It was another stellar weekend at the world’s largest online poker room as PokerStar.com hosted it’s most lucrative weekly events this weekend. As is the norm at PokerStar, each of its big Sunday tourneys revealed much higher prize pools than originally guaranteed, with the Sunday Million bursting the GP to a whopping $1,717,800.

Starting with the Poker Star $500k Sunday Warm-Up, 3,488 entries boosted the prize pool to $697,600, guaranteeing the top 513 a cut of the money. The final table eventually came down to “eisenhower1” vs. “seberek”. In the end, it was eiesenhower1 taking down the tournament for the first place prize of nearly $100,000. 2nd place was worth $69,760 to seberek.

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up Final Table Results

1st - eisenhower1 ($97,664)
2nd - seberek ($69,760)
3rd - hanji ($45,693)
4th - nukemaster1 ($34,880)
5th - AyeReady1966 ($27,904)
6th - AA_Legend ($20,928)
7th - bartleby666 ($14,998)
8th - ryanfitz05 ($10,464)
9th - truls77 ($6,767)

Next up is the highly anticipated PokerStar Sunday Million, where a field of 8,589 brought the guaranteed prize up to $1,717,800, ensuring the top 1,233 positions their share of the winnings. Aside from last week’s spectacular 2x promotion that double the GP to $2 million, attracting more than 14,000 entries, this is one of the largest fields to enter the PokerStars Sunday Million in quite some time.

As the final table dwindled in numbers, it was up to “SAM66” and Frenchman “Shantaram” to battle it out for top position when “MrMuck1976” was sent to the rails in 3rd. Though Shantaram put up a good fight, it was SAM66 who emerged victorious to claim the 1st place prize of $209,572. Shantaram was awarded the 2nd place prize; a respectable $141,719.

PokerStars Sunday Million Final Table Results

1st - SAM66 ($209,572)
2nd - Shantaram ($141,719)
3rd - MrMuck1976 ($95,338)
4th - rubenrtv ($77,301)
5th - pepperdiablo ($60,123)
6th - my_emolument ($42,945)
7th - moorten ($30,062)
8th - Axinar ($19,755)
9th - Cjh1224 ($13,399)

Ending an impressive evening of profitable online poker tournaments at PokerStars came the Sunday Second Chance, worth a GP of $200k. A field of 1,699 converged on the tables to hike the guaranteed prize to nearly double - $339,800. While the top 252 competitors would share in the purse, it was “Taknapotin” who whittled his way through the line-up to take down the tournament, pocketing $57,776 for the skilled victory. Finishing 2nd was “uncledrkmeat” for $43,494.

PokerStars Sunday Second Chance Final Table Results

1st - Taknapotin ($57,766)
2nd - uncledrkmeat ($43,494)
3rd - P0ker D0h ($32,451)
4th - Rugieee ($23,786)
5th - voyager7o9 ($16,990)
6th - v1nc ($13,592)
7th - Universe112 ($10,194)
8th - mcatdog ($6,796)
9th - Brezi26 ($4,757)

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FullTilt Poker.com hosted its usual line-up of lucrative Sunday tournaments this weekend with only one exception. Instead of the weekly $750k GP, this weekend set the scene for Full Tilt Poker’s $1,000,000 Monthly Million Guarantee.

We’ll start things off with the Full Tilt Poker Sunday Mulligan, where 1,271 entries paid the $200 + $26 buy-in, nearly doubling the $150k GP to $254200 to pay the top 117 positions. After 7 hours of play, the final table came down to heads-up action between “GimmeFiction” and “rafampvierira”. GimmeFiction earned the 1st place prize of $55,924 when his skills overpowered rafampvierira, who claimed the 2nd place purse of $35,558.

FullTilt.com Sunday Mulligan Final Table Results

1st - GimmeFiction ($55,924)
2nd - rafampvierira ($35,588)
3rd - FromThaGroundUp ($26,183)
4th - Boodacious ($20,654)
5th - Jagz7 ($15,888)
6th - Outdraw09 ($11,439)
7th - GrMonkey ($7,626)
8th - Bernie Kosar ($5,720)
9th - LovinItAll ($4,067)

Next up was the Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl, the weekly Knockout tournament worth a GP of $250k. Another exceptional field of 1,769 bought their way into the $246 + $16 bounty tournament, this time hiking the total prize to $353,800. The top 189 finishers would see a share of the winnings, but it was “Styjroben33” ousting “ulilbeach” in heads-up to claim the top purse of $72,883.

Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl Final Table Results

1st - Styjroben33 ($72,883
2nd - ulilbeach ($48,117)
3rd - CopenhagenPride ($35,734)
4th - Sakerfalke ($27,950)
5th - Badtilt ($20,874)
6th - HigHRolliN44 ($14,506)
7th - BlackFours ($8,845)
8th - otti_B ($6,015)
9th - Hanahan ($4,246)

Last, but certainly not least, the Full Tilt Poker $1,000,000 Monthly Guarantee got underway at 6:00 p.m. ET. 2,396 players forked up the $500 + $35 buy-in (or satellite their way in) to extend the $1 million guaranteed prize to $1,198,000. At nearly 10 hours to complete, the final hand was well worth the wait. Just when it appeared “AJKHoosier1” was about to take down the tournament with an easy Flush, “GulahPapyrus” hit the Full House on the River to emerge victorious. GulahPapyrus earned $219,773 for the amazing last-second win, while AJKHoosier1 claimed a “bitter sweet” $134,895 in 2nd.

FullTiltPoker $1,000,000 Monthly Guarantee Final Table Results

1st - GulahPapyrus ($219,773)
2nd - AJKHoosier1 ($134,895)
3rd - hurikane3 ($88,293)
4th - A__theKevlar__2 ($70,442)
5th - SitAndStack ($53,311)
6th - Chipleader56 ($38,336)
7th - Nom Sayin ($28,153)
8th - acatlover ($22,043)
9th - ILIKEPONIES ($16,772)

UltimateBetPoker Pro Phil Hellmuth is running strong in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, not only hoping to win the world’s most prestigious live poker tournament – which comes along with a multi-million dollar pay-check, of course – but to win his 12th, record breaking WSOP Bracelet.

Hellmuth already holds the record for the most WSOP Bracelets with 11, but wouldn’t it be oh-so-sweet to raise the bar to 12? Of course it would, and that’s exactly what Phil Hellmuth was aiming to do in this year’s World Series of Poker. Having failed to accomplish this feat during the first 53 preliminary events, it has come down to this – Phil Hellmuth must win the 2008 WSOP Main Event to take home his 12th WSOP Bracelet this year.

Staying on his toes, Phil Hellmuth has thus far outlasted a field of 6,844 as it dwindled to 1,308 at the opening of Day 3. Among the more than 5,000 players to be sent to the rails since the WWSOP Main Event began on July 3rd is last year’s winner, Jerry Yang, along with John Juanda, Eric Lynch, Brian Townsend, Howard Lederer, David Oppenheim, Joe Hachem, the list goes on. And still, Phil Hellmuth, playing as casually as ever, remains in the final standings.

ESPN’s cameras have spent plenty of time shining their bright lights in Hellmuth’s direction, capturing his verbal wrangling with fellow poker players and a miraculously winning hand with pocket 3’s. Who else but the incomparable Phil Hellmuth would raise with pocket 3’s – and win the hand?

Though well below the chip leader, Brian Schaedlich with 801,000, all eyes are on the UltimateBetPoker.com mascot, Phil Hellmuth, as everyone wants to know – can he break his own record and take home a 12th WSOP Bracelet?