Online Poker: “rythman” Wins PokerStars Sunday Million

Lance Bradley | May 26, 2008

The PokerStars Sunday Million attracted a field of 6,745 and generated a prize pool of $1,349,000 with first place scheduled to pay $193,986.20. The final table lasted a little less than 90 minutes with “rythman” coming out on top - but not until the final three players agreed to a chop. Here’s how the each final table elimination went down. For full details on the final table payouts check out The Sunday Report.

PokerStars Final Table Chip Counts

Seat 1: Hasuwisp (9,195,154 in chips)
Seat 2: rythman (12,586,606 in chips)
Seat 3: EvilLondon. (5,730,113 in chips)
Seat 4: browsef (5,569,445 in chips)
Seat 5: jojo1983 (5,402,365 in chips)
Seat 6: KtheKing (5,364.300 in chips)
Seat 7: jorgeezy (7,437,064 in chips)
Seat 8: tapatapa (13,501,095 in chips)
Seat 9: deepak1 (2,663,858 in chips)

Eliminated in 9th place: browsef
Blinds: 200K/400K (40K antes)

Action folded to browsef in the small blind who moved all-in for 885,145; jojo1983 called from the big blind.

Browsef: Ac 9s
Jojo1983: 9h Th

The flop: Kh Jh 2s
The turn: 7s
The river: Ts

Eliminated in 8th place: jorgeezy
Blinds: 200K/400K (40K antes)

From the hijack jojo1983 raised to 1,200,000; KtheKing re-raised from the cut-off to 3,600,000 and jorgeezy moved all-in from the button for 6,557,064. After jojo1983 folded, KtheKing called.

KtheKing: As Ah
Jorgeezy: Ac Kd

The flop: 9h 6h 3d
The turn: 2s
The river: 8c

Eliminated in 7th place: deepak1
Blinds: 200K/400K (40K antes)

From UTG+1 EvilLondon. moved all-in for 4,050,113 and deepak1 called all-in for his last 2,727,716 from the small blind.

EvilLondon.: 6d 6s
Deepak1: Ah Ks

The flop: 2h 2c Qs
The turn: 3s
The river: 2s

Eliminated in 6th place: jojo1983
Blinds: 200K/400K (40K antes)

From the button jojo1983 moved all-in for 4,020,133 KtheKing raised to 7,640,266 and tapatapa re-raised all-in for 16,151,991; KtheKing folded.

Jojo1983: Jc Ts
KtheKing: Ks Kh

The flop: 9c 7d 3d
The turn: 4c
The river: 4h

Eliminated in 5th place: EvilLondon.
Blinds: 250K/500K (50K antes)

From the button Hasuwisp moved all-in for 5,373,210 and EvilLondon. called for his last 3,407,829.

Hasuwisp: Jd Qd
EvilLondon.: Ah Ks

The flop: 2h 2s 8c
The turn: 3h
The river: Qs

Eliminated in 4th place: Hasuwisp
Blinds: 250K/500K (50K antes)

Hasuwisp raised to 3,500,000 and rythman re-raised to 6500000; Hasuwisp called all-in.

Hasuwisp: 9c Js
Rythman: Ah Kd

The flop: Ad Tc 6s
The turn: 7c
The river: 3s

Followed that elimination the remaining three players agreed to a modified chip-chop. At the time tapatapa was an overwhelming chip leader and his take was $139,725 while rythman took $107,253 and the short-stacked KtheKing took $90,758. The three players lefts $30,000 in the middle to play for.

Eliminated in 3rd place: KtheKing
Blinds: 300K/600K (60K antes)

Rythman raised to 16,409,866 and KtheKing called for his last 4,777,744.

KtheKing: 8h 8d
Rythman: Td As

The flop: 7c Ah 5c
The turn: 2c
The river: 2d

Eliminated in 2nd place: tapatapa
Blinds: 400K/800K (80K antes)

On the final hand of the night rythman raised to 2,200,000 and tapatapa re-raised all-in to 12,862,390; rythman called.

Tapatapa: Ah 8d
Rythman: Ks Ad

The flop: 9s 7d Kh
The turn: 4d
The river: 7c

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