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Weekend online poker action
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2010-03-08 15:49
The online poker weekend saw plenty of action again.
PokerStars’ Sunday Million attracted a starting field of over 10,000 players again and a monster prize-pool developed. No fewer than 4 players took home 6-figure hauls in this poker tournament. The largest share of the prize-pool went to player “MAE9690” who took home $260,000. Camillo30 got $176,959 off the 4-player deal that was struck at the top.
Reelhugefish walked away with $150,000 and so did asturiano, who finished 4th.
Josh Schlein finished 12th for a $10,123 share of the total prize-pool of $2,024,600. Cesar Fuentes ended up in 19th and Veronica Dabul finished 48th.
The Sunday Warm-up attracted 4,980 players, who combined for a prize-pool of $996,000. This
poker tournament saw a deal at the top as well. 6 players agreed to divide the remaining prize-pool their own way. This meant that there would be only one six-figure winner in this one. Bolivar Palacios finished in 1st place, for a massive $139,163 haul. This event yielded only one notable finisher: Nick Davies, who finished 34th for $2,141.
The Sunday 500 drew only 1,098 players, probably on account of the higher buy-in. This way, the prize-pool was “only” a $549,000 one. With not that much to go around, the top finishers weren’t that eager to share either. M3tph finished 1st, scoring a $93,330 profit. 99NvrLoses finished runner-up for $68,625.
Robert Saltiel was the top “name” finisher. He collected $3,733 for his 13th place.
Meanwhile, the high buy-in MTT action roared on at
Full Tilt Poker too. The 4,180 players who registered for the $750k Gtd, generated a prize-pool of $836,000. Shiftzerg won this one, and he took home $147,629, the full share of the winner, as no deals were struck in this poker tournament. Devon Biehn finished 18th for a little over $4k.
The Sunday Brawl attracted a much smaller field. 2,911 players bellied up to the tables of this event, each one of them coughing up a $240+$16 buy-in, to combine for a prize-pool of $218,600. No deals were made in this one either. The winner, doublencs, was the only player to take down a 6-figure haul. He took home $118,186. Alex Santiago finished 10th for a little over $4k.
