PokerStars is offering $400,000 in Sunday Million tickets through its Spooky Season Challenge, running from October 11 to November 7, 2026. Players who collect five Spooky Season chips within a weekly challenge period earn an entry to that week's All-in Shootout, with $100,000 in tickets available at each of the four events.
Earn Five Chips to Enter a Shootout
Players must opt in through the PokerStars Challenges Window before their play can count toward challenge progress. Opting in also gives them an exclusive Spooky Season Throwable.
Players earn one chip each time they complete any of these challenges:
- Play 25 hands of All-In Poker.
- Knock out eight players in Spin & Go.
- Play two multi-table tournaments (MTTs).
- Play one Spooky Season tournament.
Players can repeat any challenge or switch between game types. Within each game type, challenges must be completed in sequence.
Spooky Season tournaments also count toward the MTT challenge. Playing two Spooky Season tournaments, for example, earns three chips: two from the Spooky Season tournament challenge and one from completing the two-MTT requirement.
Collecting five chips automatically registers a player for that week's Spooky Season All-in Shootout. Each player is limited to one entry per shootout.
Challenge progress resets at the end of each week, and any chips that have not been used to secure a shootout entry expire.
Four Shootouts With $100,000 in Tickets Each
The Spooky Season All-in Shootouts are scheduled for October 18, October 25, November 1 and November 8, 2026, all starting at 02:00 ET.
Each tournament offers $100,000 worth of $109 Sunday Million tickets.
Registered players are automatically placed all-in during the shootout, with no need to log in or make any decisions.
Winners receive their Sunday Million tickets immediately after each tournament finishes. A full prize breakdown is available in the relevant tournament lobby.
Five chips secure a shootout entry, not a guaranteed Sunday Million ticket.
Eligibility and Entry Restrictions
Players need an active, verified PokerStars real-money account to participate.
Only specified real-money poker games played using a player's cash balance count toward the challenges. Tournament re-entries and entries made using tickets or T-Money are excluded.
Players only need to opt in once for the entire promotion, but games played before opting in do not count.
The first challenge period began at 08:00 ET on October 11, and the final period closes at 23:59 ET on November 7. The last All-in Shootout takes place on November 8.
Spooky Season Features a $1 Million Sunday Million
PokerStars' Spooky Season tournament schedule includes three $250,000 guaranteed Spooky Sunday Special (PKO) events on October 11, October 25 and November 1.
A $200,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty, Super Sunday is also scheduled for October 18.
The Spooky Season Finale Sunday Million (PKO) takes place on November 8 at 13:05 ET, with a $109 buy-in and a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Players can buy into the larger Spooky Season events directly or seek entry through satellites.
