So where were you on Sunday March 5, 2006? I know, it's not easy to remember that far back. But one thing's for sure, you'll want to remember where to be ten years later.

That date was the day of the first ever Sunday Million, won by "aaaaaaaa" from Canada who picked up $173,843.50 from a prize pool of $1178,600. Back then there was a field of 5,893, an enormous number. Let's just say the field will be slightly bigger for the tenth anniversary Sunday Million which was announced today, with a $10 million guarantee and all to play for on Sunday March 20.

Each year PokerStars marks the anniversary of what is the highlight of the online poker week. The largest and richest Sunday Million took place during PokerStars' 10th Anniversary celebration in December 2011, when 62,116 players set a record online poker prize pool of $12,423,200 that still stands to this day. That tournament was won by 'First-Eagle', also from Canada, for $1,146,574.65.

Last year's Sunday Million 9th Anniversary tournament, which took place in March 2015, was won by 'BRAYDEN93' from Mexico, who topped a field of 50,432 players to pocket $597,719.60 after a seven-handed deal was done at the final table. The total prize pool then was some $10,086,615.

But this is the ten year anniversary of the tournament, which means were in the mood to break records. That's why this time round they'll be a slight change to the format that will allow you to enter not once, not twice, but three times if you need to, boosting the prize pool and leaving at least $1 million to the winner.

It all takes place at 14:30 ET (19.30 GMT/20:30 CET) on Sunday March 20, with the usual buy-in of $215, with late registration for those firing bullets two and three open for the first three hours of play. It's set to be one of the biggest online poker tournaments of the year.

What's more Team PokerStars Pro Jaime Staples will be hosting a live Twitch stream of the tournament while playing himself.

"The Sunday Million Anniversary tournament is one of the biggest events on the poker calendar," said Staples. "And when you throw in a $10 million guaranteed prize pool and more than a thousand free seats as well, it's a tournament that every poker player should aspire to play."

The thousand free seats he mentioned make it within the reach of any player, regardless of bank roll.

Players can qualify for free via weekly Hyper-Turbo Freerolls taking place every Saturday between February 13 and March 19 at 13.47 ET (18.47 GMT / 19.47 CET). Some 1,200 free seats to the 10th anniversary tournament are up for grabs across six freerolls (200 seats per freeroll).

To get a freeroll seat simply make a real money deposit of $20 or more in each qualifying week using the bonus code "MILLIONFREE1" (which come to think of it would make a good username if you need to open a PokerStars account" target="_blank">need to open a PokerStars account. That code changes each week to MILLIONFREE2, all the way to MILLIONFREE6. Full details can be found on the Sunday Million 10th Anniversary homepage.

As well as freerolls, there will be two Deadline Satellites on the day of the tournament. An $11 Deadline Satellite at 13.45 ET will guarantee 1,000 seats, and a $33 Deadline Satellite at 14.05 ET will guarantee a further 333 seats.

Four VIP Bash satellites on consecutive Saturdays from February 27 to March 19 at 15.00 ET will feature 50 Sunday Million 10th Anniversary seats to each of the first three Bash Satellites, with 100 seats available in the final Bash Satellite on March 19. The buy in is just 1,000 StarsCoin.

Then there are the regular cash satellites running around the clock, with buy-ins to suit everyone, with prices starting at $1, all of which can be found on the PokerStars client or app.

Ten years, double figures, with ten figures in the prize pool. Set an alarm, write the date on the wall, and cancel all appointments. In ten years you'll want to be able to say you were there.

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PokerStars player 'Tsitsomitsos' from Greece is not a newcomer to the game. In fact he's been a PokerStars player since 2008 and joined our official poker school, PokerSchoolOnline, in 2011. It took those three tentative years playing recreationally for him to realise that he wanted to take the game more seriously, to work hard on improving his knowledge of the game, and to become a winning player.

That thirst for success and determination to succeed paid-off in January when he topped the Premier Skill League leader-board and collected the $5,000 prize-money that went with it. We took time out with 'Tsitsomitsos' to find out a little more about him and what winning the poker school league means to him.

PokerSchoolOnline: Tell us a little bit about the Monthly Leagues that they run at the Poker School?

