PokerStars are about to reach an insane 40 billion hands dealt to their players since the online poker room opened it’s doors in 2001. To celebrate Poker Stars are running a promotion called F40 to reward their players for their dedicated support, which includes hosting the largest Sunday Million to date, and extra prizes for Cash game and Sit n Go players.
To encourage new players to sign up to Poker Stars, any player who makes their first deposit using the PokerStars bonus code for the F40 promotion will have access to all 40 of the PokerStars F40 freerolls, there are five $1000 which take place daily.
PokerStars have broken the Guinness World Record for the largest online poker tournament twice in one year. In July 2009 Full Tilt Poker made an attempt to beat the PokerStars December 2008 record (35,000 players), by hosting a 50,000 capped tournament with a $5 buy-in. Poker Stars held a $1 tournament on the same day which had a 65,000 maximum player limit both tournaments were full before starting time.
On the 27th December 2009 PokerStars made another attempt and hosted a uncapped tournament with a $300,000 guaranteed prize pool. The tournament had a staggering 149,196 players registered, a drastic improvement of more than double their previous Guinness World Record.
Have a bit of time on your hands, enough for a poker quiz?
PokerStars have added a quiz that comprises of 12 questions about events held throughout 2009 at PokerStars.
Players who answer all 12 PokerStars quiz questions correctly will get an invite to play a $5 buy-in tournament entry with $20,000 added to the prize pool. The PokerStars quiz will run until 17 December 2009.
To find the PokerStars Player Quiz 2009 simply login to your account and look at the news banners in the lobby, even if you answer a few questions wrong you can retry until you get the correct answers.
We have helped a bit by providing the answers to the Poker Stars Quiz questions in the self help cheat sheet below.
Click the links in the PokerStars Quiz questions to find the correct answer, the answers are highlighted in bold yellow text.
PokerStars deposit bonus code: STARS600 – 100% of first deposit match up to $600 – PokerStars minimum deposit is $10.
Every Tuesday Poker Stars players can play against the Team PokerStars Pro players, play ring games and tournaments against some of the top poker pros in the world which includes World Series Of Poker main event winners Joe Cada (WSOP 2009) and Peter Eastgate (WSOP 2008). PokerStars have added two tournaments to their Tuesday tourney schedule called Outlast the Pro, win extra cash for outlasting Team PokerStars players. $1,000 will be added to the tournaments for players who outlast all the PokerStars pros.
Use Poker Stars bonus code STARS600 and get double your first deposit up to $600 – minimum PokerStars deposit is only $10
PokerStars freerolls to the value of $500,000, have been added to the tournament schedule, to qualify for your seat in this freeroll series, players must make a deposit even if it is just the minimum PokerStars deposit of $10 before the 28th November 2009. Not only will you get the PokerStars deposit bonus of 100% up to $600, you can participate in 8 daily $2,500 freeroll tournaments which are taking place between 28th November – 13th December.
Time is running out join today and make a deposit and use the pokerstars marketing code FIRST500K for your first deposit. Players who have already deposited can use the poker stars marketing code 500K to qualify for the Poker Stars freerolls.