PokerStars.com Reaches 20 Million Players
Monday, March 9th, 2009
The online poker room PokerStars.com was founded in 2001 and since then they have constantly been growing and today they are by far the biggest poker room on the internet. PartyPoker.com used to be the largest online poker room once upon a time but when the UIGEA hit the US they were no longer able to accept US players while poker rooms like PokerStars and FullTilt Poker continued to accept players coming from the US.
Last week PokerStars signed up their 20 Millionth player. This player is from Slovakia and he is playing under the alias “piposko“. As a reward for the 20 Millionth player they gave him a $215 tournament ticket so that he could play in the Sunday Million for free.
20 Million players is really a lot for an online poker room and just to compare with another online phenomenon World of Warcraft (WoW) has 11 Million users. On the other hand a site like Facebook.com has 160 Million registered user so it seems like there are still a couple of people left to refer to the site before they reach the size of Facebook.