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It may be time for Aussies to arrange trips to New Zealand to play some online poker.

The largest online poker sites in the world are hosting massive tournament series this summer, the first of which just started this weekend. And hundreds of millions of dollars will be guaranteed in those prize pools. The WPT will offer $100 million on PartyPoker. The WSOP will put a $25 million guarantee on its Main Event alone on GGPoker and Natural8. And PokerStars kicked off its $50 million Stadium Series this weekend.

July and August might be a good time for a holiday in an Asia-Pacific country that hasn’t banned online poker like the Australian government did.

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PokerStars Sets Up Unique Stadium Series for July. NOTIZIE SUL POKER DEGLI STATI UNITI. The absence of live poker tournaments – on the usual major scale – called out for online poker replacements. Players would not be spending June and July in Las Vegas and then August traveling and winding down from that summer of intense poker. It would take five hours on the final day of the 2020 PokerStars Stadium Series Freezeout Weekly Final - High: $1,050 NLHE before a new champion would be crowned. Alisson 'heyalisson' Piekazewicz. Stadium Series Freezeout Weekly Final - High: $530 NLHE 8-Max, $1M Gtd Recap July 12-14, 2020 Stadium Series Freezeout Weekly Final - High: $1,050 NLHE 8-Max, $1.5M Gtd Recap July 19-21, 2020. The PokerStars Stadium Series runs from July 5 and continues through to August 2. The four-week festival sees 102 tournaments with buy-ins starting at only $5.50 and increasing up to $5,200. PokerStars’ army of streamers played a full slate of Stadium Series tournaments and each enjoyed huge success — both in terms of viewers and tournament position. Lex Veldhuis won Heat 16-H, banking $96,143.60, in front of a peak of 24,955 viewers during an 11-hour stream.

The largest tournament series in the world are now online.

The World Poker Tour had to cancel its live tournaments indefinitely during the pandemic, so it partnered with PartyPoker to offer online events. The initial series’ success led them to craft the WPT World Online Championships, set to run July 17 through September 8.

Over the course of the large series, PartyPoker will offer 12 main WPT-branded tournaments, out of which three players will emerge as official WPT champions and win seats to the WPT Tournament of Champions. And buy-ins will range from $33 to $102K.

Did we mention $100 million in guarantees?

The World Series of Poker had to cancel its world-famous summer WSOP series in Las Vegas this year due to Covid-19 concerns, so it also went online. Its partnership with the GGPoker Network puts the 54 out of 85 gold bracelet WSOP events on Natural8.

Action for the WSOP 2020 Online starts on July 19 and runs through September 6 and marks the first time that the official series will be online and available to non-US players. The series features a NLHE Main Event at a discount – only $5K for the buy-in – and with a $25 million guarantee.

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Did we mention 54 official WSOP gold bracelets on the line?

PokerStars Gets Underway First

Only about two weeks ago, PokerStars announced a new series, a unique one to run through the month of July. The Stadium Series is something different from its usual tournament series offerings with an escalating buy-in structure, weekly heats, and Sunday finals. And it all leads up to a Main Event.

The series began this weekend on July 5 and runs through August 2 with 102 official Stadium Series events. That leaves plenty of time to get out of Australia and set up the laptop in a country that welcomes PokerStars.

Did we mention $50 million in guarantees?

Oh, and PokerStars is awarding $2 million worth of free tickets and tournament seats.

Stadium Series Setup

The way it works may seem complicated, but it is actually rather smooth and simple.

PokerStars starts the first week of action with heat events as low as $5.50, with the same price points for the July 12 Sunday finals. The buy-ins increase each week until the Grand Final on the last weekend of the series.

This should clarify a bit:

  • July 5-11: Weekly heats with buy-ins of $5.50 / $55 / $530
  • July 12: Sunday finals with buy-ins of $5.50 / $55 / $530 (with $150K / $500K / $1M GTD)
  • July 13-18: Weekly heats with buy-ins of $11 / $109 / $1,050
  • July 19: Sunday finals with buy-ins of $11 / $109 / $1,050 (with $500K / $1.5M / $1.5M GTD)
  • July 20-25: Weekly heats with buy-ins of $22 / $215 / $2,100
  • July 26: Sunday finals with buy-ins of $22 / $215 / $2,100 (with $500K / $1.5M / $1.5M GTD)
  • July 27-August 1: Weekly heats with buy-ins of $55 / $530 / $5,200
  • August 2: Sunday finals with buy-ins of $55 / $530 / $5,200 (with $1M / $2M / $5M GTD)

The Grand Final is that last event, the $5,200 buy-in Sunday final with the $5 million guarantee.

