PokerStars has announced that the 2015 World Championship of Online Poker has been its richest in its 14-year history, and Ukrainian player “solik1968” wins the $1m first prize in the Dream Team Collection promotion.

Who said poker was dying on its ass!

PokerStars, and their customers, continue to find the time to plough their money into the online version of the game, after making this year’s World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) the richest in the tour’s 14-year history.

The online poker room that other online poker rooms covet laid on 70-events, and promised to supply $45m in guaranteed prize money. By the end of the festival punters had pummeled $66,245,305 into their online accounts, and that beat the previous record, held by WCOOP 2010, by some $3m.