Sunday Million Anniversary 19: Don’t miss your chance to play for $6M
Join us as we celebrate the 19th edition of the Sunday Million Anniversary.
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Here’s all you need to know about the Sunday Million Anniversary 19
SAVE THE DATE
Sunday, April 6, 2025.
Mark it on your calendar. Don’t make plans. Get a good night’s rest beforehand.
This year marks the 19th anniversary of the iconic Sunday Million and to celebrate PokerStars is throwing a six-week-Season-long party.
The Sunday Million Anniversary 19 has a $215 buy-in and a whopping $6 million already in the prize pool, making it the biggest event of the year on PokerStars.
And this year’s anniversary event comes with more ways to qualify than ever, so if $215 stretches your bankroll, don’t sweat. You have ample opportunity to win a seat and play for the millions in prizes and hundreds of thousands up top.
All roads in the Sunday Million Season lead towards the Anniversary on Sunday, April 6. Each week in the lead-up PokerStars is giving away tickets to the event – $300K’s worth – ensuring players of all bankrolls and experience levels get a shot to play.
You could even win more than one ticket as players are allowed up to five re-entries, with late registration open for 24 hours and 15 minutes, closing at 13:20 ET on April 7.
Learn more about the Anniversary tournament and find out what happened last year here.
KEY INFO:
SUNDAY MILLION ANNIVERSARY 19
Date: Sunday, April 6, 2025
Buy-in: $215
Guarantee: $6 million
Late reg: Open until 13:20 ET on April 7
Re-entries: Up to 5
WIN ENTRY VIA SUNDAY MILLION SEASON
The second annual Sunday Million Season will run from February 23 to April 8, 2025. This series invites players into the arena to battle for mega prize pools ($18.7 million guaranteed across 70 tournaments), exclusive prizes, and valuable leaderboard points every week.
It’s an epic journey towards the Sunday Million Anniversary 19 and its mouth-watering $6 million guaranteed prize pool. With more opportunities to qualify for the Anniversary than ever, each episode could bring you closer to that golden ticket.
SEASON TICKET MACHINE – $300K TO BE GIVEN AWAY
There’s $300,000 worth of tickets to the Sunday Million Anniversary to be given away throughout the Sunday Million Season.
To be in with a shot of winning tickets all you have to do is Opt-in via Challenges in the PokerStars client and play one tournament per week. The more tournaments you play the more entries into the Ticket Machine raffle you’ll have.
That means you could not only win your way into the $215 Anniversary where you’ll play for a share of $6 million.
The iconic online poker tournament
For 20 years, the Sunday Million has cemented itself as online poker’s most prestigious regularly scheduled tournament; the one that every player dreams of winning.
Affectionately referred to as the Milly, the Sunday Million has consistently broken online poker records, kickstarted countless poker careers, and been a permanent fixture on our weekend schedules since it was first named back in June 2006.
It’s the event that moves with the times and adapts to players’ wants, from changes in the buy-in to switching to a progressive knockout format and, more recently, Mystery Bounty special editions.
Becoming a Sunday Million champion is iconic. Becoming a multiple Sunday Million champion is the stuff of legend.
Check out the full timeline of the Sunday Million.
How to get ready
The Sunday Million is–first and foremost–an extremely fun tournament to play. There are huge fields, massive prizes, and the excitement that comes with playing such an iconic event.
You certainly don’t need to hit the books beforehand in order to enjoy a deep run.
But it certainly won’t hurt your chances either. And over the years, PokerStars Learn has published some excellent strategy articles to help players make the most of this particular tournament.
Let’s go through some of them.
SUNDAY MILLION – EARLY GAME STRATEGY
So you’ve got your ticket to the Sunday Million. You’ve prepared mentally, are well rested, have some snacks on hand, and the game is about to start.
Now that it’s go-time, how should you approach the early game strategy? In this article, we are going to talk about just that.
