No fewer than 19377 entrants lined up for last nights PokerStars Sunday Million, giving it a astronomical prizepool of $3.875 million.  3150 of those players got paid, with the money starting at $266.03.    After 12 hours of play OX45AL took down the $550,011.29 first prize.  

1st OX45AL $550,011.29
2nd celofyz33 $333,540.00
3rd eMarkM $244,616.42
4th OBVAMENTS $166,270.00
5th S.Takmaziyan $133,016.00
6th Kostya 77777 $99,762.00
7th Gmelkonyan $66,508.00
8th austinlewis $44,227.82
9th hunter10999 $29,928.60

OX45AL has an ABI (average buy-in) of just $13 so this win will no doubt propel him upwards into the bigger buy-in tourneys. Good luck to him

The Sunday Million on PokerStars this Sunday brought a record breaking field to the felt.  A whopping 18283 registered at $215 a pop, making a prizepool over $3.6 million, the largest Sunday Million in history.

There was a 6-way chop before Zadman5311 went on to win the title

1st: Zadman5311 ($282,662.86)
2nd: m8675309a ($200,844.74)
3rd: call110 ($250,037.00)
4th: ZyeD3 ($144,353.10)
5th: waWe ($205,477.38)
6th: Guldlemmen4 ($177,650.76)
7th: The Omaholic ($54,849.00) <- Well known online pro, Mark Roland
8th: MATPOC28 ($32,909.40)
9th: E-Daddie ($21,939.60)

 The tourney took 12 hours and 21 mins to complete

7906 Players entered this weeks Sunday Million on PokerStars.  After around 11 hours of play it was taken down by ckingusc (aka Zachary “Carter” King).  King from South Carolina as we all remember won the WCOOP 2008 Main Event, so this win really stamps his mark down as being one of the top poker tournament players.  

Sunday Million Result for 22nd March 2009

1st: ckingusc ($193,697.00)
2nd: *xen ($130,607.12)
3rd: bbs99 ($88,547.20)
4th: reef2287 ($71,944.60)
5th: Liqqa ($56,132.60)
6th: 1GENERAL_TAO ($40,320.60)
7th: bigsexyKN ($27,671.00)
8th: Rabbiej ($18,183.80)
9th: tpreston ($11,068.40)

Carter King has also found himself in the news in other places recently, being photographed as involved in the Michael Phelps “Bong” scandal.

Just for the reconrd ckingusc’s win in the WCOOP ME was for $1,265,432

Featured Hand: ckingusc commits in blind battle with around 80 players left

This hand caught my attention from earlier in the tournament with Extra_AK making an unusal fold to ckingusc:

 PokerStars Game #26261260055: Tournament #147104125, $200+$15 Hold’em No Limit - Level XXV (15000/30000) - 2009/03/23 0:14:43 ET
Table ‘147104125 734′ 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: farfalla7 (719170 in chips)
Seat 2: RalfTh (196368 in chips)
Seat 3: craftyasafox (2490504 in chips)
Seat 4: ckingusc (493467 in chips)
Seat 5: Extra_AK (398080 in chips)
Seat 6: Calico Rock (498511 in chips)
Seat 8: patzoui13 (600740 in chips)
Seat 9: Porkys16 (1041797 in chips)
farfalla7: posts the ante 3000
RalfTh: posts the ante 3000
craftyasafox: posts the ante 3000
ckingusc: posts the ante 3000
Extra_AK: posts the ante 3000
Calico Rock: posts the ante 3000
patzoui13: posts the ante 3000
Porkys16: posts the ante 3000
Extra_AK: posts small blind 15000
Calico Rock: posts big blind 30000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
patzoui13: folds
Porkys16: folds
farfalla7: folds
RalfTh: folds
craftyasafox: folds
stoianluc is connected
ckingusc: raises 42450 to 72450
Extra_AK: raises 77550 to 150000
Calico Rock: folds
ckingusc: raises 340467 to 490467 and is all-in
Extra_AK: folds
Uncalled bet (340467) returned to ckingusc
ckingusc collected 354000 from pot
ckingusc: doesn’t show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 354000 | Rake 0
Seat 1: farfalla7 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 2: RalfTh folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: craftyasafox folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: ckingusc (button) collected (354000)
Seat 5: Extra_AK (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: Calico Rock (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: patzoui13 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: Porkys16 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)

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.

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

The PokerStars Sunday Million fell 1 shy of 8000 entrants this week.   It was won by Danish player kesher79.   No chop was done at the table mainly due to rS.Wisdom’s earlier refusal with 3 players left, one of which being a shortstack

1st place: kesher79 ($195,975.50)
2nd place: rS.Wisdom ($132,143.48)
3rd place: mjluth ($89,588.80)
4th place: maverick8487 ($72,790.90)
5th place: Mr_BigQueso ($56,792.90)
6th place: orkim ($40,794.90)
7th place: RiverCardRob ($27,996.50)
8th place: jarocho123 ($18,397.70)
9th place: Lestradioto ($11,198.60)

7836 Entrants entered this weeks Sunday Million on PokerStars.   After some chop negociations, including a request of a Twix as part of the chop, METZMAGNY eventually emerged the winner.  The tournament took a little under 11 hours to complete.

1st: METZMAGNY - $147,822.00
2nd: Idgii $104,841.00
3rd: h2oace $105,771.00
4th: jiacstrap $122,067.00
5th: Stammdogg $55,635.60
6th: dray313 $39,963.60
7th: Papatri $27,426.00
8th: aaaaaaaa $18,022.80
9th: tickkid $10,970.40

There was a 3-way chop, with 30K left on the table

A notable finish for online pro aaaaaaaa in 8th

Final Hand

METZMAGNY raised to 4 million
Idgii pushed all-in for his last 17.7million chips
METZMAGNY called with Ts 4s
Idgii showed a solid pair of fives
Flop: 7d-Th-Qd
Turn: Kh
River: 8c

7446 players entered this weeks Sunday Million on PokerStars. 

There was a 4-way chop

1. doulas12 — $125,478
2. Crackpfeife — $105,123
3. anetas1 — $125,824
4. joncheng — $106,024
5. rimmer27 $54,000
6. DragonBenoni $39,000
7. slumpee $26,250
8. petit ponche $17,250
9. xannax20 $10,500

Notable finished for brsavage in 29th

7307 players showed up for this weeks Sunday Million on PokerStars, all eager for a big score.  After around 10 hours of intense play at the tables govshark2 came out on top with no chop

1. govshark2 — $184,500
2. princio — $124,950
3. trangers15 — $84,000
4. Br0ke24/7 — $69,000
5. DeuceBuster — $54,000
6. BOKINHA — $39,000
7. Y2JKID — $26,250
8. MyGambit — $17,250
9. Jazz604 — $10,500

Allanon85 outlasted a field of 7245 to win this weeks Sunday Million on PokerStars.  After online pro Kongsgaard was knocked out there was a 3-way chop

1. Allanon85 - $177,450
2. aty79 - $109,000
3. cdbr3799 - $107,000
4. Kongsgaard  - $69,000 (Soren Kongsgaard)
5. forza-guti - $59,000
6. insanocut - $39,000
7. tnapoleao - $26,250
8. Tyler9897 - $17,250
9. sjco22 - $10,500