The day before yesterday the results of Sunday Million Anniversary Edition: Take 2 became known. The winner was a Dutch player under the nickname"Daenarys T"who won $1,000,043 . PokerStars Blog journalists managed to interview him.

On Sunday, Daenarys T played in several other tournaments besides the Sunday Million, and it was on this day that he was able to make a good run. According to the player, until that day he had not won more than 6 thousand dollars in online poker.

Daenarys T said thatfour days in a rowplayed online until his victory in the tournament, noting that it was very difficult, but he was able to achieve his highest result online - more than 19 thousand dollars.

The Dutchman took 2nd place in Bounty Builder $109. But a day later, as we now know, the Game of Thrones fan managed to achieve another record.

“It's fun because I literally won the lottery. And really happy!,” noted Daenarys T.

According to the player himself, he had not paid enough attention to online poker before:

“I moved to Amsterdam four months ago and was not focused enough to devote much time to playing online. Instead, I played in live casinos and not at all poker. But before the start of the last weekend, everyone decided to launch PokerStars more often.”

Regarding the game in the anniversary Sunday Million, Daenarys T said the following:

“On the second day I was the chip leader for a long time, until the moment when there were two tables left in the game. But in the finals I already had an average stack. The first decisive hand here waswinning with QQ against pocket aces. There was so much tension and adrenaline that I almost fainted.”

Assessing his opponents in the final part of the tournament, the player said:

“When there were only a few tables left in the game, I was 100% sure that I was the best player here. Besides me, there was only ThEcLaiMEer, and everyone else was recreational players. Everyone was scared because of the inability to win big money, but I opened up to 50% of hands from any position and my opponents folded and folded.

In heads-up, “Daenarys T” matched up with Rick“ThEcLaiMEer” Trigg:

“I wasn't sure what to do in the first few hands. I didn't know how ICM worked and the situation at the table was very tense. I was very lucky when I was able to double. And then everything started to work out very well for me.”

In the last hand of the tournamentthe winner needed A6 and hitting the ace to win all of Rick's chips, which he decided to play for the entire stack with the second pair.

The Dutchman described his reaction to this victory:

“First I ran around the room, then I started crying. I dreamed of a win like this for several years. My girlfriend told me “why are you crying, you just won a lot of money.” Then my friends and I drank beer, I bought myself a Rolex, although I only slept for one hour. I haven’t told my parents anything yet, but I’m going to do it on Thursday.”

About yours immediate plansthe player said the following:

“I don’t know yet what I will do exactly. On next week I’ll go to Ibiza with my girlfriend, after which I’ll make plans for the future. I'll probably play SCOOP and keep grinding.”

Hello everyone, the anniversary Sunday Million $10,000,000 has just ended.

Let me start with the fact that more than 55,000 players took part in the tournament! The prize money was more than 11 million dollars!!! The tournament lasted approximately 15 hours. Agree, these are not small numbers for online poker.

There were a lot of streams where you could watch this significant tournament live. But I didn’t notice any “action” and decided to continue watching when the “bAbla” stage passed. I would like to note that a lot of players from the CIS and especially from Russia and Ukraine have passed the threshold of 1000 people, and when there are only 150 people left in the tournament, that was about 10-15 of our players, and this is an excellent result!!!

Well, let's move closer to the significant prize money...

As you can see, the top 40 already had more than 20k bucks, which is not a small amount, but many wanted to get to the final table, which was quite difficult, because half of the players had a stack of no more than 10BB.

Ukrainian player IsltRoss made it to the Top 18? and won $39k Congratulations to him on a very good performance in the tournament.

These are the lucky ones who passed 55,000 people

Almost immediately the Russian player made minus 1. By the way, until the administrator turned off the chat, something wild was happening in it; there were about 1000 messages per minute with support for the Russian player.

Then another player with a short stack was eliminated almost immediately. Everyone collected the blinds and sometimes went all-in.... “Russian roulette” cannot be called anything else.... BB 5 million =) More than half have less than 10 big blinds.... and then who will be luckier. ..

As a result, after 5-8 minutes another one dropped out and there were 4 of them left...... it was the longest hour of my and probably their lives...

They decided to discuss the deal, it took about 25 minutes, because the chip leader wanted at least 900k, but according to the numbers it didn’t work out..... and they decided to continue the game. But, after 2 hands, the discussion of the deal was resumed again and it was all over an hour later. For a whole hour, 4 people decided how to divide the money, everyone wanted more, they argued and fought, but it seemed like they had come to a compromise.

