Team PokerStars Online Announced
PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site, has spent the last two months searching for online poker talent to form the basis of Team PokerStars Online - an offshoot of Team PokerStars Pro.
After sifting through 2000 applications, PokerStars selected the 23 inaugural members of Team PokerStars Online. The group hail from all over the world, with 18 countries represented, and have been drawn from the full range of PokerStars' games and stakes.
The diversity of this new team means PokerStars' players are likely to find a Team PokerStars Pro presence whatever game they play, and whenever they choose to login.
The full list of PokerStars Team Online players is as follows (alphabetical by surname):
1. Andres Alisievicz lobojiji
2. Jorge Arias JorgeArias
3. Boumaaza Bachir Chiren80
4. Anders Berg Donald
5. Alvaro Blanco VARICO
6. Thomas Boekhoff Boku87
7. Diego Brunelli vgreen22
8. André Coimbra acoimbra
9. Mathew Didlick chipstar1
10. Ta-Chih Geeng socutiesf
11. Andrew Goetsch Kid Nebraska
12. Martha Gonzalez marene
13. Keiran Harris K_Man2307
14. Steve Jacobs stevesbets
15. Randy Lew nanonoko
16. Karlo Lopez elmagopr
17. Alexey Makarov LuckyGump
18. Kristian Martin CharismA3
19. Grzegorz Mikielewicz DaWarsaw
20. Nichoel Peppe NicP
21. Grayson Physioc spacegravy
22. Sebastien Sabic Seb86
23. Amanda Thomas ROXY24
There are plans to add further players to Team Online throughout 2010, along with improvements to the PokerStars lobby that will make it easier to find and follow all the big names as they play online.
The full Team PokerStars Pro contains some of the biggest names in poker, including six WSOP Main Event Champions, Tom McEvoy (1983), Chris Moneymaker (2003), Greg Raymer (2004), Joe Hachem (2005), Peter Eastgate (2008) and Joe Cada (2009).
About www.pokerstars.com:
PokerStars.com is the world's largest poker site with more than 30 million members around the world. It's the first choice of the world's top players with more daily tournaments than anywhere else with the best security online. More hands have been dealt on PokerStars.com than any other site, that's over 36 billion hands dealt to date and more than 217 million tournaments played.
PokerStars.com operates worldwide under the license from the Isle of Man Government. .A recent addition to the PokerStars family, PokerStars.IT, operates in Italy under the Italian Government license.
PokerStars is in the record books, boasting the Guinness World Record for 'Largest Online Poker Tournament' and ‘Most Players on an Internet Poker Room'.
PokerStars regularly sets the bar high, staging some of the biggest online and live poker tournaments in the world:
The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) (www.wcoop.com) is the premier yearly online poker tournament series in the world. The 2009 WCOOP generated a total prize pool of over $51 million
The European Poker Tour (www.ept.com) attracts the best players and currently generates the biggest prize pool of any poker tour
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) staged on the shores of Paradise Island in the Bahamas is where thousands of players compete for a share of millions in prize money
The Latin American Poker Tour (www.lapt.com) unites the best players in South America
The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (www.appt.com) does the same across the Pacific
The World Cup of Poker, a unique fixture on the poker calendar that combines the online and live poker worlds for a team challenge that pitches nation against nation
PokerStars is also the official sponsor of the; Russian Poker Tour, The Italian Poker Tour, The Czech-Slovak Poker Tour, Australia-New Zealand Poker Tour, The UK and Ireland Poker Tour
