PokerStars put up big numbers on Sunday, March 2, 2008. In fact, the site had the most entrants of the $200 buy-in Sunday Million Event. 8,063 players paid to play, driving up the prize pool to $1,612,600. The final two players were s0stndrd and vm1124. Each agreed to a deal. As the chip leader, vm1124 was guaranteed $150,000. s0stndrd would earn at least $130,000.
In the end, s0stndrd prevailed and added an additional $30,000 to his earnings.
These are the final results:
1) s0stndrd — $160,103
2) vm1124 — $150,000
3) DrunkPPlaya — $70,954
4) ShipThatIsh — $52,410
5) himpapawid — $40,315
6) colonelkosta — $28,221
7) ckingusc — $19,351
8) Moneylives — $13,707
9) hummylun — $9,353
Full Tilt had its lowest attendance numbers in months at the $750,000 Weekly Guarantee on Sunday, March 2, 2008. 4,024 players paid to play in the event. They generated a prize pool of $804,800. The final table featured online heavyweights Marco “CrazyMarco” Johnson and David “DumbHick” Hickman. CrazyMarco was also playing in the Ultimate Bet $200,000 Guarantee at the same time. Despite that, he managed to make it to third place. DumbHick, who has cashed in at least six big online events since January 2008, took his first title in ’08 by defeating tictac95 in heads-up play.
Here are the results:
1) DumbHick - $142,119
2) tictac95 - $86,033
3) CrazyMarco - $56,336
4) appledome - $44,264
5) sampson724 - $33,238
6) LuciusMax - $24,626
7) absolutD37 - $18,510
8) Great_One82 - $14,486
9) subpryme - $10,784
Ultimate Bet’s $200,000 Guarantee saw a renewal on Sunday. 999 entrants made their way to the tournament which had to pay out a paltry $200 to meet the guarantee. Marco Johnson, who made it to third place at FullTiltPoker’s $750k, took the fourth spot in this event, adding $13,100 to his coffers. The final two players in the contest battled it out for the top spot and $45,000. flopoholic bested Danny “DannyMac31” McCormick in the end.
These are the final standings:
1) flopoholic - $45,000
2) DannyMac31 - $26,500
3) freecookies - $18,000
4) noraflum - $13,100
5) psp1 - $10,500
6) ErikTheKing7 - $8,500
7) sandler1860 - $6,500
8) WarrickDunn28 - $4,500
9) Sarraf - $3,400
10) wmmcl - $2,000
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Bodog continued to struggle with attendance on Sunday. The $100,000 Guarantee saw 772 entrants requiring the site to put up $22,800, nearly a fourth of the total prize pool. Online specialist Kyle “Kcannon” Cannon won the event, defeating perudc in heads-up play. Kcannon pocketed $25,000 for his efforts. Here are the results:
1) Kcannon - $25,000
2) perudc - $14,300
3) bfineman - $9,200
4) IAmKeyserSoze - $6,900
5) cmizzles3687 - $5,500
6) HE_HATE_ME - $4,500
7) Harrahssucks - $3,500
8) ndrudy46 - $2,500
9) track368s - $1,600