Weekend Preview: partypoker MILLION, GG Masters, PKO Series
The weekend is upon us and that means many of you are making plans to get your grind on and play some tournaments online. There are literally hundreds to choose from, but these three events stand out from the crowd and have made it into our Weekend Preview.
$1M Gtd partypoker MILLION Final Day
The partypoker POWERFEST has been extended until April 19 after demand from the site’s tournament players, but our pick of the weekend’s tournaments at partypoker isn’t officially a POWERFEST event.
Costing $215 to enter, the partypoker MILLION gives you a shot at a million dollar prize pool. The Final Day runs at 8:00 p.m. CET on April 5 and the only way you can get into it is to play your way through one of the Day 1s. These takes place several times per day on April 3-5 and cost $215 to enter.
How to play the biggest POWERFEST events
You can play in as many Day 1s as you wish but you can only take your largest stack through to the final with you if you progress more than once.
Three players, at time of writing have made it through with more than 20 million chips! “Tree91” has 23,203,989 chips, “Noname69” is currently in second-place with 20,535,951 while “Gunagetyou66” has 20,064,787.
$150,000 Gtd in the 888poker PKO Series Tune Up Event
888poker’s PKO Series, which is exactly what it sounds like, kicks off on April 5 and one of the first scheduled events looks superb value.
PKO Series #2: $150,000 Tune Up is a $109 buy-in progressive knockout tournament with $150,000 guaranteed. This is a very large guarantee compared to the buy-in for 888poker so there’s a significant chance of an overlay.
Learn about the 888poker Dragon Series
Rebuys are allowed in this tournament, up to three in total, but they’re second chance rebuys meaning you can only purchase the $109 rebuy if you have lost all your chips. No add-on is available.
Check out the 888poker tournament lobby for satellites into this PKO Series event.
GG Masters Now Has $500,000 Guaranteed
You simply have to play the GG Masters at GGPoker if you’re a fan of freezeout tournaments. Freezeouts are growing increasingly rare in the online poker world so it’s refreshing to see one of the big sites running a massive freezeout.
The GG Masters costs $150 to buy into with $138 going towards the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool and $12 paid as a tournament fee. Last weekend’s GG Masters attracted a crowd of 3,270 players who were outlasted by Brazil’s “StrongMentality”. First-place was worth a cool $71,961.
Read more about the $50M GGSeries
Most value from this tournament comes from the lure of a $500,000 sponsorship package. You earn Player of the Year points each time you reach the money in a GG Masters tournament. Finish at the top of the leaderboard when the curtain comes down on 2020 and you’ll become a GG Ambassador armed with a package worth up to $500,000.
GGPoker has steps satellite tournaments feeding into the GG Masters. These start at only $1.50 so everyone has to chance to compete in this superb online poker tournament.
