PokerStars Has Fantastic Weekend to Close Out 2007
On the last Sunday of the year in 2007, December 30th to be exact, Poker Stars held its quarterly $1,000 buy-in version of the Sunday Million. 1,802 people paid to play in the event, driving up the prize pool to an impressive $1,803,000, the third biggest total for a Sunday Million in the history of the event. PokerStars also seated 150,000 players on Sunday meaning that nearly 20,000 tables were operating at once! One of those players, a PokerStars sponsored pro, Dario Minieri might have had the best Sunday ever. Not only did he win $100,000 in the $5,000 High Stakes Freezeout, but the talented Italian took down the High Stakes Showdown, defeating players such as Barry Greenstein and Sorel Mizzi and adding another $50,000 to his bankroll. If that weren't enough, the youngster won the $215 rebuy event, earning another $56k and beating 300 online players. Whoa! Back to the Sunday Million - as play got down to four-handed in the big event of the weekend, the remaining players agreed to a deal. In the end, thechemist83 and Mighty_L fought for the title heads-up. Here are the results: 1) Mighty_L - $253,512.75 2) thechemist83 - $233,152.78 3) Tulkaz - $172,145.68 4) Dao69 - $102,714 5) Pattymelt15 - $80,549.40 6) McShove - $60,727.40 7) NVmania - $42,707.40 8) loftus222 - $26,489.40 9) Belabacsi - $15,857.60 Full Tilt held its $750,000 Guarantee. 4,185 people played generating the biggest prize pool the event has ever seen at $837,000. lopola and ygga69 battled it out for the top spot and $147,808. ygga69 took down the final pot, winning the day and the moolah. These are the final standings: 1) ygga69 - $147,806 2) lopola - $89,475 3) D1rtyR1v3r - $58,590 4) THE__D__RY - $45,035 5) Foldem420 - $34,568 6) Xequtr - $25,612 7) kmberlake - $19,251 8) fishermanran - $15,066 9) Bluff0815 - $11,216 UltimateBet saw a rebound in tournament numbers on Sunday, proving that folks were probably sick of holiday time with their families by this point (just kidding!). Although the site had to pay out a small overlay of $16,200, more than 900 people showed up for the tourney including James Campbell, aka P0KERPR033. He made it all the way to heads-up play against the eventual champ, matadoren7, but took down more than $25,000 for his efforts. Here are the results: 1) matadoren7 - $45,000 2) P0KERPR033 - $26,500 3) Ol_Dirtyy - $18,000 4) Rilledoo - $13,100 5) makavelyces - $10,500 6) FLIMSIN - $8,500 7) jeff_labowski - $6,500 8) Wachovia - $4,500 9) mustwin2sail - $3,400 10) grtwhitehoop - $2,000 Finally, Bodog had to put up nearly ¼ of its prize pool at the $100,000 Guarantee on Sunday. Only 756 players entered the fledgling tournament. Bigmonte87 took down the event after playing heads-up against karjalanpaisti. These are the final standings: 1) bigmonte87 - $25,000 2) karjalanpaisti - $ 14,300 3) jakey22 - $9,200 4) Joe McGuire - $6,900 5) swan153 - $5,500 6) JB_FIVE - $4,500 7) Catfish4U - $3,500 8) Grave Danger - $2,500 9) nickanderson42 - $1,600