Sunday Million's Surprising Results and Other Poker Highlights

The Sunday Million tournament, celebrated its sixth anniversary with a guaranteed prize pool of six million dollars. However, the first and second places were not awarded, leading to a surprising distribution of prizes. The top prize of $590,483 was less than the second-place prize, and the winner, toode from Finland, actually sold stakes on Part Time Poker, so his backer 360sean360 received $296,000.

The tournament attracted 33,732 participants, generating $6,746,400 in revenue. The final standings were as follows: 1 slyfox151 – $480,761.38, 2 blodders03 – $481,724.56, 3 HesBluffingx – $552,972.89, 4 paars_Wit – $254,827.49, 5 lalex-79 (Россия) – $225,028.27, 6 SASHA 2908 (Россия) – $187,355.63, 7 toode – $590,482.92, 8 baadger – $239,269.62, 9 orange6 – $53,296.56.

In other poker news, the 12th SuperStar Showdown between Isaac Haxton and Viktor Blom was delayed due to a storm on Malta. Isaac Haxton ultimately won the match with a final lead of $5,093. Moon Kim won the WPT Shooting Stars tournament in California, defeating Ubaid Habib in the heads-up. Andrew Kim won the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour in Seoul, defeating Vincent Rubianes in the heads-up. The EPT Madrid tournament had 477 participants, with 264 players advancing to the second day. Several Russian players, including Andrey Zaichenko, Andrey Pateichuk, Vladimir Kochelaevsky, Denis Pisarev, and Mikhail Alexandrov, were eliminated on the first day. Ivan 'Frozer' Tikhov had the largest stack among Russian players with 105,000 chips, while Sergio Baranov led the first day with 152,500 chips.