Best Poker Tournaments 2009.

PokerStars has been awarded Gold medal, Winner for Best Poker Tournaments by The Gambling Online Magazine Readers’ Poll Awards for a second year in a row. Only awards in the industry that are voted by the public themselves.

When it comes to the poker industry’s leading lights in the field of tournaments, they certainly don’t come much brighter than PokerStars. PokerStars offers an unparalleled range of single and multi-table tournaments to suit all budgets and levels of player – and their regular guaranteed tournaments are undoubtedly some of the best available anywhere on the net. Naturally at the top of the pile is the PokerStars Sunday Million, however, the action doesn’t stop there as PokerStars also offers the $750,000 guaranteed Sunday Warm-Up, the Sunday 1/4 Million and the Sunday $500k in a bumper day of tournament action. However, in spite of all the value-added tournaments that PokerStars has to offer, any serious online poker player will tell you that it’s a site’s range of sit-and-gos which comprise the bread-and-butter of their daily offering – and PokerStars certainly have that base covered with a truly comprehensive selection of games.

2010 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP)

The 2010 SCOOP series proved to be the biggest yet, with 38 events and a massive combined prize pool of more than $63,000,000. Scores of new Champions were crowned, with players from all around the world winning big. The Main Event saw midjat walk away with $191,892 for winning the Low-level tournament, followed by victory for Mr.M.MOney in the Medium-level, good for a pay day of $443,137. The High-level event was won by toetagU from the USA, who picked up an incredible cash of $1,162,350 for beating 614 of the world’s best players.

World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP)

Now in its eighth year, the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker is a series of tournaments that brings players from around the world together to compete for WCOOP bracelets and of course, millions in cash prizes. It is the largest online poker series in the world. The 2009 World Championship of Online Poker was the biggest online tournament series ever staged. Players from 140 countries played 45 events over 18 days for a combined prize pool of $51,652,800, and there were an incredible three double bracelet winners.

The 2010 World Championship of Online Poker is here. Every year this tournament series attracts the largest fields, creating record-breaking prize pools. Since 2002 the WCOOP has been the world’s premier online poker event, and this year tens of thousands of players will compete across 62 events in 23 days for millions of dollars in prize money. It all starts with Event 1, the $215 No Limit Hold’em 6-Max on September 5, and concludes with Event 62, the two day, $5,200 No Limit Hold’em Main Event, which will take place on September 26-27 and award at least $10,000,000.

Special Features

PokerStars offers players many special features including; poker table themes, poker player images, opponent poker notes, player statistics, hand history, game lobby sorting options, table re-sizing, table focus choices and internet connection status displays. It’s also available for Mac users.

PokerStars qualifies thousands of players to the biggest live poker events on the circuit every year, including the North American Poker Tour (NAPT), European Poker Tour (EPT), Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT), UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT), World Cup of Poker (WCP) and the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA). PokerStars also send more players to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event than all the other poker sites put together.