sasa80(credit: Poker Stars Blog)
sasa80 dominates the final table, defeating mk10 heads-up on 5/3/09.
7,759 players entered the Poker Stars Sunday Million on May 3, 2009, creating a prize pool of $1,551,800. 1,170 of these players would earn some moolah in the tournament with $232,770.01 expected for the top finisher.
SandroBird flew into the final table with a more than 2-to-1 chip lead over his nearest competitor. However, sasa80 won a 17 million pot off of SandroBird and catapulted into the chip lead. As a result, SandroBird was eliminated in seventh place.
Sasa80 carried Sandro’s chips all the way to heads-up play against mk10. sasa80 had a nearly 3-to-1 chip lead going on and never looked back.
These are the final results:
1) sasa80 ($232,770.01)
2) mk10 ($170,698.01)
3) MrGORK ($116,385.01)
4) Tardeea ($78,210.73)
5) Humlae79 ($62,071.01)
6) postmand ($46,554.01)
7) SandroBird ($31,036.01)
8) badbeatman06 ($17,845.71)
9) PolyBaller22 ($12,026.46)