(credit: Poker Stars)
On Sunday January 6, 2008 PokerStars saw 7,104 entrants at the Sunday Million. The prize pool was a whooping $1,420,800. This is the biggest turnout the event has had since well before the holiday season. One would’ve thought that the PokerStars’ Caribbean Adventure would’ve lessened the number of entrants in the event considering the online poker room sent a bunch of online qualifiers to the tournament going on now. However, people were logging into their laptops while sitting in paradise at the Atlantis Resort & Casino. One such player, mkind0516, made it all the way to fifth place.
In the end, it was mister cc and giorango. The final two agreed to a deal before giorango took down the title and over $150,000.
Here are the final results:
1) giorango — $153,210
2) mister cc — $148,000
3) nieezz — $71,040
4) hanes1971 — $56,832
5) mkind0516 — $42,624
6) diegoscotti1 — $31,258
7) Gnuhunter — $22,022
8) abel127 — $12,787
9) pocktnizzles — $8,383
Full Tilt also put up big numbers on Sunday with nearly 4,200 players sitting down to the $750,000 Guarantee. Jon “apestyles” Van Fleet was sitting pretty at the final table. Van Fleet is one of the world’s best known online pros, having won more than $1,000,000 in online events to date. He took fifth place and $34,494 for his efforts.
However, ShizelReturns and jcada99 were the last men standing in the event. Shizel, who often plays at PokerStars under the moniker BrokenTPot, finished second, leaving jcada99 to take the title and the top prize.
These are the standings:
1) jcada99 — $147,488
2) ShizelReturns— $89,283
3) DaamU — $58,464
4) to-die-4 — $45,936
5) apestyles – $34,494
6) prometheus_2 — $25,557
7) ChksDgDaLngBall — $19,210
8) SnottsdaleJerry — $15,034
9) KTlove777 — $11,192
Ultimate Bet saw 1,063 entrants this Sunday. This is a record-breaker for the event making a prize pool of $212,600. FeedMEMunE, aka Chris Kline, who finished second in this event on May 27, 2007, made it all the way to heads-up play again. This time, Kline was victorious against bad biznass, earning over $45,000 for his efforts.
Here are the final results:
1) FeedMEMunE — $46,772
2) bad biznass — $27,383
3) lumberone — $18,921
4) ndrudy46 — $13,819
5) puppypwr18p — $11,162
6) lungfish — $8,929
7) AnD34 — $6,803
8) bipolar-bear — $4,784
9) fu_15000 — $3,614
10) quassi — $2,126
Bodog also saw an increase in attendance on Sunday. 828 players paid to play, leaving Calvin Ayre and crew with an overlay of $17,200. looshle, aka Justin Pechie, played heads-up poker against geauxUSC. geauxUSC narrowly missed the final table in this same event back in November. This time, however, he took down the whole thing, earning $25,000 for his first-place finish.
These are the standings:
1) geauxUSC — $25,000
2) looshle — $14,000
3) elway7j — $9,000
4) dmoj18 — $6,500
5) Longhorn_99 — $5,400
6) Vialli_10 — $4,400
7) ProCrapsPlayer — $3,400
8) BEATURACES69 — $2,400
9) Sarge — $1,550