Online Poker Weekend – Romanoff11 Takes Sunday Million
Eric Lynch aka Rizen (Credit: Rizen Poker)
One might think that this weekend's online festivities would be lacking due to the impending holiday. Well…those folks would be mostly wrong. Most sites put up big numbers and impressed with big name poker stars turning out to play, play and play. At PokerStars, 6,680 people entered the Sunday Million, generating a tasty $1,336,000 prize pool. Poker Stars pros turned out in droves for this tournament. Bertrand “ElkY” Grospelier and Hevad “RaiNKhAN” cashed as did Steve Paul-Ambrose and Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu. Negreanu took 82nd place, his highest finish to date. bark1976 was first out of the final table. The eventual champ, one Romanoff11, called his all-in with an A,3 and picked up bark's remaining chips. Romanoff also sent TheSlyOldFox home in sixth position and snider in third. Heads-up he mashed littlepotato's dreams of a win, earning nearly $200,000 on the 23rd of December. Here are the final results: 1) Romanoff11 — $192,116.80 2) littlepotato — $100,066.40 3) snider — $72,010.40 4) andy914 — $56,112 5) Bluffman9000 — $42,885.60 6) TheSlyOldFox — $30,728 7) Farcry — $22,044 8) benmar — $13,360 9) bark1976 — $8,283.20 Full Tilt Poker saw a slight dip in attendance on Sunday. The site had to pay $11,000 as a mere 3,695 players paid to play in the tournament. A total of 21 Full Tilt Pros sat in on the event. Most hit the rail rather quickly. Germany's own Eddy Scharf took 64th position. Online sensation, Eric “Rizen” Lynch was sitting pretty at the final table. The talented player made it all the way to fourth place when his Qc,Jc proved to be no match for the eventual champ's king-high. Claw1980 overcame a huge chip deficit as heads-up play began. Despite being a 5-to-2 underdog, he 'clawed' his way to the top, winning $132,787.50 for his efforts. These are the standings: 1) Claw1980 — $132,787.50 2) boon8 — $80,250 3) tedsfishfry — $52,500 4) Rizen — $41,400 5) OoICEMANoO — $31,050 6) energy99 — $23,025 7) BERBAH — $17,250 8) megjoey — $13,500 9) Hoolbert — $10,050 1,563 entrants headed to PartyPoker on Sunday, driving up the prize pool of its $300,000 Guarantee to an impressive $312,600. freiberlin went out first. Almost immediately thereafter, Kaspar19 took a ride on the rail. On the next hand, bola144 bid the table farewell. The breakneck eliminations continued 'til the end when bankebiller and AliAllIn decided, after some arguing, to end the game based on a by the chips chop. Here are the final results: 1) bankebiller $52,589.66 2) AliAllIn — $44,316.35 3) KARHOBBIT60 — $21,569.40 4) PP_superuser — $17,036.70 5) SwissSkier — $14,379,60 6) lind159 — $10,784.70 7) Litleearth2 — $8,283.90 8) bola144 — $5,470.50 9) Kaspar19 — $4,220.10 10) freiberlin — $2,969.70