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With the guarantee for the PokerStars Sunday Million going up to $1.5 million, there was a lot of cash on offer in this week’s tournament.  8236 players entered, looking for their slice.

What happened at the final table was nothing short of miraculous.  With the blinds at 150K/300K with a 30K ante, shortstack ziggy47 looked doomed to a very early exit, with basically a couple of big blinds remaining.

Here are the chip counts are the beginning of the final table:

Seat 1:- WSODice (11,975,400)
Seat 2:- ziggy47 (881,147)
Seat 3:- YrrsiNN (12,714,714)
Seat 4:- Foggsy (6,038,604)
Seat 5:- okidokiclub (5,543,549)
Seat 6:- ohhaaahhh (23,343,672)
Seat 7:- j.thaddeus (9,409,657)
Seat 8:- puntnko (10,016,289)
Seat 9:- lissem (2,436,968)

After a somewhat dramatic comeback, Ziggy47 found himself heads-up sat on around 52 million.   He raised to 1.9 million and puntnko reraised to 6.4 million. ziggy47 launched all-in  and puntnko called.

ziggy47 showed Ac Js
puntnko showed Ad 9h

Flop:- 8c Ah 2d
Turn:- 7c
River:- 5h

The monumental comeback was complete and ziggy47 was crowned the Sunday Million winner

Here is the full result (there was a 2-way chop before they played on for the title)

1. ziggy47 (Unted States) $182,438.77
2. puntnko (Australia) $151,283.95
3. j.thaddeus (Ireland) $91,419.60
4. ohhaaahhh (Unted States) $74,124.00
5. okidokiclub (Netherlands) $57,652.00
6. YrrsiNN (Switzerland) $41,180.00
7. Foggsy (Unted Kingdom) $28,826.00
8. WSODice (Unted States) $18,942.80
9. lissem (Norway) $11,530.40

8370 players entered the PokerStars Sunday Million this week.  The event took around 11 hours to complete

There was a 4-way chop of the money, and then those 4 players played on for the placings and the $30K left on the table

1st avkid86 — $138,101
2nd strahhh25 — $118,193
3rd pokerbrat13 — $138,078
4th Gambooooool — $113,017
5th tonijeromi — $58,590
6th dapoopta — $41,850
7th Jimboski30 — $29,295
8th gio_piso — $19,251
9th DonC33 — $11,718

There were 8589 entrants in this weeks Sunday Million on PokerStars.  SAM66 took it down with no chop

1. SAM66 $209,571.60
2. Shantaram $141,718.50
3. MrMuck1976 $95,337.90
4. rubenrtv $77,301.00
5. pepperdiablo $60,123.00
6. my_emolument $42,945.00
7. moorten $30,061.50
8. Axinar $19,754.70
9. Cjh1224 $13,398.84

With the guarantee doubled this week to $2,000,000, the PokerStars Sunday Million attracted 14,181 entrants.  A huge field for the $215 buy-in event.

There was a 3-way chop leading to the following payouts after the play concluded:

1. TimDawg888 — $235,356
2. xanja — $235,000
3. PokerMurphy1 — $167,789
4. kpax22 — $113,448
5. KAG1 — $85,086
6. Roundhauskik — $63,815
7. sjoko — $45,379
8. Bumper111 — $29,496
9. funplay800 — $21,272

7131 players showed up to play this week’s Sunday Million on PokerStars.  A very impressive final table line-up saw heavyweights thugmoneymkr and PokerSavage1 finishing 8th and 2nd respectively.

Here is the result, following a 3-way chop and the play to a conclusion:

1. BadBeatKid_2 $175,000
2. PokerSavage1 $103,000
3. racin77db $100,370
4. dynoalot $66,318.30
5. GravityPilot $52,056.30
6. etushekki $37,794.30
7. MyMaria44 $25,671.60
8. thugmoneymkr $17,114.40
9. Oderec25 $11,124.36

6521 players entered this week’s Sunday Million on PokerStars.  2 big online pros final tabled, with aaaaaaaa finishing in 6th, and DumpingKGB finishing in 9th

There was a 3-way chop before they played the match out to a conclusion

1st - GoMukYaSelf - $135,334.75
2nd - supadphat - $105,334.75
3rd - jalla79 - $105,334.75
4th - central106 - $60,645.30
5th - PokerED - $47,603.30
6th - aaaaaaa - $34,561.00
7th - KtheKing – $23,475.60
8th - Patrolman35 – $15,650.40
9th - “Dumping”KGB - $10,172.76

6382 players showed up this week to play the Sunday Million on PokerStars.  It took about 11 hours, but The Real Deal (easier to type ;)) was up to the task.

There was a three-way deal agreed with Bolikk securing $112,000; jlost88 securing $104,940.78 and tEh_R3aLde4L securing $91,688.14.  That left a further $30K to play for.

Result

1. tEh_R3aLde4L $121,688.14
2. Bolikk $112,000.00
3. jlost88 $104,940.78
4. imeasy2read $59,352.60
5. bartasPL $46,588.60
6. jeffbeesdat $33,824.60
7. XCappucinoX1 $22,975,20
8. iso_o $15,316.80
9. luke8 $9,955.92

6747 players entered this weeks Sunday Million on PokerStars.  Kongsgaard took down the glory

1st Kongsgaard - $158,555
2nd swishes2000 - $105,928
3rd flylice - $74,217
4th Terken89 - $60,723
5th zman2224 - $47,229
6th gyndok - $33,735
7th Wizard0f0dd5 - $23,615
8th farquad72 - $15,518
9th Djorgo - $10,525

Kongsgaard is a pro player by the name of Soren Kongsgaard.  He has final tabled the Sunday Million before, finishing 4th in Feb 2007

6993 Entrants in the PokerStars Sunday Million this week

1. jotaele1 (Spain) $197,202.60
2. JHBrenes (Costa Rica) $99,300.60
3. mass.mike MA (United States) $69,930.00
4. OWWEX NY (United States) $55,944.00
5. late_entry (United States) $41,958.00
6. tpreston (Canada) $30,769.20
7. anybody1108 (Germany) $21,678.30
8. zeistpoker11 (Netherlands) $12,587.40
9. Jim Bee (United States) $8,251.74

No chop this week

jotaele1 is not a particularly high volume player.  He averages about 16 tournaments a month on Stars.  He generally plays higher buy-ins though, with an ABI of $168

This week’s PokerStars Sunday Million was taken down by rythman.  They did a 3-way chop while tapatapa (hmmmmm tapas) was leading.  rythman stepped it up a gear to come back from behind and take it down.

There were 6745 entrants, leading to a total prizepool of $1.35 million

1. rythman (Sweden) $137,253.56
2. tapatapa (Brazil) $139,725.80
3. KtheKing (Brazil) $90,758.04
4. Hasuwisp (Canada) $56,658.00
5. EvilLondon.(Sweden) $43,302.90
6. jojo1983 (United Kingdom) $31,027.00
7. deepak1 (Denmark) $22,258.50
8. jorgeezy (United States) $13,490.00
9. browsef (United States) $8,363.80

Notable finish by DuckU in 36th