Four poker players who qualified to the World Series of Poker tournament from satellite tournaments at Poker Stars have reached the final table of the tournament outlasting 2,576 other players. WSOP is the most prestigious poker tournament in the world. Its prize pools reach amazing scopes. This years 1st place winner will walk away with 5 million dollars, and the places 2 to 9 will win sums starting from half a million.
Poker Stars has previously qualified 2 WSOP winners and in this years WSOP Poker Stars players have already won over 1 million dollars in total. The final table guarantees to add between 2.5 and 12.5 millions more to this sum. All this says a lot about the quality of Poker Stars players and online players in general.
The fact that online players take part and win major land based tournaments has become a norm during the last years, but it is also evident that the majority of these players come precisely from Poker Stars, and it is not a surprise, because Poker Stars is the largest and the most popular site that specifically focuses on poker tournaments. There are tons of online poker rooms that allow internet surfers to play poker against each other, but no other site has such an enormous experience in running online poker tournaments and preparing players to take part in real ones.
