- As is the tradition, PokerStars is celebrating the 8th anniversary of the Sunday Million by offering 8x times the guaranteed prize pool—$8 million—with a first place prize of at least $650,000.
- The buy-in is staying at $200+15, so the tournament, scheduled for March 2, will need to attract 40,000 players to cover the prize pool without cutting into their fee.
- Last year, the $7m guarantee attracted over 50,000 players and created a near $10m prize pool.
As is the tradition, PokerStars is celebrating the 8th anniversary of the Sunday Million by offering 8 times the guaranteed prize pool—$8 million—with a first place prize of at least $650,000.
The buyin is staying at $200+15, so the tournament, scheduled for March 2, will need to attract 40,000 players to cover the prize pool without cutting into their fee.
That might sound like a tall task, even for the world’s undisputed online poker leader—but PokerStars rarely misses its guarantees. It will be spreading a wide range of satellites, starting this Sunday and running for the entire week building up to the big event.
There are feeder satellites for as little as $1, going off as frequently as every half an hour in the final build-up. On the day of the event, two “Deadline Satellites,” scheduled an hour before the Sunday big goes off, guarantee over a thousand seats.
For further evidence that PokerStars really does know what it is doing: Last year, PokerStars’ 7th anniversary Sunday million smashed the $7m guarantee—it attracted almost 50,000 players and created a prize pool of nearly $10 million.
And that is not even the largest Sunday Million ever. That record was set in December 2011, when a Sunday Million celebrating PokerStars’ 10th anniversary attracted 62,000 players to create a prize pool of $12.4m.
And if you want more talk of records—look no further than this Sunday. PokerStars is expected to once again host the largest poker tournament in history, beating its previous records, by attracting 230,000 players to a $1 tournament. A $300,000 guaranteed prize pool and a entrance cap ensuring an overlay means that a new record will almost certainly be set—if the PokerStars servers can take it.
