Sunday is the biggest day of the week for online poker. In particular, Sunday is when most online sites host their largest tournaments of the week and if they are running an online series, its usually on a Sunday that the main event takes place. Sunday majors will typically be the biggest event on a site in any given week. The main Sunday tournament will have the biggest guarantee of the week and will often take place as a two-day tournament. When sites run online series, they often incorporate their usual Sunday Majors into the schedule.

As Sundays are the busiest day for online poker, many sites increase their mtt guarantees for many of their regular tournaments. They also run special Sunday only events, which will usually have an extensive satellite system running throughout the week. These satellites enable players to get in for a fraction of the usual buy-in and take a shot at an event that is usually outside their bankroll.

Sunday is also the day when the second (and final) day of weekly flighted tournaments take place. Flighted tournaments are those mtts which run several ‘day 1s’ during the week, with all those who make it through the day progressing to the final day on Sunday. Players can enter multiple day 1s, giving themselves more than one chance to qualify for a shot at the big money on the final day. All players who make the final day are usually ‘in the money’ and guaranteed a minimum cash, but formats do vary from site to site and this is not always the case.

As it’s the biggest site in the world, there’s so many tournaments going on at GG poker each and every day. However Sunday is still the big day and there’s plenty of choice to get your grind on. In fact most of the regular tournaments on GG Poker increase their guarantees on Sundays, so whatever your usual choice of event is can be your very own Sunday major. However for those looking for something extra special, there’s a range of big guarantee tournaments that only take place on Sundays.

While the GG Masters events run daily, on Sunday they host three special editions. Unlike many online tournaments, GG Masters events are all singe entry freezeouts, with no re-entry allowed. This ensures a level playing field as pros cannot play a loose strategy with the aim of rebuying if required.

There’s also Million$ tournaments, which has four special events running on Sundays. these events actually run all week as they are multi-flighted tournaments that have several starting days, while Sunday is the final day of each tournament.

Like most sites, Grosvenor Poker, Bet365 and other sites on the iPoker network have always had Sunday as the biggest day of the week. Until recently however the Sunday offering wasn’t the best, with just slightly bigger guarantees on mostly the same tournaments that run every day of the week. However the network has grown significantly in size over the last three years and have overhauled their tournament schedule, augmenting the schedule with several special events, most of which take place on Sundays. Software improvements and the addition of flighted tournament functionality also helped shape the iPoker tournament schedule into a much bigger beast than it had been before. These are the key Sunday tournaments on iPoker sites.

While PokerStars wasn’t the first site to run a regular Sunday Million (Party Poker takes that accolade), they were the site that promoted it the heaviest and when their main competitors fell back after the UIEGA of 2005, PokerStars was left as the sole big player, with 60-70% of the global online poker liquidity. This gave PokerStars the freedom to develop Sundays as the big day of the week, not just with one big event that everyone was aiming for, but with a series of special Sunday events that have the biggest guarantees of the week. 

Despite no longer being the biggest site, PokerStars still has a pretty impressive line up of Sunday Majors and is still the go-to site for a lot of players, especially on Sundays. The showpiece event is the Sunday Million. Originally the Sunday Million had a $215 buy-in, but over the years this has changed and it now costs $109 to play. It is also now a bounty tournament, as PokerStars converted a number of their headline acts to the PKO format as consumer preferences have moved in that direction in recent years. It may even become a Mystery Bounty format at some point in the not too distant future as PokerStars have only recently introduced this format to their repertoire.

For lower buy-in players there is the Mini Sunday Million, with a $22 buy-in and a $125,000 guarantee and like its big brother, it is also a two day event. There is also the Sunday Storm, an $11 buy-in tournament with a $100,000 guarantee. Several of the usual daily tournaments have significantly increased guarantees for their Sunday versions.