PokerStars 10th Anniversary: Weekend wrap-up

Everyone knew the general weekend of the PokerStars 10th Anniversary celebration was going to be big. It'd be a celebration befitting the world's largest online poker room. It'd be rich. It might be glamorous. It might be everything everyone expected it to be. But who could've predicted how big it might actually get?

By the time registration closed at the 10th Anniversary special Sunday Million, 62,116 players had signed as much as play the most important Sunday Million and largest online poker tournament in history. The prize pool swelled to $12,423,200 and offered up probably the most greatest stories in PokerStars' history.

For instance, the 14th place finisher within the event got into the 10th Anniversary Sunday Million for 375 Frequent Player Points and turned it into $48,000. Meanwhile, 20th place finisher Nest17 made it into the development for eight--EIGHT!--FPPs and earned greater than $22,000.

Though they were amazing stories, none is nearly as good as that of Kyle "First-Eagle" Weir who described himself as "unemployed" before tearing during the Sunday Million and winning it for greater than $1 million. You'll read our full wrap-up of the overall table in First-Eagle wins largest-ever Sunday Million.

$10th Anniversary Sunday Million final table

Meanwhile, the $10,000 10th Anniversary High Roller was in action with 187 players and a prize pool worth nearly $1.9 million. When it was all said and done, Joey Lawrence had defeated a really tough field and captured the $402,000 first prize.

It was, as our Martin Harris wrote, an "exclamation point at the 10th Anniversary festivities." After a month of large promotions, giveaways, and parties, after making a gift of 100 PCA seats, after setting world records, after again shocking the poker world, PokerStars finally turned out the lights on its anniversary party.

Here arre only a few of the opposite big stories from the 10th Anniversary celebration (you'll be able to read all of them in our special 10th anniversary section):

PokerStars releases 10th anniversary magazine

Sunday Storm pulls 116,400 entrants

PokerStars deals 72 billionth hand

PokerStars breaks largest tourney world record

If you need a glance in any respect the folks who won big money over the overall 10th Anniversary weekend, see the PokerStars 12/18/11 majors results page.

Congratulations to the entire big winners in the past month of celebrations on PokerStars, and because of all who helped us celebrate. It has been an awesome experience.

Here's to a different ten years!

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