Last week, in celebration of the brand new start times of the Sunday majors, the Sunday Million found itself with a hefty $2 million prize pool. It was a one-time bonus for players, and greater than 10,000 of them came out to play for portions of that money.
This week, the brand new start time was firmly in place, and there has been no special guarantee. Well, that may be in the event you don't consider the weekly $1 million guarantee special. (SHOULD YOU don't, we need to say, "Huh?") But such a lot of people were charged up in regards to the $1 million and the brand new place at the Sunday schedule that the gang of players was quite substantial. When registration was complete, the next numbers were given:
Players: 6,889
Prize pool: $1,377,800
Paid players: 990
Quite a big field and well past that guarantee. We'll say that's special.
After the initial hours passed, the money bubble came and went in order for everyone in that prime 990 would receive at least $316.89 for his or her efforts.
Only two Team PokerStars Pros made it into that group. Slovakian Dag Palovic left within the early stages of the payment process in 738th place, but moving forward was fellow pro and German representative Sebastian Ruthenberg. Ruthenberg held up for awhile but eventually exited in 283rd place.
Played moved directly to discover two tables remaining into the tenth hour, and hand-for-hand play was in action just QUARTER-HOUR into the following hour. But only five minutes later, it was Pessagno who risked all of it from the large blind with K♦6♣, but jAKIELOL had K♠Q♦ within the small blind, and that hand stayed best in the course of the 3♠8♠3♣5♦A♠ board. Pessagno was gone in tenth place with $7,715.68.
Patorojas86 pulls ahead to begin action
Level 37 kicked off the general table with blinds at 125,000/250,000 and a 25,000 ante. Players' starting chip counts were:
Seat 1: jAKIELOL (5,193,973 in chips)
Seat 2: suckerfishtw (8,438,106 in chips)
Seat 3: AA1284 (6,227,707 in chips)
Seat 4: 321Gentleman (3,581,858 in chips)
Seat 5: patorojas86 (12,809,178 in chips)
Seat 6: mikexace (8,530,627 in chips)
Seat 7: Thorup1 (9,170,616 in chips)
Seat 8: SLUUUURP (5,098,959 in chips)
Seat 9: Seraph14 (9,838,976 in chips)
Play started out relatively cautiously, though there have been some players pushing the action.
And about QUARTER-HOUR into the table, it was time for the shortest stack to make a move. When mikexace opened for a raise, SLUUUURP reraised all-in with K♣Q♠. Mikexace called with 4♦4♥, and the fours held as much as the A♣6♥T♠2♣9♣ board. That left SLUUUURP out in ninth place with $10,677.95.
Suckerfishtw and Seraph14 got right into a raising war preflop, and suckerfishtw ultimately moved all-in with A♣Q♦. But Seraph14 called and turned over K♥K♣. The flop of Q♣6♦T♥ gave a couple of queens and hope to suckerfishtw, and the J♣ at the turn provided much more outs. However the 4♦ at the river left Seraph14's pair of kings the winner, and suckerfishtw swam off in eighth place with $16,533.60.
Mikexace makes moves
With that pot, Seraph14 climbed into the highest spot at the leaderboard and started to battle for first position with mikexace. Patorojas86 was relegated to 3rd and wasn't finding much momentum on the table. But after mikexace took a pot worth nearly 7.7 million chips from patorojas86, the latter was unable to recover.
Patorojas86 was within the big blind got involved with jAKIELOL preflop to peer the T♣7♣T♥ from the dealer. When jAKIELOL bet, patorojas86 check-raised all-in with J♠9♠, and jAKIELOL called with A♠K♥. The 5♦ turn and K♠ river left jAKIELOL with the 2 pair and the pot, as patorojas86 left in a shocking seventh place with $30,311.60.
AA1284 had a coarse time but managed a double through Thorup1 to stick alive. But just a few hands later, AA1284 looked down at K♦K♥ from the small blind and moved all-in. Original raiser mikexace called with A♣Q♠, and the flop of Q♦6♥A♦ gave him two pair. The J♣ at the turn didn't do much, however the Q♥ made a whole house for mikexace. AA1284 was forced out in sixth place with $44,089.60.