This February has been great forStarzovvery fruitful for events. Before we had time to celebrate the poker room's one hundred millionth user, we then metten year anniversary of the tournamentSunday Million . And in honor of this event I prepared for my players10 million dollars!

Sunday Million: where it all started

Sunday Millionis a series of Sunday tournaments with a prize fundnot less than $1,000,000and traditional buy-in$215 . The series was launchedMarch 5, 2006, and the first tournament brought together 5,893 poker players at its virtual tables. They shared the prize money among themselves - $1,178,600. More than one tenth of it (namely $173,843.5) was received by a Canadian poker player with an unusual nickname -“aaaaaaaa” .

Since then, many tournaments in the series have passedSunday Million, the largest of which took placein December 2011. That event was also an anniversary event, however, it was dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the poker room itself. 62,116 players registered for the tournament, and the prize fund was$12.423.200 – is still a record in the world of online poker! The winner then was a CanadianFirst-Eagle , the winner $1.146.574,65 .

Guarantee – $10,000,000, prize for first place – $1,000,000!

Guarantee – $10 million!

The anniversary Sunday Million, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the series, startsMarch 20, at 21:30in Moscow. The organizers guarantee a prize fundnot less than $10,000,000! At the same time, the lucky winner who took first place smilesbecome a millionaire!

Entry remains the same – $215. In this case, players are allowed to makeup to three re-buysuntil the end of late registration, that is, within three hours after the start of the tournament. Obviously, it is the re-buys that will help you easily win back the prize fund.

Professionals will participate in the tournamentPokerStars

IN Sunday Millionmembers will also appear fromTeam PokerStars Pro: Bertrand ElkY Grospellier, Liv Boeree, Jake Cody, Chris Moneymaker, Liliya liay5 Novikova and many others. Some of them, including Bertrand Grospellier, Felix Schneiders and Jamie Staples, will be streaming their games online viaTwitch.

Jamie Staples, commenting on his participation inSunday Million, notes that everyone will want to become a participant in such a grandiose event, becausePokerStarswill provide players with a lot of opportunities to become participants in the tournament,without paying the $215 buy-in! How to take advantage of this opportunity?

Your personal chance to become a millionaire!

Last anniversarySunday Million took place on March 15, 2015 and offered $10,086,615 in prize money, for which 50,432 players competed. The Mexican poker player won itBRAYDEN93 , who won $597,719.6 after a seven-way deal at the final table.

Don't miss your chance to hit the same jackpot! Moreover, in this Sunday Million the first place prize will benot less than $1,000,000!

Back in 2006, the history of the tournament began PokerStars Sunday Million, which since then has been changing people’s destinies on a weekly basis, and now 10 years later we are already celebrating its anniversary. The event with a buy-in of $215 and a 10-fold increased guarantee promised to be a real bomb in the poker world, and today an unknown Canadian under the nickname is celebrating his victory and covering himself with a payout!

On a weekly basis, the millionaire usually attracts more than 5,000 participants, but this time many more people flocked there (with a tenfold guarantee), among whom were a great many who do not play MTT on a regular basis, and even those who play poker from deposit to deposit.

Successes of Russian-speaking regulars

In fact, in the kilopolitan area there was a gathering 55,059 registrations(total prize pool $11m), where the fate of the first guaranteed prize was decided in 15.5 hours, which in the end turned out to be less, but more on that a little later.

It is worth noting important detail: in the tournament there was an opportunity for 2 re-entries, which everyone took advantage of. ITM started at 8208th place and, of course, it was extremely difficult to get there. Among those who "smog" there were many famous players from the CIS.

Gleb "psyhoagromor" Kovtunov, for example, managed to take 4080th place ($402), UkupniKK retired from the race in 1741st place ($530), Dima "DimaDima13" Kataev received $2,917 for 364th place, and harrrrmonica brought in $9,056 for 153rd place (user gipsyteam received exactly the same payout Kot_Spartac, who gave a rather fiery speech on his blog after 128th place). But many other famous regs remained in the air: Tolya Filatov(exactly like Andrey Streltsov) made 3 attempts, but did not receive a single cent in return. Professional PokerHome Mikhail "Mikleler" Semin I almost made it to ITM, but still flew out without money, jumped a little higher Artyom "veeea" Vezhenkov, but also did not receive the minimum payment.

Looking through the extensive lists of the lucky ones who somehow snagged the money in the anniversary Sunday Million, the eye involuntarily stops at the funny nicknames of the Russian-speaking winners: 3aHoCu 6a6LO (1270 place, $585), Yto4ki (1271 places, $585), Pbl6HaD3op (2579 place, $483) and Xo4y 6a6/\a (3036th place, $440).

