Another Sunday means another big round of tourneys on PokerStars, highlighted as always by the Sunday Million, online poker's hottest weekly tournament. There have been 7,972 hopefuls gathered for today's Sunday Million, all putting up $215 with ideas of multiplying that investment by 1,000 or more. And after 11 hours and 45 minutes a kind of 7,972 did just that as martyyy of Norway came away with the victory and a big $239,164.05 first prize after no final table deal was made.
It took around five hours for the money bubble to burst, and soon after it was PaDiLhA SP, Steve "BetrThanPhil" Tripp, and el diegote10 leading the counts because the only players with greater than 300,000 chips.
There were a couple of members of Team PokerStars still within the counts then, with one -- Chris "chrisdm" de Meulder -- hitting the rail soon after in 1,056th to cash for $334.82.
As play continued some of de Meulder's teammates fell as Vanessa "LadyMaverick" Rousso went out in 822nd ($382.65), Chris's brother Matthias "mattidm" de Meulder was sent railward in 736th ($414.54), and up to date Poker Hall of Fame candidate Humberto "Humberto B." Brenes was stopped in 587th ($462.37).
That left just Team Challenger Stavros "IDOLLS" Kalfas to sport the red spade because the field was trimmed under 500 players. Kalfas would still be there because the tournament crossed the eight-hour mark, at which point 100 players remained and Grizzlypower and WaGe N Warz were within the top positions, both hovering around 2.1 million chips.
Kalfas held on greater than a half-hour longer, then a hand arose that saw simren make a 3x opening raise from the cutoff to 150,000, then IDOLLS reraise all in for 940,192 from the button. The blinds folded and simren called, turning over 6♥6♦ to Kalfas's A♥Q♣. The board then came ten-high, failing to enhance Kalfas's hand and ending his Sunday Million run in 65th place for a $2,232.16 cash.
About an hour-and-a-half after that they'd reached the 10-hour mark and just 18 remained, with Bruno "bubbleboybr" Severino out in front with about 12.7 million and martyyy and DwnByDaBrdge not far behind.
It would take about 40 minutes more for the following nine to fall. jessy784 (18th), BetrThanPhil (17th), and Neyko348 (16th) each earned $4,225.16 for his or her finishes; x x AAA x x (15th), Francis "The Lag rat" Anderson (14th), and simren (13th) took away $6,377.60 apiece; and Sergey "SerAlGog" Gogolev (12th), wieselsen (11th), and KLUM smoking (10th) picked up $8,530.04 cashes.
With martyyy having by then pushed out in front with greater than 16 million, the general table was under way.
Seat 1: Velni@Z (Lithuania) -- 13,943,710
Seat 2: DwnByDaBrdge (Mexico) -- 9,845,397
Seat 3: Bruno "bubbleboybr" Severino (Brazil) -- 12,522,208
Seat 4: Loysh (Russia) -- 3,385,730
Seat 5: martyyy (Norway) -- 16,297,160
Seat 6: smily1208 (Switzerland) -- 2,977,825
Seat 7: dimjyri (Greece) -- 9,894,175
Seat 8: przem77 (Poland) -- 3,208,711
Seat 9: el diegote10 (Uruguay) -- 7,645,084
It took lower than an orbit for the primary final table elimination to occur.
With the blinds 150,000/300,000, Velni@Z opened for 601,900 from under the gun, then smily1208 reraised all in for 2,317,825 from the cutoff seat. It folded back to Velni@Z who called and switched over K♠Q♠ to the 8♣8♥ of smily1208. The flop and turn were okay for smily1208, coming 4♣T♦2♣, then 3♠. However the river was the Q♣, giving Velni@Z queens and sending smily1208 railward in ninth.
Just three hands after that, leader martyyy made a minimum-raise to 600,000 from early position, then a short-stacked przem77 shoved for 902,981 from a few seats over. All folded back to martyyy who called. przem77 had K♠9♥ and needed help against martyyy's A♥J♠, however the board came Q♦5♣6♦4♥Q♣, and przem77 was out in eighth.
The remaining seven played a few orbits more with the blinds climbing to 200,000/400,000. Then a hand arose during which Velni@Z raised to 801,900 from the button, then DwnByDaBrdge reraise-pushed for 6,342,457 from the small blind. Bruno "bubbleboybr" Severino folded the massive blind, but Velni@Z called.
