The poker player known as ‘5902838181’ (catchy isn’t it) has won the PokerStars Sunday million, picking up a staggering $196,244 for his efforts. The Sunday million is a very popular online multi-table tournament that attracts numerous online players from across the globe with its high monetary prizes on offer. A number of other large online rooms offer similar tournaments with big prizes for the winners, but nothing quite compares to the Sunday million held at PokerStars.
6,595 players entered the tournament, creating a total prize pool of $1,391,800. This was a slightly smaller figure than last week’s tournament, where a total of 7,054 players had entered. However, this difference is marginal and there was roughly the same amount of money at stake. The payouts and results of the tournament were as follows:
1) 5902838181 - $196,243.80
2) chipsncheese - $98,817.80
3) Tecknowledgy - $69,590
4) princess13 - $55,672
5) EC10 - $41,754
6) Infitilt - $30,619.60
7) Professor122 - $21,572.90 
lostremote - $12,526.20
9) Ann Karen - $8,211.62
When the heads-up battle commenced between chipsncheese and 5902838181, 5902838181 had a 2:1 chip stack advantage over chipsncheese. The chip lead swapped hands a few times, with chipncheese taking the lead very shortly into the heads-up battle, but it again was quickly passed back over to 5902838181 after a few more big hands. 5902838181 also made a few good calls to restore his chip lead to 2:1 as the final hand was dealt…
5902838181 raised it up to $3.2 million preflop, with chipsncheese then reraising it to $7.2 million. 5902838181 then re-reraised it to $18.4 million and chipsncheese came back over the top pushing all in for $24.5 million. Two huge hands were expected, but 5902838181 called and suprisingly showed Kh Js, with chipsncheese holding a pair of sixes. The flop came As Qs 3h, giving 5902838181 a huge number of outs to beat chipsncheese before the river. The Jd came on the turn giving 5902838181 a pair of jacks and the lead. A 3d came on the river and chipsncheese didn’t catch a miracle 6 to win the pot. However, second place wasn’t so bad, as he picked up $98,818 in total. 5902838181 took down the main prize of $196,244, which is also not too bad for a few hours work.
