PokerStars recently announced that the Sunday 1/4 Million tournament was changing name to Sunday Storm and the guarantee had been boosted to $1 million ($11 buy-in). However, no one was expecting that it would be such a huge sucess. An amazing 113,770-player field joined the tournament and created a $1,137,700 prize pool that paid 14,634 places.
After many long hours of play, the final table wa[...] Read more » PokerStars Sunday Storm attracted a massive player field
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 4827
Huge field 113,000 players, wow. This must have had last at least 8 or 9 hours, if not more. I believe this tourney atracted many people because for those who would be doing their first deposit there, they won a ticket to this tourney. So many of the players could have money experience in other tables, but not in there. The final table guys should be players with nice experience.
Joined: Feb '11
Location: Canada
Age: 57 (M)
Posts: 753
I remember when FTP was holding the largest online tournament. Back then, 50 000 was the target. I was very fortunate to cash in on that tourney. But to out last 113 770 people. OMG, imagine that....
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Lithuania
Age: 33 (F)
Posts: 1180
it is more easy to cash .. I have not seen but I think there was paid about 20k people ? if 7,5k or 5k then I am sorry and it is really hard to get in cash :} Nice Sunday storm 1,13mln prize without rebuys or other s**t freezout !
Joined: Mar '11
Location: Germany
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 1242
Not only giving a new name but also raising up the guaranteed price pool from 250k to 1 million. And you can buy in for $11. I guess these are the reasons why such a hugh amount of players joined in, dreaming about make it to final table.
Joined: Feb '11
Location: Canada
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 1660
Lol, only 9 hours. I know I bought in using the free ticket code. (I already had a play money account there from a long time ago so I figured I'd try out the big money tourney. Won $22.75.
Joined: Feb '08
Location: Netherlands
Age: 52 (M)
Posts: 818
It was still a nice tournement, for only 11$. I stayed in for a couple of hours and finished 2900th something for $44. Still had a long way to go. Congratz for those u finished in the money
Joined: Mar '11
Location: Germany
Age: 31 (M)
Posts: 9
very huge field but gratz to all who finished in the money on a field like this it is very very easy to finish in the money all the donks are going all in in the first hand soo easy money
Joined: May '09
Location: India
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 4873
omg wow 113,770 player tournament, no wonder it lasted around 9 hours. u need both luck and skill to make final table in these kind of big tournament. lets see if this tournament gets same amount of players next time