Half-Price Sunday, one of PokerStars’ most popular promotions, returns this Sunday across all three states it operates in: Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Buy-ins will be cut in half for all five major events scheduled for Sunday, October 10 — the Sunday Warm-Up, Sunday Storm, Sunday Special, Sunday High Roller and Sunday Supersonic.
The tournaments will run at their usually scheduled times and offer the same guaranteed prize pools.
PokerStars is guaranteeing more than $180,000 in prizes across all three states, including more than $60,000 in Michigan. Pennsylvania will have a larger guaranteed prize pool at more than $80,000, while New Jersey players will be able to compete for more than $40,000 in prizes.
Running for second time in Michigan
For PokerStars, Half-Price Sunday has been one of their most successful promotions, both in the US and overseas.
It will be the second time that Half-Price Sunday has been offered by PokerStars MI. The promotion ran for the first time on July 18 and was very successful.
During that first run, Half-Price Sunday drew 1,583 entries: 295 for the Sunday Warm-Up, 1,035 for the Sunday Special and 253 for the Sunday Supersonic. Buy-ins were $15, $50 and $25 for the three events, respectively, for a total of $90.
The prize pools for all three events exceeded the guarantee. While $3,000 was guaranteed at the Sunday Warm-Up, the event was so popular that the prize pool grew to $4,027, or 34.23% over the guarantee.
Meanwhile, the Sunday Special had a guaranteed prize pool of $40,000 and the Sunday Supersonic had $5,000 guaranteed. The eventual prize pools grew to $47,093 and $5,946, respectively, equating to increases of 17.73% and 18.91% over the guarantee.
Combined, the overall result from the three events was a prize pool of $57,065, or 18.88% above the guarantee of $48,000. In terms of percentage over guarantee, Michigan fared better than Pennsylvania (7.84%) but was lower than New Jersey (37.3%).
The results of Half-Price Sunday in July also equated to a rate of $634.05 in terms of prizes/buy-in. New Jersey didn’t fare as well by that metric ($223.90) due to higher buy-in totals, but $90 buy-ins and a larger number of entries gave Pennsylvania players a huge return on their investment ($1,048.44).
Women’s Sunday has $2,000 guaranteed
PokerStars also announced that it will hold its Women’s Sunday event on October 10 at 2:40 pm ET.
The women’s-only tournament has $2,000 guaranteed with a $22 buy-in. The operator said there will be an extra incentive for this week’s tournament, having added $587 worth of tickets to its Bounty Builder Series to the prize pool.
Players who finish in the top 10 of the Women’s Sunday tournament will receive Bounty Builder Series tickets. The tickets will be distributed in the following manner:
- 1st place: $215 Bounty Builder Series ticket;
- 2nd and 3rd place: $109 Bounty Builder Series tickets; and
- 4th through 10th place: $22 Bounty Builder Series tickets.
Interested players can find the Women’s Sunday event by searching for Tournament ID: 3275271640. While the event starts at 2:40 pm ET, late registration will be open for the first 90 minutes. Players can re-enter one time during that time frame.
PokerStars said several satellite tournaments will also be on offer during Women’s Sunday, with buy-ins starting as low as 22 cents and 55 cents. The operator said it is also offering tournaments at all hours with buy-ins of $2.20 and $4.40, too.