The heats offer a variety of poker formats, such as PKOs and 6-max tables and deep stacks, as well as prize pool guarantees on each one. They vary, but PokerStars offers more information.

Opportunities Abound

As with all PokerStars series, there are numerous qualifiers and satellites running for every heat and finals round. In addition, the top finishers in the weekly heats will win tickets to the Sunday finals.

Players need not work their way through the series, though. They may buy in at any level at any time. The heats simply provide a path for players who may not be able to afford the larger buy-ins.

There will also be Fast Track steps, special Spin & Gos starting at just $4 each, and a leaderboard competition that will award tickets to the Grand Final.

There are also freerolls – daily – that will award 170 tickets to the Main Event. That’s the one dubbed the Grand Final with the $5K buy-in.

Three-tiered buy-in structure

PokerStars has announced the upcoming debut of a new online tournament series, the Stadium Series. Running July 5 – August 2, the Stadium Series features 102 tournaments and $50m in guaranteed prize money.

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With multiple buy-in levels, the Stadium Series is accessible to the majority of players, regardless of bankroll.

Like many PokerStars tournament festivals, the Stadium Series will have three buy-in tiers for each event; the 34 events with three tournaments each make up the 102 in total. With multiple buy-in levels, the Stadium Series is accessible to the majority of players, regardless of bankroll.

The Stadium Series culminates with the $5,200 Grand Final “Main Event,” which has a $5m guaranteed prize pool. This is the “High” buy-in tier of the Grand Final – the “Low” buy-in is $55 with a $1m guaranteed prize pool and the “Medium” buy-in is $530 with a $2m guarantee.

Buy-ins increase each week

This series is structured a bit differently than PokerStars’ other popular tournament series. Rather than being a continuous four weeks, the Stadium Series is divided week-by-week. The Low, Medium, and High buy-ins remain consistent during a given week (Monday to Sunday except for the first week, which runs Sunday to Sunday), but increase in each successive week.

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In Week 1, the buy-ins are $5.50/$55/$530 and then escalate to $11/$109/$1,050 in Week 2. In Week 3, they go up to $22/$215/$2,100 and finish off with $55/$530/$5,200 in Week 4.

The tournaments on Monday through Saturday are called weekly “Heats.” They lead up to the “Weekly Finals,” held each Sunday. Regardless of the names, all of the tournaments are regular events, covering a variety of formats. The top finishers (a term that PokerStars has left undefined at the moment) in each Heat will also receive tickets into that week’s Final.

Those who make the final table of a Weekly Final will be gifted a $5,200 seat in the Grand Final.

In a first for the poker room, PokerStars will be live-streaming the end stages and final tables of the Heats – with all cards shown to viewers – on a brief delay. It appears that the final table broadcasts will also be replayed later.

Multiple paths to Grand Final

PokerStars has also created a number of avenues for players to qualify for the Grand Final without having to make a massive run in the Heats or Weekly Finals.

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The Fast Track is a step-format progression series of tournaments in which players can buy-in for as little a $1 and try to win their way to the next level. The top finishers of the fourth stage, which has a direct buy-in of $1,050, will win tickets into the Grand Final. PokerStars has guaranteed at least five seats for every Fast Track round four.

some rare prize spins result in a Grand Final ticket as the prize pool rather than cash

For those who like Spin & Gos, PokerStars has put two special editions in the lobby with buy-ins of $4 and $22. They play like any other Spin & Go, but some rare prize spins result in a Grand Final ticket as the prize pool rather than cash.

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There are also the Stadium Series Trials, which is a fancy name for a leaderboard. Players earn one point for every $1 spent on multi-table tournament buy-ins. The top 25 players on the leaderboard when the promotion ends on August 1 win $5,200 Grand Final tickets.