Another Sunday’s worth of major online poker tournaments went down this past weekend at PokerStars, and three players came away with scores well above $100k. As usual, several of the tournaments ended with deals made among the top finishers. What wasn’t so usual was the fact that, in two of the events, the outright winner didn’t walk away with the largest cash prize.
The PokerStars Sunday Million was the richest tournament of the week, with 100 additional players compared to last week. A total of 6,624 players paid $215 buy-ins to generate a prize pool of $1,324,800. The final three players included Bostero10, LEXER1986 and NhPokah, the latter of whom fought back from a massive chip deficit to secure the outright win. NhPokah’s trip 8′s was enough to knock out Bostero10′s A-4, and heads up play concluded shortly thereafter. NhPokah, LEXER1986 and Bostero10 earned scores of $142k, $152k and $162k, respectively due to a unique three-way deal.
The Sunday Warm-Up included about half as many players and the same buy-in, creating a prize pool of $632,200. The top five players made a deal payouts as follows:
5. SirMoonMann – $39,470
4. vasil1976197 – $72,533
3. luwis – $49,568
2. Doroshev G – $66,693
1. WATnlos – $60,847
The most expensive tournament of the week at PokerStars was the Sunday 500, which attracted 755 players to pay a buy-in of $530 each to create a $377.5k prize pool. Milana Jones took the top prize of over $68k.
The biggest tournament of the week was the Sunday Storm. With a buy-in of just $11, 31,179 players entered for a shot at the $312k prize pool. No deal was struck at the final table, and DODIK_01 slogged through the extensive competition to earn just over $29k.
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