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Five ways to win a million. Will you be the next millionaire?
pokerstars has made many millionaires over the years, and now we are making even more! PokerStars Makes Millionaires is a series of exciting new promotions that give every type of player the chance to compete for a million dollar payday over eight weeks of action.
There’s five ways to become a poker millionaire, just like Chris Moneymaker when he qualified for the World Series online at PokerStars and went on to win the Main Event in Las Vegas back in 2003.
Ready to take your shot at becoming the next poker millionaire? Find out how to take part below.
Here’s how you can become a PokerStars millionaire (click through to find out more):
$1 Million Spin & Go (from March 27)
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Become a millionaire in minutes!
You can win a cool million dollars for a buy-in of just $5 with special $1 Million Spin & Go’s! If you didn’t already know, Spin & Go’s are 3-max Hyper-Turbo tournaments that see all players start with just 500 chips. Before the fast-paced action kicks off, a spinner in the middle of the table reveals how large the prize pool will be, up to a million dollars for a limited time only. There are plenty of ways to become a millionaire with PokerStars, but none of them are as quick as this!
Prizes and Probability
The majority of the $1 Million Spin & Go’s are played as ‘winner-takes-all’ tournaments, except for when your Spin & Go hits one of the three highest prize tiers. In these Spin & Go’s, the second and third-place finishers also receive a prize.
$5 Spin & Go’s feature a top prize of $1,000,000 for the winner, with $100,000 set aside for each of the runners-up in that millionaire-making tourney.
Here’s a breakdown of the prizes you can win in these special Spin & Go’s, and the probability of your Spin & Go getting each prize:
EPT Grand Final Bonus & Freerolls (from March 27-April 6)
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PokerStars Makes Millionaires in Monte Carlo - €1 million GTD for Main Event winner!
The PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final will feature first place prize money of at least €1,000,000, and you have the chance to win your package for free and become a millionaire in Monte Carlo!
How to win your free EPT Grand Final Package
EPT Deposit Bonus: Get a free €11 EPT satellite ticket when you deposit $70 or more using bonus code ‘EPTMILLION’, from March 27 to 23:59 ET on April 6. Use your free ticket in any EPT Grand Final €11 satellite.
Please Note: Your free ticket will expire on April 29 if left unused.
EPT Grand Final Freerolls
Play special freeroll tournaments, running five times every day from March 27-April 5, where you can win a €14,000 EPT package for free! Tournaments run as follows:
Millionaire Month: Round 1 (April 6-17)
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Complete simple Challenges for your chance to become a millionaire!
Millionaire Month gives you the chance to become a millionaire via two Millionaire Finals on May 10. All you have to do to be in with a shot of making it to the Finals and winning the grand prize of $1,000,000 is complete simple Challenges. Qualification Round 1 for the first Millionaire Final will run from April 6-17. Open your Challenges’ window in the PokerStars desktop client or Mobile app to get started. Read about Qualification Round 2 here.
How to qualify for Millionaire Final 1
There are six Challenges in Round 1. One is a fast-track Challenge which you can complete by depositing $10 or more, and the other five are ring game Challenges based on winning hands played by players who have become millionaires in PokerStars live and online tournaments. This means you can use your skills to follow in the footsteps of famous players like Chris Moneymaker, Liv Boeree, Jake Cody and more.
For each completed Challenge, you will earn entry to an All-in Shootout with a prize pool of $150,000.
The winner of each of the six All-in Shootouts in Round 1 advances to the six-player Millionaire Final 1 tourney on May 10 at 13:00 ET, where we’ll be making one cash millionaire and two FPP millionaires!
In the All-in Shootouts, you don’t even need to be present to be in with a chance of winning, as all players who have registered in advance will be all-in every hand until there’s a winner. That means you could advance to the Millionaire Final in minutes! You may make it to the Final by chance, but in the Millionaire Final itself, you’ll need to play to win the grand prize.
You can start your Qualification Round 1 Challenges in your Challenges window from 00:00 ET on April 6 to 23:59 ET on April 17.
Millionaire Final 1 Prizes
There will be special exclusive items in the VIP Store which you can spend 1 million FPPs on, including a premium Rolex watch, a personalized Yamaha motorbike, or cool experiences!
Millionaire Month: Round 2 (April 19-30)
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PokerStars is giving away more than $4,000,000 in Millionaire Month!
Millionaire Month gives you the chance to become a millionaire via two Millionaire Finals on May 10. All you have to do to be in with a shot of making it to the Finals and winning the grand prize of $1,000,000 is complete simple Challenges. Qualification Round 2 for the second Millionaire Final will run from April 19-30. Open your Challenges’ window in the PokerStars desktop client or Mobile app to get started. Read about Qualification Round 1 here.
How to qualify for Millionaire Final 2
There are six Challenges in Round 2. One is a fast-track Challenge which you can complete by depositing $25 or more, and the other five are Zoom ring game Challenges based on winning hands played by players who have become millionaires in PokerStars live and online tournaments. This means you can use your skills to follow in the footsteps of famous players like Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Jason Mercier and more.
For each completed Challenge, you will earn entry to an All-in Shootout with a prize pool of $150,000.
The winner of each of the six All-in Shootouts in Round 2 advances to the six-player Millionaire Final 2 tourney on May 10 at 13:00 ET, where we’ll be making one cash millionaire and two FPP millionaires!
In the All-in Shootouts, you don’t even need to be present to be in with a chance of winning, as all players who have registered in advance will be all-in every hand until there’s a winner. That means you could advance to the Millionaire Final in minutes! You may make it to the Final by chance, but in the Millionaire Final itself, you’ll need to play to win the grand prize.
You can start your Qualification Round 2 Challenges in your Challenges window from 00:00 ET on April 19 to 23:59 ET on April 30.
Millionaire Final 2 Prizes
There will be special exclusive items in the VIP Store which you can spend 1 million FPPs on, including a premium Rolex watch, a personalized Yamaha motorbike, or cool experiences!
SCOOP All-in Shootout Deposit Raffle (May 2-21)
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Over $400,000 worth of SCOOP Main Event tickets being given away
The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) brings together the world’s poker players to compete for their share of millions of dollars in prize money. The $4,000,000 guaranteed SCOOP High Main Event on May 24 is awarding a first prize of at least $1,000,000, and you can take part for free!
Just make a real money deposit of $25 or more using bonus code ‘SCOOP2015’ between 00:00 ET on May 2 and 23:59 ET on May 21 for a ticket to the SCOOP All-in Shootout Deposit Raffle on May 22.
In the All-in Shootout we’ve got 16 free SCOOP High Main Event entries - each worth $10,300 - up for grabs, plus over 2,000 free entries to the SCOOP Low and Medium Main Events.
There’s even a special $85,000 SCOOP High Last Longer Challenge - click here for more.
SCOOP All-in Shootout Deposit Raffle: What you can win
The SCOOP All-in Shootout Deposit Raffle tournament will take place on May 22 at 09:47 ET, and will award more than 2,000 prizes. Best of all, you don’t even need to be logged-in to take part. Every player who makes a deposit and registers for the All-in Shootout tournament using the ticket issued to their account will be all-in every hand until we have the winners!
$85,000 SCOOP Last Longer Challenge
Not only will the top 16 players in the All-in Shootout get the chance to play for the $1 million SCOOP High Main Event first prize, but they can also win a share of $85,000 in a special ‘last longer’ challenge. The goal is to outlast the competition in the Main Event, and the final three players left from the 16 raffle winners will win a $50,000 prize, with the remaining players rewarded as follows: