A StaggeringR$40 Million Guaranteed in the PokerStars New Year Series
December 14, 2024
Matthew Pitt Senior Editor
PokerStars is celebrating Christmas and 👌 welcoming in 2024
with a massive tournament festival it calls the New Year Series. Running from December
25 through January 👌 17, the PokerStars New Year Series boasts of combined guarantees
tipping the scales atR$40 million! What a way to say 👌 goodbye to 2024 and get 2024 off
to the best possible start.
December 25 is Christmas Day for a large percentage 👌 of
PokerStars' customers. If you celebrate Christmas, you may want to go easy on the
eggnog and other alcoholic beverages 👌 because you'll want your wits about you. December
25 is when the first 18 of 334 New Year Series tournaments 👌 shuffle up and deal. Buy-ins
range fromR$5.50 toR$1,050 on the opening day, with theR$125,000 guaranteed BigR$109
Christmas Edition being the 👌 highlight of Day 1.
PokerStars New Year Series
Highlights
Date Time (GMT) Event Guarantee Sun 25 Dec 5:05 p.m. BigR$109 Christmas
EditionR$125,000 👌 Thu 29 Dec 5:30 p.m.R$2,100 Thursday ThrillR$250,000 Sun 1 Jan 5:30
p.m.R$20.23 New Year SpecialR$400,000 5:30 p.m.R$202.30 New Year SpecialR$1,000,000
👌 5:30 p.m.R$2,023 New Year SpecialR$400,000 Sun 8 Jan 7:15 p.m.R$5,200 Titans
EventR$500,000 Tue 10 Jan 5:30 p.m.R$10,300 Super Tuesday High 👌 RollerR$650,000 Thu 12
Jan 5:30 p.m.R$5,200 Thursday ThrillR$500,000 Sun 15 Jan 5:30 p.m.R$109 Main Event
LowR$1,000,000 5:30 p.m.R$1,050 Main Event 👌 MidR$1,250,000 5:30 p.m.R$5,200 Main Event
HighR$1,500,000 6:05 p.m.R$215 PLO Main EventR$200,000 7:15 p.m.R$55 Women's
EventR$10,000
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New Year Specials
January 1, New Year's Day, sees a trio of special
events 👌 waiting for you to become one of the first poker champions of 2024. Like most of
the other New Year 👌 Series events, the New Year Specials come with three buy-in levels,
giving more PokerStars players the chance to win big 👌 on the first day of 2024. All
three are incredible value, with theR$20.33 buy-in edition guaranteeingR$400,000, the
same as theR$2,023 👌 buy-in high version. TheR$202.30 buy-in medium event comes with aR$1
million guarantee on its prize pool! What a way to 👌 kick off 2024.
All three of the New
Year Special events are two-day affairs. Day 1 concludes 7hr 55 minutes after 👌 the
tournaments start at 5:30 p.m. GMT on January 1, with play resuming at 5:30 p.m. GMT on
January 2, 👌 2024.
$3.75 Million Worth of New Year Series No-Limit Hold'em Main Event
Guarantees
No PokerStars tournament festival worth its salt would be 👌 complete without
at least one Main Event. The New Year Series has three, a trio of exciting No-Limit
Hold'em Main 👌 Events with combined guarantees worth a coolR$3.75 million! The New Year
Series Main Events come with buy-ins ofR$109,R$1,050, andR$5,200, and 👌 guarantees ofR$1
million,R$1.25 million, andR$1.5 million, respectively. Of course, there are dozens
upon dozens of satellites feeding into this trio 👌 of spectacular tournaments if the Main
Events' buy-ins are out of your reach.
All three Main Events kick off at 5:30 👌 p.m. GMT
on January 15, and have their Day 2s at the same time on January 16, with the final
👌 tables running on January 17, also at 5:30 p.m. GMT.
Pot-Limit Omaha grinders have
their own main event, too. It starts 👌 at 6:05 p.m. GMT on January 15, costsR$215 to
enter, and guaranteesR$200,000 in its prize pool.
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High Roller Week From January 8
If high-stakes
tournaments are what get you all 👌 hot and bothered, some of the events scheduled for the
week commencing January 8 are right up your street. Billed 👌 as High Roller Week, the
number ofR$1,050 buy-in tournaments dramatically increases, and PokerStars is throwing
some even bigger buy-in events 👌 into the mix.
There is aR$2,100 buy-in edition of the
Thursday Thrill on January 5, and aR$2,100 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha PKO 👌 event taking
place on January 8. Also, on January 8, you will find aR$5,200 buy-inR$500,000
guaranteed Titans Event, before a 👌 monster-sizedR$10,300 Super Tuesday High Roller draws
in online poker's elite on January 10. High Roller Week of the New Year 👌 Series is going
to be amazing viewing from a spectator's point of view, even more so if you manage to
👌 satellite your way into some of those big buy-in events and get to rub shoulders with
some of poker's superstars.
Join 👌 PokerStars this World Cup for aR$600 Welcome
Bonus
Those of you who do not already have a PokerStars account can download 👌 the
excellent software via PokerNews. Make your first deposit safe in the knowledge that
PokerStars matches your deposit 100% up 👌 to a maximum ofR$600. In fact, your first three
deposits in the first 90 days after creating your account are 👌 matched 100% up to a
combined maximum ofR$600.
