Upping the Anti
It’s a great time for poker players to be gambling in the online casino gambling
industry as all of the major sites compete for the biggest tournaments and most
popular promotions. Full Tilt just announced a boost to its weekend million
dollar tournament – the guaranteed prize pool now sits at a cool million. For
PokerStars, the boost in the Full Tilt prize pool is likely the reason that the
online casino poker gambling company also announced a boost in the guaranteed
prize pool: to an even cooler $1.5 million. The weekend tournaments are proving
quite popular with some of the high-rollers in the industry taking on the poker
pros in hopes of taking the lion’s share of the impressive prize pool.
Online casinos and internet poker sites throw around huge figures like $1
million on a regular basis from jackpots to prize pools – so it’s easy to forget
just how much money we’re talking about. On a weekly basis both Poker Stars and
Full Tilt have enough poker gamblers registering for the tourneys that they are
able to offer up prize pools that easily exceed the million dollar mark – now
that’s pretty impressive.
PokerStars is the largest of the international online poker gambling companies
with Full Tilt coming up in second place. PokerStars has held the top spot for
years now and will not easily relinquish the title. For that reason, and most
because the numbers suggested it was time, PokerStars announced (around the same
time as the Full Tilt announcement) that the Sunday Millions tournament would
now payout $1.5 million in winnings every week. |