Are you ready for the biggest online poker tournament in the US in the past 3 years?
It’s happening in December at the US-facing online poker room, Americas Cardroom.
As their website states, it’s been a while since a US online poker room has hosted a tournament with a $1 million guarantee, but that is precisely what Americas Cardroom has planned for December 14th, and according to Americas Cardroom this is the largest US online poker tournament held in over three years.
The Winning Millions tournament, as it is being called, is a $540 buy-in No Limit Holdem event with a $1 million guarantee and a first-place guarantee of $200,000.
In order to hit their $1,000,000 guarantee Americas Cardroom will need to pull in 2,000 players for a $540 tournament, a pretty tall task for any poker room, so their might even be an overlay which would only sweeten the pot.
The again their might not. In fact if ACR has its way they will exceed their guarantee.
So how does Americas Cardroom plan on pulling this tournament off? Satellites, satellites, and more satellites! Over 600 satellites in fact. And with the site announcing the December tournament now, they should be able to get plenty of players registered simply through these satellites, as some 300 seats to the Winning Millions tournament are guaranteed.
The Nightly Satellite
Every night Americas Cardroom will host a $109 reentry satellite into the Winning Millions tournament. The nightly satellite starts at 8:30 PM and will award at least two seats to the $540 Winning Millions tournament. For every five entries in the nightly satellite a Winning Millions seat will be awarded.
Other Satellite options
If $109 is still out of your price range there are several other ways to qualify.
There will be a total of five daily satellite tournaments where players can win their way into the Nightly $109 Satellite tournament for as little as $.50.
*You can find the complete list of these “satellites to the satellite tournament” below.*
Players can also add a third step into the process by participating in one of two daily freerolls to win their way into the Daily $6 tournament, and from their play their way into the nightly satellite — a satellite to the satellite to the nightly satellite if you will.
Finally, there are also around the clock Sit & Go satellites running, each awarding at least one seat into the nightly $109 Satellite. The 9-man $28+$1.40 S&G’s award two seats while the 6-man $24+$1.20 S&G’s award a single seat. It should be noted that both Sit & Go options have extremely favorable rake structures as well.
Here is the full Winning Millions satellite schedule at Americas Cardroom:
| Date | Time (ET) | Tournament | Buy-in | Prize | Details |
| Daily | 10am and 1:30pm | Freeroll | $0+$0 | 3 Seats GTD to the Daily Super $6 | $0.10 Rebuy and $0.25 Addon |
| Daily | 4:15pm | Daily Super $6 | $6+$1 | 2 seats GTD to the Nightly Satellite $109 | Rebuy/Addon |
| Daily | 12:00pm, 2:00pm and 3:30pm | Daily Super Satellite | $0.50 + $0.05 | 1 seat GTD to the $20 turbo | Rebuy/Addon |
| Daily | 5:45pm | $20 Turbo | $20+$2 | 2 seats GTD to the Nightly Satellite $109 | Re-entry |
| Daily | Sit & Go | 9 max Turbo 2 seats GTD | $28 + $1.40 | 2 seats GTD to the Nightly Satellite $109 | |
| Daily | Sit & Go | 6 max Turbo 1 seat GTD | $24 + $1.20 | 1 seat GTD to the Nightly Satellite $109 | |
| Daily | 8:30pm | Nightly Satellite | $100+$9 | 2 seats GTD to the Winning Millions on Dec. 14th | Re-entry |
To insure that your tournament winnings are paid as quickly as possible, all players who reach the final table of the December 14th Winning Millions tournament will receive one free bank wire from Americas Cardroom.