Tsitsomitsos: The Monthly Leagues are the best way for new and intermediate players to practice their tournament skills. First of all they are for free, so everyone can participate. Secondly they offer substantial cash prizes at the end of the month so it's another great way for players to build their bankroll.

The Open Skill League is the first step. It emulates perfectly the conditions players are going to find themselves in when they compete in low buy-in, large field MTT's. At the end of each tournament, depending on your finishing position, you get points and at the end of each month you can compare your results to others as well as to your own results in previous months. Unlike regular tournaments you can lose points if you get eliminated too soon.

I can't even begin to describe how brilliant the concept is. The point system teaches players patience and the importance of survival and the monthly ladder motivates them to develop a stable schedule for playing poker. Most importantly it puts their mind-set in long term results. That's what MTT's are about in my opinion, developing a strategy that will allow you to be profitable in the long run. Variance is so high you can't really make any conclusions from the results of a single tournament. So, you can monitor your progress month by month and make adjustments to your strategy.

The top 500 players of Open Skill League get to progress to the following month's Premier League. The Premier has less players competing each month but the average skill level is a lot higher. It better emulates the late stages of a tournament where most weak players have been eliminated and the pay jumps are significant. I was amazed by the discipline and the great decisions players were making when I first started playing these leagues. It forces you to improve and you can learn a lot just by watching others. Because of the cash prizes the motivation to do well is also a lot higher.

PokerSchoolOnline: Now that you've won $5,000 in the leagues what will this mean to your Bankroll? Will you continue to play in the leagues or will you move up to higher stake games?

Tsitsomitsos: I already took my profits at the casino and put them all on red, unfortunately it came black! Seriously, it was a HUGE boost to my bankroll but since I still consider myself new to MTT's I want to progress slowly but steadily. This means I will keep playing the small buy-in tourneys and slowly add some more tournaments that have big prize pools, like the Sunday Storm for example.

I love the Premier League at PokerSchoolOnline and I'm going to continue competing there regardless of my bankroll. It's a unique form of competition you can't find anywhere else, I can't really describe the emotional swings and the pressure of competing at the top of the ladder where literally one point lost or won can be the difference between hundreds of dollars at the end of the month. Besides that free money is definitely +EV .

PokerSchoolOnline: Tell us about the Battleground poker forum threads each month and why it's good to encourage each other as the month progresses.

Tsitsomitsos: The 'Battleground' is a thread I stumbled upon when I was searching about the Skill Leagues in the poker forum at PokerSchoolOnline. It's supposed to be a ladder within the skill league ladder, with the person collecting the most points at the end of the month winning an $11 MTT offered by the poker school. What I found out is that it's more than that. It's a Community of players that support each other and rather than competing we encourage each other to do better and better. Playing online poker is usually a lonely activity but I learned that it doesn't have to be so, knowing that people are cheering for me has given me enormous strength and courage.

Apart from the emotional support there are a lot of experienced players offering valuable advice you can't get anywhere else. I'd highly recommend to anyone reading this to get involved and try it out for themselves.

For more information check out the Poker School League page and the Poker Forum at PokerSchoolOnline.

A look at all the major stories from this past weekend on PokerStars.

Weekend highlights

* LilFishAtL pulls off a remarkable heads-up come back to win the Sunday Million
* Bica999 takes down the Sunday Warm-Up worth $75,000
* Jean Issa wins the Anniversary Special in Manila

Round up of latest results

After the fireworks of TCOOP it was back to normal on PokerStars this weekend, with the usual schedule of weekend majors. But while it was nothing "special" for lack of a better word, the Sunday Million still managed to prove why it's one of the most exciting events of the week, thanks to the performance of winner LilFishAtL.

As Kristin Bihr reported, LilFishAtL's win seemed almost impossible at the heads stage. Turned out it was just improbable. He trailed Grayson "gray31" Ramage by something like seven-to-one in chips, only to win a string of posts in a row to bring him to within reach. You wonder if mentally that kind of thing starts getting to the chip leader (even one as experienced as Ramage), watching your opponent gather the "Big Mo" and then steadily overtake you.

Well, whether that crossed Ramage's mind or not it happened in what proved something of a thriller. The final table report is well worth a read.

