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.