At PokerStars MI Summer Stacks Festival, Players Win Nearly $1.1 Million

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PokerStars Michigan concluded its first-ever Summer Stacks Festival on Sunday, adding another milestone to its inaugural year. Spanning from June 12-28, the series successfully distributed nearly $1.1 million in prize money, solidifying its reputation as a flourishing tournament series on PokerStars MI.

100 tournaments, more than $1 million awarded

In total, the 100 tournaments drew in approximately 28,000 participants (including re-entries) and distributed a grand sum of $1,087,430.65 as prize money.

With a buy-in of $100, the Main Event attracted a total of 1,224 participants, resulting in a prize pool that surpassed $112,000, exceeding the guaranteed amount of $100,000. Emerging as the ultimate victor, player “CheckUrPrivlege” claimed a first prize that exceeded $17,600 in value.

After the successful first Michigan Spring Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars MI in May, which saw players winning $2.35 million in just 17 days, the Summer Stacks Festival was held. This festival surpassed the previous series in terms of buy-ins and guarantees, establishing itself as the largest event in the site’s brief history.

Nearly half of events have overlays, many in non-standard tourneys

The total guarantees for the entire series amounted to $1 million exactly. Out of the 100 tournaments, 43 of them resulted in overlays. To fulfill the guarantees for these events, PokerStars MI had to provide a little over $73,000.

Approximately 50% of the overlays exceeded $1,000, with a few instances where PokerStars MI had to contribute over $7,500 to meet the guarantee. These specific cases occurred during larger events featuring a guarantee of $60,000.

It is important to mention that almost half of the tournaments with overlays either had games other than no-limit hold’em, were freezeouts without re-entries, or had unique formats like 4-max or heads-up.

In Summer Stacks Festivals, MI well ahead of NJ, but behind PA

From June 12-28, PokerStars impressively organized the Summer Stacks Festival series simultaneously on all three of its US sites. It’s worth noting that players on each site can only compete against others within their own state and not in a combined player pool.

The series in Pennsylvania and New Jersey had 100 tournaments with buy-ins under $100. The guarantees on PokerStars PA were slightly higher at $1,045,000 compared to PokerStars MI’s $1 million, and the schedules were almost the same. On PokerStars NJ, the guarantees amounted to $500,000.

PokerStars PA emerged as the ultimate winner, boasting the largest series with over 35,000 total entries and players earning almost $1.3 million. Following closely, PokerStars MI had nearly 28,000 total entries and winnings of almost $1.1 million. Meanwhile, PokerStars NJ’s series attracted approximately 15,500 total entries and distributed around $565,000 in prizes.

All the main events had a uniform structure with a $100 buy-in and spanned over two days. The Pennsylvania and Michigan main events boasted $100,000 guarantees, while the New Jersey event had a $50,000 guarantee.

PokerStars PA also outperformed all three sites with an impressive 1,443 entries and a prize pool exceeding $132,000. This overall achievement surpassed Michigan’s results, while New Jersey’s Main Event only managed to attract 539 entries. Additionally, the New Jersey site had to slightly supplement the prize pool in order to meet the $50,000 guarantee.

BetMGM Poker MI series plays out during Summer Stacks final week

During the last week of the Summer Stacks Festival, BetMGM Poker Michigan provided players with an additional tournament option through the BetMGM Online Series.

The schedule for the 10 events offered a total of $275,000 in guaranteed prizes, which was lower compared to previous series on BetMGM Poker MI. Although some events had fewer participants than expected, players managed to win nearly $350,000 overall. This amount was almost equivalent to the prizes awarded in the initial BetMGM Online Series held on the site in April.

All three tournaments on the final day, Sunday, surpassed their guarantees, making it the most successful day.

The highly anticipated $1,060 buy-in tournament, featuring a guaranteed prize of $75,000, saw a total of 97 participants, resulting in a prize pool of $97,000. On the other hand, the $20 buy-in event, which was the most affordable in the series and comparable to the lower buy-in events of the Summer Stacks Festival, garnered an enormous turnout of 2,169 entries. This generated a prize pool exceeding $39,000, nearly eight times the initial guarantee of $5,000.

While the BetMGM Online Series didn’t pose significant competition for PokerStars MI’s series, it did bring some positive developments for BetMGM Poker MI.

