Nearly every competitive sport has its big days. In the UK Saturday is the big day, where footballers take the pitch and fans flood the stadiums in masses in support of their favorite football club. American football’s big day is Sunday, where the players suit up to hit the gridiron with fans in the stands and millions of viewers watching from home as well as the pub. Like the NFL, poker’s big day of the week is Sunday, as the major online poker rooms hold their flagship tournaments offering plenty of top quality and rich tournament action. PokerStars and FullTilt lead the way in their Sunday poker line-up.

PokerStars Sunday Best

As the leading online poker room, PokerStars serves up a giant buffet of guaranteed poker tournaments, where online tournament specialists will get more than their fill of tournaments guaranteed to curb even the hungriest of tournament player’s appetites.

Sundays kick off on PokerStars at 12:45pm Eastern Time, with the Sunday Warm-up. A mere $215 gives poker players a shot at a solid $750K, which is not too shabby for a mere “warm-up” event. Satellite qualifiers to the Sunday warm-up are available regularly at PokerStars.

Next on the Sunday stop is the $80 Grand Sunday Special. What makes an $80K tournament so special, you ask? Simply put, PokerStars has turned their $55 buy-in $80K guaranteed tournament into a $200K guaranteed event. This guaranteed tourney gives players who are on a tight budget a shot at a great guaranteed payday. The beefed up Sunday special deals its first cards at 3pm ET.

Speaking of tight budgets, another poker tournament friendly on the bankroll, but rich in prize money is the $11 Sunday Quarter Million. This tournament is in fact appropriately named, as $250K is sure to be in the prize pool. The Sunday Quarter Million Guarantee shuffles up at 3:30pm ET each Sunday.

Moving right along, the franchise tournament – the PokerStars Sunday Million begins at 4:30pm ET. This monstrous tournament contains $1.5 million in guaranteed tournament cash. The Sunday Million at PokerStars is by far the most prestigious of the Sunday Tournaments. Satellites run in support of this tournament virtually non-stop.

Anchoring the Sunday Guaranteed Line-up at PokerStars is the $109 $150K guaranteed tournament. This rebuy guaranteed tournament takes place at 7:30pm ET and caps out at a maximum of 1400 players.

FullTilt’s Sunday Best

While FullTilt Poker runs guaranteed tournaments throughout the day, their more traditional Sunday Line-up gets a bit of a late start. Just because it is later to rise, does not mean it is not worthwhile. FullTilt starts their Sunday best with the $200K Double Deuce. The Double D guarantees $200,000 in the prize pool and allows for entry for a mere $22 buy-in. Like this tournament’s catch phrase suggest, just bring $22 and a dream.

6pm ET symbolizes the start time for the big FullTilt Poker $750K Guarantee. This tournament commands a $215 buy-in. Just like most all the big Sunday events, satellites run regularly to give players the opportunity to win the right to compete for a sure $750K in a more efficient manner.

While FullTilt and PokerStars both put on a worthwhile show of guaranteed tournament action, PokerStars clearly runs the best Sunday Lineup. The Sunday line at PokerStars is longer, and the prize pool larger.