Poker Stars Sunday Million(credit: Poker Stars)
6,993 people came out to play on Sunday June 1, 2008 at Poker Stars. They drove the prize pool up to a tasty $1,398,600. JHBrenes and jotaele1 had the top two stacks going into the action. They took turns eliminating the first four players from the final table. mass.mike defeated late_entry in fifth position and made it all the way to three-handed play before succumbing to jotaele1’s ace-high flush.
As heads-up play began, the Spaniard (jotaele1) had a chip advantage over Brenes, the Costa Rican. On the final hand, jotaele1 earned the pocket queens on the board with his ace in the hole. Outkicked and chipped, JHBrenes headed to the rail with a second-place finish and the $99,301 that went along with it.
Here are the final results:
1) jotaele1 - $197,203
2) JHBrenes - $99,301
3) mass.mike - $69,930
4) OWWEX - $55,944
5) late_entry - $41,958
6) tpreston - $30,769
7) anybody_1188 - $21,678
8) Jim Bee - $12,587
9) zeistpoker11 - $8,252
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