With the arena Series of Poker over for one more year, bar the shouting, the overall table later this year and the small matter of several million left to award of course, our attention can now turn properly to MicroMillions.
And thank goodness.
For here you spot poker at its best. Not only performed by those from which we predict a high standard, but additionally those diving head first into tournament poker, to show a couple of pennies right into a four or five figure win.
Actually even reading that does not really explain just how great a return on investment MicroMillions offers any player, and goes someway to explaining why pros have their eye on MM wins just up to the rookie seeking to build a bank roll.
Here's the roll call of winners so far.
| 1 | $5.50 | $141,425 | Thozurdiver | Germany | $14,411.77 | 261900 |
| 2 | $2.20 | $42,475 | devils range | UK | $4,075.76 | 185200 |
| 3 | $4.40 | $112,884 | Swiss noob88 | Switzerland | $9,970.94 | 226500 |
| 4 | $5.50 | $52,150 | danin menago | Brazil | $6,970.02 | 126600 |
| 5 | $0.11 | $17,892 | seuronaldo10 | Brazil | $1,825.75 | 1659700 |
| 6 | $5.50 | $47,455 | NorocDeRoman | Romania | $6,177.51 | 112200 |
| 7 | $2.20 | $27,700 | Goedang | Norway | $3,436.37 | 156100 |
| 8 | $4.40 | $40,952 | El Espanacas | UK | $4,347.55 | 98700 |
| 9 | $3.30 | $39,735 | yurban1982 | Ukraine | $3,999.36 | 121100 |
| 10 | $5.50 | $90,295 | Fr3nChi | Canada | $7,856.60 | 142700 |
| 11 | $1.10 | $9,419 | $MrJu77$ | Slovakia | $1,055.40 | 95800 |
| 12 | $2.20 | $56,650 | KidAndresz | UK | $6,930.29 | 314900 |
| 13 | $4.40 | $54,628 | lostomjj | Russia | $6,736.73 | 153000 |
| 14 | $3.30 | $52,509 | kingrjj | UK | $5,016.11 | 151900 |
| 15 | $5.50 | $40,485 | koleas GR | Greece | $3,555.32 | 64500 |
| 16 | $2.20 | $29,783 | Ede Pastete | Germany | $3,006.12 | 136500 |
| 17 | $2.20 | $23,346 | frosty012 | Canada | $2,466.09 | 112000 |
A few things to take from that.
Firstly, the most important prize thus far came at the first day, from the primary event in fact, won by Thozurdiver of Germany. Let me apologise now for what's going to become a well-worn phrase by the tip of the Series per week on Sunday but, "that is not bad for $5.50".
We can let you know how "not bad" that is, making for a Return of Investment of about 262,000 per cent.
But then if we're comparing events on RoI alone it gets much better.
Leading in that category up to now is seuronaldo10 from Brazil. He turned 11 cents right into a win worth $1,857.75 (MicroMillions may be the one series where the cents after the decimal point actually count). That makes for a RoI of 1.66 million per cent. Only for fun, the same RoI within the WSOP Main Event would make for a primary prize somewhere within the region of $166 million.
But the stand out result so far as PokerStars is anxious isn't about numbers, but about names, and a win for Team Online's Tyler "frosty012" Frost.
Frost earned $2,466.09 (RoI 112,000... just saying) in Event #17 last night, a PLO Hi/Lo 6-max, sooner than a field of 11,673.
Pot limit Omaha, with a Hi/Lo element, and played six-handed isn't exactly everyone's natural game, and that goes for Frost too. But you sense all that would now change.
This is simply the beginning of the MicroMillions season, which incorporates 90 events until it concludes with the $22 Main Event (I know, within the Micro stakes world a king's ransom) on Sunday July 31.
In between the beginning and finish millions of guaranteed prize money might be dished out, although as prize pools are already showing, those guarantees are being smashed one by one.
Action continues today with six more events, detailed at the MicroMillions homepage. That's where you'll also find the entire results so far, together with statistics from this latest series.
What's more PokerSchoolOnline is freely giving hundreds of seats to MicroMillions tournaments, including the $1M GTD Main Event. Not just that there is change to win exclusive School Pass tickets! Details of all of that may be found at the PokerSchoolOnline homepage.
We'll have all those results at the PokerStars Blog tomorrow. Within the meantime, good luck on the MicroMillions tables.
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Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog. Follow him on Twitter: @StephenBartley.
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