Stake Poker has unveiled the Centurion Millions Poker Series, a $2,000,000 guaranteed festival that runs in two phases from May 10 to June 8 and pairs $0.01 Centrolls with a $300,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event. It is the most aggressive low-stakes-to-high-stakes funnel any of the crypto-first rooms have shipped this year, and it lands at a moment when the rest of the operator pack is quietly trimming guarantees.
Stake is splitting the series into two halves with $1,000,000 guaranteed in each. The first half is the CENT-urion Centrolls, daily one-cent tournaments running May 10 to May 25 and feeding into the main schedule. The second half is the Centurion $1,000,000 GTD Series, May 26 to June 8, with regular buy-ins from $5 up to $200. Players can register at Stake Poker and grind the Centrolls from May 10.
CENT-urion Centrolls: 1-cent buy-ins, $1,000,000 guaranteed
From May 10 to May 25 every Centroll on the schedule costs one cent and contributes to a $1,000,000 prize fund made up of cash and tickets into the headline events of the second phase. The format is built for volume: a player can grind dozens of Centrolls a day, build a stack of tickets toward the Warmup or the Main Event and never reload.
Stake is layering a streamer-bounty mechanic on top. Every Stake-tagged streamer in a Centroll carries a $100 bounty during the May 10 to May 25 window, paid instantly to the player who busts them. It is a smart hook for the creator economy, every Twitch and Kick stream becomes a live $100 freeroll for the audience grinding the same lobby, and Stake gets the inverse, a real-money reason for viewers to log in and play during a stream.
The $1,000,000 main schedule: $5 to $200 buy-ins
From May 26 to June 8 the main Centurion Millions schedule takes over with $1,000,000 in regular tournament guarantees, buy-ins from $5 to $200 and individual guarantees climbing as high as $300,000. The headline events are both phased Mystery Bounty tournaments, the format that has driven recreational sign-ups across the operator pack for the past two seasons.
Centurion Warmup: $100 entry, $100,000 GTD
The Warmup runs as a phased Mystery Bounty at a $100 buy-in with a $100,000 guarantee. A phased structure means players can take multiple shots at Day 1 and combine surviving stacks for Day 2, while the Mystery Bounty layer pays a random sealed bounty for every elimination. It is a mid-stakes recreational format that has been a hit for GGPoker's Daily Legends and PokerStars's Sunday Million series, and Stake is using it as the staging tournament for its biggest event.
Centurion Millions Main Event: $200 entry, $300,000 GTD
The Main Event is the largest tournament Stake Poker has ever scheduled. It is a phased Mystery Bounty at $200 entry with $300,000 guaranteed and bounties starting at $100, building toward six-figure mystery prizes through the field. With Centroll satellites feeding into it for one cent and direct buy-ins capped at $200, the Main Event is engineered for an enormous recreational field, exactly the audience Stake is targeting through its streamer bounty programme in phase one.
Why this matters
Centrolls are the same play that built the PokerStars Spin & Go pipeline a decade ago: tiny entry, massive top of the funnel, a clean storytelling arc for streamers and YouTubers. A creator who turns one cent into a Main Event seat is the kind of viral run a poker content slate is built around, and a 16-day window with daily Centrolls gives every Stake-leaning streamer 16 chances to land that beat. Stake has been one of the most aggressive crypto-first rooms on guarantees this cycle, and the 1-cent feeder volume signals it is going after the recreational market that the legacy operators have dominated for the past two years, just at a much lower entry point. For grinders, the math is simple: one-cent buy-ins with $1,000,000 in guarantees are one of the highest overlay-per-dollar opportunities in online poker right now.
How to play
Centrolls open in the Stake Poker tournament lobby on May 10. The full schedule, Mystery Bounty rules and streamer-bounty terms are published on Stake's promotion page, and registration is live now. Sign up at Stake Poker to play the Centroll feeders from May 10 and grab a Main Event seat for one cent. Always gamble responsibly. For help, visit BeGambleAware or NCPG.