Iron Man(credit: MIT)
7,001 players took to the virtual felt on at PokerStars on Sunday May 4, 2008. They drove the Sunday Million prize pool up to an impressive $1.4 million. When the final table began, five of the nine remaining players had more than 10 million in chips.
hobbybob had the initial chip lead and took out the eighth place finisher, redhookesb. However, Iron Henry cut a swath of devastation among the final table, claiming the remaining chips of fiddski (7th), jlost88 (5th) and etushekki (4th). He made it to heads-up play against ShankingYou who defeated Duffman08 in sixth place and hobbybob in third place.
As the two titans faced each other heads up, ShankingYou was at a clear disadvantage. Iron Henry had 12,000,000 more chip than he did. A by-the-chips chop was rejected by Henry until ShankingYou evened the score. At that point, both players agreed to take home at least $132,421.20 with an extra $30k and the title going to the last person standing.
On the final hand, ShankingYou was behind in chips at a more than 2-to-1 deficit. The river brought Iron Henry bottom pair, giving him the win.
Here are the final results:
1) Iron Henry - $163,421
2) ShankingYou - $133,421
3) hobbybob - $70,010
4) etushekki - $56,008
5) jlost88 - $42,006
6) Duffman08 - $30,804
7) fiddski - $21,703
8) redhookesb - $12,602
9) ROCKHOUND23 - $8,261
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