Best Ways to Qualify for $1M Gtd. MicroMillions Main Event on PokerStars
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The 16th edition of the MicroMillions series is in full swing at PokerStars and some of the prizes awarded are extraordinary compared to the tournaments’ tiny buy-ins. Matters are about to get even crazier when the MicroMillions Main Event shuffles up and deals on November 24th.
A massive $1,000,000 is guaranteed to be won in the MicroMillions Main Event despite the tournament only costing $22 to enter. While $22 is at the more affordable end of the buy-in scale, PokerStars is making it super easy for its players to get involved in the MicroMillions Main Event by running a plethora of satellites, poker-related challenges, Spin & Go tournaments, and Second Chance Shootouts.
Turn $0.35 Into a MicroMillions Tickets or $3,500 Cash
Spin & Go tournaments are immensely popular at PokerStars as they give players the chance to turn a small buy-in into a massive prize. PokerStars has created a MicroMillions edition of its Spin & Go games that only cost $0.35 to enter yet can pay out up to $3,500 in cold, hard cash.
These special Spin & Go tournaments will disappear from the lobby on November 24th so you do not have long to play them and hopefully bag yourself a big prize. Those prizes range from $0.70 cash, MicroMillions tickets worth from $1.10 to $5.50, a $22 MicroMillions Main Event seat and $3,500 cash!
| Prize | Frequency in 1 Million Games |
|---|---|
| $3,500 cash (plus $350 to each runner-up) | 1 |
| $22 MicroMillions Main Event entry | 1,503 |
| $5.50 MicroMillions ticket | 9,000 |
| $3.30 MicroMillions ticket | 28,500 |
| $1.10 MicroMillions ticket | 266,217 |
| $0.70 cash | 694,779 |
Complete Challenges for MicroMillions Main Event Freeroll Entries
Head to the Challenges section of your PokerStars account and you’ll see a pair of MicroMillions challenges waiting for you to complete. Once both are completed, you will receive a ticket to a special MicroMillions Freeroll on November 18th that has more than $10,000 worth of prizes, including a staggering 225x $22 MicroMillions Main Event entries.
You need to play in at least 10 MicroMillions tournaments of your choice and a least one $4.40 MicroMillions Phase 1 event, which has $500,000 guaranteed, before 11:59 ET on November 17th, to receive your MicroMillions Freeroll ticket.
$14,000 in Tickets Available via Second Chance Shootouts
Perhaps the best value MicroMillions promotion are the Second Chance Shootouts that have $14,000 in extra tickets up for grabs. Any time you bust from a MicroMillions event without making it into the money in events starting November 17-23, you receive an entry to an All-in Shootout the following day at 10:00 a.m. ET. These run daily from November 18-24 and each has $2,000 worth of tickets to MicroMillions events.
Tickets are awarded to KO event players if they do not reach the money from the regular prize pool
Sit & Go and MTT Satellites
Those of you who prefer traditional satellites will be delighted to learn there are plenty feeding into the $1 million guaranteed MicroMillions Main Event.
Six-player Sit & Go tournaments costing $7.50 pay out two MicroMillions Main Events tickets, which is the same number of tickets awarded in the $2.85 buy-in 16-player Sit & Go satellites.
You can also enter dozens of freeroll tournaments running around the clock, or get involved in $1.10 and $3.30 buy-in satellites that award between one and 25 MicroMillions Main Event seats.
Grab a $600 Welcome Bonus Today
You need, of course, a PokerStars account to play in the $1 million guaranteed MicroMillions Main Event. If you have one already, we wish you the best of luck in qualifying for this massive tournament. Those of you reading this without a PokerStars account can download PokerStars via PokerNews, enter the marketing code “PNEWS” when creating your account and when you make your first deposit, PokerStars matches it 100% up to $600. Good luck!
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