safeel Seals Deal in Sunday Million
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Poker Stars put up big numbers for its Sunday Million this past weekend. 6,634 people paid to play in the tournament, driving up the total prize pool to an impressive $1,326,800. 900 places paid. The bubble boy of the final table was none other than John Duthie, the founder of the EPT. safeel made a strong showing out the gate by eliminating the seventh and eighth place finishers. At that point, the remaining six talked chop. Jensen wasn't hearing it and collected over 30k for his sixth place elimination. After that, the final five settled on a deal, guaranteeing the chip leader, safeel, at least $131,612. safeel terminated ducesarewild in fifth place and carried his chip lead all the way to heads-up play against rickL-UNIT. In less than a minute safeel crushed his opponent and won the day. Here are the results: 1) safeel — $167,612 2) rickL-UNIT — $77,540 3) Zefa — $81,136 * 4) mbeezy02 — $64,932 * 5) ducesarewild — $68,781 * 6) Jensen — $30,516 7) bottomset — $21,892 8) icallseat3 — $13,268 9) DrEskilstuna — $8,226 At Full Tilt , instead of the Sunday $750,000 Guaranteed tournament, the site held event #7 of the FTOPS VI. This NLHE tourney had a $1 million guarantee. The $300 buy-in tourney drew big numbers – over 4450 players in fact – and generated a prize pool of over $1,342,500 making it the richest tournament of the weekend. crpaint and Braein made it to heads-up play. Braein chipped away at paint's stack, taking the title, the first-place cash, the nifty FTOPS jersey and special avatar. These are the final standings: 1) Braien — $237,072 2) crpaint — $143,513 3) digididopp — $93,975 4) chicagocards1 — $73,837 5) cmikec — $55,446 6) JLimbs — $41,080 7) CRACKENaces — $30,877 8) rocxf — $24,165 9) JaEs SiK — $17,989 Ultimate Bet saw an improvement in attendance this weekend. Over 100 extra players paid to play this week than last week. 949 people plunked down their cash, meaning that the site only had to pay out $10,200 to meet the 200k guarantee. TheMasterJ33, who took down this event at the end of September 2007, played heads-up poker with lcary. lcary carried the day with solid play and took down the $45,000 for first place. Here are the results: 1) lcary — $45,000 2) TheMasterJ33 — $26,500 3) dogsballs — $18,000 4) MikeMaver1ck — $13,100 5) KsJim — $10,500 6) charder30 — $8,500 7) xxmrbigshotxx — $6,500 8) -- Magnus -- — $4,500 9) Buy Buy — $3,400 10) the big horse — $2,000 Party Poker also put up big numbers on Sunday. 1,645 players – the most we've seen in recent memory – paid to play at the $300k Guarantee. This brought the prize pool up to $329,000. 200 people cashed. Only a few minutes into the final table, the first elimination occurred. Patenny went all-in from early position with A,K and was called by new0107 with pocket jacks. The hooks held and Patenny said adios in tenth position. Sjakk_Matt and WOW__LOL both hit the rails within the first five minutes of the final table. Talk about a 'party'! Within the next five minutes, two more players busted. At that point, things got a bit more breathable. new0107 took over twenty more minutes to depart in fifth position. The bigger story at this point became the arduous deal-making process. Each time the final four came close to an agreement, Egyptian1 would nix it. He wanted no less than $44,500. As heads-up play got underway, Ladmigvaere finally agreed. These are the final standings: 1) Ladmigvaere - $57,490 2) Egyptian1 - $44,500 3) Aashutosh - $22,701 4) sky86 - $17,930.50 5) new0107 - $15,134 6) lucol - $11,350.50 7) Lenny_1964 - $8,718.50 8) WOW___LOL - $5,757.50 9) Sjakk_Matt - $4,441.50 10) Patenny - $3,125.50 Finally, Bodog put up $21,000 to meet its $100,000 Guarantee. 790 people played to play in the event and 63 made bank. Like PartyPoker, the knockouts were fast and furious at Calvin Ayre's site. Mdfarley open-shoved all-in within the first 30 seconds of sitting down at the final table. His J,9 couldn't 'catsup' to Heinz57's K,Q in the hole. Heinz57 then collected timosy's carcass in seventh position. The added chips propelled him to a fourth-place finish which was good for $6,900. As heads-up play began, Pasdasuga had a commanding chip lead of 5-to-1 over BananaHammock. However, BananaHammock took over the top spot 20 minutes into the action. He never relinquished it and won the final hand with a 7-high straight versus Pasdasuga's pocket nines. These are the results: 1) BananaHammock - $25,000 2) Pasdasuga - $14,300 3) thatsNice - $9,200 4) Heinz57 - $6,900 5) RiverRatMat - $5,500 6) BeaverFever - $4,500 7) timosy $3,500 8) PC12Pilot - $2,500 9) mdfarley1 - $1,600