PokerStars Sunday Million - Sun 16th March 2008
$215 buy-in - 7394 entrants
Result:
1. C00LHandNuke - $208,511
2. Shark’Le - $104,995
3. RaSZi - $73,940
4. Vorcirion - $59,152
5. LennyL - $44,364
6. idlehours - $32,534
7. pusteblume - $22,921
8. FrgzAnonymus - $13,309
9. debrisfish - $8,725
My feeling for the last few years is that ComeOnPhish is the best rebuy player on the planet. Sure, there is always some new kid on the block who looks like he is “better”, but often those guys soon fade to the MTT variance. ComeOnPhish however has consistantly carved it up in the rebuys at all levels for a very long time. Just when it looks like a cold streak is coming, he’ll be back hammering out the final tables. He is most definately a rebuy legend.
Here is another good result (from last night):
PokerStars $150k Guaranteed $215 NLHE w/rebuys
319 entrants
1. HEMIpowerSWT - $47,080
2. ComeOnPhish - $32,314
3. PaulGB - $22,042
4. KtheKing - $17,120
5. 16968 - $12,840
6. mainmanjg - $10,058
7. PearlJammer - $7,704
8. gedhanna - $5,564
9. yellowsub86 - $3,424
Full Tilt $250k Guaranteed Sunday Brawl - Sun 16th March 2008
Bounty Tournament - $256 Buy-in - 1637 entrants
Result:
AriBehn - $70,391
bobojon - $44,526
ScFranco - $33,067
Sergio Momesso - $26,192
BigdaddyD1 - $19,644
jklaen - $14,078
Prosperitas - $9,167
millner - $6,548
ThAActor - $4,584
Full Tilt $1 Million Guaranteed - Sunday 16th March 2008
$535 buy-in - 2245 entrants
IWEARGOGGLES followed up his Sunday Mulligan win from 25th Nov 07, with a 2nd place in the Full Tilt $1 million guaranteed last night.
The top prize winners:
1. Plotinus - $205,923
2. IWEARGOGGLES - $126,394
3. Lina Love - $82,728
4. LagTart - $66,003
5. 6speed - $49,951
6. SemiEvil - $35,920
7. SkaDoodle - $26,379
8. Mr Perfekt - $20,654
9. Drew843 - $15,715
(His win in November was 1st out of 4025, winning $142,155)
277 players put up $5150 a piece to enter the main event of the WSOP Circuit Event in AC. Online specialist Eric “Sheets” Haber came through the field to take the victory.
Here is the result
1 $ 431,136 Eric Haber
2 $ 237,124 Dan Hicks
3 $ 121,257 Sumeet Batra
4 $ 94,311 Soheil Shamseddin
5 $ 80,838 Steve Greenberg
6 $ 67,365 Nick Binger
7 $ 53,892 Scott Blackman
8 $ 40,419 Steven Merrifield
9 $ 26,946 Marc Morris
Jonathan Little has been axed as a Full Tilt Pro after allowing someone else to play on his account. Whereas it may seem a little harsh to some, I believe it is important that the red pros are actually the named players themselves, especially considering the number of railers that they draw, and questions that they encounter.
Here is the full statement from Full Tilt Poker
”Despite having a great year on the WPT, Jonathan Little is no longer affiliated with Full Tilt Poker. He violated the terms and conditions of Full Tilt Poker by allowing other players to play his account. While we encourage our pros to play as much as they can, we do not allow them to share their account with any other players.
When a player on Full Tilt Poker plays against and chats with a red pro on the site, it is imperative that they be able to trust that it is really the advertised pro playing the account. Given that Mr. Little violated that trust, we have decided to sever his ties to the site, and close his account.
Full Tilt Poker values the trust of its players and will deal with any violation of that trust swiftly. We apologize to any of our players who may have been misled during the past few months by Mr. Little’s actions.”
Bay 101 Shooting Star
Brandon Cantu arrived at the final table with a dominant chip lead over the table, and managed to convert that to the win.
The Shooting Star is a bounty event with large bounties on lots of well known players heads. Mostly bounties in the region of $5000-$10000. As well as the $1million first prize, Cantu also picked up 6 bounties throughout the tournament, which accumulated up to an additional $40K
Here is the final result:
Brandon Cantu – $1,000,000
Steve Sung – $585,000
Jennifer Harman – $330,000
Noah Jefferson – $265,000
Mike Baker – $200,000
John Phan - $135,000
This weeks Super Tuesday ($1050 buy-in) on PokerStars attracted it’s usual field of quality entrants. 322 stumped up the largest regular buy-in on the net.
lilholdem954 took at very early lead, which held for around 2 hours. Not really through any particular aggression as such. He flopped a straight holding 87os and was bet into. scarface_79 getting a little low also launched into him when he was holding pocket 10s.
Sat quietly at the very same table was none other than arbianight, the man with the ID that would have any assiduous proof-reader breakng out into a cold sweat.
By the time that lilholdem954 had busted out 4 from the money, arbianight was starting on a climb. By 18 players left, he had a dominant chip lead, sat on around 185,000 chips
With a couple of minor deviations on route, this chip lead was brought home, first place netting arbianight $70,840. PearlJammer had a good showing also, taking 6th place (good for $15,134)
Congratulation to arbianight on the win
Creating a brand is important in any industry, and online poker is no exception. The name, look and feel of a site are important, as is having deep pockets to market that poker brand to the masses.
This leads me on to PokerStars, and no fewer than 6 new installation updates recently to get their logo right. An initial logo change that was made went down like a lead balloon amongst many players. Eventually after some too-ing and fro-ing we have arrived at a red spade symbol with a white star in the centre. Much better than the previous attempt at moderisation.
Personally I like the final version, which should be good for at least a few years….we shall see!
The $215 buy-in PokerStars Sunday Million attracted 7349 entrants.
tpir90036 emerged as the winner, taking down $170,798.80, after a 2-way chop heads-up
The final result:
1. tpir90036 (USA) $170,798.80
2. Kometen1 (Norway) $140,798.80
3. tsarrast (USA) $ 73,490.00
4. Gullars85 (Norway) $ 58,792.00
5. JEUX D PLAGE (France) $ 44,094.00
6. psyduck101 (USA) $ 32,335.60
7. gabyhorowitz (Germany) $ 22,781.90
8. NabtheAce (UK) $ 13,228.20
9. Reverse (USA) $ 8,671.82
Meanwhile…
In the 10K buyin heads-up tournament just 4 entrants competed, with philivey2694 winning $25K for 1st and ADZ124 winning $15K for 2nd
In the $5,200 Winner takes all Freezeout, Moorman1 won the $100,000 first prize