That meant the Sunday Warm-Up had a lot to live up to. But what it lacked in drama for the rest of us, it made up for in prize money. At least that's what winner bica999 will be thinking this morning. His heads up scrap against Kovalski1 was relatively straight forward, and good for a first prize of $75,050. David Aydt had the full report on that one.

You can check the results in full below.

PokerStars Sunday Million results (Feb 7, 2016)
Players: 5,718
Prize pool: $1,143,600.00
Places paid: 855

1. LilFishAtL (Mexico) $141,000.00*
2. Grayson "gray31" Ramage (Canada) $156,406.39*
3. 1morepls (Greece) $104,000.00*
4. Jamie "Ship It 2010" O'Connor (United Kingdom) $64,213.14
5. tonyfo14 (Lebanon) $48,031.20
6. Speedyy1986 (Romania) $36,595.20
7. 1974cww (United Kingdom) $25,159.20
8. diablo8807 (Hungary) $14,295.00
9. bRe3za (Germany) $8,920.08
* reflects the results of a three-way deal that left $20,000 in play for the winner

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up results (Feb 7, 2016)
Entrants: 2,375
Total prize pool: $475,000.00
Places paid: 342

1. bica999 (Romania) $75,050.00
2. Kovalski1 (Brazil) $56,368.25
3. osiasgriffin (Austria) $40,375.00
4. yargen (Israel) $27,787.50
5. V.bl0m (Malta) $21,137.50
6. DoePopoe (Germany) $16,387.50
7. Krutenkie (Russia) $11,637.50
8. Bryan "Brryann" Ruiter (Netherlands) $6,887.50
9. leitalopez (Argentina) $4,037.50

The weekend's top online tournament winners

Here's a look at this week's big winners.

You'll find the complete list of major results on PokerStars here for the weekend of February 6-7, 2016.

Lastly for this weekend, British player Jean Issa won the Anniversary Special in Manila on Sunday. He topped a field of 534 in the City of Dreams to pick up his first trophy, sewing up what was easily the biggest win of his poker career worth P461,600 ($9,670). Triccia David was on hand to follow the action for the PokerStars Blog. Read her final table report from Manila here, which features links to all the highlights.

That's all from another weekend on the PokerStars. Our attention turns now to events starting this week in Dublin, which hosts the European Poker Tour for the first time in eight years. Our coverage from the Royal Dublin Society starts on Wednesday.

Congratulations to all of this week's winners. As always send your questions and comments to us on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog.

When this final table was down to its last three players, all signs pointed to a win for Grayson "gray31" Ramage. Only last week, Ramage took down a TCOOP title and over $213k for his victory in the $2,100 NLHE High Roller event and was riding a wave of momentum into this Sunday Million final. Gray31 arrived at the final table with the largest stack and knocked out the eighth, seventh, sixth, fifth, fourth, and third-place finishers to end up heads-up with LilFishAtL at a 7.5 to 1 chip advantage. However, LilFishAtL wasn't about to go gently into this good night and went on a tear, winning five pots in a row, ending in a double-up to 19.4 million. The gap now closed to 2 to 1, LilFishAtL hacked away at gray31 and moved into the chip lead. From there, it wasn't long before gray31 succumbed and LilFishAtL pulled out his first Sunday Million win.

5,718 players bought into this week's Million, pushing the prize pool up to $1,143,600.00. 855 places were paid with first place set to earn $177,260.79.

The blinds were up to 125,000/250,000 with ten players remaining when short stack buiu01 open-shoved for 1.79 million from UTG. 1974cww called, his pocket sixes racing with [Ad][Jh]. The sixes held up on the [5d][5c][3c][7h][9c] board and buiu01 had the misfortune of missing the final table by one one spot.

