Online Poker: Overlays Abound in Sunday Majors

Lance Bradley | October 6, 2008 at 2:51 pm

Every Sunday the best online poker tournament players hunker down in front of their monitors to take aim at capturing one of the Sunday Majors. The last few weekends however, with the U.S. economy in trouble, the fields have been getting smaller and smaller with overlays being offered in nearly every tournament this week.

The biggest winner was “Allanon85” who took down the PokerStars Sunday Million for $177,450 after the final three players agreed to a chop. Here are the results from all of the Sunday Majors, including the Main Event of the Bodog Poker Open II.

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($200 + $15, 3,264 entrants)

1.       Weekender74 - $105,000
2.       bfineman - $75,000
3.       royalfishfly - $52,500
4.       renq87 - $39,375
5.       CHINESE30 - $31,500
6.       EASY DZ - $24,000
7.       Huskyfan98 - $16,500
8.       niccc - $10,500
9.       NICKELZ - $7,050

Note: $97,200 overlay

PokerStars Sunday Million ($200 + $15, 7,245 entrants)

1.       Allanon85 - $177,450
2.       aty79 - $109,000
3.       cdbr3799 - $107,000
4.       Kongsgaard - $69,000
5.       forza-guti - $54,000

6.       insanocut - $39,000

7.       tnapoleao - $26,250

8.       Tyler9897 - $17,250

9.       sjco - $10,500

Note: $51,000 overlay

PokerStars Sunday 500 ($500 + $30, 951 entrants)

1.       twirlpro - $91,250
2.       hervios - $66,450
3.       Titantom32 - $50,000

4.       RifePot - $37,500

5.       StanTerakom - $26,250

6.       PMJackson21 - $21,250

7.       aakkari - $16,250

8.       mss73 - $11,250

9.       vietcong01 - $7,000

Note: $24,500 overlay

UltimateBet $200,000 Guaranteed ($200 + $15, 831 entrants)

1.       stuman123 - $45,000
2.       nosoup4uuuu - $27,000

3.       roughnecks69 - $18,500

4.       zooterfitz - $13,000

5.       jenny-8675309 - $11,000

6.       jturtleb - $9,000

7.       dmw8869 - $7,000

8.       -kizzy- - $5,000

9.       Buckeye33 - $3,500

Note: $33,800 overlay

Bodog Poker Open II Main Event ($470 + $30, 477 players)

1.       zubs1aa - $75,000
2.       El Rubio - $45,000

3.       cmizzles3687 - $28,500

4.       flipflopn -$21,000

5.       Justin58 -$16,500

6.       Hasn82 - $13,500

7.       SHiFtYFiNGeR - $10,500

8.       ArmyDrill - $6,600

9.       Justin Bonomo - $5,100

Note: $75,810 overlay

Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl ($240 + $16, 1,806 players)

1.       idi0 - $74,407.20
2.       BROKE-C - $49,123.20

3.       oh I win yay - $36,481.20

4.       clampsch - $28,534.80

5.       sbw34723 - $21,310.80

6.       Negreanders - $14,809.20

7.       HuckleberrySeed - $9,030

8.       747wd - $6,140.40

9.       CNT_CRUSHER - $4,334,40

Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guaranteed ($200 + $16 3,572 players)

1.       FadinAway - $132,787.50
2.       TheDirrty - $80,250

3.       Dstemrich - $52,500

4.       TheAsianVampire - $41,400

5.       Kisso - $31,050

6.       Corporations - $23,025

7.       crazychicken - $17,250

8.       Matteo02 - $13,500

9.       MarvinGarden - $10,050

Note: $35,600 overlay

Full Tilt Poker Sunday Mulligan ($200 + $16, 1,015 players)

1.       miw210 - $45,675
2.       hattrick8810 - $29,435

3.       negroblanco - $21,822.50

4.       KingFish83 - $16,747.50

5.       benba - $12,687.50

6.       bossmanisme - $9,135

7.       Jcarver - $6,090

8.       Usuk2 - $4,567.50

9.       game153 - $3,248