Two weeks back, we 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 emiminated from the final table picking up $2 000.