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Online poker’s Biggest Tournament

For players that enjoy poker events, the biggest online poker tournament in the world is Pokerstars Sunday million. Every Sunday Pokerstars run a number of poker tournaments which can elevate any poker players bankroll to new heights. With satellites running throughout the week, for as little as $2.20 or FPP (Frequent Player Points) credits, even low-rolling poker players can have a shot at a big pay-day in these no-limit Texas-Hold’em tournaments. Poker tournaments are offerd by a range of poker sites including Full Tilt.

For the more experienced player with a high bank balance and a clever poker strategy, direct buy-in to this tournament is $200 + $15 with a very attractive $1,500,000 guaranteed. The first ever Sunday million took place on march 5th, 2006 with online poker player ‘aaaaaaaa’ claiming the top spot. Since then the field has averaged 7,070 players with the largest ever Sunday millions attracting 36,169, in February of this year, and generating a prize pool of $7,233,800.

For those high-rollers who just miss out in the Sunday million, Pokerstars also run a host of other tournaments and poker events.

Starting at 13.00 ET, Pokerstars kicks off with the Sunday Warm-up. A buy in of $200 + $15 will give you a shot at the guaranteed prize pool of $750,000. At 15.00 ET the DNG Sunday Special begins with $50 + $5 buy-in and a guaranteed prize pool of $300,000. The Sunday quarter million gets started at 15.30 ET, with $10 + $1 buy-in, and $250,000 guaranteed and at 17.30 ET the Sunday half million takes place with $500,000 in the prize pool and $500 + $30 buy-in. At 18.30 ET the last of the high stakes Texas Hold’em poker tournaments is the Sunday Second Chance with a buy-in of $200 + $15 and $250,000 guaranteed.

The winner of the most recent Sunday million was ‘RICOFELIZ’ who outlasted every-one in the field to land the first place prize of $252,276.50 on 21/11/2010. Here’s a look at who finished in the top-ten:

• 1. RICOFELIZ – $252,276.50
• 2. musicom – $184,362.50
• 3. j_t_s80 – $128,625.00
• 4. DuggerGerngy – $85,750.00
• 5. alex987 – $68,600.00
• 6. onealtiseven – $51,450.00
• 7. omalos – $34,300.00
• 8. StrungOut1 – $18,865.00
• 9. costel725 – $13,291.25
• 10. MESOH – $9,089.50

With such large prize pools, these tournaments attract the best online poker players in the world. The running time will generally be very long and if you are thinking of taking the step-up to have a shot, then a cautious poker strategy may be the best approach.

Strategy is key to winning tournaments on sites like Winner Poker.
These tournaments run every Sunday on Pokerstars an offer a great opportunity to make some series money or even get ambitious poker players on their way to becoming a Professional Poker player.