Fifty tournaments, $50 buy-in on each of them. What could be simpler than the PokerStars 50/50 Series? (Oh, and $6.2m guaranteed!)

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Millions of dollars have changed hands over the past few months on PokerStars as players have enjoyed some high-profile tournament series on the site. It’s time to announce another one too — but this time, there’s nothing complicated, nothing too expensive and nothing like there’s ever been before.

This one couldn’t be simpler. Prepare yourself for the 50/50 Series — 50 tournaments with buy-ins of $50 each. That’s it. The 50/50 Series. It starts on January 31 and runs to February 7.

Of course, this being PokerStars, there are some enormous guarantees. Two tournaments have a minimum of $1 million in the prize pool, including a Main Event on the series’ final day. Across the 50 tournaments, there’s $6.215 million guaranteed.

A reminder: no buy-in is more or less than an even $50. But there’s more than $6 million in guaranteed prizes already. That’s some great value right there. And here’s something else you should probably know already: there are tons of satellites running all the time to get you in for even less. You’ll need nothing more than $1.10 to enter some of those sats and get yourself on the spin-up trail.

The full schedule is below, and you’ll see some decent variety in the straightforward framework. There are PKO tournaments; PLO tournaments; six-max; heads-up; Zoom. The Sunday Million is also incorporated, with its customary $1 million guaranteed. It’s just the buy-in that’s changed. It’s $50. Of course it is. It’s right there in the series name.

So get yourself ready for some 50/50 action: six tournaments every day Monday through Saturday, with seven on the two Sundays. Brilliant.

50/50 Series schedule

MICROMILLIONS FOR SOUTHERN EUROPE AND ITALY

Players in Southern Europe also have reason to mark January 31st in their diaries: MicroMillions is back!

There are editions of the popular low-stakes tournament series running both for Italian players, and the separate market for players in France, Spain and Portugal.

The latter tournament series has a massive €5 million guarantee across 161 tournaments, with buy-ins starting at €2. That’s the biggest ever prize pool for a MicroMillions series in Southern Europe and double the previous year’s.

The series runs until February 11 and highlights include:
• €50 buy-in Progressive Knockout Main Event on February 7 with €300,000 guaranteed.
• €30 buy-in 30 Special PKO on January 31 with €125,000 guaranteed.
• Three Phase events with buy-ins of €1, €3 and €10, and guarantees of €50,000, €100,000 and €200,000 respectively. Phase 1 is already under way while Phase 2 starts on February 11.
• Players can win their way to the series via qualifiers from €0.50.

In Italy, MicroMillions takes place over the same dates with more than €2 million guaranteed across 95 events. This is also the biggest MicroMillions guarantee to date in Italy. The €50 buy-in Main Event on February 7 features a €200,000 guarantee and the Italian PokerStars community can qualify for the series through €1 satellites.

Click for full schedules:

MicroMillions Southern Europe schedule
MicroMillions Italy schedule

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