- Over 1000 players have entered the $25,000 tournament so far.
- This makes for a prize pool now in excess of $26 million, making it by far the largest single tournament PokerStars has ever hosted live.
- The first place prize will be at least $5 million, also the largest prize the company has ever awarded.
PokerStars can already claim a resounding success of its PokerStars Players NL Hold’em Championship (PSPC), with over 1000 entries into the $25,000 tournament setting various records and beating all expectations.
The PSPC is the operator’s highly ambitious high stakes poker tournament for which it has been preparing for over a year. The operator gave away $30,000 packages that include the event buy-in, travel and accommodation, via its “Platinum Pass” system throughout 2018.
A total of 320 players won their entry through this system. Along with $1 million that the operator is adding to the first place prize, it makes for $9 million in total injected into the prize pool. With this kind of added money, the operator expected to beat the previous record of 639 players to make it the largest $25,000 tournament in history.
