝 a Celebrity team and a Sports team, called respectively "Friends of PokerStars" and "SportStars". These have included Jamaican Olympic gold 🌝 medal winner and World record holder Usain Bolt and American actor / comedian Kevin Hart.[53] Former associated celebrities include World 🌝 Cup winning Brazilian striker Ronaldo,[54] tennis pro Rafael Nadal,[55] former tennis champion Boris Becker, FIFA World Cup-winning Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi 🌝 Buffon, Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo, Dutch field hockey Olympic Gold medalist Fatima Moreira de Melo, Norwegian cross-country skier Petter 🌝 Northug, Swedish cross-country skier Marcus Hellner, quantitative analyst and author of the 'Chen Formula' for Texas Hold'em Bill Chen,[56] Brazilian 🌝 auto racer and race team owner Gualter Salles and French rugby union international Sébastien Chabal.
PokerStars and PokerStars.eu operate worldwide under 🌝 a license from the Maltese government. PokerStars also operates under separate government licenses in Denmark, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain and 🌝 Estonia.[57] In October 2008, PokerStars launched PokerStars.it, exclusively for Italian players, which offers real money tournaments in euros in addition 🌝 to the usual play money games. PokerStars offers some ring games and tournaments on its main PokerStars site in euros. 🌝 In March 2010, the site began allowing users to keep their real-money accounts in British pounds and Canadian dollars as 🌝 well as U.S. dollars and euros.
Domain name seizure [ edit ]
On April 15, 2011, the Department of Justice seized the 🌝 internet addresses of the three online gambling sites,[64] a total of five URLs: Pokerstars, Fulltiltpoker, Absolutepoker, Ultimatebet and UB.
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