The last weekend before the new year was also a record setting one. While PokerStars attempted to host the largest online tournament in history, thousands of players flooded the site, in some instances creating larger than normal prize pools.
A few notables were able to claim wins on Sunday, including Dan "Lenny" Heimiller, who beat out Frank "gator93" Hernandez and Luke "BdbeatSlayer" Vrabel to win the $200 rebuy. Chris "Moorman1" Moorman earned the victory in the $100 rebuy and Matt "All_in_at420" Stout was the top earner in the Sunday 500. James "Andy McLEOD" Obst fell just a bit short with a runner-up finish in the Sunday Warmup.
Read the recaps for Sunday’s flagship events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, UltimateBet, and Bodog below:
PokerStars Sunday Million
The Guinness World Record Attempt had a very positive effect on the usual Sunday Million prize pool. PokerStars bumped up the guarantee to $2.5 million, but the field of 16,260 crushed that number and created their own prize pool of $3,252,000.
A whopping 2,475 places were paid, highlighted with deep runs by Allinat420girl, Mark "QuasiFiction" Hirleman and Brian "ZBTHorton1" Horton. Peter "twirlpro" Turmezey, who won the Sunday Million just one month ago, would have made a strong push for Online Player of the Year honors, but ultimately fell just short in 19th place.
The final two were Ip_SakiSaki and Beufford. Amazingly, no deal was struck with all that money on the line and Ip_SakiSaki was abe to win over $330,000 outright.
Here were the final table results:
- Ip_SakiSaki – $331,378
- Beufford -$227,640
- MauryFishant -$162,600
- k0rt -$130,080
- manifest23 -$97,560
- salmor -$73,170
- AAmerican – $50,406
- La_Alvarado -$32,520
- kharak -$22,764
Full Tilt $750,000 Guaranteed
The big tournament at Full Tilt was down a bit this week as 3,905 entrants put up the $200 buy in to create a total prize pool of $781,000. The numbers were slightly disappointing, but the tournament was only one week removed from the $500 format of last week.
Jeff "YoungSupremacy" Hakim and Chris "cdbr3799" Dombrowski both had a chance to make the final table but were eliminated in 20th and 16th, respectively.
The final two featured former Sunday Million winner KipsterDK and eventual winner jochee, who pocketed $138,276 for his efforts.
Here were the final table results:
- jochee – $138,276
- KipsterDK – $83,567
- Tulsa Tony – $54,670
- TheTotalPkg – $43,111
- Jasonrisc – $32,333
- Wonky – $23,977
- mc4chess – $17,963
- NewBornBaby – $14,058
- StarMaker – $10,465
UltimateBet $200,000 Guaranteed
The $200,000 guaranteed tournament posted a slimmer overlay this week when 936 entrants bought in, meaning the site was only responsible for $22,800.
Though he did fall short at Full Tilt, Jeff "YoungSupremacy" Hakim was able to final table the biggest tournament on UltimateBet. Hakim played hard and ended up with a sixth place finish, good for $8,900.
In the end, Z8ELDRED took out CHAZ2019 for the win.
Here were the final table results:
- Z8ELDRED – $44,660
- CHAZ2019 – $26,700
- DREWBIE – $18,100
- 1P1INSOMNIAC4 – $12,900
- LARRYB27 – $10,900
- Jeff "YoungSupremacy" Hakim – $8,900
- SKANKY980 – $6,900
- TheWiscoKid – $4,900
- DP505719 – $3,400
Bodog $100,000 Guaranteed
Note: This tournament was not held yesterday for reasons unknown.
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