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 PokerStars
brought online poker into the 21st century. The largest online poker card room, PokerStars opened for beta testing on
September 11, 2001... not exactly the best day in history and definitely not the best to launch an entertainment website.
Still, the card room quickly staked out its claim as the most innovative card room on the market.
PokerStars was the first poker room to have integrated player statistics, the first poker room to have integrated player
note-taking ability, the first card room to offer realistic and reliable multi-table tournaments (with table balancing
functionality like in a brick and mortar casino), the first cardroom to offer integrated one-click info functionality
for tournaments (so you could see in a glance where you stand relative to other players), the first card room to allow
players to have individual image icons, and also the first online cardroom to recognize the value of running a large number
of qualifying tournaments for the World Series of Poker. (The 2003, 2004 and 2005 World Series of Poker main event champions
are all spokespeople for Poker Stars.)
Perhaps surprisingly then, PokerStars was to be nearly the last cardroom to be going public via an initial public offering.
Prior to the passage of the
Safe Port Act, the London media had been
tracking developments on the IPO front for many months. The
Times of London ran a series of
stories on PokerStars relocation to the Isle of Man and talks and with various bankers in anticipation of going public at
a value of around $3 billion. The company now has no plans to have a public offering any time soon.
Besides the Isle of Man Gambling Control Commission, PokerStars is regulated by the Kahnawake Gambling Commission.
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