Nov 8 2011
Kevin Steele Wins PokeStars Sunday Million… Again
written by: James under News Comments: Comments Off
It must feel 
pretty good to be Kevin “kevsteele” Steele right now. Back in July of this year, Steele took down over 6,000 players in the PokerStars Sunday Million, the largest regularly scheduled online poker tournament in the world, to win almost $129k. This past Sunday, lightning struck twice when Steele managed to win the Sunday Million again, this time for $169k.
The field was considerably bigger this time, with 6,967 players paying $215 buy-ins to generate a prize pool of over $1.39 million. The final table was stacked, with professional poker players Cesar Garcia and Grayson Ramage trailing “V1rtuozzzzzz” who held 15.8 million chips initially.
Ramage busted early in 8th place when his A-8 failed to improve against the A-K offsuit of “ShipTheFliip.” Garcia hit the virtual rail in sixth place when A-9 suited topped his K-2 offsuit.
When four-handed play began, the remaining runners decided to split the pot and leave $20k in reserve for the winner. Steele went on a major heater at this point, busting “Sir_Ellwood” and “ShipTheFliip” in 3rd and 4th places, respectively. Heads-up play began between Steele and “V1rtuozzzzzz.”
Amazingly, Steele won on the strength of 7-2 offsuit. “V1rtuozzzzzz” held A-10 suited, but a garbage flop and a 2 on the turn secured the $169k for Steele. All of the top four finishers received six-figure scores.
The only other $100k+ score this past Sunday went to flexaccou, who won the Sunday Warm-Up. A total of 3,664 players paid buy-ins of $215 each for a $733k prize pool. No deal was struck at the final table, awarding $115k to flexaccou and $86k to runner-up Steve Paul-Ambrose.
The Sunday Storm, an excellent barometer of online tournament interest week-to-week, was up in attendance by over 1,000 runners this past Sunday. Over 33k players paid $11 buy-ins. A six-handed deal was struck, awarding lia007 $20.5k for the eventual win.
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