PokerStars to Make 2 New Millionaires on Sunday, May 10

PokerStars will make some dreams come true this Sunday as 12 players will compete at two separate 6-max SitNGos where the winner of each contest will win $1 million.

The 12 players all advanced to the SNGs through the PokerStars Makes Millionaires promotion. While some millionaires have emerged from $5 Spin & Gos during the promo, the two newest to join the million-dollar club on Sunday started their journey by first completing various poker hand challenges.

Those challenges consisted of winning ring game hands with the likes of A-K and pocket fives in the hole. The next step following accomplishing hand challenges was to be entered into All-In Shootouts where each players' entire stack of chips are pushed into the pot every hand.

The winners of the All-In Shootouts will now face off at 13:00 ET on Mother's Day in the 6-max SNGs. Sixth place is guaranteed $10,000, and each player finishing a place higher gets $10,000 more on up to $50,000 for second place. Both the second and third place finishers will also be awarded 1 million FPPs in addition to the prize money.

Of course the big prize of $1,000,000 is reserved for first place. Of the dozen players, four are from Russia, while the eight others come from the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Germany, China, Canada, Taiwan, Hungary and the UK.

Those who would like to watch the action can do so on Team PokerStars Pro Randy Lew's Twitch channel. Or go to the PokerStars lobby and search "final."

"I'm so excited to rail this event," Lew told PokerStars Blog. "Not only is winning $1 million for first going to be sick, look at the payout structure. Most notably is the difference between first and second place. The tension is going to be so high when they finally get to heads up."

Indeed. The two finalists at each table will be separated in prize money by $950,000. No deal-making is permitted, meaning that two new millionaires will be made. Guaranteed.