The Sunday Million On PokerStars Sets An Impressive Record

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PokerstarsPokerStars is well-known for their constantly running top notch cash games, and their massive online poker tournaments as well.  This one sets the bar to a new standard though, as their 10th Anniversary Sunday Million tournament offered players a $10 million guarantee.  On top of that, there was also a $2 million payday for the first place winner of the event as well.  Even more exciting about this huge opportunity for players though, is that the buy-in for the Sunday Million is only $215.  PokerStars was in a tough spot here, because in order to hit the guaranteed prize pool of $10 million, they would need to have over 46,000 entrants into the event, which would be unheard of.

This is why it was a shocker when the prize pool ended up being $12,423,200, which is well past the guarantee.  This meant that Pokerstars didn’t have to put any additional money into the tournament, and also that there was an insane amount of players playing in this.  To be exact, there was 62,116 players when all was said and done.  The prize pool of over $12.4 million topped the old record of $12,215,000 that was set during the WCOOP Main Event as well.  And for those of you who are curious what the number to make the money was; well, the top 7,000 players got into the cash of this one.

As you might imagine from a pool this huge, the final table didn’t have the big named players, but it did have a pretty excellent score for one player.  The winner of the event was a Canadian player named Kyle “First-Eagle” Weir, who is actually unemployed, and his old biggest cash was a $4k win.  The final six players in the event decided to do a six way chop, which gave everyone at least $580k.  In an interesting situation, the second place finisher, “unstoffable” actually took home the least amount of money out of everyone, while the fifth place finisher got a payday of almost $1 million because of this chop.

The following is the final table, with the top six players taking part in the six way deal:

  1. Kyle “First-Eagle” Weir – $1,146,574.65
  2. Unstoffable – $580,724.34
  3. BLAABAR – $709,896.78
  4. tunafish919 – $627,317.26
  5. Dimedroll – $995,996.85
  6. SkunDen – $758,986.42
  7. fireballdio– $182,406.00
  8. kaalen – $119,866.80
  9. yokouno1980 – $86,512.56