Legendary footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has joined Team PokerStars as a brand ambassador, his role will be to promote the Pokerstars brand and poker to a large new audience.

The Real Madrid and Portuguese national forward was added to Team PokerStars on the 27th May 2105, only a couple weeks after Brazilian and Barcelona football legend Neymar Jr was added the the Team.

The two football superstars join an already impressive sporting team line-up with the likes of Brazil’s Ronaldo, Olympic field hockey captain Fatima Moreira de Melo and tennis legend Rafa Nadal.

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PokerStars have broken the Guinness World Record for the largest online poker tournament twice in one year. In July 2009 Full Tilt Poker made an attempt to beat the PokerStars December 2008 record (35,000 players), by hosting a 50,000 capped tournament with a $5 buy-in. Poker Stars held a $1 tournament on the same day which had a 65,000 maximum player limit both tournaments were full before starting time.

On the 27th December 2009 PokerStars made another attempt and hosted a uncapped tournament with a $300,000 guaranteed prize pool. The tournament had a staggering 149,196 players registered, a drastic improvement of more than double their previous Guinness World Record.

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Every Tuesday Poker Stars players can play against the Team PokerStars Pro players, play ring games and tournaments against some of the top poker pros in the world which includes World Series Of Poker main event winners Joe Cada (WSOP 2009) and Peter Eastgate (WSOP 2008). PokerStars have added two tournaments to their Tuesday tourney schedule called Outlast the Pro, win extra cash for outlasting Team PokerStars players. $1,000 will be added to the tournaments for players who outlast all the PokerStars pros.

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Each month the PokerStars Turbo Takedown takes place with a million dollar prize pool including an Audi TT added to the first place prize, there is also a cash bonus for cashing in two consecutive tournaments plus a PokerStars pro bounty. The Turbo Takedown is one of the biggest Sunday tournaments and players can only buy-in using their FPP’s or by winning a seat via one of the many satellites.

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Poker television fans will be overly enthralled that the most populated poker room PokerStars have recently launched PokerStars.tv still in the beta testing phase the site plans to bring live coverage from the biggest events on the European, Asia-Pacific and Latin American Poker Tours and will include video blogs, poker clips and instructional tuition given by PokerStars team of pro players which include some formidable names: Team PokerStars Pros; Chad Brown, John Duthie, Victoria Coren, Victor Ramdin and Tom McEvoy.

Poker Stars offer a 100% match sign up bonus to $50 for new depositing players when using PokerStars bonus code STARS50 and still allow US players.

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