Time’s Running Out to Play in the $5M Gtd Sunday Million 20th Anniversary Event

The PokerStars Sunday Million is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a $109 buy-in, $5 million guaranteed progressive knockout edition. This special event is a phased tournament, where the final phase, Day 2, is scheduled to shuffle up and deal at 8:05 p.m. BST on September 6.

Only a handful of $109 Phase 1 remain, meaning you must hurry if you want to be in with a chance of padding your bankroll with a share of a $5 million guaranteed prize pool.

The PokerStars lobby shows Phase 1 starting at 4:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m., and 11:30 p.m. BST on September 2-3. It is safe to assume subsequent Phase 1s will follow a similar pattern during the rest of the week.

Satellites from only $0.55 run around the clock, opening the door for almost every PokerStars player to jump into the action and join the Sunday Million anniversary celebrations. Those looking for something different may want to try the special edition Spin & Go tournaments that award $109 tickets as their top prize. They come with buy-ins of $0.75 and $4.

At the time of this article’s publication, 42,407 entries had been processed across dozens of Phase 1s, with 1,362 advancing to the final phase.

Uruguay’s “mike21_4life” is the player to catch right now, having turned their 10,000 starting stack into a tournament-leading 1,180,083 on their Phase 1. Three other players return to their seats with more than 1 million chips: “go1vs1 legko” (1,076,054), “getdamoney0” (1,045,132), and “rodrigovini” (1,034,730) are the early frontrunners.

Current Sunday Million 20th Anniversary Top 10 Chip Counts

A trio of PokerStars ambassadors has punched their tickets to the final phase. Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg (187,043) is the best placed of that talented trio. Sebastian “peace&love” Huber (117,668) and Marle “MarlzTV” Spragg (88,462) are also still in the hunt.

Other stars to look out for in the September 6 final phase include Dimitar “KuuL” Danchev (830,445), “roo_400” (791,814), Steven “SvZff” van Zadelhoff (695,141), Bernardo “bedias” Dias (628,707), Peter “Belabacsi” Traply (602,644), Tom “Tom_poker_NL” Talboom (532,332), Scott “Aggro Santos” Margereson (274,755), and Simon “TaxationIsTheft” Gilles (115,497).

The 2026 World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) Begins September 6

It is not only the final phase of the $5 million guaranteed Sunday Million 20th Anniversary Edition that is waiting for PokerStars players on September 6 because the 2026 World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) explodes into action at 2:05 p.m. BSt on the same day.

Six numbered events begin on September 6, including the $75 buy-in Sunday Special, which carries a $350,000 guarantee, and the $5,200 World Championship of 6-Max NLHE, which carries a $400,000 guarantee. Both events start at 6:05 p.m. BST.

You can read more about the 2026 PokerStars WCOOP right here.

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.