PokerStars Micro Millions III: Largest Online Tournament Series Ever

The 100 events of this year’s PokerStars MicroMillions tournament series attracted 1.3 million entries paying out a total of $8.3m in prize money.

The enormous fields set a new record for the largest number of entries for any tournament series, live or online, besting the record of 1,294,889 set in March during the first MicroMillions series.

PokerStars’ aggressive marketing has seen it recover a lot of the lost ground since Black Friday and its player volumes are now down only 9% year on year.

The Main Event, a $22 buy-in NL Hold’em tournament, took 12 hours and 20 minutes to determine the champion. Russian player “axel397” outlasted the 61,072 player field to take home $140k after a three way final table deal. Second and third places went to the Czech Republic with “Senter268” and “numeromis” both taking home over $100k.

If there was a prize for the highest single event ROI (Return on Investment) in the series, it would have gone to “dooooooonk.” He (or she) laid out the princely sum of $0.22 to play a satellite to the $1 buy-in NL Hold’em Event 84, to eventually take it down for a first prize of $2,213.37.

The most successful player of the series, topping the PokerStars MicroMillions Leaderboard, was Team PokerStars Pro Marcin “Goral” Horecki who cashed in 34 events and won Event 62. He gets the MicroMillions III trophy and a free $16k PokerStars Caribbean Adventure live tournament package for his prodigious efforts.