PokerStars Announces Winner

One of the most popular internet gambling sites and poker rooms, Poker Stars has recently announced the first winner for their weekly Sunday Million Tournament. This online casino was very proud to announce that their first winner in the month of August was the lucky player who edged out 7,911 player to be crowned the winner of the weekend tournament. The lucky player who came out on top is one of the online casino’s players from Russia known as ‘Sosnoviy’. In the short two days of this tournament that lucky player managed to take home a grand prize of $236,610. The total prize pool for this tournament was $1,582,200 which is very high in comparison to other online casinos, but this is not just any online casino, it is Poker Stars.

By the end of the tournament there were 1,170 final players that were battling it out for the crown and the number one spot on the tournament, and not to mention the money. Out of all of those players, it was Sosnoviy that came out on top and won the first of many weekly weekend tournaments at Poker Stars. The final two tables were tough battles which eventually came down to three players who fought until the late evening in order to get the lead in chips. Sosnoviy came into the final round with the largest chip lead of any of the other players and managed to basically out play all of the players with shorter stacks of chips until he knocked them out and came out victorious. Poker Stars Sunday Million tournament is still going on at the online casino and has a huge prize pot of $1,500,000 guaranteed. The buy ins for the event are set at $215 so check it out this weekend at Poker Stars.