“diegoaiz” Wins PokerStars Sunday Million Tournament
While most of the world was enjoying a relaxing Sunday afternoon, much of the online poker community was poised to take on the weekly PokerStars.com Sunday Million, with a guaranteed prize pool of $1.5 million.
7,212 online poker players leapt into the action at www.PokerStar.net last Sunday, resulting in something the online poker room is no longer accustomed to – an overlay. While 7,200 players is a massive number, the extreme prize pool of $1.5 million is also massive in its own right, and requires the attendance of 7,500 to cover. Considering PokerStar.com’ regular track record of surpassing that number to boost its guarantees by hundreds of thousands, I must say it was a bit of a shocker to see the online poker room’s first Sunday Million overlay in a very long time.
One by one, more than 7,000 players were quickly eliminated from their virtual seats, left to watch on the sidelines as everyone competed to finish within the top 1,080 spots – the precious “money bubble”. It was a true battle to the bitter end, lasting one minute shy of 12 hours before a winner was revealed.
As the final table shrunk, “FlopeDeNuts” was sent to the rails in 3rd place for a respectable $84,000, leaving heads-up play to commence between the evident skills of “TheRodGuy” and “diegoaiz”. Chip by chip, hand by hand, these two tough competitors gave it everything they had, but the cards fell in the favor of diegaiz this day, eliminating TheRodGuy in 2nd for a worthy cash of $124,950.
The monumental 1st place prize of $184,500 went to diegoaiz of Buenos Aires.
PokerStars Sunday Million $1.5m Guarantee Final Table Results
1st – diegoaiz ($184,500)
2nd – TheRodGuy ($124,950)
3rd – FlopeDeNuts ($84,000)
4th – IamUnlucky ($69,000)
5th – krs528 ($54,000)
6th – UnbrokeN ($39,000)
7th – Bury2k4 ($26,250)
8th – c j mcon ($17,250)
9th – CodeRedRulez ($10,500)
