7,000 players entered last week's Sunday Million on PokerStars, which meant that a prize pool of $1,400,000 was up for grabs. In total, 1,080 places were paid with $210,000 put aside for the last man/women standing.
After many hours of play the tournament was down to its last three competitors. They quickly agreed to pause tournament to discuss a potential deal. Stack sizes were the following:
Legadzo 29,165,791
spenny32 22,721,035
DuTTiFruTTi9 18,113,174
According to PokerStars Blog, chip leader Legadzo, from the UK, voted a chip chop deal while the other two players preferred ICM. The numbers were not too far apart and Legadzo eventually got it his way. $20,000 was still at stake when the cards were back in the air.
Although $20,000 is quite a lot of money, it only took 15 more hands until a winner was crowned. After eliminating DuTTiFruTTi9 in third place, Legadzo had 47 million chips to spenny32's 22 million. The Brit took down all five of the heads-up pots, four trades of blind and the final hand:
Legadzo limped in on the button with Q
10 and spenny32 checked with 4
8
. The flop rolled out Q83, spenny32 bet 1,760,000 and Legadzo raised to 3,786,666. spenny32 shoved his remaining stack with the middle pair and Legadzo called with the top pair. The 3 turn and 3 river completed the board and Legadzo took home the final pot of the tournament with a full house: threes and queens.
Legadzo received $182,214.33 for winning his first Sunday Million title, while runner-up spenny32 got $151,118.48.
Players: 7,000
Prizepool: $1,400,000.00
Places paid: 1,080
1. Legadzo (United Kingdom) $182,214.33*
2. spenny32 (Australia) $151,118.48*
3. DuTTiFruTTi9 (Germany) $143,185.19*
4. Schuffelkus (Germany) $74,200.00
5. Charliegore8 (Hungary) $57,400.00
6. KingAlikMJ23 (Israel) $43,400.00
7. OneH1tWonder (Austria) $30,100.00
8. leoc00 (Canada) $16,800.00
9. adrrian1989 (Poland) $10,850.00
*= reflects the results of a three-way deal that left $20,000 in play for the winner
