PokerStars hit a stunning milestone Sunday, Dec. 30, when 150,000 players logged onto the site to play poker. That's approximately 20,000 tables running at once (PokerStars runs hundreds of shorthanded games). There's nowhere near that number of tables at brick-and-mortar casinos in the entire United States.
The achievement took place during the $1,050 Sunday Million, when it was daylight in America and prime time in Europe. That tournament alone had 1,800 players. The $11 Sunday Hundred Grand reached its player-cap of 20,000.
PokerStars first hit the 100,000 mark in February of 2006. In May of the same year, it dealt its five-billionth hand, an achievement that took a little more than five years. A year later, the site celebrated its 10-billionth hand.
The site also saw more than 3,400 of its players earn more than 100,000 Frequent Players Points each, granting them Supernova status at the site. Nearly 40 players earned at least 1 million points in 2007, making them Supernova Elite players.
taken from Cardplayer
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