Final table chip counts

Seat 1: LilFishAtL (7,370,074 in chips)
Seat 2: bRe3za (3,824,187 in chips)
Seat 3: tonyfo14 (3,077,464 in chips)
Seat 4: 1974cww (12,024,757 in chips)
Seat 5: gray31 (14,147,686 in chips)
Seat 6: Speedyy1986 (6,976,067 in chips)
Seat 7: Ship It 2010 (2,338,456 in chips)
Seat 8: 1morepls (2,933,128 in chips)
Seat 9: diablo8807 (4,488,181 in chips)

BRe3za was the first player to depart the final table, exiting in ninth place when his [Ah][Kd] fell to diablo8807's rivered set of tens. Diablo8807, however, was next to go after open-shoving preflop with [Ad][Kc]. Gray31 called with [7h][7d] and they held up on the [Qc][8d][6c][3h][5h] board to send diablo8807 to the rail in eighth. Now up to 19.4 million in chips, gray31 picked up [Ac][Jc] and reshoved over 1974cww's 1.6 million opening raise. 1974cww called and turned up [Qh][Qd], but gray31 rivered an ace on the [7s][6s][3d][8h][Ah] board to end 1974cww's run in seventh place.

With six players remaining, gray31 was up to 28.1 million, LilFishAtL was second in chips with 8.8 million, and the rest of the pack was below 6 million apiece. Having already eliminated two opponents, gray31 went on to win 13 of the next 15 hands, taking out three more players along the way.

When the action folded to him on the button, gray31 moved in with [6h][9c] and Speedyy1986 snap-called with [8h][8c]. The eights held up through the turn, but gray31 spiked a river nine on the [Js][7h][Jd][4c][9h] board and Speedyy1986 went out in sixth. A few hands later, tonyfo14 found [Kh][Jd] and moved all-in from the cutoff. Gray31 three-bet to 8 million with pocket fours and both blinds folded. Gray31's pocket pair held up and tonyfo14 exited in fifth place. Then, with the blinds up to 250,000/500,000, gray31 made a small blind shove with [Ad][8h] and Ship It 2010 called from the big blind with [Kh][Js]. Gray31's ace-high held up on the [7s][7c][2c][6h][3h] board and Ship It 2010 had to settle for fourth place.

Moments later, the final three players agreed to pause the action and discuss a potential deal. Here's how they stacked up at the time:

gray31 46,489,188
LilFishAtL 7,307,684
1morepls 3,383,128

Gray31 was clearly in a great position to negotiate and came away with a deal that guaranteed him over $156k-- significantly more than second-place money with a shot at nearly the full published first-place prize should he win and pick up the additional $20k. Given their short stacks, LilFishAtl (14.5BB) and 1morepls (6.5BB) were pleased to emerge with $121k and $104k shares respectively. With $20k still at stake for the winner, cards went back in the air.

On the first hand back, gray31 opened for a 1,000,000 min-raise and 1morepls shoved for 3.33 million with [As][3s] Although gray31 trailed preflop with [Jc][7d], he picked up a pair of sevens on the flop and jacks up on the turn, ending 1morepls's run in third place.

Heads-up chip counts

Seat 1: LilFishAtL (6,757,684 in chips)
Seat 5: gray31 (50,422,316 in chips)

Although a gray31 victory appeared to be a fait accompli, LilFishAtL wasn't deterred in the least. Despite a 7.5 to 1 chip disadvantage, LilFishAtL won the first four hands in a row and on the fifth, he doubled to 19.4 million when his [Kc][Jh] flopped a pair of jacks vs. gray31's pocket deuces. LilFishAtL and gray31 traded small pots for the next ten minutes, the chip counts remaining relatively unchanged until gray31 opened for 1.2 million and LilFishAtL three-bet to 3.05 million. Gray31 called and they saw a [9h][5c][4s] flop. LilFishAtL led out for 2.8 million and gray31 called. The turn brought the [4d] and LilFishAtL fired another 3.8 million. Again, gray31 called. The river was the [6c] and LilFishAtL moved in for his last 9.9 million. Gray31 called and turned up [As][9s] for nines and fours, but LilFishAtL had him crushed with [Qd][Qs] for queens and fours. LilFishAtL doubled to 39.2 million, leaving gray31 on 17.9 million.

