Additionally, there's also a PLO Main Event scheduled on the same day, coming with a $109 buy-in and $100K in prizes guaranteed for fans of high-octane action with four starting cards.Īpart from that, there are also two days with Sunday Million Special Editions scheduled on October 3 and 10, each one coming with a PKO Sunday Million with a $109 buy-in and $1M GTD, accompanied by a Sunday Mini Million with a $22 buy-in and $250K GTD also played in the PKO format. The highlights of the series include two Main Events on October 17 with a buy-in of $55 and $530 and a guarantee of $1M and $2.5M respectively. Though serious players will want to brush up on the ICM effects of bounties and take some time updating their push-fold charts accordingly.Right on the heels of WCOOP, PokerStars is at it again at the MTT tables, starting another edition of their popular Bounty Builder Series in October, this time with a $30,000,000 prize pool given away exclusively in 208 Progressive Knockout tournaments. Given the popularity of PKO tourneys and the attraction to a more casual player base, it is hard to imagine such a change is likely to hurt the event. There is really no reason not to chase that trend in online poker, where space requirements are minimal and dealer overheads entirely absent.

There are also changes to the satellites and additional draws to win tickets detailed in the full press release.įor the most part, poker players laud the gradual shrinking of the standard “full-ring” table.

The biggest and best of the additional changes is the switch from 9-handed tables as per previous Sunday Millions to a new standard of 8-handed tables throughout the event. The powers that be have also added some more time to the banks of anyone who makes the final table. However, the number of big blinds players start with will remain at 200, so in practice, this shouldn’t make much difference to the actual play of the event.Ī little more significantly, the 1,400 and 3,500 big blinds have been cut from the schedule which will speed things up a little in the middle game. The most superficial of the additional changes concerns starting stack size. Details here: - PokerStars Blog JKey changes to the Sunday Million Enjoy a brand new format, more generous structure, and extra ways to qualify.

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