A whopping 8015 players entered the PokerStars Sunday Million last night.  It took 11 and a half hours for KopplarJocke from Gothenburg to emerage as the winner.

There was a 4-way chop of the money before they played on for the title

1st: KopplarJocke $196,367.50
2nd: crazylarry43 $132,407.80
3rd: phil steve $119,579.58
4th: vuki $133,610.69
5th: DFGBOYS $56,906.50
6th: dstrung $40,876.50
7th: gladik $28,052.50
8th: tAAggart $18,434.50
9th: mezyoureyez $11,221.00

The heads up battle between KopplarJocke and crazylarry43 lasted 66 hands.

The final hand saw KopplarJocke raise to 4,250,000
crazylarry43 pushed all-in for 27,208,362
KopplarJocke made the call

KopplarJocke showed Ad 7d
crazylarry43 showed As 4h
The board ran out Ts 8d 9c 7c Ks which was enough for the A7 to hold and for KopplarJocke to ship it.

 Italy has finally won an EPT event.  Or more precisely an Italian has.   That Italian is Salvatore Bonavena.  The event being the EPT Prague.

 570 Entrants.  Buy-in 5250 Euros

1 € 774,000 Salvatore Bonavena  
2 € 445,000 Massimo Di Cicco  
3 € 257,000 Andrew Alan Chen  
4 € 199,000 Alexiou Konstantinos  
5 € 166,000 Francesco Cirianni  
6 € 130,000 Fredrik Nygard  
7 € 99,500 Nasr El Nasr  
8 € 71,800 Raul Mestre  
9 € 42,800 Sebastian Ruthenberg  
10 € 42,800 Jonathan Duhamel  
11 € 30,400 Daniel Drescher  
12 € 30,400 Igor Rejdovjan  
13 € 22,100 Juan Maceiras  
14 € 22,100 Domenico Iannonne  
15 € 16,600 Rifat Pavelic  
16 € 16,600 Dan Pedersen  
17 € 13,800 Jens Glud Hansen  
18 € 13,800 Daniel Biro

Notable finishes for Johnny Lodden in 43rd, Dario Minieri in 47th, and Juha Helppi in 48th

350 people anted up just over a grand ($1050) to play this week’s Super Tuesday on PokerStars.  It lasted 7 hours 30 mins with BobbyFi taking it down on this occasion.

1st BobbyFi - $68,250
2nd hezi20 - $51,625
3rd EDU_SEQUELA - $38,500
4th Madmax_sa - $29,400
5th chapmoney - $20,125
6th Michnak - $15,750

Notable finishes from QuasiFiction in 14th, Iftarii in 15th, ocrowe in 16th, JohnnyBelow in 17th.   A veritable array of talent all busting in close succession

The Super Tuesday on PokerStars picked up a field of 378 this week.  After 7 hours and 43 mins, dreamgirl3 was crowned the winner.

1. dreamgirl3 $78,000
2. vui-qua-di $59,000
3. SNo0oWMAN $44,000
4. Craps4Dinner $33,600
5. oneandahalf $23,000
6. Pist0nH0nda $18,000
7. DrunkPPlaya $14,000
8. DareYou2Call $10,000
9. -db- $7,000

There were notable ITM finishes for mig.com in 16th and JohnnyBax in 18th

8001 players entered the Sunday Million on PokerStars this week, meaning the $1.5 million guaranteed prizepool was easily met with no overlay.

10.5 hours of battle commenced with twirlpro emerging the eventual victor.  No doubt he’ll be doing more than a few twrils after netting nearly 200K - a few head-spins and star jumps as well no doubt.

1. twirlpro - $196,024
2. fratzl - $132,176
3. NewsKoooL - $89,611
4. svansa - $72,809
5. Terkel1 - $56,807
6. 1bobbyL - $40,805
7. ankolo - $28,003
8. PureProfitFo - $18,402
9. omba - $11,201

twirlpro is Peter Turmezy in real life

ocrowe is also worth a mention from the event, going farily deep, placing in 52nd for $2560.32

Also at PokerStars the Sunday 500 had a very interesting final table, with the presence of both kwob20 (double WCOOP winner Kyle Bowker), and barryg1 (poker legend Barry Greenstein).  In the end kwob finished 5th for $26,250 and barryg1 finished 7th for $16,250

Meanwhile in other news Jon Turner (Pearljammed) took 2nd place in the $200K guaranteed on Ultimate Poker, scooping $29,025