Current Tournaments at Poker Stars
December 13, 2007
As the single largest online poker site, Poker Stars offer an unrivaled selection of poker tournaments. There is literally a tournament available to suit every bankroll and poker variation. Here we will look at a selection of the current tournaments at Poker Stars – focusing on the biggest and the best available.
Perhaps the most famous Poker Stars tournament is the weekly ‘Sunday Million’. This is a $200+$15 buy-in event that regularly attracts fields of more than 6,000 players and a prize pool of over $1.5 Million dollars. Scheduled on a Sunday afternoon this tournament attracts players ranging from named professionals through to recreational online gamers. There are always a large number of satellite tournaments scheduled which award prizes of entries to the Sunday Million. These range from sit and goes through to multi-table re-buy tournaments and can be entered for as little as $3.
For players outside of the US the Sunday Million can often last until the early hours of the morning. Poker Stars have thus introduced a high buy-in event with a much earlier start time. The ‘Sunday Warm-Up’ follows a similar format to the Sunday Million, but starts in the US morning / European afternoon. This tournament guarantees $400,000 in prizes for the $200+$15 buy-in and numerous satellite qualifiers are also available.
Players with a smaller bankroll are well catered for at Poker Stars – this also includes a tournament with the largest field of any online tournament. The ‘Sunday $100k’ is a $10+$1 buy-in event which often attracts fields of a huge 20,000 players. Satellites are available for this event from just 70 ‘Frequent Player Points’.
The regular daily schedule of Poker Stars tournaments is too big to list in a single article. Games covered are not restricted to the most popular form of no-Limit Holdem. Omaha, Omaha hi-lo, Stud (including hi-lo), 5-card draw, 2-7 triple draw and Razz are all available in tournament format. There are also fixed-limit and pot-limit betting variations included in the schedule as well as ‘mixed games’ such as HORSE (Holdem / Omaha Hi-Lo / Razz / 7 Card Stud / 7 Stud Hi-Lo).
In addition to the game variations and buy-in differences from just a few cents up to $100’s, there are tournaments scheduled with turbo blinds (either 10 minute or 5 minute) and re-buy facility. The re-buy tournaments allow you to buy extra chips whenever your starting stack is 1500 or below and also allow an additional add-on at the end of the first hour. Re-buy tournaments are regularly available with buy-ins from $3 up to $100 and feature some crazy action during the first hour.
With an unrivaled selection of tournaments to suit all tastes and bankrolls we have only been able to scratch the surface of what is available at Poker Stars here. Check them out for yourself today – there really is something for everyone! Be sure you use the PokerStars marketing code PAWSUB378 for a 100% deposit bonus up to $50.
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