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The online poker weekend
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2010-08-31 05:11
With the 2010 edition of the WCOOP on the horizon, players are taking to the tables in larger and larger numbers. The massive buy-in online weekend guarantees have recorded more than decent numbers and they have largely managed to cover their guarantees yet again. “Name” players are out in force too. As a matter of fact, several of the weekend
poker tournaments were won by such “name” pros. PokerStars’ Sunday Warm-up was won by Michael Guzzardi and the $215+Rebuys NL Holdem event was won by Joe Cada.
PokerStars’ Sunday Million was yet again responsible for the biggest single prize of the weekend. The $200+$15 event attracted a starting field of 8,190 players, generating a prize-pool of $1,638,000, well above the $1.5 million guarantee. The winner of the poker tournament, Peetoon, took down a prize of $232,362 despite a deal that he had with second place finisher FightnnIrishh. The second place man took down $193,517 for his efforts. The event created another 6-figure winner too: RedIceCap took home $122,850 for his 3rd place.
Randy Haddox finished 6th in the event and Luke Staudenmaier ended up in 12th.
The Sunday Warm-up had just one 6-figure winner: Guzzardi took down a $132,910 prize, after no deals were made at the top.
Full Tilt Poker’s $750k guaranteed failed to attract enough players to cover its guarantee. 3,443 players showed up for the tournament, coughing up the $216 buy-in. No 6-figure winners were registered in this one, quite possibly on account of the 3-way deal the top finishers had agreed upon. That deal left the eventual winner, Leopold Chow, with a $90,811 prize. Second place man Steve McNally was the one taking down the largest prize: he took home $98,471.
A notable finish in the event was that of JC Alvarado, who finished 13th, for a $5,325 prize.