And the most successful among the entire CIS were the following guys:

AttiIa88 made it to the finals, 7th place, $174,402

IsItRoss? - 18th place, $38,936

Andos1 - 33rd place, $21,604

N0madzz - 45th place, $21,604

Alabala0678 - 58th place, $16,138

Finals and first flights

The events at the final table, of course, are a completely different story. To be honest, for a tournament of this scale, playing in the top 9 was quite ridiculous, which in itself is not particularly surprising, because after all, the number of amateurs in the game was simply off the charts.

Starting line-up

Superfizzy - 37,841,339

mladenova62 - 95,105,837

prophetdream - 28,756,039

a.urli - 177,403,220

ThreeBetting - 52,587,466

AttiIa88 - 57,563,515

TottiLitti - 40,403,866

canario508 - 36,516,940

Torsvik - 24,411,778

After the first Torsvik shorty was eliminated, the first conversations about the deal immediately began in the chat, but the game did not pause. Small pots rolled back and forth, and then Finn TottiLitti does something frankly strange: with just over 13 bb in the stack, he posts in the small blind with 6 2 (all participants folded before him), where he is accepted from K K to BB and waves his hand.

After that, in the series of exchange pots, the Canadian a.urli, who had approximately half of all the chips in the game, began to stand out from the remaining seven. The players went for a short break, the game resumed and the next to go was the Russian AttiIa88, who shoved with the remaining 9bb on the button, holding AJ. Unfortunately, he ran into the AK of the Korean prophetdream and could not improve in any way.

Player Superfizzy was also initially one of the short guys and tried not to get involved in any hands, thereby calmly surviving until 6th place, where he posted literally with the last 1 blind behind his soul A 2< A 8.

5 minutes after the German's elimination, the British ThreeBetting left the table, who stuffed his 5 big blinds preflop with 6 6, but could not resist the A K of mladenova62.

“Make the damn deal already!”

There were 4 participants left in the game, shorty canario508 was able to double up on the chip leader and asked for a pause in the tournament so that the finalists could discuss the terms of the deal. Between the four of them, there was about $2.85 million in prize money left.

Player stacks at the time of division

A.urli - 206 million

Prophetdream - 159 million

Mladenova62 - 115 million

Canario508 - 69 million

And here begins an unbearable half-hour discussion, where the stumbling block was the fact that the Canadian a.urli was not satisfied with even the profitable division of “chips”! Below are the chip-chop numbers that left an additional $100,000 for the winner.

A.urli - $819,533.38

Prophetdream - $730,702.19

Mladenova62 - $647,931.65

Canario508 - $560,350.56

The guy wanted at least $900k, which didn’t suit the others, so the game continued. 5 small hands later the tournament was suspended again because a.urli wrote “$870k is enough for me if you guys still want a deal.” . By the way, the host of the final was Mr. Lee Jones (that bald top manager who was the voice of Stars when they were pushing their new VIP system). The players' stacks remained approximately the same.

PokerStars again provided almost the same chip distribution figures, the Canadian raised the issue of an $870k payout in his favor, and a discussion began during which players asked for an ICM payout, again with $100k for the winner.

A.urli - $773,023.38

Prophetdream - $723,750.95

Mladenova62 - $687,511.87

Canario508 - $574,231.58

A.urli, being the chip leader, naturally did not agree to this proposal, so it seemed that the game had to resume. However, prophetdream suddenly offered his own figures, where in essence he sponsored the whims of his Canadian opponent from his own pocket.

A.urli - $870,000.00

Prophetdream - $678,517.78

Mladenova62 - $650,000.00

Canario508 - $560,000.00

Few of the players could adequately communicate in English language, however, after a painful half hour of discussion, they still wrote in the chat "I agree" and the game resumed. And then a wide layer of regs from 20,000 spectators who followed the final in the client simply almost killed themselves with a facepalm, because prophetdream deprived himself of $50k in prize money (if the deal was for chips), being the second stack.

Be that as it may, literally 5 minutes after the transaction, the only reg of this "fantastic four" canario508. Behind him there are skids both on Super Tuesday and in expensive Bigs.

It's funny that during each participant's eliminations, captain Lee Jones made jokes about his nickname. About canario (close to the word canari, from English canary)

The participants entered the final 1-on-1 battle with more or less identical stacks: 53 BB for a.urli and 38 BB for mladenova62. So that you understand, the first of them has the status Silver Star, and second - Chrome Star. The Bulgarian had previously contributed a maximum of $215.

