Jens "Fresh_oO_D" Lakemeier opened to 2,220 and "mumu12345" three-bet to 6,680 in the next position. It folded back to Lakemeier who four-bet to 15,000 and "mumu12345" then five-bet all in for 59,851.
"If I won the Sunday Million I would put a nice down payment on a house, and I hang a sign in my front hallway that said 'The house that poker built'."
"bigbackup" raised to 2,760 and Jans "Graftekkel" Arends called in the small blind.
The pair checked the flop and the turn brought the . Arends checked and "bigbackup" bet 3,600.
Arends check-raised to 11,400 and his opponent called.
The river was the . Arends moved all in, covering his opponent who called all in for 36,873 with for two pair. However, Arends had flopped a set with and sent his opponent to the rail.
"dcdilton" raised to 2,640 on the button and Juan "Malaka$tyle" Pardo three-bet to 9,600 from the small blind. "rozmi-x" then four-bet all in for 31,258 from the big blind. "dcdilton" folded and Pardo made the call.
Juan Pardo:
rozmi-x:
The board ran out and Pardo's Aces held to send "rozmi-x" to the rail.
"Pencilsony" opened to 2,400 and "Johnnie_CHEL" three-bet to 7,000 from the cutoff. "11paul11" four-bet to 22,400 from the small blind and "Pencilsony" flat-called.
"Johnnie_CHEL" then five-bet all in for 71,985. "11paul11" followed, six-betting all in for 144,687. "Pencilsony" followed suit, calling all in for 46,900.
Pencilsony:
Johnnie_CHEL:
11paul11:
The pot was worth over 140,000 and there was no help for the shorter stacks the board came with "11paul11" riveting a full house for good measure and eliminate both opponents.
There was a three-way all in at Juan "Malaka$tyle" Pardo's table with Pardo the big stack.
TY4Stacks2:
KevRonaldo7:
Juan Pardo:
Pardo flopped a set on the flop with "KevRonaldo7" picking up a gunshot. The turn was the giving "TY4Stacks2" the same gunshot, but the river was the improving Pardo to quads and sending both opponents to the rail.
Fintan "easywithaces" Hand shoved for 26,028 from under the gun. "Abehjerne" re-raised in middle position and short-stacked "AK Anubis" was all in for just under two big blinds from the small blind. The big blind folded.
Fintan Hand:
Abehjerne:
AK Anubis:
Hand flopped a pair on the flop but "Abehjerne" turned a set on the turn. Hand could still hit make a flush, but the river was a brick and he was eliminated.
"pottedmeat12" opened to 3,500 and "j0ker4ki" called in the next position.
"DingeBrinker" then three-bet all in for 18,956. "pottedmeat12" then four-bet to 34,412 and "j0ker4ki" five-bet to 73,600. "pottedmeat12" called.
The flop came and "pottedmeat12" jammed, with "j0ker4ki" calling all in for their last 77,360.
pottedmeat12:
j0ker4ki:
DingeBrinker:
"pottedmeat12" had shoved with just king-high into the pocket aces of "j0ker4ki". The turn was the which changed nothing, but the river [the] improved "pottedmeat12" to the nut straight and a stack of just under 600,000 in chips.
You have to go all the way back to March 5, 2006 to find the inaugural Sunday Million. A field of 5,893 players exchanged $215 for the chance to become the first-ever PokerStars Sunday Million champion. That player was “aaaaaaaa” who got their hands on the $173,843 top prize and a place in online poker’s history books.
Alors que les enregistrements sont encore ouverts, les 85 000 entrants du tournoi ont généré un prizepool de plus de 17 millions de dollars ! La garantie de 12,5 millions de dollars est explosée, il fallait 62 500 à PokerStars pour entrer dans ses frais sur ce tournoi à 215$ le buy-in.
Le tournoi est bien parti pour battre le record du plus gros événement de l'histoire du poker online et la bataille fait rage puisqu'il reste deux jours de compétition et la possibilité d'entrer dans le tournoi avant la nuit prochaine, et en ayant accès au .com.
Les premiers ont déjà fait l'écart puisque les 9 joueurs en tête ont déjà plus d'un demi-million de jetons. Installés dans 10 pays différents, , les membres du Top 10 sont à la poursuite de nowwor880, un des deux seuls survivants à avoir emballé plus de 600 000 jetons jouant de Chine. Le Belge X_QQ_AA_KK_fish a lui aussi déjà un énorme stack.
Top 10
Rang
Player
Pays
Chipcount
Blindes
1
nowwor880
China
680,117
340
2
X_QQ_AA_KK_fish
Belgium
643,093
322
3
DLSXL
Netherlands
576,980
288
4
GLiTCHy M-F
Sweden
565,242
283
5
flyflo
Germany
545,887
273
6
guiantonio2
Brazil
530,381
265
7
nakolene888
Bulgaria
529,102
265
8
IownYoUlolz
Austria
513,879
257
9
ChrizCrozz
Germany
501,481
251
10
CharlyBigPot
United Kingdom
499,343
250
Voici une liste de quelques joueurs identifiés et qui ont réalisé un bon départ... Juan "Malaka$tyle" Pardo (243,417), PokerStars Team Online's Lex Veldhuis (145,073), Patrick "pads1161" Leonard (115,032), Conor "1_conor_b_1" Beresford (97,661), Niklas "Lena900" Astedt (87,603), Alex "bigfox86" Foxen (85,166), Arlie "Prince Pablo" Shaban (70,883), Jans "Graftekkel" Arends (42,025), Benjamin "bencb789" Rolle (39,724) ou encore Benj "Spraggy" Spragg (26,429) sont encore dans le coup.
La partie reprend lundi 23 mars à 17 heures 05 (UTC), ce qui signifiera la fin des inscriptions sur PokerStars. Le Jour 2 s'étalera jusqu'au niveau 50 avec des niveaux réduits à 15 minutes.