Online Tournaments - Weekend Roundup 10th Sept
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 | Adrian Milewski
Action from Sunday 10th September
The action is complete from the weekend’s big internet tournaments. Let’s take a look at what happened at each of these tournaments.
Pokerstars Sunday Million
This was the final Sunday Million tournament for a little while as it now takes a break to make way for The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) schedule. The weekly showcase Sunday Million tournament with a buy-in of $200+$15 attracted 5,375 entries this week which meant a total prize pool of $1,075,000. A total of 750 places made the money.
When the final table began the big stack was ‘luchador420’ who took over 3m chips to the final table. Shortly after he increased his stack to over 4m which was double what the second place player had.
’luchador420’ wasn’t content with that and extended his lead even further when his pocket kings survived a showdown against the A-K of ‘sideshowgil’ which increased his chip stack to over 6m and way out in the lead over the other players
A tussle to keep up with ‘luchador420’ then occurred with a number of players starting to make a push with ‘STNCOLDKILLR’ knocking out ‘arzCARDSfan’ in fifth when he held the better two pair to his opponent leaving him in a strong second place position. ‘Yankees31’ was the next to depart leaving just 3 players remaining but the third placed ‘HelmetSky’ was left shortstacked. Despite doubling up once ‘HelmetSky’ was soon knocked out in third place by the table dominator ‘luchador420’
During heads up play the massive chip lead of ‘luchador420’ was never really threatened and the final hand eventually saw ‘STNCOLDKILLR’ push with 10-9 of clubs and being called by the K-4 of hearts from ‘luchador420’. The board came 5-3-Q-3-7 with no flush cards and ‘luchador420’ took the first prize of $165,000.
Pokerstars Sunday Million Final Standings
1st ($165,012.50): luchador420
2nd ($90,837.50): STNCOLDKILLR
3rd ($53,750): HelmetSky
4th ($43,000): Yankees31
5th ($33,325): arzCARDZfan
6th ($26,875): nailman1
7th ($20,962.50): sideshowgil
8th ($15,587.50): Valsky
9th ($9,675): Telefonkiosk
Party Poker Sunday Million Guaranteed
big weekly tournament only attracted 4,885 players which meant had to make up the shortfall to provide the guaranteed total prize pool of $1,000,000. A total of 600 places made the money.
The final table began with ‘jaydog76’ in the lead with 5m in chips with the rest of the players also carrying reasonable stacks all over 1.5m. Soon after the start of the final table ‘vgame’ took over the lead knocking out two of the short stacks at the table
At this point a deal was discussed amongst the final eight players and it was agreed upon to chop the remaining prize pool based on current chip count. The deal was agreed to pretty quickly and the final payouts was computated using standard chip count payout computation.
Party Poker Sunday Million Guaranteed Final Standings
*1st ($105,192.93): vgame
*2nd ($97,728.08): jaydog76
*3rd ($59,594.49): puyablaze
*4th ($50,353.68): jadogo
*5th ($35,500): BLESS72
*6th ($28,000): ClockedBarn
*7th ($21,500): foldy123
*8th ($16,000): rclark105111
9th ($11,000): msgnus
10th ($6,200): SlowPlayin7
* eight-way deal to split remaining prize money
Full Tilt $200,000 Guaranteed
showcase weekly tournament attracted 1,217 players and a total of 117 places made the money.
’deanoll’ was the chip leader going into the final table with about $800k in chips but the final table was pretty well balanced with the other players not too far behind.
’GiveMeUrCh1ps’ took over the lead after a big hand which knocked out ‘colson10’ and left him with a chip stack of over 1m. The chip lead then changed several times with’deanoll’ knocking out ‘G6Dragon’ in fourth place and then ‘GiveMeUrCh1ps’ knocking out ‘number1PEN’ in third place to bring the two players head to head.
The final hand came when ‘GiveMeUrCh1ps’ pushed all in holding pocket tens which induced a call from ‘deanoll’ holding Q-J of diamonds. The board was no help to ‘deanoll’ with 9-6-K-5-5 with no flush and ‘GiveMeUrCh1ps’ took first place and a prize of $53,548.
Full Tilt $200,000 Guaranteed Final Standings
1st ($53,548): GiveMeUrCh1ps
2nd ($34,076): deanoll
3rd ($25,070.20): number1PEN
4th ($19,776.25): G6Dragon
5th ($15,212.50): GB2005
6th ($10,953): Lefta
7th ($7,302): colson10
8th ($5,476.50): MrTimCaum
9th ($3,894.40): lovejoybsalt
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