Amid PokerStars' "December Festival" stuffed with promotions and boosted guarantees, a standard"" Sunday Million played out this weekend with the standard $1 million guarantee for a $215 buy-in. The sphere was big nonetheless, with 8,316 popping out to create an enormous $1,663,200 prize pool. It might take nearly 13 hours for the tourney to complete, with Peter "twirlpro" Turmezy managing to outlast the sector to win his second Sunday Million and remove a $213,479.97 first prize after a five-way final table deal.
It took almost exactly five hours for the money bubble to burst, and with 1,260 players left it was BEGEMOT13, vadanas, and chokdee1980 sitting within the top spots at the leaderboard with stacks 5-6 times the average.
A couple of Team PokerStars Pros had spots within the top 100 at that point, with Johnny Lodden in 47th and Naoya "nkeyno" Kihara in 91st and their teammates Maxim Lykov and Matthias "mattidm" de Meulder both still within the hunt as well.
Short-stacked, de Meulder was soon all in before the flop with K♦9♠ against two players including stickbean who had pocket kings, and five cards later was out in 1,109th ($316.00). Kihara would last longer than an hour more before risking his last eight big blinds with A♠J♦ versus be awesome1's 8♦8♣ and failing to improve, thus finishing in 421st place ($548.85). And Lykov went out shortly thereafter with the same stack after running A♥6♣ into komarolo22's pocket aces to complete 370th ($598.75).
That left just Lodden to sport the red spade, and the Norwegian was still there with a below average stack because the tourney crossed the eight-hour mark and just 100 players remained. Peaksone had risen to the highest spot within the counts at that time with just over 4 million chips while the closest challengers vadanas and Reggie10000 hovered across the 2.6 million-chip mark.
Lodden continued to hold on for an additional 45 minutes, then shoved a seven-BB stack with K♣T♥ and got looked up by kylef89 with K♦Q♠ within the big blind. The board brought no help for Lodden, ending his tourney run in 47th ($2,827.44).
By the time the tourney was approaching the 10-hour mark just 18 were left with Peaksone still leading with greater than 9 million however the chasing pack beginning to close the distance. It could take rather less than an hour more for the sector to be trimmed to nine.
Nosferatoon (18th), pellompogos (17th), and birddy420 (16th) were the following to go, each earning $4,324.32. BEGEMOT13 then won an enormous preflop all-in with A♥A♠ against VyruAlus's K♠K♥ to take the chip lead, and then jmiami36 (15th), LAJG (14th), and HeRoCaL4HiGh (13th) went out to earn $6,569.64 apiece. And as Peter "twirlpro" Turmezy pushed into the highest spot, bustoville (12th), DSmunichlife (11th), and DJG1989 (10th) saw their tourney runs end with each taking out $8,814.96.
The final table -- featuring players from nine different countries -- was underway.
Seat 1: SAS6677 (Slovenia) -- 10,289,490
Seat 2: BEGEMOT13 (Russia) -- 15,826,312
Seat 3: Peter "twirlpro" Turmezy (Hungary) -- 19,874,912
Seat 4: chokdee1980 (Netherlands) -- 6,156,772
Seat 5: Peaksone (Canada) -- 9,874,591
Seat 6: SamTeymour (Iran) -- 4,629,894
Seat 7: Aleksandras "VyruAlus" Rusinovas (Lithuania) -- 5,973,663
Seat 8: GoodStoryBro (Israel) -- 3,774,992
Seat 9: AAKaliber1 (Austria) -- 6,759,374
Not long after the general table began, the blinds were 200k/400k when leader Peter "twirlpro" Turmezy min-raised to 800,000 from under the gun, then chokdee1980 reraised to 1,825,200 from a seat over. It folded around to SAS6677 within the small blind who four-bet all in for 7,659,490, and then it folded back to chokdee1980 who called the shove with the 3,371,572 left behind.
chokdee1980 had Q♥Q♦ but was behind SAS6677's K♣K♥. The board came 7♠4♥8♠6♦K♠ to enhance SAS6677 to a set, and chokdee1980 was out in ninth.
About five minutes later Turmezy was again min-raising to 800,000 -- from middle position this time -- and Aleksandras "VyruAlus" Rusinovas reraised all in for 3,443,663 from the small blind. It folded back to twirlpro who called, showing Q♣J♠ to Rusinovas's A♠J♦. The flop came 6♣8♣Q♠ to pair Turmezy's queen, and after the 5♠ turn and 4♥ river Rusinovas was done in eighth.
Peaksone will be the next to head in seventh only some minutes later in a hand that began with Peaksone shoving all in for 3,085,217 (rather less than eight big blinds) from early position then watching SamTeymour reraise-shove from a seat over to clear the sector. Peaksone had Q♥J♠ and SamTeymour A♣K♠, and after the 5♠Q♦6♣ flop Peaksone had seized the lead for the instant. However the turn was the K♣ to present SamTeymour a greater pair, and after the 2♣ fell on fifth street they were right down to six.
