Gear Up for the PokerStars 50/50 Main Event and its $500K Guarantee

Matthew Pitt Senior Editor

Feb 06, 2023 3 min read

PokerStars 50/50 Series Schedule
PokerStars 50/50 Series Results So Far

The latest instalment of the 50/50 Series is in full swing at PokerStars, but you still have plenty of time to get in on the action and fight it out across some excellent $50 buy-in events. The PokerStars 50/50 Series sees a schedule of 50 events, each costing $50 to enter, running from February 5-13.

Most of the 50/50 Series tournaments are played as No-Limit Hold'em, but there are a couple of Pot-Limit Omaha, PLO8, and 8-Game events mixed in. Indeed, there is even a PLO Main Event that boasts a $50,000 guarantee on its prize pool, although the actual pot will likely be greater than that.

Each day there is an 8-Max PKO Mini Bounty Builder HR with at least $150,000 guaranteed to be won, and a 6-Max Daily Supersonic rounding off the action; those hyper-turbo Supersonics come with $35,000 guaranteed.

Of course, the 50/50 Series tournament every PokerStars player wants to take down is the 46th event on the schedule, the Main Event. Played as an 8-Max PKO tournament, the 50/50 Series Main Event shuffles up and deals at 5:30 p.m. GMT on February 12 and has 3 hours 15 minutes of late registration. PokerStars guarantees at least $500,000 will be in the pot by the time late registration slams shut, meaning 11,001 entries are needed to hit the guarantee.

Up to five re-entries are permitted, and Day 1 concludes 8 hours and 50 minutes after the pitching of the first cards. Day 2 commences at 6:00 p.m. GMT on February 13 and continues until one player has all of the chips in play in their stack.

PokerStars 50/50 Series Schedule

Date	Time (GMT)	Event	Guarantee
Mon 6 Feb	3:05 p.m.	#08 6-Max Deepstack	$50,000
	4:30 p.m.	#09 7-Max PKO	$50,000
	5:30 p.m.	#10 8-Max PKO Mini Bounty Builder HR	$175,000
	8:05 p.m.	#11 6-Max Turbo PKO	$75,000
	9:30 p.m.	#12 6-Max PLO Turbo PKO	$15,000
	11:05 p.m.	#13 6-Max Hyper Daily Supersonic	$35,000
Tue 7 Feb	3:05 p.m.	#14 The Marathon	$35,000
	4:30 p.m.	#15 7-Max PKO	$50,000
	5:30 p.m.	#16 8-Max PKO Mini Bounty Builder HR	$150,000
	8:05 p.m.	#17 6-Max Turbo PKO	$75,000
	9:30 p.m.	#18 3-Max Turbo PKO Zoom	$33,300
	11:05 p.m.	#19 6-Max Hyper Daily Supersonic	$35,000
Wed 8 Feb	3:05 p.m.	#20 The Marathon	$35,000
	4:30 p.m.	#21 8-Max Midweek Freeze	$40,000
	5:30 p.m.	#22 8-Max PKO Mini Bounty Builder HR	$175,000
	8:05 p.m.	#23 8-Game 6-Max	$10,000
	9:30 p.m.	#24 Heads-up Total PKO Zoom	$50,000
	11:05 p.m.	#25 6-Max Hyper Daily Supersonic	$35,000
Thu 9 Feb	3:05 p.m.	#26 The Marathon	$35,000
	5:30 p.m.	#27 8-Max PKO Mini Bounty Builder HR	$175,000
	8:05 p.m.	#28 PLO8 6-Max PKO	$15,000
	9:30 p.m.	#29 6-Max Turbo PKO	$30,000
	11:05 p.m.	#30 6-Max Hyper Daily Supersonic	$35,000
Fri 10 Feb	3:30 a.m.	#31 8-Max PKO	$25,000
	4:30 p.m.	#32 6-Max Turbo Total PKO	$35,000
	5:30 p.m.	#33 8-Max PKO Mini Bounty Builder HR	$150,000
	8:00 p.m.	#34 The Rounder	$20,000
	9:30 p.m.	#35 6-Max Turbo PKO	$10,000
	11:05 p.m.	#36 6-Max Hyper Daily Supersonic	$35,000
Sat 11 Feb	6:05 a.m.	#37 8-Max PKO Pacific Rum Special	$15,000
	4:30 p.m.	#38 8-Max Deepstack	$50,000
	5:30 p.m.	#39 Heads-Up Total PKO Zoom	$50,000
	5:30 p.m.	#40 8-Max PKO Mini Bounty Builder HR	$150,000
	8:40 p.m.	#41 7-Max Turbo PKO	$40,000
	9:30 p.m.	#42 4-Max PKO Bounty Quads	$35,000
	11:05 p.m.	#43 6-Max Hyper Daily Supersonic	$35,000
Sun 12 Feb	3:05 p.m.	#44 8-Max Sunday Marathon	$100,000
	4:30 p.m.	#45 8-Max Semi-Turbo	$125,000
	5:30 p.m.	#46 8-Max PKO Main Event 2-Days	$500,000
	7:15 p.m.	#47 6-Max PKO PLO Main Event	$50,000
	8:05 p.m.	#48 6-Max Turbo	$100,000
	9:30 p.m.	#49 Heads-Up Total PKO Zoom	$50,000
	10:30 p.m.	#50 7-Max PKO Series Saver	$100,000

*variant is No-Limit Hold'em unless specified

PokerStars 50/50 Series Results So Far

A handful of 50/50 Series events are already done and dusted, with Hungarian legend Peter "Belabacsi" Traply taking down the Series Opener. Traply topped a 2,247-strong field to turn his $50 investment into a $15,202 payday.

"Jakub_Odvar" is the biggest winner of the series so far after receiving $34,810 for his victory in the #03 8-Max PKO Mini Bounty Builder event on the opening night.

Event	Entrants	Prize Pool	Champion	Prize
#01 Series Opener	2,247	$102,126	Peter "Belabacsi" Traply	$15,202
#02 Heads-Up Total KO Zoom	1,202	$54,630	TinyCities	$7,510
#03 8-Max PKO Mini Bounty Builder	9,037	$410,731	Jakub_Odvar	$34,810*
#04 PLO 6-Max	698	$31,724	cAzimiR69	$5,395
#05 8-Max Semi-Turbo	3,232	$146,894	yolokipo23	$21,153
#06 6-Max Turbo PKO	2,462	$111,897	GioPN	$12,813*
#07 8-Max Hyper Sunday Finisher	1,466	$69,810	LIKE A G6	$10,698

*includes bounty payments

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Matthew Pitt Senior Editor

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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