PokerStars will give away $11 million in anniversary tournaments! PokerStars Sunday Million $10,000,000 Guaranteed Sunday Million - general information

The Sunday Million 9th Anniversary tournament at PokerStars had an impressive turnout last Sunday, with 50,432 players registered for the $9 million guaranteed anniversary event. Considering the relatively small buy-in of $215, the bar has been set very high. However, PokerStars, as usual, easily took the height - prize fund tournament has exceeded the $10 million mark.

Representatives of Greece, Argentina, Czech Republic, Israel, Brazil, Mexico, Canada and two representatives of Bulgaria reached the final table of the tournament. After two players were eliminated, the seven remaining finalists sealed the deal, with Mexican Braden "BRAYDEN93" Fritzhall winning the title for $597,719.

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*Including deal for seven

After Kokli_1 (9th) and bari_nikolov (8th) left the final table, the remaining seven players asked to stop the clock to negotiate a deal. At that moment, the chip leader of the tournament was the representative of Greece kelly_koulis (172 million chips), who was more than twice ahead of the nearest pursuer Joao "tiltinha" Paulo Gomides (86.5 million). Next up were Villan "PSMozak" Petleshkov with 77.3m, Fritzschall with 63m, Rodrigo "sonmonedas" Perez with 41.5m, salaliitto with 37.3m and Ian "ModzillaPL" Modder with 26.2m.

The clock was stopped at 2,500,000/5,000,000, which meant three players had less than 10 big blinds left.

According to Martin Harris' report on the PokerStars blog, the talks didn't drag on. The participants quickly sealed the deal, agreeing on the following payouts:

The draw left $100,000 for the winner, and that six-figure sum went to Fritzhall, who took his prize to $597,719.

In the final hand of the tournament, Fritzhall bet 12.775 million on the flop, and after calling kelly_koulis "and on the turn came out. Fritzhall again bet, this time almost 29 million, kelly_koulis raised to 72 m, Braden moved all-in and received a call. kelly_koulis presented - top pair with top kicker, but ended up behind Fritzhall.

Sunday Million at PokerStars is the largest online tournament with a large prize pool. Having taken a prize in such a tournament, you can perfectly increase your bankroll, get a lot of experience and unforgettable emotions. You need to know the main features of this tournament and the strategic points for winning and entering the prize zone.

Tournament time

Sunday Million is held every week on Sunday. The game starts at 16.30 European time. Moscow time poker tournament starts at 23.30. You can log into the poker room in advance and see how many hours are left before the game starts for your particular region.

Tournament duration

The duration of each tournament will be different. It depends on the number of people and the speed of their exit from the game. According to the average statistics in poker, it is clear that you can get into the prize zone as early as 3 hours after the start of the tournament. You will be at the final table in 8-9 hours.

The minimum deposit to participate in the game

To enter the fight for a large prize pool, you need to pay $215. If a player does not have this amount, he can participate in cheaper satellites, where tickets to the Sunday Million tournament are played.

Number of participants

The average number of players in the Sunday Million is about 5000-6000 participants. This is due to the large number of satellites and the ability to get into the game with less investment. The popularity of the tournament is constantly growing, so the number of players is increasing.

How much can you win?

The size of the prize depends on the number of participants, since the prize fund is formed from the total contributions of the players. Typically, the average size of the entire prize pool is $1.5 million. For the first place, you can get from 150,000 to 200,000 dollars.

Only 15% of all tournament participants. Most of the entire prize pool goes to the 9-man final table. At this stage, the most serious struggle between the best players. You can watch the analysis of the final table on the video about the Sunday Million tournament.

Strategy for the Sunday Million

Do not be afraid to participate in the tournament because of its large prize pool. Not only professionals, but also beginners play here. You can get into the tournament through a cheap satellite, so here the opponents will be with different levels of play.

Initially, in the Sunday Million tournament, each participant is given 10,000 chips. The minimum bet from the start is 50 chips. Due to the large stack size, it is possible to play different poker strategies and adapt to the game of opponents.