You have hardly seen a more mediocre heads-up drain, because mladenova62 literally lost 17 out of 18 heads-up hands, winning only the penultimate one, when he was already being pressed with several blinds. The final play was T 8 > 4 4, where the flop hit an eight.

This is how the arrogant Canadian managed to turn 1 buy-in (without a single re-entry) of $215 into almost a million dollars. Despite the fact that this is not $1 million, it is still 4500 buy-ins, which in itself is simply cosmic.

Aleksey Ivanov

Poker Stars' largest Sunday tournaments - Sunday Million and Sunday Storm - celebrate their birthdays: the former turns 12 years old, and the latter turns 7. According to the rules of good manners, the birthday boy should treat his dear guests deliciously, and the Stars organized a holiday according to all the canons. Participants of the tournament feast will compete for guarantees of 10 and 1 million dollars, and satellites with prohibitively low buy-ins will be launched as an invitation to the banquet!

Sunday Million: $10,000,000 guaranteed!

The first Sunday Million was launched on PokerStars on March 5, 2006, and since then, for 12 years, it has been consistently giving away a million dollars to players every Sunday. But this time this million will go to the winner, and the remaining 9 million will be divided among other participants!

The tournament starts February 4 at 22:00 Moscow time and will be held in the traditional speed mode and on traditional stacks. The buy-in remains the same - $215. But you don’t have to pay this money - just win one of thousands of additional tickets in direct satellites to the Sunday Million!

Megasatellites

Register for any $11 buy-in megasatellite running daily on Poker Stars 00:30 , 19:30 And 22:01 by Moscow time. Each one is guaranteed to give away 15 (sometimes 25) places for the anniversary Sunday Million.

February 4, the day of the tournament, in 19:00 the last megasatellite will take place, in which they will already play 250 guaranteed places on Sunday Million. Pass the selection on this day and get into the tournament, as if from a ship to a ball!

Notes

1. Megasatellite prize pool can increase: Here, for every $215 players buy-in, 1 Sunday Million ticket will be allocated.
2. You can find megasatellites in the PokerStars client on the “Tournaments” tab by entering this word (in Cyrillic) in the search field (see screenshot below).

How to find megasatellites in the PokerStars client

Other satellites on the day of the tournament

• 21:01 by Moscow time. Buy-in - $11, guarantee - 1,000 seats for the tournament.
• The last Sunday Million satellite. Starts at 21:33 MSC. Entry fee - $33, guarantee - 333 places.
• Last Chance Sunday Million satellite. Starts at 22:01 by Moscow time. Buy-in - $27, guarantee - 250 tickets.

Special Spin&Go tournaments for $6

Participate in promotions Spin&Go with buy-in $6 . In these tournaments, the prize for first place can be a satellite seat for $22, $11, or a seat in the Sunday Million itself. See the table below for the probabilities of getting a particular prize.

Sunday Storm: $1,000,000 guaranteed!

Meanwhile, Sunday Storm celebrates its seventh anniversary by holding an anniversary tournament on February 4 at 21:00 Moscow time. The guarantee will increase from $275,000 to a million dollars, but the buy-in will remain the same - $11! The winner will receive $100,000.

If you want to get into this tournament even cheaper, then use one of the satellites that will launch on the day of the event (February 4):

• Megasatellite Sunday Storm. Starts at 18:00 , buy-in $1.10, guarantee - 500 seats.
• The last Sunday Storm satellite. Starts at 20:15 , buy-in $1.10, guarantee - 250 seats.
• Last Chance satellite Sunday Storm. Starts at 21:01 , buy-in is $1.10, guarantee - 250 seats.

Notes

1. Satellite start time is Moscow.
2. The prize fund of these tournaments can be increased by injecting buy-ins from participants: for every $11, 1 more ticket to the Sunday Storm will be added to the fund.

P.S. Do you want to win a ticket to the poker championship in the Bahamas?

Win a Platinum Pass to the Bahamas!

At the beginning of January 2019, Stars will be held in the Bahamas PokerStars Players NL Hold'em Championship- prestigious live championship with a buy-in of $25,000 and a guarantee of eight million dollars! If you want to fly to the Bahamas for free and play in this championship, you need:

1. Enter the prizes of both anniversary tournaments- Sunday Million and Sunday Storm.
2. Get a ticket to a special freeroll for this.
3. Finish first or second place in this freeroll. You'll be rewarded with a Platinum Pass that includes a championship ticket, hotel reservation, and travel expenses!

Note. The other 50 players in the winning zone will be awarded a ticket to the next Sunday Storm tournament.