PokerStars 10th anniversary: $10 million guaranteed Sunday Million looms

It's mesmerizing. It's almost zen-like. Open your PokerStars tournament lobby and watch the 10th Anniversary $10 million Sunday Million registration number climb. As of this moment, it's 4,783. I HAVE BEEN watching it go up for the past 24 hours. I've not quite seen anything love it.

This event is unlike any PokerStars has ever hosted. After ten years at the internet, PokerStars is throwing an anniversary party to rival almost any on the planet. Visit most 10th wedding anniversary parties and the standard gift is something fabricated from tin. Visit PokerStars' 10th anniversary party and it's something fabricated from ten million.

You're not a dullard. You are able to do the mathematics. With a $10 million guarantee, that implies PokerStars is expecting greater than 50,000 people to turn up. On most days, the $215 weekly tournament draws fewer than 10,000.

And so we watch the registration numbers tick up. It's now grown to 4,786 since I typed the primary words of this story. I type pretty quickly.

The crazy early registration is because of a few things. First, the primary prize on this week's Sunday Million is guaranteed at $2 million. That's right. It isn't a typo. This week's first place prize is double the traditional guarantee for the weekly prize pool.

In addition to that, PokerStars is running a ton of satellites that may get players into the Sunday Million for as low as $1.

A dollar for an opportunity at $2 million? The mathematics isn't that onerous. (Registrations are at 4,789 now).

Mesmerizing, no?

In the time it took me to place that picture in there, registrations went as much as 4,793. There's a market in making this tournament lobby right into a New Age meditation device.

There is a few precedent for a Sunday Million breaking the 50,000-player mark. On March 6 of this year, 59,128 people played a unique Sunday Millon anniversary event for a $12 million prize pool. It continues to be seen if we will be able to get anywhere with regards to that number this weekend.

In any case, what do you care, right? Whether there's an overlay, you can be playing for a $10,000,000 prize pool (and perhaps more) for a maximum cost of $215. One hyphenated word: No-brainer.

As I close, registrations sit at 4,797. I COULD just sit here until it hits 5,000. If someone wouldn't mind brining me a cup of tea and a scone, I'd be much obliged.

For full information in this weekend's big event, see the PokerStars 10th Anniversary Sunday Million information page.

Oh, yeah...it just hit 4,800...4804...

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