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The online poker weekend
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2010-08-02 14:33
The online poker industry is slowly but surely recovering from the shock of the
2010 WSOP. High buy-in weekend guarantees are excellent indicators in this respect, and according to them, people are returning to the online tables. PokerStars’ Sunday Million managed to cover its guarantee, having attracted an initial starting field of 8,197 participants. The combined buy-ins were enough to generate a $1,639,400 prize-pool, which made it possible for the winner to take home a handsome $245,914 prize. Aqua44 was the one who pocketed that prize, after no deals were made in the poker tournament.
James Tolbert finished 2nd, for a $180,334 haul. Idacir_bra took home $122,955 for his 3rd place. Notable finishes were those of Nicholas Grippo and Kevin Tanner.
Full Tilt Poker’s $750k Guaranteed failed to cover the mark again though. 3,466 players showed up to fight it out for the exact sum of the guarantee. No deals were made in this poker tournament either. The winner, Jordan Young, took home $132,787. Pajeropy finished 2nd for $80,250 and mstrkrft55 finished 3rd for $52,500. Christian Iacobellis finished 5th and Andrew Feldman finished 25th among the notables.
PokerStars’ Sunday Warm-up worked its way up to a nice $805,600 prize-pool. This event saw 4,028 players belly up to the tables. A two-way deal at the top was made, which left the eventual winner – Buffet1980 – almost $120k. Second place man Alex Camberis took home $101k. No other players finished in 6 figures in any of the other guaranteed prize-pool poker tournaments run by
PokerStars over the weekend. Over at Full Tilt Poker, there was another 6-figure winner though. Jordan Young won the Sunday Brawl, to pocket a prize of $104,951.
