
PokerStars is the world's largest and most innovative online poker
site with more than 12 million players worldwide. PokerStars was the
first site to introduce features that became the industry standard and
offers the highest levels of security and customer support in the
online poker world. To date, PokerStars has dealt out over 13 billion
hands and run more than 50 million poker tournaments, awarding well
over $8 billion in prize money. PokerStars is the world's largest poker tournament room running
over 50,000 tournaments every day and was the first poker website ever
to reach the 150,000 simultaneous player mark. The PokerStars Sunday
Million weekly event is the largest weekly tournament on the planet
with a $1 million guaranteed tournament prize pool.
PokerStars is the title sponsor of the European Poker Tour
(EPT). Each Autumn, PokerStars hosts the world's largest online
tournament, the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), which in
2007 featured a record prize pool of over $24 million. PokerStars also
sponsors major events around the globe, such as the World Cup of Poker
which took place in September 2007. The Scandinavian Poker Awards is
hosted by PokerStars and held in association with Scandinavian poker
press media partners Ace Magazine (Denmark), Norsk Poker Magasin
(Norway) and Poker Magazine (Sweden). The awards were initiated by
PokerStars in order to pay attention and tribute to successful
Scandinavian poker players. The Scandinavian Poker Awards started …..
Last year's nominees were presented by an online vote. Plenty of
Scandinavian poker players and enthusiasts participated in the online
voting where they selected their favourite players from the
Scandinavian countries. Afterwards the final call was made by a jury.
The jury chose five talented poker players from Sweden, Denmark and
Norway whom received recognition for their phenomenal achievements.
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