Pokerstars has announced a new series dedicated to micro-stakes poker players like Team Pokerstars Pro Lex Veldhuis who himself started out in poker playing the penny and micro-stakes games. The new series is named the PokerStars MicroMillions and starts March 15 and runs for 11 days through March 25 when a $1 million guaranteed main event will take place for a meager $22 buy in. The first place winner of the inaugural PokerStars MicroMillions main event will win $150k guaranteed.
Also up for grabs is the rest of the event’s $5 million guaranteed prize pool, as well as a prize package to the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure next January to the top Player of the Series. PokerStars will keep a Player of the Series Leader Board throughout the series and pay out the top 100 finishers.
The 100 events constituting this inauguaral running of the PokerStars MicroMillions covers the gamut in poker variants and structures. The series will not just feature No Limit Hold’em either. There will also be events in Pot Limit Omaha, Omaha High/Low, Holdem/Omaha Mix, 8 Game Mix, Draw Poker, Stud Poker, Triple Stud, HORSE, and Badugi, as well as tournaments with rebuys, add-ons, turbo,4-max, 6-max, double chance, triple turbo, knockout, shootout and high-ante structures. Buy-ins start as small as $0.11 and never go above the main event’s $22 buy-in. There are nearly 10 events scheduled each day of this $5 million series with start times at all hours of the day to suit players living in all corners of the globe.