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The Online Poker Weekend – Carlos Sanchez Biggest Winner
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2013-02-19 04:42
During the weekend, the online majors came to the forefront of the poker action yet again. Once again, the biggest tournament of the weekend was
PokerStars’ Sunday Million, which drew a starting field of 8,024 players, generating a prize-pool of $1.6 million, clearly shaming its initial $1 million guarantee.
No fewer than 4 players emerged with 6-figure scores from the
poker tournament, and another one came close to making the 6-figure club too, due to a 6-handed deal at the top, which ended up producing some rather skewed results.
Thus, the biggest online poker winner of the weekend was Carlos Sanchez, whose deal-making skills far outshone his luck at the final table: he finished 5th, taking down a $195.8k prize. The player who got the worst of the deal by far was eventual 3rd place finisher whitey714, who ended up with $71.4k.
The winner of the event was a player known as “Zabry” who took home $151.6k for his efforts.
Runner-up “t6rdur” finished with $103k, while 4th place man “timmybwee” took down a nice score of $115.7k too.
Liv Boeree played in the event too: she finished 27th, taking home $3.5k for her efforts.
In contrast with the Sunday Million, the Sunday Warm-Up failed to create any 6-figure winners. 3,735 players bellied up to the tables of this event, creating a prize-pool of $747k. The winner was Robby Lipkin, who should probably have taken down a 6-figure prize too, had he not ended up somewhat short-changed by a 3-way deal at the top, which eventually left him with $98.5k. David Peters was the deepest finishing notable in the tournament: he took home a $1.9k prize for his 21st place.
Full Tilt Poker’s $350k Guaranteed was won by Rory Matthews, who took down $74.2k.