Peter "twirlpro" Turmezy was extending the lead further when the following elimination happened to bring BEGEMOT13 slightly closer. By then the blinds were 300k/600k, and when GoodStoryBro open-pushed from the cutoff for 5,549,984 with A♥3♣, BEGEMOT13 was quick with a decision from the massive blind with A♣Q♣. The board rolled out 7♥2♣J♠2♦A♠, and GoodStoryBro hit the rail in sixth.
Not long after that the rest five stopped the tourney to talk about a potential deal, with Turmezy sitting with just over 35.6 million, BEGEMOT13 next with a tiny bit under 27 million even, and the opposite three -- SAS6677, SamTeymour, and AAKaliber1 -- all between 5.7 and 8.1 million.
Both "chip chop" and "ICM" numbers were produced (leaving $20K for which to play), with the previous set of figures guaranteeing twirlpro over $214K and the latter a bit greater than $181K. Eyeing both figures, twirlpro began the negotiations thusly:
twirlpro: I'm happy to satisfy within the middle and take 200k. I'M probably the most experienced here and i've won this before. I DO NOT minde what you guys do with rest but I WILL need 200k to settle
As mentioned before, Turmezy indeed had an earlier Sunday Million title under his belt, having won the tourney back in 2008. He also picked up a TCOOP title in early 2012.
The ensuing discussion would take nearly half an hour, wherein the others were capable of negotiate twirlpro right down to a guaranteed payout of slightly under $193,500. Terms finally being reached, play eventually resumed with that extra $20K still up for grabs.
On just the second one hand back, SamTeymour open-pushed from the cutoff for 6,545,222 (a little bit over eight big blinds) with K♠Q♥ and BEGEMOT13 called from the massive blind with J♠J♦. The board rolled out nine-high -- 5♦7♠7♣4♥9♦ -- and SamTeymour was out in fifth.
Shortly after that hand AAKaliber1 won one preflop all-in to double through SAS6677, then at the next hand pushed again to knock SAS6677 out in fourth. With the blinds 400k/800k, AAKaliber1 shoved from under the gun and SAS6677 called for just 370,038 from the button, showing T♠3♦ to AAKaliber1's A♠3♣. The community cards came J♣4♠5♣6♥J♠, and SAS6677 was out.
Play continued and before long the 3 remaining players were roughly even, all inside the 25-30 million-chip range. Then because the blinds increased to 500k/1m it was AAKaliber1 pushing out prior to the others, widening the space before a hand happened involving the opposite two that saw the following elimination.
It began with Peter "twirlpro" Turmezy opening for the minimum with a raise to two million from the button, then it folded to BEGEMOT13 within the big blind who shoved for 17,642,018. Turmezy called instantly, showing K♦K♣ while BEGEMOT13 hoped to hit an ace with A♣Q♥.
Hit an ace BEGEMOT13 would -- in reality two of them -- because the flop came A♦A♥7♠, and after the 4♠ turn it appeared BEGEMOT13 was about to double up while twirlpro could be left crippled. Then came the river... the K♠! Turmezy had spiked the two-outer, and BEGEMOT13 was done in third.
Heads-up play began with AAKaliber1 still in front with 43,790,020 versus Peter "twirlpro" Turmezy's 39,369,980. But 10 hands into their match a decisive hand arose that saw twirlpro four-bet shoving before the flop with 3♣3♠ and AAKaliber1 calling with A♦Q♠. The small pocket pair managed to carry for twirlpro when the board came eight-high with a trey to assist improve Turmezy to a set.
That hand put Turmezy up over 75 million and knocked AAKaliber1 down below 8 million, and only a few hands later with the blinds at 600k/1.2m it was twirlpro open-raising all in from the button and AAKaliber1 calling all in for 7,580,040.
Turmezy had 4♦4♣ and AAKaliber1 A♣7♣. The flop brought an ace but a four as well, coming 4♠9♦A♥, and so by the 2♣ turn AAKaliber1 was already drawing dead as twirlpro had secured his second Sunday Million title.
Congratulations to Peter "twirlpro" Turmezy for surviving another oversized field to win another Sunday Million and remove the lion's share of this week's prize pool.
12/15/13 Sunday Million ($215 No-Limit Hold'em) results (*reflects five-way deal)
Players: 8,316
Prize pool: $1,663,200.00
Places paid: 1,260
1. Peter "twirlpro" Turmezy (Hungary) -- $213,479.97*
2. AAKaliber1 (Austria) -- $103,085.78*
3. BEGEMOT13 (Russia) -- $166,342.50*
4. SAS6677 (Slovenia) -- $110,992.34*
5. SamTeymour (Iran) -- $103,982.81*
6. GoodStoryBro (Israel) -- $49,896.00
7. Peaksone (Canada) -- $33,264.00
8. Aleksandras "VyruAlus" Rusinovas (Lithuania) -- $18,295.20
9. chokdee1980 (Netherlands) -- $12,889.80
The European Poker Tour Prague Main Event is playing out this week with a field of 1,007 working its approach to a last table in barely a couple of days. Check the entire reports from the Czech Republic here to look who takes down the following EPT title.
Martin Harris is Freelance Contributor to the PokerStars Blog.
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