![]() ![]() The December 2011 event attracted 62,116 players to generate a prize pool of $12.4 million-the biggest ever in the history of the Sunday Million. It drew its biggest field back in December 2011, six months after Black Friday, when PokerStars celebrated its 10th anniversary by guaranteeing $10 million to its flagship weekly event. ![]() According to the operator, the Sunday Million has run more than 600 times and has awarded over $750 million. However, for this particular occasion, the buy-in will return to $215.įirst introduced in 2006, the Sunday Million is touted as the world’s biggest weekly poker tournament running every Sunday for 13 years. The room is also gearing up to run the 13th-anniversary edition of the Sunday Million with a $10 million guaranteed prize pool on April 14. The experimentation of introducing a bounty format comes at a time when PokerStars recently halved the buy-in of PokerStars’ longest-running tournament, the Sunday Million, to $109 from its traditional $215 price point. Last year, 888 and iPoker introduced PKO tournaments PokerStars ran its first-ever PKO exclusive Bounty Builder Series in October and partypoker expanded its weekly schedule of PKOs and has also been running Knockout Series. There has been an increased focus on the format across the industry. Over the past few years, knockout or bounty tournaments have significantly increased in popularity, especially among recreational players due to the format’s intriguing concept. ![]() “For one day only, 10 of your favorite Sunday tournaments, including the Sunday Million and Sunday Storm will run as Progressive KOs!,” it is stated in the tournaments’ description. However, the operator has specifically emphasized that the tournaments will be played with bounties “for one day only.” These tournaments will return back to their original format the following Sunday. Biggest weekly tournament schedule around.Īlong with the Sunday Million and Sunday Storm, eight more tournaments including the $215 buy-in *Sunday Warm-U*p, the $22 Mini Sunday Million, the Sunday Kickoff, and the Supersonic tournaments will be a part of the Knockout Sunday promotion.Home of Spin & Go, Power Up and lots of other unique game variants including 6+ Hold’em.
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