PokerStars MI Summer Stacks Festival by the numbers

Event	Event	Buy-in	Guarantee	Entries	Prize Pool	Overlay
1	NLHE (Summer Stacks Warm Up – Stars-B-Que)	$10	$3,500	556	$5,059.60	n/a
2	NLHE (Summer Stacks Kick Off)	$100	$30,000	287	$30,000.00	$3,653.40
3	NLHE (Summer Stacks Mini Kick Off)	$30	$8,000	329	$8,981.70	n/a
4	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$15,000	306	$15,000.00	$1,077.00
5	PLO (6-Max, Progressive KO)	$5	$1,000	245	$1,114.75	n/a
6	NLHE	$50	$8,500	222	$10,101.00	n/a
7	Razz (6-Max)	$10	$1,000	113	$1,028.30	n/a
8	Stud Hi/Lo (6-Max)	$50	$3,500	54	$3,500.00	$1,043.00
9	NLHE (6-Max, Sunday Storm – PKO Edition)	$10	$3,000	312	$3,000.00	$160.80
10	NLHE (Sunday Special)	$100	$60,000	569	$60,000.00	$7,765.80
11	NLHE (Mini Sunday Special)	$30	$10,000	493	$13,458.90	n/a
12	NLHE (Micro Sunday Special)	$5	$3,500	661	$3,500.00	$492.45
13	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$10,000	227	$10,328.50	n/a
14	NLHE (The Big Freeze)	$100	$12,500	132	$12,500.00	$382.40
15	PLO (6-Max)	$30	$4,000	133	$4,000.00	$369.10
16	NLHE (6-Max, PKO, Battle Royale Early Edition)	$10	$3,000	387	$3,521.70	n/a
17	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$10,000	303	$13,786.50	n/a
18	NLHE (6-Max, Progressive KO, Battle Royale)	$100	$20,000	178	$20,000.00	$3,659.60
19	NLHE	$5	$1,500	373	$1,697.15	n/a
20	PLO8 (8-Max)	$20	$2,500	176	$3,203.20	n/a
21	NLHE (Super Tuesday Early Edition)	$10	$3,000	395	$3,594.50	n/a
22	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$10,000	244	$11,102.00	n/a
23	NLHE (Mini Super Tuesday)	$50	$15,000	361	$16,425.50	n/a
24	NLHE (6-Max, Summer Freeze)	$100	$10,000	82	$10,000.00	$2,472.40
25	NLHE (8-Max, Turbo, Progressive KO)	$10	$2,000	294	$2,675.40	n/a
26	NLHE (6-Max)	$20	$4,000	212	$4,000.00	$141.60
27	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$10,000	267	$12,148.50	n/a
28	NLHE (6-Max)	$100	$17,500	191	$17,533.80	n/a
29	NLHE	$30	$5,000	215	$5,869.50	n/a
30	8-Game	$50	$5,000	89	$5,000.00	$950.50
31	NLHE (PKO, Thursday Thrill Early Edition)	$10	$3,000	409	$3,721.90	n/a
32	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$10,000	233	$10,601.50	n/a
33	NLHE (Progressive KO, Mini Thursday Thrill)	$50	$15,000	302	$15,000.00	$1,259.00
34	NLHE (Summer Freeze)	$25	$3,500	159	$3,617.25	n/a
35	PLO (6-Max, Turbo)	$5	$1,000	209	$1,000.00	$49.05
36	NLHE (4-Max, The Big $10 – 4-max Edition)	$10	$2,500	334	$3,039.40	n/a
37	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$10,000	296	$13,468.00	n/a
38	NLHE (8-Max, Mega-Stack Turbo)	$100	$15,000	198	$18,176.40	n/a
39	NLHE	$20	$3,000	263	$4,786.60	n/a
40	NLHE (6-Max, Hyper-Turbo, Progressive KO)	$5	$1,000	267	$1,254.90	n/a
41	NLHE	$10	$2,500	273	$2,500.00	$15.70
42	NLHE (6-Max, Saturday Warm Up)	$20	$5,000	194	$5,000.00	$1,469.20
43	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$10,000	212	$10,000.00	$354.00
44	NLHE (8-Max, Progressive KO, Bigstack)	$100	$20,000	220	$20,196.00	n/a
45	NLHE (8-Max, Progressive KO, Bigstack)	$30	$10,000	400	$10,920.00	n/a
46	NLHE (6-Max, Summer Freeze)	$30	$4,000	80	$4,000.00	$1,816.00
47	5-Card PLO (6-Max)	$10	$2,000	118	$2,000.00	$926.20
48	HORSE (6-Max)	$50	$3,500	43	$3,500.00	$1,543.50
49	NLHE (6-Max, Sunday Storm)	$10	$3,000	222	$3,000.00	$979.80
50	NLHE (Sunday Special)	$100	$60,000	567	$60,000.00	$7,949.40
