Huge Sunday Million generates $550k first prize
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
PokerStars has once again set online poker records – this time they hosted their largest ever Sunday Million tournament as 19,377 players registered to create a prize pool of $3,875,400.
The lucky final nine arrived at the final table all swinging huge chipstacks at the 300,000/600,000/60,000 blind level:
Seat 1: hunter10999 (2,504,305 in chips)
Seat 2: Kostya 77777 (22,418,630 in chips)
Seat 3: OX45AL (21,630,488 in chips)
Seat 4: celofyz33 (37,219,555 in chips)
Seat 5: Gmelkonyan (15,680,889 in chips)
Seat 6: OBVAMENTS (35,982,924 in chips)
Seat 7: austinlewis (18,538,063 in chips)
Seat 8: eMarkM (31,496,958 in chips)
Seat 9: S.Takmaziyan (8,298,188 in chips)
Heads-up action began between OX45AL and celofyz33, with the latter holding a nearly 2-1 chip lead. However, a 3-bet pot and a Ah-7d-Qh flop was all it took as celofyz33 made a semi-bluff with 9h-3h and OX45AL called with A6o, winning the hand by fading hearts and taking the chip lead.
Finally, celofyz33 pushed with Ac-4c but his opponent had picked up QQ. No ace was forthcoming and celofyz33 took an incredible $332,540 for second place while OX45AL earned himself over half a million:
1st place: OX45AL ($550,011.29)
2nd place: celofyz33 ($332,540.00)
3rd place: eMarkM ($244,616.42)
4th place: OBVAMENTS ($166.270.00)
5th place: S.Takmaziyan ($133,016.00)
6th place: Kostya 77777 ($99,762.00)
7th place: Gmelkonyan ($66,508.00)
8th place: austinlewis ($44,227.82)
9th place: hunter10999 ($29,928.60)