Poker Stars Starts Year off Right

The New Year has sure brought in some great numbers for the Poker Stars online casino Sunday Millions tournament. The current flailing economy and lackluster numbers only to be heightened by the media, have apparently not had an affect on the internet gambling players of the world of poker. The Poker Stars tournament was projected to have a good turn out, but the final count was greater than they could have expected. The Sunday Million tournament recently set the pace for the rest of the year with a whopping 8,504 players. Online casinos that pull those kind of numbers straight off the bat are generally going to do well for the remainder of the year if they keep up the good work that they have been doing.

The Sunday Millions tournament hosted by the online casino, Poker Stars, had a very intriguing prize pool that was a cool $1.5 million guarantee which was over taken by the player buyouts and set a high for the website at $1,700,800. This enabled the online casino to have at least 1,260 cash prize winners in their year starting tournament. The tournament started like many online casinos do, with the top players in their league. The three players that finished on top at the high stakes online poker tournament were: Prom Queens, stoledog, and USA_20080920. The one who came out on top at the end was the one and only stoledog who walked away with the highest cash prize of $180,794. He won the final game after a long head to head challenge with USA_20080920 who gave him the additional $30,000 which made his total winnings go from $150 to $180 thousand.

The second place winner of the online casino tournament went home with $108,182.93. Prom Queens who placed third in the Sunday Millions Poker Stars online tournament, went home with $150,000. Over all this was definitely a great way for the website to start out its new year. We look forward to hearing more about the Poker Star’s online casinos and their tournaments.