On Any Sunday: Sunday Tournament Weekly Wrap-up

PokerStars, the king of the online poker jungle, set another milestone for record attendance in their popular Sunday Million tournament, offering a “Special Edition” of the tourney with a hefty $2 million guarantee. When the dust had cleared an online poker player who uses the name OX45AL had taken down a record prize pool, winning over a half a million dollars.

The numbers spoke for themselves: the largest ever Sunday Million field equaled 19,377 players and the largest ever Sunday Million prize pool added up to almost 4 million dollars, a whopping $3,875,400. The previous PokerStars record was short lived having been set back in November of 2009 with a field of 18,283 players and a prize pool of around $3.6 million.

Top Five PokerStars Sunday Million Results for 01/31/10:

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)

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This past Sunday was also a super smash at Full Tilt Poker who were in the process of closing out their $25 Million Double Guarantees Week promo with a grand finale monster bash called Big Money Sunday. The weekly $750K Sunday Guarantee tournament was of course doubled to become a $1.5 million guarantee tournament. A swarm of 7,578 players battled it out for a prize pool totaling $1,515,600, with first place being worth a quarter of a million dollars.

Top Five Full Tilt $1.5 Million Guarantee Results for 01/31/10:

1st: BankOfSweden  ($212,044.60)

2nd: extassyman ($210,050.00)

3rd: zhuoyu19791979 ($125,794.80)

4th: xTrumptightx ($93,967.20)

5th: SIGGYFREUD ($68,202.00)

The Full Tilt Sunday Brawl was also a hot tournament ticket. It swelled to 4,088 entrants, and a total prize pool of $817,600, with the player ozram adding $161,884.80 to his bankroll.

Top Five Full Tilt Sunday Brawl Results for 01/31/10:

1st: ozram ($161,884.80)

2nd: swingindoubleds ($99,747.20)

3rd: HustleHyene ($71,948.80)

4th: mcpickl ($50,691.20)

5th: Rasmus “mrvogt” Vogt ($36,792.00)

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Additionally, in keeping with this week’s theme of mega Sunday events, UB.com held its UB Online Championship (UBOC) thousand-dollar buy-in Main Event, with 1307 players easily covering the million-dollar guarantee. The top prize here was worth almost $300,000 and 135 places were paid in all.

Top Five UBOC Main Event Results for 01/31/10:

1st: DOUBLEDAVE22 ($279,045)

2nd: SUPERMODL ($163,244)

3rd: BS0228 ($115,016)

4th: WAWA711 ($83,648)

5th: MICHAELBINGER ($69,925)

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For players looking for a smaller field, Bodog’s $100k Guaranteed is hard to beat. This week’s event drew 497 entrants – clearly not enough to cover the 100K guarantee – prompting Bodog to add over 24 grand to the pot. This $150+12 tournament paid the top 63 spots and was good for a first prize plays 25 grand.

Top Five Bodog $100k Guaranteed Results for 01/31/10:

1st: fakker11 ($25,000)

2nd: pokerarg ($15,000)

3rd: Jack0fAllTrades ($9,500)

4th: chiquita ($7,000)

5th: iLLNuGWichee ($5,500)

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And finally there was Cake Poker’s regular $250,000 Guarantee with over 1200 entrants boosting the prize pool to $299,500, paying 180 places with a first prize of almost 60 grand.

Top Five Cake Poker $250,000 Guarantee Results for 01/31/10:

1st: tkloss98 ($59,301)

2nd: FERDILICIOUS ($41,630)

3rd: sirrudy ($27,793)

4th: Fastcheck J ($20,545)

5th: doleman19+1 ($13,896)

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