The Stars Group's Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure 2018 Closes With $22 Million Prize Pool

Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) -

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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