Pokerstars.com organizes tournaments, formidable online events and satellites to live tournaments. It boasts the greatest number of players, with cash poker tables and sit and go provided with different stake probabilities incessantly. However, it hosts the WCOOP event and has recently incepted the spring’s Championship of Online-Poker with tripartite buy-ins for each event that facilitates play for low stakes. The popularity of these events has attracted various players who are keen in horning skills and versatility for both live events and online games. Masaaki Kagawa who hails from Japan leveraged the virtual poker platforms to go a notch higher in the global poker industry.
At the Pokerstars European Poker Tour (Monaco Grand Final NLHE), he placed third and got $336,523 on January 27, 2013. In the same event, Season 8 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Maximum, he was 5th and took home $508,535. Earlier on January 2011 at the PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure Season-eight EPT he placed 69th getting $33,000 for his wallet. He had also played in the same event in 2009 and 2010. In the 2010 Pokerstars European Poker Tour (London NLHE Championship), he was 22nd and brought in $34,202 while he was 18th in the WPT LA Poker Classic NLHE Championship that saw him get $52,920. However, upon trawling his array of wins, his best position was when he emerged third in the Aussie-Millions NLHE $100,000 and Bellagio Poker Cup 8 NLHE, winning $336,523 and $40,607.
He also managed to place fifth in the EPT NHLE 8 Maximum High-Roller and the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza 3 NLHE where he got $508,535 and $28,111. With his vibrant presence in internet tournaments, concluding that he will get more wins would not be a specious inference. Although you may not make final tables or first prize winning, online platforms give players advantage compared to live events. Thus, Kagawa’s resume is beyond reproach on the anvil of excellence.