PokerStars' Turbo Championship attracted more players than ever this year
Online poker continues to break records, as PokerStars' Turbo Championship Main Event attracted almost 50 percent more players to this year's tournament than it did to the corresponding event last year.
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Record poker numbers
A PokerStars.eu account holder from Sweden won the TCOOP Main Event on Sunday with a $326,880 first prize, but more noteable is that he defeated a record field of a whopping 5,060 players who came to compete in the $700 buy-in event.
This is just the latest example of the fact that online poker's popularity knows no bounds. This year's figures of 5,060 entries and $3.365 million prize pool destroyed last year's figures of 3,667 players and $2.439 prize pool. Other TCOOP events including the High Roller tournament also surpassed all previous figures.
Forecast
PokerStars' tournament record perhaps indicates that the industry is in full recovery mode, after a disappointing 2012 in which player accounts decreased by 8 percent overall. Last year online poker suffered from global economic problems, but the figures also reflected the fact that fast-fold poker effectively reduces player counts.
Rush Poker, the popular cash game first launched by Full Tilt Poker, is set to continue to grow, not that all major poker operators run their own versions.. Microgaming's Blaze Poker and Playtech's Sprint Poker are among the fast-fold poker variants in which players are dealt a new hand at a new table once they fold their previous hand.
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