averick Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Piles of money will be up for grabs this Sunday at PokerStars! PokerStars has increased the Sunday Million prizepool to $2 million! This Sunday, January 31 at 16:30 ET, you can be battling it out for your share of $2,000,000. In addition to the massive $2 million prizepool, PokerStars has guaranteed that the first place finisher will receive at least $500,000. The Sunday Million is the premier major tournament, consistently awarding hundreds of thousands to the top finishers. Ok my main point wasn't to promote this tournament, if you play on Stars you would probably already know about this anyway. Seems like the guarantee was raised by Stars in conjunction with the VIP Store promotion, does anyone think this is a good time to take a shot the Sunday Million? Reasons: 1. Ticket on sale at 10000 FPPs = $160 USD (25.6% discount) 2. Will be VIP Store sale attract a large group of less experienced tournament players? (Or not, since if they can afford to buy the ticket at 10000 FPPs, they shouldn't be that lousy) 3. Relatively deep tournament structure I'm not really a tourney player but took a few shots at the $5.5-$11 buy-ins (including rebuys) and did ok (6% ROI) in the sense that I didn't end up in the red. Variance dictates that I will probably finish out of the money more often than not, but I was thinking whether this was a good time to try out the Sunday Million due to the lower price and hopefully softer field. Opinions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedinight7 Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) the field is soooooo much bigger, if i was taking a shot at it, as strange as it may sound, it would need to be for fun, you will either get a table of satelite entries or pros :) and you would need to run well for sure, you cant force it, but building a stack can = higher variance, i gave it it a miss... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
averick Posted January 31, 2010 Author Share Posted January 31, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Kind of looked like the 1/4 million to me with the 19k entrants, so decided to go for it. Yup a few good players on my table which is a good experience but it would be better if I dominated their stacks instead of the other way round:lol Was hovering in the top 400 till a mistake left me with just abit over the average stack, hopefully I'll still be in by the next hour!:hope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Good luck, averick. :hope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
averick Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Tks slap :ok Finished 4591/19377, never really recovered from a preflop allin with AKs against JJ. Made the nut straight but he made a boat! Then shoved over an UTG raise with 88 and got isolated by a big stack on my left with AJo. J came on the flop and I never caught up. Good experience though, I learn something from every tournament, unfortunately its usually from my own mistakes and not from others. Now its back to cash! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
south_eastern_ram Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Just qualified for the Sunday Warm Up through a $14 satellite, anyone ever played it before? How many runners are there normally? Well excited! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Just qualified for the Sunday Warm Up through a $14 satellite' date=' anyone ever played it before? How many runners are there normally? Well excited![/quote'] Usually about 5000-6000 runners, I think. You start with 10,000 chips, and there are 15 minute blind levels. But it's not really quite as deep-stacked as it appears, as the blinds start at 25/50. Good luck. :hope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
south_eastern_ram Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Usually about 5000-6000 runners, I think. You start with 10,000 chips, and there are 15 minute blind levels. But it's not really quite as deep-stacked as it appears, as the blinds start at 25/50. Good luck. :hope Cheers, will be a good experience whatever happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
south_eastern_ram Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Still going somehow. Running very low now, but chip and a chair and all that. Must of been all in about 7 times and been getting very lucky. At the third break now and need a double up fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris34 Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Good luck mate!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
south_eastern_ram Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Cheers Chris, still going, and doing slightly better. On the luckiest streak i've ever seen though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
south_eastern_ram Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Made the money :nana. Never been anywhere near the average the entire tournament, copius amounts of luck, but im still going!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonzie14 Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Keep it going :clap:clap:clap:clap:hope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris34 Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Well done mate, dont see you over the horse racing section lately?? time off?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
south_eastern_ram Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Went on a bad run and prefer the poker atm. Will be back during the flat season. This is getting ridiculous now, all in with a9, get called by aj. Flop comes 29j, turn a 9, river a 9. I live to fight another day. Anyone wana watch im benners12345 on stars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
south_eastern_ram Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Lol, dont bother now, the lucky run has ended. Out in 549th, aj ran into aq. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris34 Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Re: PokerStars Sunday Million – 2 Million Guaranteed this Sunday (31 Jan) Well done though mate ;) yeh on a bad run myself playing with a bit poker myself at mo too! Looking forward to flat season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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