Records Broken at Both PokerStars and UltimateBet

The world’s record books were revised by PokerStars once again this week when the site’s Sunday Hundred Grand tournament’s player-cap was upped to 20,000 entrants and the event lured the maximum players allowed. That attendance made it the biggest real-money tournament (by number of entrants) in history. The tournament beat out its own record of 17,501 entrants that it set just a few weeks ago. The ultimate winner of the poker tournament, Lynna1, earned $20,000 for besting the monstrous field. That’s 1,818 times her $11 buy-in for the tournament.

PokerStars Sunday Million

Last night’s Sunday Million at PokerStars was the monthly $500 buy-in version of the event. The tournament lured 3,021 players & women poker players, which built a prize pool of $1,510,500 and offered a first-place prize of almost $264,000 (if no deal was made at the final table).

Final-table host Lee Jones speculated that the prize pool was the largest ever for the event. While this may be true of the $500 buy-in version of the tournament, the Sunday Million’s prize pool has surpassed this number four times previously: once when the buy-in was $1,000 ($1.712 million prize pool) and three times with its traditional $200 buy-in. Play online poker. The largest-ever prize pool for a Sunday Million was on May 20 of this year, when PokerStars celebrated its 10 billionth hand dealt by providing a $250,000 overlay for the event. The tournament had 10,894 entrants (which broke the world record for most entrants in a real money tournament at the time), which generated a prize pool of $2,428,800. Play $500 match poker bonus.

Former World Series of Poker champion Greg “FossilMan” Raymer made it deep in the event this Sunday before eventually going out in 42nd place in a hand that stirred the railbirds into heated debate. VuaXi`Tô’ (a short stack) raised to $63,000 preflop, with the big blind at $25,000, and sacker pushed all in for more than $1 million. FossilMan requested time on the button before calling all in for his last $700,000. VuaXi`Tô’ folded and sacker showed A-K suited. Fossilman was in the lead with pocket tens until the river brought a king. FossilMan won $4,532 for his finish. Download poker wallpapers.

The final table of the event featured notable Internet players fundmyaudi and Pehtoori. Both players had medium-sized stacks in the $2 million range when the big blind was $100,000. Plasticard came to the table as the chip leader with $8.4 million in chips compared to asdf2000 in second place with $5.1 million. Nazeehah66 was the short stack with just $906,000 and was, correspondingly, the first player to be eliminated. Stay tuned to our poker blog for latest updates.

Poker News Source: Card Player