100 Million Celebration at PokerStars

The beginning of this year was marked with PokerStars to register its 100-million user. To commemorate this, the poker room offers its players to complete a series of quests which eventually can enable you to win up to $100 000 + help to recall the milestones of the way to success of the biggest online poker room in the world.

Every day you’ll have two tasks available for you: silver and gold ones. To activate them you have to go to the quests’ page and activate them by pressing “Start” button. Next you’ll be given a day to complete them. Having finished with everything, you’ll be able to get a random gift which may vary from a ticket to all-in shootout freeroll with a $10 000 prize pool to $100 000 cash without any requirements.

Festive quests at PokerStars

2001 - PokerStars introduces first real money cash tables. A renowned chess player - Greg Shahade - under the nickname «curtains», is among first players to visit the poker room.

2002 - the first WCOOP series with the Swede «MultiMarine» to win the Main Event.

2003 - start of the «Moneymaker effect». This was due to the Chris's victory in the WSOP Main Event.

2004 - the poker room launches EPT series. The Main Event was dominated by Alex Stevich from Sweden who had defeated Dave O'Callahen from Ireland during the heads-up.

2006 - the poker room gave birth to the most popular tournament - Sunday Million. A player with an interesting nickname «aaaaaaa» became the champion of the tournament.

2007 - the poker room signed a contract with the most positive player on the planet and one of the best par excellence - a Canadian player Daniel Negreanu. He was the one who added up to Team Pro.

2008 - the first world record was registered at the poker room. There was the hugest tournament held with 35 000 players registered.

2012 - the clients of the biggest online poker room became able to play poker on their mobile devices thanks to the launch of the special client for smartphones and tablets. The Italian - nikocurva - was the first player to register from his smartphone.

2013 - new poker format - Zoom, which is often called ‘fast poker’, - was exhibited before the public. Zoom grew in popularity soon enough and the Spaniard - Doña Blasa - was the one to play the first hand.

2013 - this is the year when the number of hands played at PokerStars passed the 100 billion mark. The winner of the anniversary hand was Isidora "microulis69" Panagiotopoulou with a $103,800 prize.

2014 - was marked with the PCA Main Event with a guaranteed prize pool of $10,000,000. The Polander, Dominik Panka, became the winner of the event and gained $1,400,000 for the first prize.

2015 - PokerStars entered into contracts with football top players: Cristiano Ronaldo and Neimar.

2015 - 13 players won $1,000,000 in Spin&Go tournaments the same year. The first one to do this was sss66666 from Russia.

2015 - the year of the new world record in the biggest online tournaments. 253 692 players eventually took part in the event and the Austrian - DaDumon - won the tournament.

2016 - PokerStars obtained a license to run gambling service within the USA. New Jersey state formally confirmed the information and the poker room is ready to set out in the first half of the year.

It's also worth mentioning that the probability to win main prize equals to 0,001%.

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