Sunday Million at Poker Stars
When it comes to big guaranteed online poker tournaments the biggest and best has to be the weekly Sunday Million at Poker Stars, the world’s largest online poker site. Established back in 2006, the Sunday Million has grown in popularity year after year and is widely regarded as the ‘daddy’ of all online poker tournaments, offering multi-million prize pools to play for every single week.
The very first Sunday Million was held at Poker Stars on the 5th March 2006 and had a prize pool of $1,178,600 and the biggest Sunday Million was held earlier this year, when 36,169 players turned out to play for a monumental $7,233,800 prize pool.
For a buy in of just $215 you have the chance to hit the big time playing for a guaranteed prize pool of $1,500,000 and a guaranteed first prize of at least $240,000. If $215 is a little rich for your bankroll management you can qualify for the Poker Stars Sunday Million by playing in one of the many online poker satellite tournaments at Poker Stars, which have buy ins starting from as little as $2.20 or 440 frequent player points.
Along with the Sunday Million, Poker Stars also hosts a range of other big guaranteed online poker tournaments every Sunday. These include; the Sunday Warm-Up that has a $750,000 guaranteed prize pool, the Sunday Second Chance that has a guaranteed prize pool of $250,000 and the Sunday 500 that has a $500,000 prize pool to play for plus many others.
The Poker Stars Sunday Million will surely continue to grow with the average prize pool getting bigger and bigger each year. To join the action for Boxing Day’s Sunday Million click the Poker Stars banner above. As a new player at Poker Stars you will also qualify for a welcome poker bonus of up to $600 when you first make a deposit.
06/09/2011 16:34:49