This weekend’s PokerStars Sunday Million saw its buy-in halved to a more affordable $107.50, yet the guaranteed prize pool remained at $1 million. By the time late registration closed, 18,747 players and an additional 3,545 re-entries had created a prize pool weighing in at $2,229,200.
The tournament took 13 hours to whittle the huge field down to the final table of nine and a further two hours for those nine to be reduced to the last player standing. The champion turned out to be "Tomati25" who walked away with a cool $228,754 after a 121-hand heads-up battle with the United Kingdom’s "Duraircwb.