The Stars Group's Pokerstars Turbo Series Surpasses Guarantees With $25 Million Prize Pool

Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) -

The Stars Group Inc. announced today that the recent PokerStars
Turbo Series exceeded its original $15.6 million prize-pool guarantee
by nearly $10 million, ultimately paying out more than $25 million
among the 46,581 unique players who participated in the online poker
series.

The Turbo Series, which took place from February 18 to March 4,
replaced PokerStars' long-running Turbo Championship of Online Poker
(TCOOP) and featured 74 events with buy-ins ranging from $11 to
$5,200. Three events had prize pools exceeding $1 million, while
PokerStars awarded three $30,000 Platinum Passes to the PokerStars
Players No Limit Hold'em Championship (PSPC), a $25,000 buy-in event
taking place in the Bahamas in January 2019.

The success of the Turbo Series follows similar results for recent
online tournaments at PokerStars, including the FRESH (France Espania
Hold'em) Series, PokerStars' first joint tournament series offered to
both French and Spanish players following the launch of shared
liquidity among those markets, which exceeded its EUR5 million
guarantee and awarded over EUR6 million, the PokerStars Winter
Series, which awarded over $38 million as compared to the $25.4
million prize pool guarantee, and the 2017 World Championship of
Online Poker (WCOOP), which exceeded its advertised guarantee of $60
million to pay out $90.6 million. WCOOP became the second-largest
ever online poker series, behind PokerStars' Spring Championship of
Online Poker (SCOOP), which paid out an industry record $93 million
in 2017.

About The Stars Group

The Stars Group is a leading provider of technology-based products
and services in the global gaming and interactive entertainment
industries. The Stars Group directly or indirectly, including through
its Stars Interactive Group division, owns gaming and related
consumer businesses and brands, such as PokerStars, PokerStars
Casino, BetStars, Full Tilt, and the PokerStars Players No Limit
Hold'em Championship, European Poker Tour, PokerStars Caribbean
Adventure, Latin American Poker Tour, Asia Pacific Poker Tour,
PokerStars Festival and PokerStars MEGASTACK live poker tour and
event brands. These brands together have millions of registered
customers globally and collectively form the largest poker business
in the world, comprising online poker games and tournaments,
sponsored live poker competitions, marketing arrangements for branded
poker rooms in popular casinos in major cities around the world, and
poker programming and content created for television and online
audiences. The Stars Group, through certain of these and other
brands, also offers non-poker gaming products, including casino and
sportsbook. The Stars Group, through certain of its subsidiaries, is
licensed or approved to offer, or offers under third party licenses
or approvals, its products and services in various jurisdictions
throughout the world, including in Europe, both within and outside of
the European Union, Australia, the Americas and elsewhere. In
particular, PokerStars is the world's most licensed online gaming
brand, holding licenses or related operating approvals in 17
jurisdictions.

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