PokerStars Sunday Million Results

PokerStars Sunday Million saw a good turnout of 7,711 players creating a prize pool of $1,542,200. The first place prize was just over $188,000 so every player was vying for a first place finish. Nine players made it to the final table and chip counts were as follows:

RunThisTable - 24,525,748
Jonathan "TherookieQQ9" Plens - 15,612,351
1011001011 - 7,561,210
elemonator37 - 6,925,714
Lamberjack12 - 5,252,296
Mazelucky - 4,977,442
rickyhatton - 4,465,083
adamx - 4,128,912
ragsrellum - 3,661,244

The first player to be eliminated would be Adamx. He moved all in with K-Q and TherookieQQ9 called with A-10. TherookieQQ9 paired his ace on the flop and knocked Adamx out in ninth place. Next out was ragsrellum after going all in with A-2. RunThisTable called with K-J and got the higher straight, knocking ragrellum out in eighth.

The next few to go in order were: Lamberjack12, elemonator37, 1011001011 and Mazelucky. That left therookieQQ9, RunThisTable and rickyhatton in three way play. Rickyhatton would go all in with A-J. RunThisTable would call with pocket nines. The board fell 2-8-7-K-K and RunThisTable would stay on as rickyhatton was out in third.

RunThisTable and TherookieQQ9 would now begin heads up play. RunThisTable had a slight chip lead with 5 million more chips. This however would not guarantee a victory. On the last hand of the game RunThisTable would go all in with A-2. TherookieQQ9 would call with A-J. RunThisTable got a 2 on the flop but TherookieQQ9 got a Jack on the river and took the win.

Final Standings:

1. Jonathan "TherookieQQ9" Plens - $188,919.50
2. RunThisTable - $127,385.72
3. rickyhatton - $86,363.20
4. Mazelucky - $70,170.10
5. 1011001011 - $54,748.10
6. elemonator37 - $39,326.10
7. Lamberjack12 - $26,998.50
8. ragsrellum - $17,735.30
9. adamx - $10,795.40