* Chad Walker wins Sunday Million for...Anguilla?* JiiJay takes down MicroMillions Main Event
You want action? You should've been playing on PokerStars this weekend.
From a whole slate of weekend majors to the finale of MicroMillions, the dollars, euros, and pounds were flying all around the place.
Need a snappy recap? We've got it below.
It's infrequently you spot the tiny island of Anguilla get some poker recognition, but that's exactly what happened on this weekend's Sunday Million.
As Kristin Bihr wrote early this morning, Chad "ihaterivers" Walker, who re-located after Black Friday, brought fame and $194,371 to the island.
Here's how the remainder of the overall table fared.
Players: 6,842 (5,693 entries, 1,149 re-entries)Prize pool: $1,368,400.00Places paid: 980
1. Chad "ihaterivers" Walker (Anguilla) $194,371.872. Conglomo222 (Argentina) $134,518.093. willywonko37 (Russia) $93,097.044. zipp1986 (Netherlands) $64,430.565. SuperdupaMAN (Norway) $44,590.956. Cäsaro (Austria) $30,860.437. Manig "swordfish007" Loeser (Austria) $21,357.718. eilev (Norrway) $14,781.189. kefffff (Paraguay) $10,229.61
Meanwhile, the MicroMillions finished the last of its whopping 90 events over the weekend. The largest show was the $22 Main Event that ended up drawing nearly 54,000 players. The prize pool soared to greater than $1.3 million.
When it was done, Finland's JiiJay had topped all of them and earned greater than $82,000.
Here's an entire list of all of the winners and their prizes since Friday morning.
| 73 | $5.50 | 2,477 | $42,785.00 | houlajk | Slovakia | $5,225.25 |
| 74 | $2.20 | 11,075 | $22,150.00 | polootroop | Russia | $2,389.64 |
| 75 | $0.11 | 16,014 | $12,500.00 | Boubben | Sweden | $1,409.98 |
| 76 | $4.40 | 21,279 | $42,558.00 | jojopat35bzh | Switzerland | $4,402.97 |
| 77 | $2.20 | 7,732 | $15,464.00 | 80zivs | Latvia | $2,188.65 |
| 78 | $3.30 | 10,771 | $32,313.00 | schillason | Germany | $3,403.03 |
| 79 | $5.50 | 7,008 | $35,040.00 | zeruka | Georgia | $4,981.10 |
| 80 | $2.20 | 6,544 | $65,830.00 | rudey155 | Bermuda | $9,359.75 |
| 81 | $4.40 | 13,793 | $55,172.00 | ParraxGravas | Romania | $6,827.83 |
| 82 | $3.30 | 16,703 | $50,109.00 | 69FABIAN69 | Hungary | $5,492.06 |
| 83 | $2.20 | 7,154 | $14,308.00 | AcesUp PI | Netherlands | $1,262.89 |
| 84 | $5.50 | 8,655 | $21,637.50 | alexleao16 | Brazil | $3,044.97 |
| 85 | $2.20 | 10,885 | $21,770.00 | Lira26 | Germany | $2,875.34 |
| 86 | $4.40 | 6,782 | $96,120.00 | tatiana-2404 | Romania | $13,660.92 |
| 87 | $5.50 | 32,828 | $82,070.00 | alwaysdoomed | Cyprus | $8,148.79 |
| 88 | $22.00 | 53,820 | $1,301,640.00 | JiiJay | Finland | $82,173.99 |
| 89 | $5.50 | 5,234 | $26,170.00 | ReKych | Russia | $3,727.57 |
| 90 | $1.10 | 9,133 | $39,674.25 | shtefone | Romania | $5,118.40 |
That wasn't the entire action going over the weekend. Need to see how the weekend majors finished up? Here is a snapshot of the winners. For a whole list, visit our July 30-31, 2016 PokerStars Weekend Majors results page.
| $109 Sunday Kickoff | Respect Lt | Lithuania | $19,679.74 |
| $33+R Sunday Rebuy | dennishtm | Austria | $13,688.45 |
| $215 Sunday Warm-Up | BIack88 | Russian Federation | $53,300.21 |
| $82 Sunday HORSE | joaoMathias | Brazil | $1,745.70 |
| $700 Super-Sized Sunday [Progressive KO] | Darkhors5150 | Canada | $29,599.15 |
| $11 Sunday Storm | calv201 | United Kingdom | $22,516.92 |
| Sunday KOmania: $82 NLO8 | kolbak | Switzerland | $2,090.81 |
| $215 SUNDAY MILLION | ihaterivers | Anguilla | $194,371.87 |
| Sunday KOmania: $82 PLO | vonBaranow | Brazil | $3,107.06 |
| $55 Women's Sunday | luckyno75 | Romania | $1,127.50 |
| $1,050 Sunday Grand | ollie p | United Kingdom | $54,851.06 |
| $1,050 Sunday Grand PLO | omyg0t | Netherlands | $32,429.17 |
| $109 Sunday Cooldown | Maxxx72alba | Russian Federation | $23,803.80 |
| $215 Sunday Supersonic | bacco70 | Germany | $36,094.99 |
We hope your weekend was somewhere on the subject of as successful as everyone above, and if not, good luck next weekend. Feel like talking about it? Head over to our @PokerStarsBlog account and we'll listen.
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