The Party Poker Monthly Million took a seasonal turn recently for Spring, with an additional Spring Million added to the calendar. Now the site is doing the same for Summer with a special Summer Million tournament coming up on August 7, 2011, with another guaranteed $1 million prize pool.
Leading up to the big million dollar event, Party Poker is raining a spring shower (or maybe a summer storm) of qualifiers down on players, with an abundance of different ways to get in on all the action.
First stage sub qualifiers start out with buy-ins ranging from $1 to $47. These are all speed events, and some are rebuy events as well. The qualifiers into which these events lead have direct buy-ins themselves ranging from $27 to $172. All of these are daily events, with the exception of the $55 MEGA Friday Satellite, awarding 10 seats guaranteed. At all of these qualifiers Party Poker vows to award multiple seats in the $1 million guaranteed Summer Million, based either on the number of players entering or the amount of money in the prize pool.
In addition to all these routes, there are also Daily Country Specific Freerolls with the top 10 from each country or region advancing to the Summer Million Special, and Daily Player Points Qualifiers for buy-ins of 10 PPs and 25 PPs, also which lead into the Summer Million Special, another 10-seat guaranteed event taking place on Fridays.
The Party Poker Summer Million has a $640 direct buy-in and operates with a Championship Blind structure.