Online Tournaments - Weekend Roundup 3rd Sept
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 | Adrian Milewski
Action from Sunday 3rd September
Another weekend passes and as usual 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
The weekly showcase Sunday Million tournament with a buy-in of $200+$15 attracted 5,699 entries this week which meant a total prize pool of $1,139,800. A total of 825 places made the money.
When the final table began the big stack of ‘Doc Deal 103′ led the way with 2.7m chips followed by another 4 stacks of over 1.8m. There were four short stacks of less than 850k.
The first big confrontation at the final table saw ’simmsux’ holding pocket Kings take on the A-J suited of ‘Axabaxa’. The Kings held up giving ’simmsux’ a million-chip lead.
‘jennicide’ knocked out two players at once when her full house beat two opponents and knocked them out. ’simmsux’ continued to move out in front eliminating ‘FileError404′ in a race worth over 4 million chips. He won several nice hands to extend his chips to over 8 million which was more than 60% of all the chips in play.
Eventual heads up play was between ’simmsux’ and ‘jalla79′ with ’simmsux’ holding more than a 3:1 chip lead over his opponent. At this stage the two started to discuss a deal with the help of support staff and eventually agreed upon a deal, and left a final $20k to play for in the heads up. This went to ’simmux’ after a 30 minutes heads up battle.
Pokerstars Sunday Million Final Standings
*1st ($156,000): simmsux
*2nd ($103,418.48): jalla79
3rd ($56,990): Doc Deal 103
4th ($44,452.20): jennicide
5th ($35,333,80): mortango
6th ($28,495): FileError404
7th ($22,226.10): Axabaxa
8th ($16,527.10): elena_elphie
9th ($10,258.20): dabest247
* Deal was reached to split remaining prize money
Party Poker Sunday Million Guaranteed
big weekly tournament attracted 5,084 players which meant a total prize pool of $1,016,800. A total of 750 places made the money.
‘Muraca’ was the frontrunner this week starting the final table with almost 8 million in chips. ‘raiserplay’ was holding a strong second place but there was no catching ‘Muraca’ when he eliminated two players (who held A-A and 9-9) when he flopped a set of Kings resulting in a 6 million pot.
When the tournament reached the final 4 players a deal was discussed and agreed upon between the players.
Party Poker Sunday Million Guaranteed Final Standings
*1st ($141,159.83): Muraca
*2nd ($87,000): raiserplay
*3rd ($58,000): maxextractor
*4th ($54,061.45): imallinmom
5th ($35,588): That_Does
6th ($27,962): zoNk777
7th ($20,336): DwightSchrute
8th ($15,252): jaytorr
9th ($10,168): cherki
10th ($5,084): pollysmelt
* Deal was reached to split remaining prize money
Full Tilt $200,000 Guaranteed
showcase weekly tournament attracted 1,191 players which meant a total prize pool of $238,200. A total of 108 places made the money.
’tiltjonas’ entered the final table with over 1 million in chips and over 2:1 lead over his nearest opponent. ’tiltjonas’ didn’t hold onto the lead for very long however when he lost two big pots in quick succession first to ‘geeforce1′ and then to ‘CaseyTheKid’. His rollercoaster final table saw his chips go up and down but eventually he made it into heads up play against ‘joanie007′.
The final hand saw ‘joanie007′ with K-9 of diamonds holdup against the K-3 offsuit of ’tiltjonas’.
Full Tilt $200,000 Guaranteed Final Standings
1st ($53,595): joanie007
2nd ($33,943.50): tiltjonas
3rd ($25,130.10): mlyesfdo
4th ($19,651.50): reallywow
5th ($14,887.50): CaseyTheKid
6th ($10,719): geeforce1
7th ($7,146): Solon07
8th ($5,359.50): showtime25
9th ($3,811.20): normondo
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