Optimal strategy for the Sunday Million:

• Do not take risks and bet a large number of chips right away. At first, play as tight as possible and enter the game with high card. Then the chances in poker to enter the prize zone will increase significantly.
• Do not play the same way, constantly change the style and manner of playing. Then the opponents will not be able to read you.
• Try to play a strong combination in poker as aggressively as possible. Don't get to a showdown, always squeeze your opponent on the early streets.
• If, by unfortunate coincidence, your stack has become short, play with a smaller range of cards. Try to enter only all-in with best hand to increase the number of chips faster.

You can also watch a video with the analysis of the Sunday Million tournament hands from our coach in order to work out the best tactics for yourself.

The first Sunday Million PokerStars launched in March 2006. The tournament guaranteed all players a prize pool of one million dollars. After gaining great popularity, the size of the general fund began to grow.

Several interesting facts about the tournament:

• After the popularity of the tournament, various versions of it began to appear, for example, the Monday Million. It is also a popular tournament and has a million dollar prize pool. See detailed analysis of this tournament can be seen in the video below.

• The very first Sunday Million tournament featured 5,600 players at once. The first prize pool was $1,200,000.
• At each tournament, the poker room earns about $100,000.
• The prize fund for the Sunday Million always exceeds the promised million due to the large number of participants.
• The biggest Sunday Million was in 2011. 62,000 players took part in it. Because of this, the prize pool of the competition was $12,500,000.
• At the Sunday Million Anniversary Tournament, first place was awarded over $1,000,000. It was received by a player from Canada under the nickname First Eagle.

Conclusion

Any player, even a beginner, can participate in the Sunday million tournament. However, to get into the prize zone and big win you need to have certain skills and choose the right strategy. Many people wonder how to win the Sunday Million. It is important to follow the recommendations above: decide on your style of play, constantly read your opponents and give preference to a tight-aggressive strategy. For regular tournament victories, we recommend that you study at the Poker Academy on the Iron MTT course.

Hello everyone, the anniversary Sunday Million $10"000"000 has just ended

To begin with, more than 55,000 players took part in the tournament! The prize money was more than 11 million dollars!!! The tournament lasted approximately 15 hours. Agree not small numbers for online poker.

There were a lot of streams where you could watch this significant tournament live. But I didn’t notice any kind of “action” and decided to continue watching when the “bubble” stage passes. I want to note that a lot of players from the CIS, and especially from Russia and Ukraine, passed the threshold of 1000 people, and when only 150 people remained in the tournament, it was about 10-15 of our players, and this is a great result!!!

Well, let's move closer to the significant prize money...

As you can see, the top 40 already had more than 20k bucks, which is not a small amount, but many wanted to get to the final table, which was quite difficult, because half of the players had a stack of no more than 10BB.

Is the Ukrainian player IsltRoss in the Top 18? and won $39k. Congratulations to him on a very good performance in the tournament.

These are the lucky ones who passed 55,000 people

Almost immediately, the Russian player made a "minus 1". By the way, until the administrator turned off the chat, something wild happened in it, there were about 1000 messages per minute with the support of a Russian player.

Then, almost immediately, another player with a short stack was eliminated. Everyone collected blinds and sometimes went all-in.... "Russian roulette" can not be called otherwise.... BB 5 million =) More than half have less than 10 big blinds.... and then someone will be more lucky. ..

As a result, after 5-8 minutes another one dropped out and there were 4 of them left ...... it was the longest hour in my life and probably theirs ...

They decided to discuss the deal, it took about 25 minutes, because the chip leader wanted at least 900k, but it didn’t work out according to the numbers ..... and they decided to continue the game. But, after 2 distributions, the discussion of the deal was resumed again and it all ended after an hour. For a whole hour, 4 people decided how to divide the money, everyone wanted more, argued, cursed, but seemed to have come to a compromise.

Back in 2006, the history of the tournament began PokerStars Sunday Million, which since then has been changing the fate of people on a weekly basis, and now, 10 years later, we are already celebrating its anniversary. The event with a $215 buy-in and a 10x guarantee promised to be a real bomb in the world of poker, and today an unknown Canadian under the nickname celebrates a victory and is covered with a payout!

On a weekly basis, the millionaire usually gathers more than 5,000 participants, but this time a lot more people came running there (for a tenfold guarantee), among which there were a great many of those who do not play MTT on a regular basis, and those who play poker from deposit to deposit.

