POKERSTARS SMASHES GUINNESS WORLD RECORD WITH OVER 300K PLAYERS ONLINE SIMULTANEOUSLY
September 29, 2009
PokerStars.com breaks ‘Most Players at an Internet Poker Room’ Guinness World Record
ISLE OF MAN, UK, SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 – PokerStars.com, the world’s largest poker site, has shattered its
own world record for hosting ‘THE MOST PLAYERS AT AN INTERNET POKER ROOM’ – an achievement
that’s been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. On Sunday September 6, 2009, PokerStars.com
recorded 307,016 players at 42,814 tables playing online poker simultaneously – smashing the old record by
over 100,000 players.
This new record comes less than two months after PokerStars.com destroyed another of its own Guinness
World Records; the ‘Largest Online Poker Tournament’, officially certified by the Guinness Book of World
Records. The largest online poker tournament was held on Sunday July 19, 2009, when a total of 65,000
players from 155 countries came together to play in the same tournament.
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