World Championship of Online Poker 2019 Becomes Biggest in PokerStars History

PokerStars awards more than $130 million across WCOOP and Galactic
Series in record-breaking year

Onchan, Isle Of Man (ots/PRNewswire) - PokerStars' most
prestigious online series, the World Championship of Online Poker
(WCOOP) (https://www.pokerstars.com/wcoop/), has awarded a
record-breaking $104.7 million across 20 days of top tournament
action. The series surpassed its $75 million guarantee by almost $30
million when more than 1.2 million total entries pushed the prize
pool into the PokerStars history books. The WCOOP record was
previously held by last year's series, which generated a prizepool of
over $99 million.

Series highlights include:

- 1,219,969 entries
- Total prize pool of $104,733,898
- $11.18 million awarded in the Main Event High, making it the
biggest COOP Main Event since 2010

New UFC themed tournaments awarded four packages worth $3,500,
alongside big money prizes, to UFC® 244: Masvidal vs. Diaz in New
York, where PokerStars UFC Ambassador Johnny Walker will be in action
The Main Event High is still running, with $1.6 million up for grabs
for first place.

SOUTHERN EUROPEAN SUCCESS

Meanwhile, Southern Europe also enjoyed success with the Galactic
Series in Spain, France, and Portugal awarding EUR19,419,783 over 23
days of play. The series exceeded its advertised EUR15 million
guarantee and also beat last year's EUR17,105,960 prize pool. In
addition, Italy's Galactic Series broke its EUR3 million guarantee to
hit EUR3,799,329.

A RECORD-BREAKING YEAR

PokerStars, the flagship poker brand of The Stars Group, has
enjoyed several successes this year. In January, PokerStars broke the
record for the largest-ever prize pool for a $25,000 buy-in poker
tournament when the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold'em Championship
(PSPC) awarded $26.5 million. In April, the 13th Anniversary edition
of its Sunday Million online tournament became the second biggest in
the series' history, totalling 61,342 entries with a prize pool of
$12,268,400. In May, its Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP)
paid out $105 million, the first-ever online poker tournament to beat
the $100 million milestone, while the company also celebrated dealing
its 200 billionth hand.

Earlier this month the European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona set a
new PokerStars record as the biggest stop in the EPT's 16-year
history, awarding more than EUR52.9 million to players from 95
different countries.

To keep up to date with all WCOOP news visit the PokerStars Blog
(https://news.pokerstarsblog.com/en/news/).

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