James "P0KERPR0" Campbell has been topping online poker leader boards almost since he broke into the game in his early 20s. It's no wonder, then, that a player of such skill would eventually take down the most prestigious weekly online tournament out there - the PokerStars Sunday... more

James “P0KERPR0” Campbell has been topping online poker leader boards almost since he broke into the game in his early 20s. It’s no wonder, then, that a player of such skill would eventually take down the most prestigious weekly online tournament out there – the PokerStars Sunday Million.

The Sunday Million is often compared to the World Series of Poker main event because winning the tournament requires navigating a tremendously large field. Given that the winner needs to survive through a field of 6,500-7,500 entrants, it is both likely that the winner will become noteworthy for his win and unlikely that an already noteworthy player will take it down (because there are so few notables relative to the total field).

Campbell became one of the minority of unlikely winners who had already been a prominent player in his own right, which earned him a huge amount of respect from his peers (not to mention a huge amount of money, $180,000).

Campbell made his incredible score on April 15, 2007 but, as said before, he had chalked up considerable success even before that. In just the three and a half months before his big win, he had already made two first-place finishes and two second-place finishes in big-deal online tournaments with prize pools of more than $100,000. He earned $115,000 from those four cashes alone.

While many Internet pros eventually transition to big-buy-in live tournaments, Campbell seems to be content with keeping his game online. This being the case, his live-poker accomplishments are slim; he has just less than $34,000 in live-tournament winnings and only one final table on record. So, while live-poker enthusiasts needn’t worry about Campbell yet, the online world’s threat level is definitely in the crimson.

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