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Benjamin Spragg
Filed by Simon, publisher of UK Poker Pros · reviewed
Sourced · read 16 August 2026
Biography
PokerStars is an online poker cardroom. It is the largest real money online poker site in the world, controlling over two-thirds of the total online poker market, and can be accessed through downloadable poker clients for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. A PokerStars.com online satellite tournament produced the 2003 Wo
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- PokerStars is an online poker cardroom.
- Printed cashes are gross payouts, never profit.
Public career
PokerStars is an online poker cardroom. It is the largest real money online poker site in the world, controlling over two-thirds of the total online poker market, and can be accessed through downloadable poker clients for Windows and Mac.
How to read a cash
Printed cashes are gross payouts, never profit. For an explanation of how prize pools and results lines work, see our guide: Cashes are not profit.
Opened, and left off
Public chronology
A PokerStars.com online satellite tournament produced the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) champion, Chris Moneymaker. As the first person to become a world champion by qualifying at an online poker site, Moneymaker's 2
PokerStars was part of The Stars Group until it was sold to Flutter Entertainment, owner of the Irish gambling company Paddy Power, on May 5, 2020.
PokerStars launched its beta play-money-only site on September 11, 2001. The company began offering real money wagering on December 12, 2001. PokerStars was originally a Costa Rican company, Rational Enterprises, part of
In December 2009, PokerStars set the world record for the biggest online tournament. The tournament entry fee was $1, and the number of entrants reached 149,196. They broke that record in December 2011, when 200,000 play
In January 2012, PokerStars introduced a downloadable mobile client for iOS from iTunes. In February 2012, the company also introduced a client for Android.
In June 2014, The Stars Group, then known as Amaya Inc, agreed to buy PokerStars and its parent company for $4.9 billion in cash. The deal was completed on August 1, 2014. Later the deal led to a major insider trading in
In December 2017, PokerStars unveiled a brand new player tournament called the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold'em Championship, which is to be held in January 2019. The tournament is expected to become one of the bigges
In October 2019, The Stars Group, owner of PokerStars, agreed to be acquired by Flutter Entertainment in a $6 billion all-share merger. On May 5, 2020, PokerStars became part of Flutter Entertainment.
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- PokerStars · read
- serp — Benjamin Spragg · read
- serp — Benjamin Spragg · read
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The short version
Are cashes profit?
No. They are gross payouts. See the cashes-are-not-profit pamphlet.
Next relevant check
- How this desk sources a profileThe rule behind every TBC pip and every dated line.
- Cashes are not profitWhy a payout on this page is never treated as income.
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- Who files this deskA named publisher, and how a correction reaches the page it affects.
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