PokerStars have broken their own Guinness World Record by hosting the largest online poker tournament. The event attracted 200,000 players and reached its cap limit three hours before the tournament starting time. This is quite an impressive accomplishment considering PokerStars lost it’s US traffic in April.

PokerStars 10th Anniversary promotions continue as they celebrate 10 years of online poker with promotions for players:

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• PokerStars Trivia Tourneys
• PokerStars Sunday Storm – million guaranteed
• PokerStars Sunday Million – 10 million guaranteed
• $10K High Roller event

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The International Poker Players Association championship tournament is going to be one of the biggest poker tournaments on the calender. The televised High-roller poker tournament has a buy-in of $250,000 and a prize pool of $12 million, the tournament is limited to a field of 48 players all competing for a first place prize of $5 million at the Monte Carlo Casino in December 2010.

So far the event has already attracted some of the High Stakes Poker pros including Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Tony G and Patrik Antonius.

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