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Monday, Jan. 29, 2007

Good turnout and payouts for Sunday tournaments

By Erik Sylven

The major Sunday online tournaments bounced right back. The turnout was good and the prize pools big for both the PokerStars.com Sunday Million and Full Tilt Poker's $300,000 guaranteed.

After a dip in the number of entrants last week, speculation started that NETeller's decision to pull out of the U.S. market would have a big impact on the Sunday tournaments.

It seems, however, that the NFL Conference Final weekend was a more important factor, because yesterday the numbers were back to normal again.

PokerStars monthly $500 buy-in Sunday Million tournament drew 2,768 entrants, and the total prize pool was $1,384,400.

Player westmenloAA from the United States won the tournament and took home the first prize of $254,517.60.

The final table results were as follows:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	westmenloAA	$254,517.60
2nd	maxout12	$129,404
3rd	GB2005	$85,669.60
4th	mylo	$70,584
5th	aboli70	$56,744
6th	dominospizza	$42,904
7th	doctorin2010	$30,171.20
8th	Blom21	$19,099.20
9th	frankie810	$11,072

After the disappointing run of the monthly $750,000-guaranteed tournament, Full Tilt Poker lowered their regularly-scheduled big weekly tournament's guaranteed prize pool from $400,000 to $300,000.

The turnout this week was 2,115, which is a mere 14% drop in attendance as compared to the week before the NETeller announcement. The total prize pool was $423,000.

Player Klovnen won the tournament and $77,832 in prize money.

The final table results were as follows:

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Klovnen	$77,832
2nd	GDSC	$47,799
3rd	Temaki	$31,302
4th	muckthenuts	$24,957
5th	Algator	$19,035
6th	flipflopdoc	$13,620.60
7th	motnahp	$9,940.50
8th	RaSZi	$7,825.50
9th	phat_cat1	$5,922