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Record $1 397 000 prize pool recorded for Sunday Millions
Another new record - this one for the Sunday Millions prizepool was set by PokerStars over the weekend, with attendance up across the board at all the big-prize events. Overall, the weekend's action again illustrated that online poker remains an immensely popular activity with players everywhere despite the efforts of ill-informed politicians to kill the pastime off.
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In the Sunday Million, PokerStars logged a starting field of 2794 players, 390 of whom were 'in the money' on a giant prizepool of $1 397 000, with the winner Jovial Gent no doubt living up to his handle as he scooped a $250 202 pay cheque. The runner up, apestyles started as the chip leader but was ultimately beat into the first slot, and had no complaints about his payday of $135 229.60.
Full Tilt Poker joined the positive run by again generating solid numbers, as did Party Poker's new, European-oriented $200 000 offering which gave the former industry leader a much needed 10 percent boost in player interest.
In the Full Tilt $350 000 Guaranteed event, entries by 2 279 players ensured a lively competition that paid out to 351 'in the money' players from a prizepool of $455 800. The winner was another well-named player - BlueChip200 - who took pocketed $83 616.51, with second placed XMart taking home $51 323.08.
Ultimate Bet's $200 000 Guaranteed produced another healthy of 963 players competing for a prizepool that delivered a first p[rize of $45 000. The top 100 players all cashed, but top of the winning list was Simmo97 with that $45 000 bank account booster, with romangra in the number 2 slot with a take-home of $26 500.
As previously remarked, the Party Poker $200,000 Guaranteed showed a welcome increase in player interest of 10 percent, delivering a prize pool of $209 400 and a starting field of 1047 from which 150 players cashed, with top dog Slaan_PS collecting the main prize of $39 829.91 after a three way negotiation with runners up Pointer2 ($26 294.60) and Canadawest ($18 159.01).
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