PokerStars announced the birth of Team PokerStars Online. This PokerStars online team consists of 23 players from 18 countries all over the world. PokerStars do not only have Team PokerStars in live tournaments but they now have the Team PokerStars Online and thus will make playing in their site far more exciting. For those dreaming of becoming poker pro, this is a good chance.
You surely know that PokerStars usually sponsors live poker tournaments. Most of which, the final tables are televised and that makes PokerStars the most trafficked poker site online.
However, its close competition, Full Tilt Poker is not too far when you speak of traffic. While some of these televised poker tournaments have been sponsored by PokerStars, the fact that the several of the players on the field wear Full Tilt Poker gears makes this site compete well in terms of poker site popularity. The reason for the many Full Tilt Team members in the tournament is the large stable of poker professionals in the site.
Additionally, Full Tilt Poker is never behind when you speak of tournaments because Full Tilt Poker offers satellites games to these poker live tournaments as well. Full Tilt Poker also has its own poker tournaments to sponsor and this makes the competition close.
Full Tilt Poker likewise almost snatched the Guinness World Record from PokerStars in last year when Full Tilt Poker beat the PokerStars record of the biggest online poker tournament field. However, the same day, PokerStars gained it back when it offered a $1 buy in tournament and this was played on by more than 65,000 players giving them back the Guinness World Record on the same day.
What are the chances that the Team PokerStars Online will create a larger stable of online poker professionals? Huge and this is because PokerStars commit to increase the number of its members as this New Year progresses.
It may be worthy noting that PokerStars have chosen from among 2,000 online players applicants before reaching the 23 names of online poker players.
Here is the list of the 23 members of Team PokerStars Online
• Alvaro ‘VARICO’ Blanco
• Amanda ‘ROXY24’ Thomas
• Anders ‘Donald’ Berg
• Andre ‘acoimbra’ Coimbra
• Andres ‘lobojiji’ Alisievicz
• Andrew ‘Kid Nebraska’ Goetsch
• Alexey ‘LuckyGump’ Makarov
• Boumaaza ‘Chiren80’ Bachir
• Diego ‘vgreen22’ Brunelli
• Grayson ‘spacegravy’ Physioc
• Grzegorz ‘DaWarsaw’ Mikielewicz
• Jorge ‘JorgeArias’ Arias
• Karlo ‘elmagopr’ Lopez
• Keiran ‘K_Man2307’ Harris
• Kristian ‘CharismA3’ Martin
• Martha ‘marene’ Gonzalez
• Mathew ‘chipstar1’ Didlick
• Nichoel ‘NicP’ Peppe
• Randy ‘nanonoko’ Lew
• Sebastien ‘Seb86’ Sabic
• Steve ‘stevesbets’ Jacobs
• Ta-Chih ‘socutiesf’ Geeng
• Thomas ‘Boku87’ Boekhoff
This new development and the planned enhancement in the PokerStars lobby will allow players to follow their favorites online.
Is this going to snatch more players from Full Tilt Poker, we may have to find out later but for now, for players who wants to become part of the Team PokerStars Online, you have to start practicing.
Remember that from a list of 2,000 applicants only 23 are chosen. Thus, you have to prove your worth before thinking of applying.
