First Pokerstars Sunday Million Awarded

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This past Sunday kicked-off the first Sunday Millions over at Pokerstars. More than 8,500 players showed up for the first Pokerstars Sunday Million of 2009 on Sunday.

With 8,504 participants, the $1.5 million guaranteed prize pool for the Sunday Million was as high as $1,700,800, with 1,260 players getting paid in the event.

The first Pokerstars Sunday Million bubble player of the year was tobededope, who left in 1,261st place. Player RSRMCA became the first player to cash in the Sunday Million for 2009. The big winner to kick off the year, however, was stoledog.

After a three-way deal that left stoledog with $150,793.55, he went on to defeat Prom Queens and USA_20080920 to pick up the remaining $30,000.

USA_20080920 may have been the short stack, but he was not going quietly. He was able to double-up through stoledog with pocket aces, Prom Queens ended up taking the third-place.

USA_20080920 was sitting with the chip lead when heads-up play began, but the lead would change a few more times before stoledog finally got the best of USA_20080920.

On the final hand stoledog made an initial raise to $2.4 million, which USA_20080920 countered with $4 million and stoledog called. They saw a flop of 6s 9d Ah, and USA_20080920 led out with a $5 million bet. Stoledog raised to $21.6 million and USA_20080920 shoved all-in.

Stoledog made the call with Ts 9s for middle pair, while USA_20080920 showed As 3s for top pair. However, the Js on the turn gave stoledog more outs, and when the Th fell on the river, stoledog had two pair for the win.

The final-table results were:

1st stoledog $180,793.55
2nd USA_20080920 $108,182.93
3rd Prom Queens $150,000
4th jayvedo $76,536
5th bukithepro $59,528
6th simon1471 $42,520
7th The Midget $29,764
8th aceskay $19,559.20
9th Fold ? Phish $11,905.60

For more information about the Sunday Million or other events at the poker site, visit PokerStars.