Oct 25 2011

Casey Jarzabek, Spyver Win Big in PokerStars Sunday Majors

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Although this past Sunday at PokerStars wasn’t quite as big as the Double Vision Sunday of last week (in which the Sunday Million and Sunday Warm-Up were played twice), several players managed to end the day with six-figure scores, and prize money guarantees were busted across the board as usual.

The biggest win of the day went to unidentified U.K. online poker player Spyver, who took down over $190k in the Sunday Million after striking a deal with runner-up GoldenOne306. The latter player received $158k, while third-place finisher agovque69 earned $105k. It took 10 hours to reach the final table. A total of 6,585 runners generated a prize pool worth over $1.3 million.

The Sunday Warm-Up also had its $500k guarantee busted when 3,395 players paid buy-ins of $215 each. Noted poker pro Casey Jarzabek entered the final table as the chip leader and struggled until five-handed play began. He ended up striking a three-handed deal and winning the tournament, earning $83k in the process. Runners-up TTycho and 4betUr3bet received $82k and $77k, respectively.

The Sunday Storm had a slight raise in attendance this week, drawing 32,106 players to pay buy-ins of $11. Simultanka1 got the biggest piece of the $321k prize pool, taking down nearly $26k after striking a heads-up deal with VINIVINT. The latter player received just under $22k.

The biggest buy-in tournament of the week was the Sunday 500, in which 712 entrants generated a $356k prize pool by paying $530 each. Dean Price won the tournament outright without a deal, earning $64k. Runner-up Alexander Petersen took down $46k for his impressive finish.

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