PokerStars Attempts Guinness World Record for Largest Ever Poker Tournament

London, November 7 (ots/PRNewswire) -

PokerStars.com will attempt to hold the world's largest poker
tournament on December 4, by bringing more than 150,000 players
together to play in an online poker game as part of the PokerStars
10th Anniversary Celebration
[http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/10th-anniversary ], the
company announced.

The current Guinness World Record of 149,196 players was set in
2009 in another PokerStars tournament, which featured a $1 buy-in. It
was won by online player 'oskar69' from Garbsen in Germany for
$50,000.

The latest World Record attempt will start at 12:30 ET on
December 4, 2011 and will be a $1 No Limit Hold'em tourney with a
guaranteed prize pool of $250,000. The first prize will be $50,000,
an unusually high return for a $1 tournament.

"It's exciting and unique to be part of a World Record," said
Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier, who already holds a
personal Guinness World Record for Most Online Poker Tables Played in
One Hour (62, with a profit of $23.60). "I'm looking forward to doing
it again on December 4. It will be great to see so many players come
together to make history once again at the world's largest poker
site."

PokerStars 10th Anniversary

This World Record tournament attempt is the third promotion in
PokerStars' 10th Anniversary Celebration, which so far includes the
$10 Million Sunday Million [http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotio
ns/10th-anniversary/sunday-million ] tournament that has already
captured players' imaginations with its $10 million guaranteed prize
pool and $2 million for first place, along with the 10th Anniversary
Giveaway
[http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/10th-anniversary/giveaway
] that will award 100 dream vacations to the PokerStars Caribbean
Adventure in the Bahamas for free, along with 10,000 cash prizes.

PokerStars said that there will be more announcements to follow
in the coming weeks to help players join in the festivities. In the
meantime, players can find more information about the PokerStars 10th
Anniversary Celebration at http://www.PokerStars.com/ten.

About PokerStars:

PokerStars operates PokerStars.com, the world's most popular
online poker site [http://www.pokerstars.co.uk ], and serves the
world's largest poker community, with more than 49 million registered
members since it launched in December 2001. It's the first choice of
the world's top players, with more daily tournaments than anywhere
else, and with the best security online. More hands have been dealt
on PokerStars.com than any other site; that's over 70 billion hands
and more than 450 million tournaments played.

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Contact:
Mark Stuart +44-20-73193051 - mark_stuart@pokerstars.eu