The Stars Group Scores Shared Player Pool Success with French and Spanish Tournament Series

Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) -

The Stars Group Inc. today announced the completion of the FRESH
(France Espania Hold'em) Series, PokerStars' first joint tournament
series offered to both French and Spanish players following the
launch of the shared player pool between the two previously
ring-fenced markets. The FRESH Series beat guarantees and attracted
thousands of French and Spanish players to PokerStars' online tables.

The series ran from January 28 to February 11 and saw more than
30,000 unique entries and a total prize pool of EUR6,149,751 across
50 scheduled events, which exceeded the EUR5 million prize pool
guarantee.

The FRESH Series Main Event winner also received a Platinum Pass,
worth around $30,000, giving the winner a free-ride to the previously
announced PokerStars Players No Limit Hold'em Championship (PSPC).
The PSPC takes place in the Bahamas in 2019 and The Stars Group
expects it to be the largest $25,000 buy-in poker tournament in poker
history. The Stars Group is giving away a total of $8 million worth
of Platinum Passes and an additional $1 million for the overall
winner at the PSPC.

"It was great to see French and Spanish players challenging each
other on the virtual felt," said Rafi Ashkenazi, Chief Executive
Officer of The Stars Group. "The success of the FRESH Series is an
encouraging start as we look forward to extending the shared player
pool to Italy and Portugal in the future."

Regulators in Italy have reiterated and those in Portugal have
recently confirmed their respective intentions to join the shared
market with France and Spain. The Stars Group intends to seek
approval to enter into such shared player pool markets if and when
they become available.

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 millions of 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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