A New "Moneymaker" was Born in the latest Sunday Million

Author

Vargoso

Published

3/26/2020

Updated

11/24/2022

PokerStars held its biggest online tournament in history last weekend: Sunday Million 14th Anniversary Edition. The event drew a massive field of almost 61k players that created a prize pool of 18 million dollars. The tournament champion was a Brazilian player that joined the event, firing a single bullet from an $11 satellite.

PokerStars Sunday Million 14th Anniversary

A total of 60,898 unique entries and 32,118 re-entries was the final result of the 14th Anniversary Edition of PokerStars most famous tournament, the Sunday Million. With a buy-in of $200 + $15, the event had a final prize pool of $18,602,300. The poker room kept $1,395,240 to host the event, which had a controversial 24-hour late registration period.

After three days of action, the final table was set with nine players:

Nickname	Chips	Country
salonteskis	415.596.020	Lithuania
AlexHoldz	404.315.107	Croatia
Alex "AAAArthur" Brito	333.031.132	Brazil
caroline2963	150.921.679	United Kingdom
pokerfrance	128.403.299	Germany
Stefan "CrAzY_sTeFaN" Piele Dragos	127.327.738	Romania
Marios "Jully-19" Mansour	122.054.176	Cyprus
Paulius "D3cor" Vaitiekunas	96.760.235	Lithuania
tweny1	83.910.614	Romania

The chip leader was "salonteskis" from Lithuania. The only unknown players at the final table were "pokerfrance" and "AAAArthur." All the other players are recognized regs with hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits.

PokerStars Sunday Million Regs

In the end, four players made an ICM deal; AAAArthur won the event and was the only one who received more than 1 million dollars.

Alex "AAAArthur" Brito turned $11 into $1,192,802, a life-changing prize.

Nickname	Prize
Alex "AAAArthur" Brito	$1.192.802,46*
Stefan "CrAzY_sTeFaN" Piele Dragos	$921.328,12*
salonteskis	$826.919,68*
caroline2963	$786.873,68*
AlexHoldz	$329.919,68
Marios "Jully-19" Mansour	$225.108,02
tweny1	$153.854,04
pokerfrance	$105.154,58
Paulius "D3cor" Vaitiekunas	$71.869,74

*ICM Chop Deal

This is not the first time that a Brazilian player takes down massive poker tournaments. The first two editions of The Venom were also won by Brazilian grinders, proving that the Latin American country is turning into a poker superpower. In the case of "AAAArthur", his stats prove that he only plays micro-stakes tournaments and outlasting over 60k players was a "Black Swan".

AAAArthur Stats PokerStars

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