Some double-ups were so as going forward, as 321Gentleman did it through Thorup1, and Thorup1 then did the similar through jAKIELOL. But if jAKIELOL doubled through mikexace, jAKIELOL took the chip lead in addition to the chips. It happened like this:
Then 321Gentleman doubled through mikexace, as did Thorup1. And suddenly, mikexace was the fast stack of the group.
When jAKIELOL made a raise at the very next hand, mikexace reraised all-in with A♥8♦. JAKIELOL called with K♣T♠, which appeared to be the losing hand throughout the 2♠5♦2♣7♠ at the board. However the K♦ at the river changed that and gave jAKIELOL two pair. Mikexace went from the chip result in out in fifth place, which was worth $57,867.60.
Seraph14 doubled through Thorup1, and 321Gentleman did the similar courtesy of jAKIELOL.
Final four comply with a deal
During the 11.5-hour break, the four remaining players decided to check out chip-chop numbers. The tournament was paused, and so they quickly agreed. With $20,000 put aside to be added to the eventual winner's prize, the payouts could be as follows:
Seat 1: jAKIELOL (25,437,959 in chips) = $159,768.45
Seat 4: 321Gentleman (14,326,064 in chips) = $123,079.90
Seat 7: Thorup1 (14,423,327 in chips) = $123,401.03
Seat 9: Seraph14 (14,702,650 in chips) = $124,323.28
With good luck wishes all around, play resumed. And jAKIELOL was the clear aggressor, pushing into a much bigger lead over the opposite three players.
Thorup1 was anxious to make a move, the primary time leading to a split pot with jAKIELOL when both players held K-8. The second one time, it was Seraph14 within the hand with A♠T♦, which dominated the A♥7♦ of Thorup1. The board of 4♥9♠9♥K♣T♣ didn't change the outcome, and Thorup1 exited in fourth place with $123,401.03.
Seraph14 started to put the moves on and took a pot worth greater than 18.6 million chips from jAKIELOL to take the lead. The 2 then battled at the very next hand with a preflop raising war that ended in jAKIELOL moving all-in with 8♦6♦. Seraph14 made the decision with a great K♣K♠, which become an entire house at the Q♦K♦6♠J♠J♣ board. That left jAKIELOL out in third place with $159,768.45.
Seraph14 takes strong lead into heads-up
The final two prepared to duel with these starting chip counts:
Seat 4: 321Gentleman (7,286,064 in chips)
Seat 9: Seraph14 (61,603,936 in chips)
There was no giving up for 321Gentleman, despite the chip deficit. The primary double-up came for 321Gentleman with K-7 over Q-8, and the second one was T-8 over 8-7. But Seraph14 maintained a sizeable lead.
The two then battled preflop to look the K♦T♦6♦. Seraph14 bet all-in, and 321Gentleman check-called all-in within the hopes of another double-up and showed A♦4♥ for the nut flush draw. Seraph14 showed A♠T♥ for the pair of tens, and with out a flush at the 5♣ turn or 2♠ river, 321Gentleman needed to leave in second place with $123,079.90.
Seraph14 of Slovakia claimed the Sunday Million victory and the $144,323.28 that went with it. Congrats!
Sunday Million Results for 06/12/11 (reflecting deal):
1st place: Seraph14 ($144,323.28)*
2nd place: 321Gentleman ($123,079.90)*
3rd place: jAKIELOL ($159,768.45)*
4th place: Thorup ($123,401.03)*
5th place: mikexace ($57,867.60)
6th place: AA1284 ($44,089.60)
7th place: patorojas86 ($30,311.60)
8th place: suckerfishtw ($16,533.60)
9th place: SLUUUURP ($10,677.95)
*based on four-way deal
For additional information on how one can register and qualify for upcoming Sunday Million tournaments, visit the Sunday Million page.
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