PokerStars to Celebrate Sunday Million’s Seventh Anniversary
This was published 21-02-2013PokerStars, one of the biggest and most popular online poker rooms in the world, has announced that it will be celebrating the seventh anniversary of poker’s richest weekly tournament – the Sunday Million with a fabulous event that will feature a $7 million guaranteed prize pool.
The special event is scheduled to take place on Sunday, 3rd March, 2013 at 14.30 ET.
The seventh anniversary celebration will see PokerStars awarding $1 million guaranteed for the first placed winner making this event one of the richest online poker tournaments ever.
Team PokerStars Pro, Lex Veldhuis said, “I remember playing in previous Sunday Million Anniversary tournaments well. The gigantic prize pools make them so memorable and I’m sure this one will be no different with $1 million for the winner! I’m going to stock up on food and drink so I’m ready to grind this one! It’s so big that it’s like playing an EPT online.”
The first Sunday Million was held on 5th March, 2006 with a total of 5,893 runners playing for a prize pool of $1,178,600. The biggest Sunday Million field to date was 62,116 players on 8th December, 2011 which generated a total prize pool of $12,423,200. This tournament was held in honor of PokerStars’ 10th Anniversary.
Players are given an opportunity to buy into the $215 tournament directly or they can qualify through one of several satellite tournaments running on PokerStars as from Sunday, 24th February, 2013. A special deadline satellite on Sunday, 3rd March at 14.25 ET will guarantee 1,000 seats, while feeder satellites of $1 into that deadline qualifier will run every hour from Sunday, 24th February and every half hour from Friday, 1st March, 2013.
On Saturday, 2nd March, a few one-off ‘VIP Bash” satellites will run which will enable players to qualify for as little as 50 FPPs. The qualifiers can be found by clicking ‘Tourney’ > ‘Satellites’ in the PokerStars lobby.