Successes of Russian-speaking regulars

Actually, gathered in a kilopolis 55,059 registrations(total prize pool $11m), where the fate of the first guaranteed prize in 15.5 hours was decided, which ended up being smaller, but more on that a little later.

It is worth noting an important detail: the tournament had the possibility of 2-x re-entry, which was used by everyone who was not lazy. ITM started at 8208 and there, of course, it was extremely difficult to break through. Among those who "smog" there were many well-known players from the CIS.

Gleb "psyhoagromor" Kovtunov, for example, managed to take 4080 place ($402), UkupniKK retired in 1741st place ($530) Dima "DimaDima13" Kataev received $2,917 for 364th place, and harrrmonica brought in $9,056 for 153rd place (the user gipsyteam received exactly the same payout Kot_Spartac, who gave a rather fiery speech on his blog after 128th place). But many other famous regs remained in flight: Tolya Filatov(exactly like Andrey Streltsov) planted 3 attempts, but did not receive a cent in return for this. Professional PokerHome Mikhail "Mikleler" Semin almost lived to ITM, but still flew out without money, jumped a little higher Artyom "veeea" Vezhenkov, but also did not receive the minimum payment.

Looking through the extensive lists of the lucky ones who somehow got hooked on the money in the anniversary Sunday Million, the eye involuntarily stops at the funny nicknames of the Russian-speaking winners: 3aHoCu 6a6LO (1270th place, $585), Yto4ki (1271 seats, $585), Pbl6HaD3op (2579 place, $483) and Xo4y 6a6/\a (3036th place, $440).

And the following guys became the most successful among the entire CIS:

AttiIa88 made it to the finals, 7th place, $174,402

IsItRoss? - 18th place, $38,936

Andos1 - 33rd place, $21,604

N0madzz - 45th place, $21,604

Alabala0678 - 58th place, $16,138

Finale and first flights

Events at the final table, of course, is a completely different story. To be honest, for a tournament of this magnitude, playing in the top 9 was pretty ridiculous, which in itself is not particularly surprising, because after all, the number of amateurs in the game just went through the roof.

Starting list of participants

Superfizzy - 37,841,339

mladenova62 - 95,105,837

prophetdream - 28,756,039

a.urli - 177,403,220

ThreeBetting - 52,587,466

AttiIa88 - 57,563,515

TottiLitti - 40,403,866

canario508 - 36,516,940

Torsvik - 24,411,778

After the departure of the first shorty Torsvik, the first conversations about the deal immediately began in the chat, but the game did not pause. Small pots rolled back and forth, and then the Finn TottiLitti does something downright strange: with just over 13bb in his stack, he posts in the small blind with 6 2 (all participants before him folded), where it is received from K K to BB and they wave the pen.

After that, Canadian a.urli, who had about half of all the chips in the game, began to stand out from the remaining seven in a series of change banks. The players went on a short break, the game resumed and the next one to be eliminated was the Russian AttiIa88, who shoved with the remaining 9bb on the button, holding A J. Unfortunately, he ran into the A K of the Korean prophetdream and could not improve in any way.

The Superfizzy player was also one of the short guys from the very beginning and tried not to get involved in any hands, thus he calmly sat down to the 6th place, where he posted literally with 1 last blind for his soul A 2< A 8.

5 minutes after the German was eliminated, the British ThreeBetting left the table, who pushed his 5 big blinds preflop with 6 6, but couldn't resist mladenova62's A K.

“Make that damn deal already!”

With 4 players left in the game, shorty canario508 managed to double up on the chip leader and asked for a pause in the tournament so that the finalists could discuss the terms of the deal. The four of them had about $2.85 million in prize money.

Player stacks at the time of the split

A.urli - 206 million

Prophetdream - 159 million

Mladenova62 - 115 million

Canario508 - 69 million

And here begins an unbearable half-hour discussion, where the stumbling block was the fact that the Canadian a.urli was not satisfied with even the “chips” advantageous for him! Below are the chip-chop numbers that had an extra $100,000 left for the winner.

