BIG NIGHT FOR POKERSTARS MANAGER

30 March 2007

Major prizepool and a great turnout a fitting farewell for a popular online poker manager

The weekend online poker tournament action has once again been impressive, with a note of regret at PokerStars as popular poker room manager Lee Jones supervised his last Sunday Millions before departing for new responsibilities with the European Poker Tour organisation.

Sunday's Pokerstars action included buy-ins at $ 1 000, but this did not deter some 1 712 players from registering, creating a prizepool of $1 712 000. That translated into seriously big money for some of the final tablers, and a cash bubble that extended deep into the field.

After an entertaining session, it all came down to a heads up between players 'fouruhaters' and 'hankat' After some torrid exchanges the two agreed on a two way chop, guaranteeing at least $241 473 for the loser. Two hands later it was all done and dusted with 'fouruhaters' the winner with a nice payday of $291 472 and some change.

The large prizepool meant that even third and fourth positions in the final clash earned big sums; 'Mr_BigQueso' took home $125 318.40 for his third position finish, and 'mman-status' pocketed a useful $100 665.60.

2 185 hopefuls registered for the Full Tilt $400 000 Guaranteed this week, generating a tempting prizepool of $437 000 that attracted many familiar Internet poker names. It all came down to millionaire heads up between the quanitly names 'Zonnywhoop' and 'YourTimeisUp' which the latter took to win the $80 408 winner's prize, leaving Zonny with $49 381.

UltimateBet's $200 000 Guaranteed recorded a lower attendance than last week's turnout of 952, with just 849 entrants paying the $200 buy-in. It was a disappointing response for a site that has in the past attracted entry fields in excess of a thousand players, and it meant that UltimateBet was faced with a $30 200 overlay.

Player 'Laptopsmasher' showed an aggression appropriate to his name to prevail at the final table, facing 'rppkoz' in the heads up which turned out to be a highly entertaining game with plenty of action. In the end it was 'Laptopsmasher' who's dominating play and superior chip stack ensured victory and the $45 000 winner's check. 'rppkoz' pocketed $27 000 for his second place win.

There was a slight improvement in registrations for the Bodog $100 000 Guarantee with 839 player in the starting field, up from the more usual +/- 750 levels this tournament has been attracting. It wasn't enough, however to avoid an overlay of just over $16 000 for the Costa Rican betting group.

'Touchdown4me' and 'Dyzalot' finished up in the heads up tussle, with the former boasting a chip lead almost four times that of his opponent, enough to eventually knock Dyzalot out. The winner's check was $25 000, with the runner-up getting $14 000 for his trouble.

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