The New Year has started and millions of dollars will be awarded by PokerStars in both live and online tournaments. This past weekend was no exception, as The Sunday Million garnered eighty nine hundred players, which boosted the prize pool up to $1.7 million. The top 1,350 players made it to the money and after ten hours of intense play there where ten players remaining. The final table bubble boy was sms9231, after his big slick could not hold up against the flopped set of sevens of copernic67.
The chip leader at the final table was copernic67 with over 35 million in chips, and his closest follower held a 20 million chip difference. The shortest chip stack was held by chaplining with just over one million chips and blinds at 150K/300K. It was not long before he made his move and unfortunately he ran his Ks Qc into the big slick that was dealt to PokerThun and he exited the tourney in 9th place for $12,460.
Shortly after chaplining left the final table, two players took their chances against the chip leader copernic67, only to double up in chips and improve their position at the table. Several hands later copernic67 turned up the aggression and eliminated both Zadeedles and PokerThun. But copernic67 then got involved in a hand against uyra99 while holding Ah Qs and finished the tournament in third place for $132K when QQ held up.
The heads-up match lasted only twenty five minutes and at the end uyra99 was the last man standing and took the first Sunday Million of the year for a $254K first place prize, the runner-up took $186K.
Before the Sunday Million was played, the Sunday Warm-up brought 4,809 players to the virtual felts at PokerStars, for a total prize pool that exceeded $961K. As play progressed there was one screen name that popped-up among the field of players, IveGotToeJam had won $128K after placing in third place a few weeks back also in the a Sunday Million tournament, but this time around he ended the tournament in the bubble boy position and took home $5,722 for his effort in the tournament.
The big chip leader for a large percentage of the tournament ended taking down the first place prize for $132K, while the runner-up took home $129K.
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