Soren Kongsgaard(credit: Poker Stars blog)
7,245 players put up their money to play in the Poker Stars Sunday Million on October 5, 2008. However, that was not quite enough to meet the $1.5 million guarantee. PokerStars, the online home of former WSOP Main Event champions Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker and Joe Hachem, had to pay out more than $50,000 to meet that mark to ensure that winner, barring any deals struck at the final table, would earn the six-figure first place prize.
As the action winded down to four, Soren “Kongsgaard” Kongsgaard, who took down this event on June 8, 2008, was still in the hunt. A former Danish Poker champion, the baby-faced Kongsgaard, who finished third in the 2007 EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo, ended the day in fourth place. Soon after his departure the remaining three players agreed to a deal which provided them each with six figures.
In the end, Daniel “Allanon85” Drescher claimed the remaining $30,000 and the top prize after raking in the last pot to secure the title.
These are the final results:
1) Allanon85 — $177,450
2) aty79 — $109,000
3) cdbr3799 — $107,000
4) Kongsgaard — $69,000
5) forza-guti — $54,000
6) insanocut — $39,000
7) tnapoleao — $26,250
8) Tyler9897 — $17,250
9) sjco22 — $10,500
Qualifiers for the EPT Budapest are going on at PokerStars now. Visit PokerStars today for the 4-1-1!