Dara O'Kearney (famous poker book author), runs deep in the MicroMillions MainEvent on Pokerstars

Poker Orifice · Aug 31, 2026

15,000 entrants today in Pokerstars $22 MicroMillions MainEvent. Famous poker book author, Dara O'Kearney has a deep run taking 14th place.

Just a little over $1,000. Not too bad for a $22 investment!

How many of you all skipped this one due to Pokerstars being such a crappy site? 😛

Poker Orifice · Aug 31, 2026

Oops. I forgot to post the screenshot.

fundiver199 · Aug 31, 2026

Good for him although I suspect, he has had far bigger cashes during his career 🙂

NotADonk · Aug 31, 2026

Poker Orifice said:
15,000 entrants today in Pokerstars $22 MicroMillions MainEvent. Famous poker book author, Dara O'Kearney has a deep run taking 14th place.

Just a little over $1,000. Not too bad for a $22 investment!

How many of you all skipped this one due to Pokerstars being such a crappy site? 😛

14/15000, So top 0.1%, quite the achievement with such a large field. Congrats to him !
(although I don't play much on Stars nowadays)

G0930 · Aug 31, 2026

fundiver199 said:
Good for him although I suspect, he has had far bigger cashes during his career 🙂

I think this is bigger news for PokerOrifice than it is for Dara.
Just another cash 🤷🏼‍♂️

Sunz of Beaches · Aug 31, 2026

G0930 said:
I think this is bigger news for PokerOrifice than it is for Dara.
Just another cash 🤷🏼‍♂️

I think he just wanted to show that the site, despite what lots of people say on the forum, is still alive and their tournament series is going well.

Upon checking a bit the lobby he saw a familliar name under the top 100. Yes thats not a special cash for Dana u are right but still quite the run in such a large field and approx 50 x buy-in won.

Guess this should have happened on GG to really count as "news" for you 😅

fundiver199 · Aug 31, 2026

Sunz of Beaches said:
I think he just wanted to show that the site, despite what lots of people say on the forum, is still alive and their tournament series is going well.

Yes that was almost certainly the point. Getting 15.000 entries for a $22 tournament and also attracting famous players like Dara O'Kearney is quite impressive. If 888 Poker hold a similar event, what could they hope to get, like maybe 500?

Sunz of Beaches · Aug 31, 2026

fundiver199 said:
Yes that was almost certainly the point. Getting 15.000 entries for a $22 tournament and also attracting famous players like Dara O'Kearney is quite impressive. If 888 Poker hold a similar event, what could they hope to get, like maybe 500?

Yeah would be under 1k participants most likely

hardongear · Sep 1, 2026

15,000 runners in a $22 Micro Millions event is very solid numbers but then Pokerstars always could get and will likely always get good numbers for their big events/series. Some will hate it but Pokerstars is still the 2nd best and biggest site and it's not even really close. Wish I could have played in this one but sadly had other things to do on Sunday that couldn't be put off.

Cheers!!!

RisingRoyal · Sep 1, 2026

Hi RisingRoyal here. I am looking forward to this group. I have played for several years. However, I had to step away for a while, now I am slowly getting back in the swing of things.

Sunz of Beaches · Sep 1, 2026

RisingRoyal said:
Hi RisingRoyal here. I am looking forward to this group. I have played for several years. However, I had to step away for a while, now I am slowly getting back in the swing of things.

Hi and welcome.

U should post thst in new members corner. Here we are discussing