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PokerStars $10 Million Sunday Million – Kyle Weir Wins
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2011-12-19 15:16
Many thought that
PokerStars took a huge gamble by upping the guarantee of the weekly Sunday Million from $1.5 million to a massive $10 million to mark the 10th anniversary of the
online poker room. That may indeed have been the case, but the gamble paid off. While on Saturday Night there were only 16k players registered, when the late registration wrapped up, no fewer than 62,000 players had coughed up the $215 buy-in to obliterate the guarantee. The eventual prize-pool was a $12,423,200 one. The exact number of entrants was 62,116.
Although the winner was guaranteed to receive at least $2 million, Kyle Weir, who rose to victory after a heads-up battle with “Unstoffable”, only took home $1,146,574. The reason for his short-changing was a 6-way deal at the top which evened out the prize distribution quite a bit.
Besides Weir, two other notables made the final table too: Mark Saber and Tristan Bain. The short-stack at the beginning of the final stretch was yokouno1980, who had a little over 21 million chips. He was the first one to bust out: he picked up $86.5k for his efforts.
Two more players busted out before the remaining survivors struck a 6-way deal. Tristan Bain was the one who left in 6th place and the deal served him well indeed: he picked up $758.9k.
Dimedroll followed him to the rail. Mark Saber, who finished 4th pocketed a $627.3k prize. Unstoffable got the short end of the stick. Eliminated heads-up by the eventual winner, he only took home $580.7k, the smallest prize in the final 6.
Unstoffable reached the heads-up stage with a 10-1 chip handicap. While he did manage to double up once, there wasn’t really a whole lot he could do against the overwhelming odds. The final hand of the tournament saw Unstoffable shove all-in holding 6s,2s on a flop of 10s, 8s, 5d. Weir made the call with As, 3s and he obviously took down the pot sealing his victory.
