There is a big Storm brewing for the middle of April, and this weather forecast is 100% accurate. On April 16 at 14:00 ET, PokerStars’ biggest little Sunday game turns 12 years old, and the operator is offering $700k in guarantees to celebrate the milestone.
While the Sunday Million is a must-play game for most higher-stakes players, for 12 years, low-stakes online poker players have looked to the Sunday Storm for their version of a Sunday major on PokerStars.
The $11 game is affordable for most bankrolls, and it represents the first shot many players take at anything close to a “Sunday Major” game. While the guarantees have varied throughout the years, recent Sunday Storm games have guaranteed $100k on an average week. However, the 12th birthday party will blow that out of the water.
While a normal Storm comes in at a whopping $10,000 in guaranteed value for every dollar of buy-in ($gtd/$buy-in), the Anniversary edition on April 16 has seven times the value of a regular event. That means the usual game has the same value as the $109 Sunday Million, but the 12th birthday party will be the highest-value tournament on April 16.
- Deposit $20 and get $30 worth of free play
- One of the best mobile apps
- Biggest MTT guarantees
Biggest Storm Ever on the Horizon
There is no need to batten down the hatches against the approaching Storm — on the contrary, low-stakes online poker players will want to steer straight and true, directly into the heart of this one. With $700,000 guaranteed, it will be the biggest Sunday Storm game ever held on PokerStars.
The massive value of $70,000 $gtd/$buy-in makes it a tremendous leader for the best-value game on April 16, but it is worth putting the $700,000 guarantee into perspective. The marquee Sunday game on PokerStars is the Sunday Million, which costs $109 and, as the name suggests, guarantees $1 million.
For the 12th birthday party Storm, however, the $700k guarantee is fully 70% of the Million, with the buy-in still happily sitting at 10%. That will likely make it one of the best-value $11 games of the whole year, at least outside of the inflated guarantees of the SCOOP and COOP series.
The birthday party also has a bit of an extra twist — the game will be a PKO format for the anniversary special. That means players can pocket money even before the prize pool payouts begin for the best shot at a piece of the record prizes.
Play into the Storm for Cheap
Even if $11 is a bit high for a micro-stakes bankroll, all players can navigate into this huge Storm. The PokerStars client is jam-packed with satellite shots at the big game, from freerolls to $2.20 games.
The biggest shot at the event comes in a vast mega-satellite running on April 9. That game has a whopping 500 tickets to the massive Storm for $1.10, but players can win tickets to that mega-satellite in freerolls running multiple times daily. The freerolls guarantee 10 tickets to the $1.10 qualifier giving players a shot at a share of $700k for nothing.
- Deposit $20 and get $30 worth of free play
- One of the best mobile apps
- Biggest MTT guarantees
12th Anniversary Sunday Storm Satellites
| Cost | Prize | Gtd | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freeroll | $1.10 Tickets | 10 | Multiple Daily |
| $1.10 | $700k Sunday Storm | 500 | Apr 9 13:10 |
| $0.55 | $700k Sunday Storm | 5 | Multiple Daily |
| $2.20 | $700k Sunday Storm | 8 | Multiple Daily |
No matter their bankroll, this is a Storm all players will want to be caught in. The satellite tree makes it affordable for even the smallest bankroll to take a shot at life-changing money. At the same time, the massive value of $700k guaranteed for just $11 will attract higher-stakes players that typically never play that small.
That could mean a perfect Storm making a truly massive field for this one, but no matter what, this will be the biggest Storm players on PokerStars have ever navigated. No player will look to avoid this one, though — on the contrary, full steam ahead!
Sign up for PokerStars and get ready to ride out this Storm!
