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Weekly online poker tourneys produce big winners

Published in December 2009. This article is retained as historical reporting; details may have changed.

Two of the regular Sunday online poker tournaments last weekend delivered big entry fields and significant main prizes, with plenty of action over the Thanksgiving holiday period.

In the Pokerstars Sunday Million almost 9 100 Internet pokerheads paid the buy-in of $200+$15, generating a prizepool of $1 815 400 and delivering six figure payouts to the top three players, winner Caio César “caio_pimenta” Pimenta on $259 244; KillerMendez on $190 617 and floriverboy on $135 156.53.

Over at Full Tilt Poker the $750 000 guaranteed event saw 4 367 players enter the $200+$16 event to build a prizepool of $873 400, from which winner WooohSaaah cashed an impressive $154 233.71.