A.urli - $819,533.38

Prophetdream - $730,702.19

Mladenova62 - $647,931.65

Canario508 - $560,350.56

The guy wanted at least $900k for himself, which did not suit the rest, the game continued. 5 small hands later the tournament was suspended again because a.urli wrote "$870k is enough for me if you guys still want a deal" . By the way, the master himself was the host of the final Lee Jones (that bald top manager who was the voice of the Stars when they pushed their new VIP system). Player stacks remained about the same.

PokerStars once again provided nearly the same chip split figures, the Canadian raised the issue of an $870k payout in his favor, and a discussion ensued where players asked for ICM payouts, again with $100k for the winner.

A.urli - $773,023.38

Prophetdream - $723,750.95

Mladenova62 - $687,511.87

Canario508 - $574,231.58

A.urli, being the chip leader, of course, did not agree to this proposal either, so it seems that the game should have resumed. However, prophetdream suddenly offered his numbers, where in fact he sponsored the whims of a Canadian opponent from his own pocket.

A.urli - $870,000.00

Prophetdream - $678,517.78

Mladenova62 - $650,000.00

Canario508 - $560,000.00

Few of the players could adequately communicate on English language, however, after an agonizing half hour of discussion, they still wrote in the chat "I agree" and the game resumed. And then a wide layer of regs from 20,000 viewers who watched the final in the client just almost killed themselves with a facepalm, because prophetdream deprived himself of $50k in prize money (if the deal was in chips), being the second stack.

Be that as it may, literally 5 minutes after the transaction, the only reg of this "fantastic four" canario508. Behind him there are drifts both on Super Tuesday and in expensive Big's.

It's funny that at the departures of each participant, Captain Lee Jones made jokes about his nickname. About canario (close to the word canari, from English canary)

The participants entered the final 1v1 battle with more or less the same stacks: 53bb for a.urli and 38bb for mladenova62. For you to understand, the first of them has a status Silver Star, and second - Chrome Star. Before that, the Bulgarian had brought in a maximum of $215.

You've hardly seen a more incompetent heads-up drain, because mladenova62 literally lost 17 out of 18 heads-up hands, winning only the penultimate one, when he was already pressed with several blinds. The final chord was the exposure of T 8 > 4 4, where the eight fell on the flop.

This is how the arrogant Canadian managed to turn 1 buy-in (without a single re-entry) $ 215 into almost a million dollars. Even though it's not $1 million, it's still 4,500 buy-ins, which is also just cosmic in itself.

PokerStars users will remember that the Sunday Million 12th Anniversary tournament took place in February. At that time, the prize pool of $10,000,000 was drawn despite the fact that the amount of buy-ins was much less. So the management of the poker room decided to hold the second double of this tournament and play another $10,000,000 in the second anniversary Sunday Million.

This grand event will take place on April 22 at 21:00 Moscow time and absolutely everyone can take part in it. If you were unable to play in the first tournament, or if you were able to, but now you are eager to participate in more, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with detailed information below.

Sunday Million $10,000,000 Guaranteed - General Information

Each participant of the second anniversary Sunday Million will compete for the main prize, the amount of which will be at least $1,000,000. At the same time, the buy-in will not change, which means that by qualifying for only $215 (or maybe less if you use the satellites), someone will become a real millionaire.

In addition to the main guaranteed pool, during this tournament, namely during the late registration, a Platinum Pass package worth $30,000 will be raffled off. They include the following:

• Ticket for PokerStars Tournament Players NL Hold "em Championship, which will be held in the Bahamas in January next year;
• Fare;
• Payment for hotel accommodation;

During late registration, random players will be selected and will later compete for the prize package in a separate tournament.

How to enter the Anniversary Sunday Million

If your dream is to play in the anniversary Sunday Million and compete for the top prize of over $1,000,000, there are several ways you can register for it:

• Directly. Pay a buy-in of $215 and register in the tournament;
• Through Spin & go. By registering for the $5 Spin & Go tournaments, you have the opportunity to win a ticket to the Sunday Million. In this case, a ticket will be credited to your account, you will automatically register in the anniversary tournament. In case you win a ticket after April 22, you will have the opportunity to participate in any other Sunday Million.

And to take part in this tournament, you must register an account