The PokerStars PA Summer Series concluded on Sunday. Like other tournament series hosted on what is still the only online poker site up and running in Pennsylvania, it was a success.
Prize pools for the 38 events ultimately totaled $1,175,463.85. That amount was well clear of the $757,000 in total guarantees.
Big turnouts throughout, Main Event prize pool $242K
All told, there were 19,492 total entries over the 11-day series, including 13,638 uniques.
Only one event during the entire series had an overlay. The $100 buy-in Sunday Special SE during the first weekend had over a thousand entries. But it needed about 50 more to hit its guarantee, and so had a $4,436.20 overlay.
Meanwhile, turnouts were consistently large for nearly all of the events. About a third of the tournaments on the schedule ended up with prize pools more than twice the size of the guarantees.
The $200 Main Event had a $150,000 guarantee, and with 1,303 total entries, the prize pool ballooned to $242,358.
The tournament ended with a three-way deal. “ComecomecomeTD” eventually won, taking a first-place prize of $30,146.23, while both runner-up “rancidpuil” and third-place finisher “Lachoy14” took away more than $27K.
PokerStars New Jersey Summer Series also ends on high note
The PokerStars NJ Summer Series also concluded on Sunday, a nearly identical series featuring 40 events and guarantees that added up to $500,000.
In the end, only four events on the schedule failed to reach their guarantees, each having small overlays. On the whole, prize pools for all events added up to more than $640,000.
The PokerStars NJ version of the Summer Series Main Event featured a bigger buy-in of $300. Ultimately, the tournament drew 348 total entries to create a $97,440 prize pool, comfortably besting the $75K guarantee.
Summer Series likely to deliver June revenue boost for PokerStars PA
The successful Summer Series should help PokerStars PA put up another healthy revenue number in June.
April saw the site top the $5.3 million mark, its biggest month since launching last November. May was also big, with a revenue total of about $4.6 million, the second-largest monthly total recorded by the site.
Online poker in Pennsylvania (and elsewhere) has seen a traffic boost since mid-March, when the coronavirus forced all of the state’s casinos to shutter their doors.
As of today, all but one of the 12 PA casinos have reopened. However, none of the casinos’ poker rooms are in operation as of yet. Casinos will follow recommendations from the CDC and the PA Department of Health before reintroducing live poker.
PokerStars PA Summer Series by the numbers
| Event | Buy-In | Guarantee | Entries | Re-Entries | Prize Pool | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event 1: Summer Series Kick-Off [8-Max] | $100 | $30,000 | 544 | 255 | $73,348.20 | |
| Event 2: Summer Series Mini Kick-Off [8-Max] | $20 | $7,500 | 624 | 216 | $15,288.00 | |
| Event 3: Thursday Thrill SE [Progressive KO] | $200 | $25,000 | 208 | 83 | $54,126.00 | |
| Event 4: Mini Thrill [Progressive KO] | $30 | $12,500 | 521 | 243 | $20,857.20 | |
| Event 5: NLHE [8-Max] | $75 | $10,000 | 200 | 61 | $17,813.25 | |
| Event 6: Escalating Antes | $50 | $10,000 | 435 | 198 | $28,801.50 | |
| Event 7: NLHE [6-Max] | $20 | $6,000 | 466 | 162 | $11,429.60 | |
| Event 8: NLHE [6-Max] | $100 | $20,000 | 233 | 125 | $32,864.40 | |
| Event 9: PLO [6-Max] | $50 | $5,000 | 211 | 78 | $13,149.50 | |
| Event 10: Progressive KO [8-Max] | $75 | $7,500 | 210 | 53 | $18,541.50 | |
| Event 11: NLHE [6-Max] | $75 | $20,000 | 241 | 105 | $23,614.50 | |
| Event 12: Sunday Special SE | $100 | $100,000 | 678 | 363 | $100,000.00* | |
| Event 13: Mini Special | $25 | $15,000 | 583 | 189 | $17,563.00 | |
| Event 14: Progressive KO [8-Max] | $75 | $12,500 | 326 | 112 | $29,893.50 | |
| Event 15: Sunday Supersonic SE | $50 | $10,000 | 237 | 51 | $13,536.00 | |
| Event 16: NLHE [4-Max] | $20 | $7,500 | 504 | 242 | $13,577.20 | |
| Event 17: Battle Royale SE [Progressive KO, 6-Max] | $50 | $15,000 | 408 | 195 | $27,436.50 | |
| Event 18: NLHE [8-Max] | $75 | $7,500 | 175 | 78 | $17,267.25 | |
| Event 19: Super Tuesday SE | $200 | $35,000 | 252 | 121 | $69,378.00 | |
| Event 20: Mini Super Tuesday | $20 | $15,000 | 681 | 289 | $17,654.00 | |
| Event 21: Progressive KO [8-Max] | $50 | $7,500 | 266 | 106 | $16,926.00 | |
| Event 22: NLHE 6-Max | $50 | $10,000 | 263 | 96 | $16,334.50 | |
| Event 23: High Roller [6-Max] | $500 | $35,000 | 107 | 39 | $68,620.00 | |
| Event 24: PLO 8-Max [Progressive KO] | $20 | $5,000 | 253 | 97 | $6,370.00 | |
| Event 25: Thursday Thrill SE [Progressive KO] | $200 | $30,000 | 210 | 78 | $53,568.00 | |
| Event 26: Mini Thrill [Progressive KO] | $20 | $15,000 | 690 | 383 | $19,528.60 | |
| Event 27: NLHE 6-Max | $100 | $12,500 | 179 | 63 | $22,215.60 | |
| Event 28: NL Omaha Hi/Lo [6-Max] | $50 | $5,000 | 134 | 41 | $7,962.50 | |
| Event 29: NLHE 6-Max [Progressive KO] | $100 | $25,000 | 305 | 122 | $39,198.60 | |
| Event 30: NLHE 8-Max | $20 | $5,000 | 258 | 68 | $6,128.80 | |
| Event 31: $30 NLHE | $30 | $7,500 | 406 | 190 | $16,270.80 | |
| Event 32: $100 NLHE 8-Max [Progressive KO] | $100 | $20,000 | 266 | 64 | $30,294.00 | |
| Event 33: $50 PLO 6-Max | $50 | $3,500 | 113 | 42 | $7,052.50 | |
| Event 34: $20 NLHE 6-Max [Progressive KO] | $20 | $10,000 | 509 | 268 | $14,141.40 | |
| Event 35: $200 Main Event | $200 | $150,000 | 811 | 492 | $242,358.00 | |
| Event 36: $50 Mini Main | $50 | $25,000 | 729 | 315 | $47,502.00 | |
| Event 37: $100 PLO 6-Max | $100 | $10,000 | 150 | 94 | $22,399.20 | |
| Event 38: $75 Series Wrap-Up [8-Max] | $75 | $10,000 | 252 | 77 | $22,454.25 |
*Event #12 had an overlay of $4,436.20
