“drew.derzh” Demolishes Sunday Million Season Super Sunday PKO High Roller

The PokerStars Sunday Million Season continued over the weekend, and there was a familiar name at the top the $1,050 Super Sunday payout table. Ukraine’s “drew.derzh” is a PokerStars regular with multiple SCOOP and WCOOP titles to their name, and also a WSOP bracelet if the player is who we believe it is. Regardless of their true identity,” drew.derzh” awoke this morning with $69,947 more in their PokerStars account courtesy of taking down the $1,050 Super Sunday PKO event.

The tournament drew 318 entrants, creating a $318,000 prize pool. Brazil’s Pedro “PaDiLhA SP” Padilha popped the money bubble when he busted in 40th, paving the way for luminaries like Fintan “easywithaces” Hand, Blaz “Scarmak3r” Zerjav, Arsenii “josef_shvejk” Karmatckii, and Andrey “ThePateychuk” Pateychuk to cash.

As expected from a $1,050 buy-in tournament, the final table was a star-studded affair. It became less so when Austrian star “Phemo” and Scott “Aggro Santos” Margereson were relieved of their stacks early into the final table action.

“VIgnasPokerV” busted in seventh as was joined on the sidelines by “WHATSON83!,” AcidVaule,” “realsuhisjii” and their fellow Lithuanian Gediminas “Gedis92” Uselis; the latter’s elimination sent the tournament into its heads-up stage.

“drew.derzh” found themself heads-up against Canadian “cardinals970,” with both locking in $26,162 from the regular prize pool, leaving the final two bounty payments to play for. “drew.derzh” got the job done in the one-on-one battle and saw a colossal progressive bounty payment worth $43,785 head their way. Such was the number of high-value bounties they collected along the way that the champion walked away with more than twice as much prize money ($69,947) as the runner-up ($31,802)!

$1,050 Super Sunday PKO Final Table Results

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Other PokerStars Results From March 9

Although “drew.derzh” scooped an impressive prize, it was the largest PokerStars awarded on March 9. Online poker veteran “hello_totti” was bestowed with that honour when they turned $5,200 into $72,348 by triumphing in the Titans Event. “drew.derzh” also enter this event but fell in seventh, two places before the moey.

*includes bounty payments

$109 Super Sunday PKO Sunday Million Top 10 Chip Counts

The biggest prize of the weekend has yet to be won because the $109 edition of Super Sunday, a progressive KO Sunday Million special edition, isn’t finished. After the first day’s play, its 10,060-strong field was reduced to only 123. Those surviving players will return to the action at 5:00 p.m. GMT on March 10 to wrap everything up.

Belarus’ “5Nu4ka” is the chip leader with 123 players left. By the time the curtain came down on proceedings, their 50,000 starting stack had become 17,409,140. The chip leader has already amassed $1,614 in PKOs, so they are freerolling toward the $52,881 top prize.

Others safely through to Day 2 include Henrique “Zanetti89” Zanetti (8,713,112) and Arsenii “josef_shvejk” Karmatckii (8,580,272) who are both in the top ten. Ronan “Sw33ney” Sweeney (7,651,764), Thiago “KKremate” Crema (5,248,144), Daan “DaanOss” Mulders ($4,369,268), and Kelvin “Kelvin_FP:AR” Kerber are also present and correct on Day 2 in differing states of comfort.

$6M Guaranteed Sunday Million 19th Anniversary is Less Than a Month Away

The PokerStars Sunday Million celebrates its 19th anniversary on April 6, which is less than a month away. The $215 buy-in event boasts a gigantic $6 million guarantee on its prize pool, which means 30,000 entries are required. At the time of writing, 2,365 players are registered.

Most of those players have won their place in the $6 million guaranteed tournament via the many satellites running around the clock. PokerStars hosts several daily freerolls, each awarding $215 tickets, in addition to $5.50, $11, $22 buy-in satellites and the $4 buy-in Spin & Go games.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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