51	NLHE (Sunday Special – Mid)	$30	$15,000	515	$15,000.00	$940.50
52	NLHE (Sunday Special – Low)	$5	$3,500	591	$3,500.00	$810.95
53	PLO (6-Max)	$30	$3,500	100	$3,500.00	$770.00
54	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$8,000	111	$8,000.00	$2,949.50
55	NLHE (Summer Freeze)	$50	$7,500	136	$7,500.00	$1,312.00
56	NLHE (7-Max)	$5	$1,000	433	$1,970.15	n/a
57	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$10,000	256	$11,648.00	n/a
58	NLHE (6-Max, Progressive KO, Battle Royale)	$100	$20,000	196	$20,000.00	$2,007.20
59	NLHE (6-Max, Progressive KO, Mini Battle Royale)	$30	$8,000	261	$8,000.00	$874.70
60	NLHE	$15	$2,500	220	$3,003.00	n/a
61	NLHE (Super Tuesday Early Edition)	$20	$6,000	397	$7,225.40	n/a
62	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$10,000	222	$10,101.00	n/a
63	NLHE (Mini Super Tuesday)	$75	$17,500	292	$19,929.00	n/a
64	NLHE (6-Max, Summer Freeze)	$100	$12,500	86	$12,500.00	$4,605.20
65	NLHE (4-Max, Turbo)	$30	$4,000	144	$4,000.00	$68.80
66	NLHE (6-Max, The Big $10 – 6-max Edition)	$10	$2,500	350	$3,185.00	n/a
67	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$10,000	294	$13,377.00	n/a
68	NLHE (6-Max)	$50	$10,000	190	$10,000.00	$1,355.00
69	NLHE	$25	$3,500	226	$5,141.50	n/a
70	NLHE (8-Max, Turbo, Progressive KO)	$20	$3,000	255	$4,641.00	n/a
71	NLHE (PKO, Thursday Thrill Early Edition)	$20	$6,000	356	$6,479.20	n/a
72	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$10,000	222	$10,101.00	n/a
73	NLHE (Progressive KO, Mini Thursday Thrill)	$75	$17,500	261	$17,813.25	n/a
74	NLHE (Summer Freeze)	$50	$6,000	100	$6,000.00	$1,450.00
75	NLHE (6-Max, Hyper-Turbo)	$5	$1,000	217	$1,019.90	n/a
76	NLHE (6-Max, Turbo, Fast Friday Early Edition)	$20	$3,500	275	$5,005.00	n/a
77	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$10,000	344	$15,652.00	n/a
78	NLHE (6-Max, Turbo, Fast Friday)	$100	$15,000	136	$15,000.00	$2,515.20
79	NLHE	$100	$12,500	155	$14,229.00	n/a
80	NLHE (Heads-Up, Turbo, Prog. Total KO, Zoom)	$30	$7,500	250	$7,500.00	$675.00
81	NLHE (8-Max, Afternoon Bigstack)	$30	$6,000	345	$9,418.50	n/a
82	Stud (6-Max)	$50	$3,500	49	$3,500.00	$1,270.50
83	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$10,000	279	$12,694.50	n/a
84	NLHE (8-Max, Bigstack)	$100	$25,000	295	$27,081.00	n/a
85	NLHE (8-Max, Bigstack)	$25	$7,000	398	$9,054.50	n/a
86	NLHE (Summer Freeze)	$30	$4,000	118	$4,000.00	$778.60
87	NLHE (4-Max)	$100	$17,500	137	$17,500.00	$4,923.40
88	NLHE (Sunday Drive)	$30	$7,500	309	$8,435.70	n/a
89	NLHE (6-Max, Half Price Sunday Storm)	$5	$2,500	365	$2,500.00	$839.25
90	NLHE (Main Event)	$100	$100,000	1,224	$112,363.20	n/a
91	NLHE (Main Event – Mid)	$30	$25,000	928	$25,334.40	n/a
92	NLHE (Main Event – Low)	$10	$7,500	789	$7,500.00	$320.10
93	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$8,000	177	$8,053.50	n/a
94	NLHE (Summer Freeze)	$15	$2,500	150	$2,500.00	$452.50
95	NLHE (6-Max, Hyper-Turbo, Bigstack)	$50	$6,000	101	$6,000.00	$1,253.00
96	NLHE (6-Max, Mega Stack)	$5	$1,500	398	$1,810.90	n/a
97	NLHE (Summer Stars)	$100	$25,000	317	$29,100.60	n/a
98	NLHE (8-Max, Nightly Summer Stack)	$50	$10,000	278	$12,649.00	n/a
99	NLHE (4-Max, Shootout)	$30	$7,000	94	$7,000.00	$4,433.80
100	NLHE (Summer Freezeout – Last Call)	$10	$1,500	220	$2,002.00	n/a
			TOTALS	27,967	$1,087,430.65	$73,135.10

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