LilFishAtL whittled gray31 all the way down to 10.5 million in chips before gray31 three-bet shoved preflop with [Ks][Td]. LilFishAtL called with [Ah][Qs], but gray31 hit a king on the flop to double back up to 21 million. Gray31 had chipped up to 24.4 million when he opened for 1.6 million with [Kc][Js] and LilFishAtL moved all-in from the big blind. Gray31 called and LilFishAtL turned over [Ad][9c]. The [Qs][Jh][2h] flop moved gray31 into the lead with a pair of jacks, but the turn brought the [As], making LilFishAtL a pair of aces. The river was the [8s] and LilFishAtL pulled off an incredible comeback to win his first Sunday Million title.

Congratulations to LilFishAtL on joining the ranks of Sunday Million champions! He banked an even $141,000.00 for the win. However, thanks to the three-handed deal, runner-up Grayson "gray31" Ramage departed with the largest share of the prize pool at $156,406.39.

PokerStars Sunday Million results for 2-7-2016

Players: 5,718
Prizepool: $1,143,600.00
Places paid: 855

1. LilFishAtL (Mexico) $141,000.00*
2. Grayson "gray31" Ramage (Canada) $156,406.39*
3. 1morepls (Greece) $104,000.00*
4. Jamie "Ship It 2010" O'Connor (United Kingdom) $64,213.14
5. tonyfo14 (Lebanon) $48,031.20
6. Speedyy1986 (Romania) $36,595.20
7. 1974cww (United Kingdom) $25,159.20
8. diablo8807 (Hungary) $14,295.00
9. bRe3za (Germany) $8,920.08

*= reflects the results of a three-way deal that left $20,000 in play for the winner

This was both the fastest and slowest Sunday Warm-Up final table I have covered in the past seven years. First the slow, as bica999 came into the final nine holding a sizable lead but no one busted in the first hour despite many attempts to do so. The second "hour" of final table play only took twenty minutes leading to the coronation of bica999 as this week's champion earning $75,050.00.

While 20 players made it to the eighth hour of play, only 14 would still have the ability to claim the $75K up top after 15 minutes. Chikakaa got a rude exit after getting it all in pre-flop with kings only to have Krutenkie's suited big slick find a rivered flush earning the Finn $1,757.50 in 17th place.

Fengikareh was trying to return to the Sunday Warm-Up final table after taking fourth back in 2012 when Calvin "cal42688" Anderson claimed the victory. But, a return was not to be as fengikareh took away $2,422.50 in 15th place.

With recent WCOOP and Super Tuesday final tables, imluckbox was looking to add the Sunday Warm-Up to this impressive string. After getting it all-in preflop with [Ah][Tc] against bica999's [As][Kc] and flopping a ten, it looked like another Major final table for imluckbox. However, too many spades on the [5s] [Ts] [8s] [2s] [6h] board sent the Australian away short of the final table in 11th place ($3,087.50).

A few minutes later with the blinds up to 40K/80K ante 8K Krutenkie would min-raise from the cutoff as shortstacked suggela shoved 431,690 from the big blind holding [2c][Kc]. Krutenkie had an easy call with pocket nines [9h][9s]. Zero clubs nor kings on the [7d] [Qd] [7h] [Th] [Ah] board opened up the final table below:

Seat 1: leitalopez (984356 in chips)
Seat 2: bica999 (7181760 in chips)
Seat 3: Krutenkie (1727288 in chips)
Seat 4: osiasgriffin (2439107 in chips)
Seat 5: V.bl0m (1926728 in chips)
Seat 6: DoePopoe (2385019 in chips)
Seat 7: Brryann (3136169 in chips)
Seat 8: Kovalski1 (2798958 in chips)
Seat 9: yargen (1170615 in chips)

After the ninth hourly break the eliminations came to a screeching halt despite several all-ins. The only constant was bica999 retaining the chip lead with nearly seven million in chips as no one else could post more than four million with the blinds moving up to 80K/160K ante 16K.

After covering this tournament for several years, this is first time the first full hour of final table play would end with all nine players continuing on to the tenth hour of play. Bica999 would increase the chip lead to 7.7 million as the rest of the table felt the crunch of the blinds since osiasgriffin held the second biggest stack of 2.6 million and blinds at 100K/200K ante 20K.

However, the speed of the tournament from here on out was on par with a TCOOP hyper-tourney.

Sure enough, first hand back leitalopez and yargen jump all-in preflop for a 4.1 million chip pot. Yargen covered with [Ah][Qd] but leitalopez's jacks [Jd][Jh] would make it through the [6d] [7s] [9h] [6c] [3c] board for the double-up.

