It was another big Sunday Million this week with 7,107 entrants into the weekly $215 buy-in tournament, the most well liked in online poker. That meant a large prize pool of $1,421,400 -- well over the $1 million guarantee -- to be split by the highest 1,080 finishers. It could take exactly 12 hours for the tournament to play out, with vizquel17 of Israel ultimately emerging because the winner to assert a large $213,214.40 payday.
Just over five hours after the tourney began, the money bubble burst with Pippa83, HotTunà , and 05Devais07 sitting atop the counts with 1,080 players remaining.
Almost exactly five hours after that the sector have been whittled right down to 18 players sitting across the last two tables. By then 05Devais07 have been eliminated in 662nd (for $397.99), Pippa83 was out in 278th ($596.98), and HotTunà had just gone out in 35th ($2,956.51).
Among those also hitting the rail during that reach were Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree (459th, $454.84), Team Online member Mickey "mement mori" Petersen (605th, $412.50), and Team PokerStars Pros Jake Cody (908th, $312.70) and Vanessa Selbst (928th, $312.70).
Meanwhile it was El major :D in first position with a large stack of virtually 11.5 million, with elpipsi87 the closest challenger with just over 8.2 million.
It would take greater than an hour for nine more to fall. 100mile (18th), Armand2011 (17th), and Ullsen187 (16th) each earned $3,979.92 for his or her finishes. 2rich4u4eva (15th), GASpeer (14th), and JohnDoe00000 (13th) made $5,898.81 apiece. And MyMilkCans=D (12th), QazMiNowPlz (11th), and Teddygram902 (10th) took away $7,871.70 each.
With the tourney about 11 hours and QUARTER-HOUR old and elpipsi87 having moved into the highest spot with greater than 21 million, the overall table was underway.
Seat 1: ki92 (Austria) -- 6,646,058
Seat 2: decamps (Norway) -- 3,910,848
Seat 3: jahwise (UK) -- 4,466,268
Seat 4: elpipsi87 (Belgium) -- 21,021,974
Seat 5: olekasper (Norway) -- 3,234,399
Seat 6: Bluf To Much (Moldova) -- 12,396,696
Seat 7: DeLaBijen (Netherlands) -- 5,877,342
Seat 8: vizquel17 (Israel) -- 8,725,798
Seat 9: El mejor :D (Portugal) -- 4,790,617
Not long after the general table got going, the blinds were 250k/500k when El mejor :D open-raised all in for 3,290,617 from the cutoff seat and it folded to decamps within the small blind who called all in for 2,586,449. jahwise was within the big blind and having both players covered called as well, and the 3 players showed their hands.
decamps: 7♣7♠
jahwise: 9♥9♦
El mejor :D: Q♣9♣
El mejor :D was the one one and not using a made hand to start, but after the 5♠K♣K♥8♣J♣ board El mejor :D had improved to a winning flush to win the hand and survive. Meanwhile decamps was out in ninth.
The 11-and-a-half-hour break came and went, and almost 10 minutes glided by by which no players eliminated. Then came a rapid barrage of knockouts that saw the tournament come to a rapid close within 20 minutes.
The blinds had increased to 300k/600k when the primary a kind of eliminations came about. After an elpipsi87 open to twelve. million from under the gun, it folded to El mejor :D at the button who reraise-shoved for 5,917,683. The blinds folded, then elpipsi87 quickly called, turning over K♦K♣ to El mejor :D's T♣T♠. The board ran out A♠A♦9♠J♣K♥, giving elpipsi87 a whole house and ending El mejor :D's tourney in eighth.
Just two hands later it was jahwise shoving for 2,655,888 from the button with K♣3♥ but getting called by olekasper who aroused from sleep within the big blind with K♦K♠. The flop came K♥5♥3♠, pairing jahwise twice but giving olekasper top set, and after the Q♦ turn and 7♥ river they were all the way down to six.
A short while after that they'd made it to the following level where the blinds were 400k/800k, that is where DeLaBijen open-raised all in for 7,598,212 from UTG, then ki92 called all in for 6,312,822 from a few seats over. The others folded, DeLaBijen showed 6♠6♥ and ki92 hoped to enhance to outlive with A♥K♠.
Alas for ki92, the flop came 5♠Q♥6♦ to present DeLaBijen a suite of sixes, and the 9♥ turn made the 3♦ river no matter, knocking ki92 out in sixth.
Just a minute later elpipsi87 was open-shoving for just about 9.6 million from under the gun and vizquel17 called from the large blind. vizquel17 had the threshold before the flop with A♣T♦ versus elpipsi87's A♠7♠, and five cards later -- T♠3♣2♦2♣2♥ -- vizquel17's hand was still best and elpipsi87 was eliminated in fifth.
That hand signaled the beginning of an avalanche of chips headed vizquel17's way, because the new chip leader would soon be knocking out the last three challengers to assert the Sunday Million title.
First it was vizquel17 min-raising to 1.6 million from the button, then olekasper reraising all in for 4,827,767 from the small blind and vizquel17 calling. olekasper had 6♥6♠ and vizquel17 T♣7♣, and when the community cards came 7♦5♦J♥9♣5♥ vizquel17 had the simpler two pair and olekasper was done in fourth.
Moments later, DeLaBijen open-pushed for 8,932,070 from under the gun and only vizquel17 called from the small blind. DeLaBijen had A♥3♥ and vizquel17 4♥4♣. The board came J♣7♥2♠, then 8♦, then 3♦, and DeLaBijen was out in third.
Suddenly heads-up play was starting, with vizquel17 way out in front with 63,789,453 to Bluf To Much's 7,280,547. vizquel17 won an initial small hand, then the tip swiftly arrived at the second hand between the pair.
The blinds were as much as 500k/1m, and after Bluf To Much pushed for 6,300,547 from the button with J♥9♣, vizquel17 snap-called with A♠J♠. The board came 3♠6♠2♦5♣K♥, and similar to that vizquel17 had claimed the last of the chips and the win.
Congratulations to vizquel17 for outlasting greater than 7,000 players to win this week's Sunday Million and a fab $213,214.40 first prize -- just about 1,000 times the tourney's buy-in!
11/24/13 Sunday Million ($215 No-Limit Hold'em) results
Players: 7,107
Prize pool: $1,421,400.00
Places paid: 1,080
1. vizquel17 (Israel) -- $213,214.40
2. Bluf To Much (Moldova) -- $156,879.91
3. DeLaBijen (Netherlands) -- $113,712.00
4. olekasper (Norway) -- $75,334.20
5. elpipsi87 (Belgium) -- $58,277.40
6. ki92 (Austria) -- $44,063.40
7. jahwise (UK) -- $30,560.10
8. El mejor :D (Portugal) -- $17,056.80
9. decamps (Norway) -- $11,015.85
Speaking of giant returns on investment, take a look at the official MicroMillions 6 page for results from all 100 events within the popular series that concluded on Sunday.
Martin Harris is Freelance Contributor to the PokerStars Blog.
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