Read: Sunday Million – Early Game Strategy
The early stages of any tournament requires a particular strategy
SUNDAY MILLION – MID GAME STRATEGY
In this article, we move to the middle stages pre-money and talk about what to expect there.
How do you adjust to varying stack sizes? What kind of players should you look out for?
Read: Sunday Million – Mid Game Strategy
You’ve survived the early stages but you’re not yet at the bubble. What’s the best mid game strategy?
SUNDAY MILLION – BUBBLE STRATEGY
Here, we break away from the more generalized “stages” to talk about a specific point in the tournament, the bubble.
How can you use this stage to your advantage? Which players should you target? And who should you avoid?
Read: Sunday Million – Bubble Strategy
The bubble. A unique moment in any poker tournament
SUNDAY MILLION – FINAL TABLE STRATEGY
So you’ve won a satellite into the Sunday Million, made it through the early and middle stages, navigated the bubble like an expert, and now find yourself at the final table. Congratulations! What now?
Obviously, the intricacies of final table play can’t be covered completely in a single article, but let’s cover some of the essential basics here.
Read: Sunday Million – Final Table Strategy
The final table. Now the hard work begins.
How to follow the action
Even if you’re not playing in the Sunday Million Anniversary, doesn’t mean you can’t follow the action and cheer on your friends and favourite players.
Thankfully, there are many ways you can do it.
POKERSTARS LIVE STREAM
You’ll be able to watch cards-up coverage from the Sunday Million Anniversary 19 on the PokerStars Twitch and YouTube channels, with the award-winning broadcast duo James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton calling the action alongside the likes of Nick Walsh and Griffin Benger.
TUNE IN TO YOUR FAVOURITE STREAMERS
This is one tournament that no online poker streamer is going to miss.
So when Sunday, April 6 rolls around, simply open up Twitch or YouTube and you’ll have your pick of the biggest streamers in the game.
Make sure you follow them all so you know when they go live!
You’ll find links to all PokerStars Team Pro streamers below.
- Lex Veldhuis
- Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg
- Fintan “easywithaces” Hand
- Parker “tonkaaaap” Talbot
- Lasse “WisternJL” Jagd Lauritsen
- Sebastian “peacendloove” Huber
- Felix “xflixx” Schneiders (German language)
- Rafael “GM_Valter” Moraes (Portuguese language)
WHY IT’S PERFECT FOR YOUR COMEBACK
We hope reading through this article has got you as excited about the Sunday Million Anniversary 19 as we are.
Perhaps it has even inspired you to open your PokerStars client for the first time in a while and try to book your seat.
That’s a fantastic idea.
Because if there’s one online poker tournament you should play this year, it’s this one.
First of all, there’s life-changing money up for grabs. With $6 million guaranteed, this is the best-value $215 buy-in tournament you’ll find anywhere.
Secondly, you’ll be playing in one the largest editions of the most iconic online poker tournament ever held.
And perhaps most importantly, it’s your chance to add your name to the poker history books.
You could follow in the footsteps of 2022 winner “Blackbeaty”, who won $931K after a heads-up deal. “This win changes everything,” they told us.
Blackbeaty is the reigning champ
And Vanessa “Nifller” Kade, who won the Anniversary outright in 2021 for a staggering $1.5 million. “This is the best value tournament all year,” she said.
Read: Vanessa Kade reflects on $1.5M Sunday Million win: “This is the best value tournament all year”
Vanessa Kade: winner of the Sunday Million Anniversary in 2021
2023’s champ was Ricardo “RFN1986” Nagamoto who banked a cool million bucks for defeating a 39,500-entry field.
“It’s a very symbolic event with affordable value for many and you can find big poker stars in the field,” he told us. “Winning a regular Sunday Million would be an incredible feat. But winning the anniversary Sunday Million is indescribable.”
And last year’s winner of the 18th Anniversary was “CrossBreed17”, who emerged from a gruelling 90-minute heads-up battle to win a first prize of $1 million.
Start dreaming.
We’ll see you on Sunday, April 6, 2025.
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