After three days of play, Canadian poker pro Vanessa Kade was crowned the winner of the PokerStars Sunday Million 15th Anniversary for $1.5 million. One of Pokerstars’ most coveted and prestigious online poker tournaments, the event saw a total of 69,876 entries from 45,765 unique players making a total prize pool of $13,975,200.

On Sunday, the competition for the attention of the online poker player was especially heated. No matter where you play, no matter the stakes – this weekend there was an overwhelming selection of tournaments taking place looking to capitalize on the rush of players staying inside and logging on.

After three days of play, the largest PokerStars Sunday Million finally has a champion and after the final four players agreed to a deal it left just one player a new millionaire instead of the originally planned two.

When Day 1 of the PokerStars Sunday Million 14th Anniversary event ended on Sunday night, there were 85,432 entries with late registration open for another 16 hours. By the time registration closed on Monday afternoon, another 7,584 players had managed to register to push the final number to 93,016.

Sunday was a massive day for online poker with turnouts in tournaments across all sites seeing extraordinary growth. When PokerStars chose March 15 as the date for its 14th Anniversary Sunday Million event, they had no idea that real world events would bring so many players back to the online tables.

With the coronavirus outbreak forcing millions of people to stay home, online poker operators expected an increase in activity over the weekend and the Sunday Majors provided proof of that coming to fruition. The PokerStars Sunday Million, partypoker MILLION, GGPoker GG Masters and a number of other key events all saw increases in turnout and […]

As 2019 draws to a close, PocketFives takes a look back at the year that was in poker news, going month-by-month through the biggest and most important stories of the year. In April, there was plenty of online poker news, including one player scoring a Sunday Million victory for the second time in eight weeks […]

Just four years ago, Nicolas ‘PKaiser’ Fierro stood atop the PocketFives Rankings as the #1-ranked online poker player in the world. On Sunday, Fierro put himself in the spotlight again after winning the PokerStars Sunday Million for the first time in his career.

For those grinders that clear their schedules on Sunday to take part in online poker’s biggest day of the week, there was, once again, plenty of extra value to be had.

Sunday provided plenty of extra value for online grinders as some of the biggest tournaments schedule were subject to overlays.

Sunday was supposed to be a big day for partypoker with the conclusion of their recently relaunched partypoker MILLION. The $215 buy-in tournament had multiple Day 1 flights throughout the week, a structure designed to give recreational players an opportunity to play without committing an entire Sunday. [ptable zone=”Global Poker Article Ad”][ptable zone=”888poker NJ”][ptable zone=”GG […]

The second sunday of parytpoker’s Powerfest was a great one for ‘ChimneyBarrel‘. After finishing third in the Event #39 (Phased High Roller) for almost $44,000, he beat out 99 other players to win Event #38 (Super High Roller) for $122,500.

In January, PokerStars made a much-heralded change to their flagship Sunday tournament, the Sunday Million. After years of being a staple on the Sunday Majors schedule at a $215 buy-in, the online poker giant announced they were moving to a $109 price point moving forward. The move was meant to give more players the chance […]

Hosted by Lance Bradley and Donnie Peters, The Fives Poker Podcast runs each week and covers the latest poker news, preview upcoming events, and debate the hottest topics in poker.

Hosted by Lance Bradley and Donnie Peters, The Fives Poker Podcast runs each week and covers the latest poker news, preview upcoming events, and debate the hottest topics in poker.