PokerStars Draws Big Numbers

Online casinos often host tournaments for poker. Most of these tournaments have big prize pools to lure the more experienced players. The online casino, Poker Stars.com teamed up with Full Tilt Poker.com to host a large online poker tournament on Sundays. Their objective was to attract a high number of players and to get the word out about their high value winnings. It turns out that whatever advertising or marketing strategy they took worked. They had a total of 8,001 players turn out for the Sunday online poker tournament. The highest prize winner of the day was Peter “twirlpro” Turmezy who won nearly $200,000 at the Poker Stars website.

The second place winner went home with an impressive $132,176 paycheck from the online casino tournament. The online casinos have named their combined Sunday tournament , The Sunday Millions. Their tournament was up 246 players from the previous week and had a combined prize pool total of a cool $1.6 million. The tournament action at Full Tilt was also just as exciting as Poker Stars. The website had a guarantee of $750,000 and they had a record attendance of 3,668 players. With that amount of players, they did not make the amount needed to total the guarantee, so they had to pitch in $16,400 which was the remainder of the balance. The big winner at Full Tilt went home with a six-figure check of $132,787. While the second place winner went home with an $80,250 payday. The online casino is expecting to get even more of a turnout in the future for their Sunday tournaments.