Holding under two BBs it looked like yargen would be the first to go, but instead leitalopez pressed on with those newly found chips. Three hands after the double-up leitalopez would shove 3.2 million from the button holding [Ah][Js] as bica999 re-shoved from the small blind with tens [Td][Th]. Once again the pocket pair safely made it through the board [Qc] [2c] [9c] [5c] [8s] ending leitalopez's tournament in ninth place ($4,037.50).

While yargen continued to surge doubling-up on the next two hands, the table population predictably decreased. Six hands later with the blinds holding, V.bl0m would shove 1.82 million from the cutoff as a shortstacked Bryan "Brryann" Ruiter called all-in holding [Ts][Qs]. V.bl0m's [Ah][Jc] would find a jack in the door [Jh] [4c] [8s] [8h] [8c] ending the two-time WCOOP and former Sunday Warm-Up champ's night in eighth place.

Three hands later bica999's run towards a Sunday Major win got one player closer. Pushing the full weight of holding over half the chips in play from the button, bica999 was looking for an easy steal. Instead Krutenkie made the call with under a million chips holding [Qs][Kd]. But, bica999's [9h][8c] flopped a straight [Jh] [7h] [Td] [6c] [6d] sending Krutenkie out in seventh place ($11,637.50).

The fast play continued four hands later still in the 100K/200K ante 20K blind level. Osiasgriffin shoved 2.32 million as DoePopoe made the call all-in with 944K holding pocket queens [Qs][Qd]. Osiasgriffin's [Js][Kc] got help right away flopping a king [Ks] [9s] [7h] [Ah] [3s] as DoePopoe departed with $16,387.50 in sixth place.

Five minutes later as the blinds moved to 125K/250K ante 25K V.bl0m, fresh off collecting $38K after finishing in fourth place at TCOOP 2016 Event #46, would try to come from behind and snag a Sunday Major. Instead bica999's stack was too much as V.bl0m's shove with [As][4c] into the chipleader's pocket fives [5h][5d] ended poorly [Tc] [9d] [Js] [6s] [Jh] giving V.bl0m another big payday in fifth place ($21,137.50).

Five hands later yargen tried to chip away at the bica999's stack after shoving under two million with [Kh][Td]. The chipleader was there again to call with pocket nines [9h][9d] and safely got to the other end of the [3d] [Qs] [7d] [4s] [Ad] board, shipping yargen $27,787.50 in fourth place.

Even the frazzled PokerStars Host could not keep up the rate bustouts after announcing yargen's fourth place finish when the tournament ended three hands later.

On the next hand osiagriffin would double up at Kovalski1's expense but the good feeling only lasted a minute. Osiagriffin shoved again on the next hand but this time ran into bica999. Holding [Qd][As] bica999 made the call as osiagriffin's pocket sevens [7d][7h] could not get past the turned queen [2s] [3h] [9s] [Qh] [6s] earning $40,375.00 in third place.

Kovalski1 knew what was up. Typing "gg" and "gl" into the chat box right after the hole cards were dealt as bica999 came into heads-up play with a 21.7 million to 1.99 million chip advantage. Not much room for play as Kovalski1, a former Super Tuesday champ, tried to wedge a little momentum on the first hand shoving with [8d][Ac]. Bica999 was there to call with a similar [As][8s] that managed to attract three more spades [Jc] [7s] [6s] [Kd] [Ks]. The flush gave bica999 $75,050.00 for going wire-to-wire as the Sunday Warm-Up champion!

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up results (02-07-2016)

Entrants: 2,375
Total prize pool: $475,000.00
Places paid: 342

1. bica999 (Romania) $75,050.00
2. Kovalski1 (Brazil) $56,368.25
3. osiasgriffin (Austria) $40,375.00
4. yargen (Israel) $27,787.50
5. V.bl0m (Malta) $21,137.50
6. DoePopoe (Germany) $16,387.50
7. Krutenkie (Russia) $11,637.50
8. Bryan "Brryann" Ruiter (Netherlands) $6,887.50
9. leitalopez (Argentina) $4,037.50

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