More Online Poker Sunday Thrills
Published: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
MORE SUNDAY THRILLS
Bigger and better online poker tournaments the order of the day
Two weeks back, InfoPowa looked at the value of routine but major weekend poker tournaments being held online on a regular basis, and following reader interest a further turn around the main sites was undertaken this week.
PokerStars $1 000 000 Guaranteed Sunday tourney has as the title suggests a million dollar prize pool which this past Sunday attracted over 2 700 entries, 1064 rebuys, and 1157 add-ons for 390 paid places with a winner's prize of $175 500. Eight hours of gruelling play finally narrowed the field down to 9 players at the final table, where a player using the handle TPope212 took home the $175 500 prize, with JesusQintana from Miami coming in second and collecting a check for $103 500. Even the last placed final tabler picked up $11 000.
The other major poker site, market leader Party Poker ran its Million Dollar Guaranteed Sunday event, too, boasting a field of just on 4 841
The contest whittled the field away quite quickly, leading to a final table confrontation between players using the handles Wezzee and BPWJR from which the former emerged as the nominal winner and received a $109 500 paypacket, with his opponent taking home $79 000. 9th placed glb99 didn't do too badly for a weekend, either - he/she left the table with $5 000.
Somewhat further down in this million dollar sector was Ultimate Bet with its $200 000 Guaranteed tournament, which attracted a field of 827 contestants. Pikerplayer beat the nine final table players to collect a reward of $45 000, with his last opponent, Noonan taking $27 000, and the first man to be eliminated from the final table picking up $2 000.
