Spraggy Among a Host of Stars Through to Sunday Million 20th Anniversary Final Phase

Only three weeks remain until Phase 2 of the $5 million guaranteed PokerStars Sunday Million Anniversary shuffles up and deals. There have already been 24,881 entries processed across the completed $109 Phase 1s, with 799 of those starters punching their Phase 2 tickets.

PokerStars’ Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg is one of those stellar names who has advanced to the business end of the Sunday Million 20th Anniversary. The popular streamer turned his 10,000 starting stack into 187,043 chips in his chosen Phase 1, which currently places him 544th when play resumes.

However, Spraggy’s Phase 2 starting position could change because there’s a raft of Phase 1s between now and September 6, when Phase 2 explodes into action.

The PokerStars lobby shows $109 Phase 1s starting at 4:25 p.m. BST, 7:25 p.m. BST, and 10:25 p.m. BST. These tournaments run on August 13-15, and it is safe to assume the same schedule will continue, if not increase, as the September 6 Phase 2 approaches.

Current Sunday Million 20th Anniversary Phase 2 Top 10

Austria’s “go1vs1 legko” (1,076,054) finds themselves in the enviable position of chip leader at the time of writing. The Austrian is one of two players who somehow managed to finish with more than a million chips; “getdamoney” of Canada (1,045,132) is the other chip-millionaire.

Those wishing to head into Phase 2 with a top 10 stack currently need to accumulate more than 863,000 chips, which takes some doing.

Others who have navigated through their respective $109 Sunday Million 20th Anniversary Phase 1 include “roo_400” (791,814), “P0TCHECKER99” (779,309), Steven “SvZff” van Zadelhoff (695,141), “efkinis24” (635,937), Peter “Belabacsi” Traply (602,644), Tom “Tom_Poker_NL” Talboom (532,332), and Blaise “bigdaddyblaise” Bourgeois (499,757).

Finnish star Jussi “calvin7v” Nevanlinna (402,413), Dalton “daltonhb” Hobold (294,120), Tobias “TOBSEN_TE9” Eichenseher (275,338), Scott “Aggro Santos” Margereson (274,755), “Sintoras” (232,517), Patrick “JaegsPL” Lauber (175,259), Robin “robinho” Ylitalo (115,528), Simon “TaxationIsTheft” Gilles (115,497), and Andreas “mrAndreeew” Berggren (113,916) are also through to Phase 2, as is PokerStars’ Marle “MarlzTV” Spragg (88,462).

Satellite or Spin Your Way Into the Sunday Million 20th Anniversary

Satellites for the $5 million guaranteed Sunday Million 20th Anniversary are running right now at PokerStars. Their buy-ins start at $0.55.

Those wishing to explore a different route into a $109 Phase 1 may want to try the special edition Spin & Go tournaments that start as soon as three people register. These special editions cost $0.75 or $4 to enter, and award their winner $109 Sunday Million Anniversary tickets or satellite tickets ranging from $1.50 to $22, depending on the buy-in and prize pool multiplier.

$0.75 Sunday Million Spin & Go Payouts

$4 Sunday Million Spin & Go Payouts

Sunday Million Seats Will Be Won via the Ticket Machine

Every Saturday, PokerStars gives away 918x $109 Sunday Million 20th Anniversary seats via its Ticket Machine feature. You can complete the following challenges up to four times to earn up to 20 entries into the next Ticket machine prize draw:

• Play two MTTs
• Play a Sunday Million 20th Anniversary Phase 1
• Knock out five players in Spin & Go’s
• Play 75 Zoom hands
• Play 25 All-in Poker hands
• Play 100 cash game hands

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.