TORONTO, Jan. 22, 2018 /CNW/ - The PokerStars
Caribbean Adventure (PCA), one of several major live poker
tournament series sponsored by The Stars Group Inc.'s flagship
PokerStars brand, came to an end on Sunday,
January 14 with a total prize pool of more than $22 million. The PCA, which runs for a week each
January in the Bahamas, attracted
1,015 unique players from 64 different countries this year and
generated a total of 4,510 entries across 31 PokerStars-sponsored
tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $210 to $100,000.
In addition to various PCA-related promotions, rewards and
activities, PokerStars also awarded five Platinum Passes to the
PokerStars Players No Limit Hold'em Championship (PSPC), which
takes place in January 2019. Each
Platinum Pass is worth $30,000 and
includes a $25,000 PSPC buy-in,
accommodation at the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort and
approximately $2,000 for travel and
expenses.
Professional poker player Maria
Lampropulos of Buenos Aires,
Argentina beat a field of 582 players to win the PCA Main
Event, taking home just over $1
million. Lampropulos is the first female player to win the
PCA Main Event and was also awarded a Platinum Pass to the PSPC for
her first-place finish.
New York Times best-selling
author and journalist Maria
Konnikova provided another PCA highlight by beating 290
players to win the PCA National Championship, taking home
$84,600 and a Platinum Pass, and
finishing 42nd in the PCA Main Event. Konnikova, a
Harvard and Columbia graduate with a
Ph.D. in psychology, is being tutored by poker professional
Erik Seidel in an effort to go from
poker-newcomer to professional in just 12-months, an experience she
intends to publish in an upcoming book. Poker fans around the world
were also able to follow the PCA action through scheduled and
live-stream programming at PokerStars TV, PokerStars Blog, Twitch,
Facebook Live and YouTube. On Twitch alone, PCA programming
attracted more than 2 million cumulative unique viewers across the
eight days of broadcasting (average of 267,250 unique viewers per
day) for a total of approximately 950,000 hours.
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. Through its Stars Interactive Group
gaming division, The Stars Group ultimately owns gaming and related
consumer businesses and brands, including PokerStars, PokerStars
Casino, BetStars, Full Tilt, and the PokerStars Festival,
PokerStars MEGASTACK, PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, European
Poker Tour, Latin American Poker Tour and the Asia Pacific Poker
Tour live poker tour and event brands. These brands together have
more than 115 million 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 brands, also
offers non-poker gaming products, including casino, sportsbook and
daily fantasy sports. 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, 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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SOURCE The Stars Group Inc.