DwnByDaBrdge: K♥8♥
Velni@Z: A♦9♠
The community cards did not connect to either player -- coming J♥Q♠7♠3♦4♦ -- and Velni@Z's ace-high bested DwnByDaBrdge's king-high to cut back the sphere to six.
A little later that level it was Bruno "bubbleboybr" Severino raising to 800,875 from the button, then Loysh was the only pushing from the small blind, this time for 5,874.657. It folded back to Severino who called with A♣J♥ while Loysh had 9♦9♠. The flop brought a jack for bubbleboybr, coming 7♣J♦8♥, and after the 5♠ turn and K♥ river, Loysh was knocked out in sixth.
They were nearing the 11-and-a-half-hour mark of the tournament when the blinds increased to 250,000/500,000, then Velni@Z open-raised all in for 6,107,168 from the cutoff. It folded to dimjyri who had but 4,992,728 left and made the call, showing 7♠7♣ while Velni@Z had A♣T♥. The board brought an ace, coming 8♥4♠A♦8♣9♦, giving Velni@Z the hand and ending dimjyri's run in fifth.
Shortly after that the rest four paused the tournament to speak about a potential deal, with martyyy way in from with 41,953,741, Bruno "bubbleboybr" Severino next with 14,635,115, el diegote10 third with 11,881,248, and Velni@Z fourth with 11,249,896.
First "ICM" figures were produced, after which another set of proposed payouts consistent with the "chip chop" formula. Given martyyy's big lead, the adaptation between the 2 sets of numbers was quite significant (each leaving $20,000 aside for which to play):
"ICM"
martyyy $186,980.30
bubbleboybr $142,620.94
el diegote10 $133,592.45
Velni@Z $131,292.12
"chip chop"
martyyy $224,056.57
bubbleboybr $130,485.56
el diegote10 $121,053.09
Velni@Z $118,890.59
"I conform to the chip chop," typed martyyy. "I conform to the icm" replied bubbleboybr. Not long after that, all were typing "let's play" and cards were back within the air and not using a deal made.
A short while later el diegote10 min-raised to twelve. million from the cutoff/UTG, Velni@Z reraised all in for 7,789,896 from the button, the blinds folded, and el diegote10 called. Velni@Z had A♦6♦ and was behind el diegote10's A♣K♦. The board came 8♦T♥2♠, then Q♦, then 4♥, and Velni@Z was done in fourth.
About 10 minutes after that the blinds were 400,000/800,000 when martyyy raised to 1.6 million from the small blind, el diegote10 shoved from the large blind for 19,836,852, and martyyy called.
martyyy had 9♥9♠ and el diegote10 A♠J♦, and when the flop came A♥4♦4♥, el diegote10 was quickly in front with two pair. The turn was the 3♠ and el diegote10 looked more healthy to climb back into contention versus martyyy, however the 9♦ spiked at the river, giving martyyy an entire house and eliminating el diegote10 in third.
With that knockout martyyy enjoyed a commanding result in start heads-up play with 71,882,115 to Bruno "bubbleboybr" Severino's 7,837,845. At the first hand between them, martyyy shoved all in from the button and Severino folded. But if bubbleboybr did the similar at the following hand, martyyy called and the pair showed their cards:
martyyy: K♠Q♦
bubbleboybr: Q♠7♣
martyyy had the large edge before the flop, and five cards later -- T♣9♦K♦2♥6♣ -- martyyy's hand was still best to secure the win.
Congratulations to martyyy for topping another huge Sunday Million field and earning a $239,164.05 return on a $215 investment!
11/3/13 Sunday Million ($215 No-Limit Hold'em) results
Players: 7,972
Total prize pool: $1,594,400.00
Places paid: 1,170
1. martyyy (Norway) -- $239,164.05
2. bubbleboybr (Brazil) -- $175,384.00
3. el diegote10 (Uruguay) -- $119,580.00
4. Velni@Z (Lithuania) -- $80,357.76
5. dimjyri (Greece) -- $63,776.00
6. Loysh (Russia) -- $47,832.00
7. DwnByDaBrdge (Mexico) -- $31,888.00
8. przem77 (Poland) -- $18,335.60
9. smily1208 (Switzerland) -- $12,356.60
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Martin Harris is Freelance Contributor to the PokerStars Blog.
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