Online poker players were at it again this past Sunday, fighting for the top spot at PokerStar.com Sunday Million. 7,651 players entered the tournament which created a prize pool of $1,530,200. When final table play began, it was player AmirSF who held a strong chip lead with just over 16 million. Not far behind was ILIOS72 with just over 11 million chips.

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The first player to be eliminated from the final table was MarleyGroup. AmirSF raised and MarleyGroup went all in with A-K. AmirSF called with pocket tens and got a trip on the turn and another four on the river to create a full house, taking the hand and knocking MarleyGroup out in ninth place.

Just a short while later AmirSF would eliminate matt1279 with 7-5 after matt1279 called with A-3. The board gave AmirSF two pair and the hand placing matt1279 in eighth place. Ikszoorn would knock out the next player with his pocket eights. Coconut Soda called with A-10 but lost the hand when ikszoorn held two pair on the board.

Next to go would be ikszoorn and detroitj6 before a four way chop would be agreed upon. The four players left were AmirSF, ILIOS72, HuBaer582 and RoxmorE. They all agreed on a deal that would give each player a specific payout according to chip counts and the winner would earn an extra $30,000.

Going out in fourth place would be ILIOS72 and following close behind would be HuBaer582. That left RoxmorE and AmirSF to duke it out in heads up play. RoxmorE held an almost 2:1 chip lead which would help him slide into victory. On the final hand RoxmorE held pocket sixes and went all in against AmirSF’s K-7. The board fell 9-4-10-3-8 which left AmirSF with nothing and RoxmorE with the win.

Final Results:

*1. Anders “RoxmorE” Losvik — $121,664.40
*2. AmirSF — $142,970.07
*3. HuBaer582 — $95,744.61
*4. ILIOS72 — $108,780.23
5. detroitj6 — $54,322.10
6. ikszoorn — $39,020.10
7. Nick “Coconut Soda” Fava — $26,778.50
8. matt1269 — $17,597.30
9. Joe “MarleyGroup” Urgo — $10,711.40

* — four-way chop; remaining $30,000 to eventual winner (RoxmorE)

This past Sunday online poker players came running out of the woodwork to play in PokerStars Sunday Million. Eight thousand and one players entered the tournament which created a prize pool of $1,600,200. Online player Iceman1278 outlasted the competition and took the first place finish.

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Iceman1278 dominated the game and when final table play began, he would continue to dominate. The first player to be cut from the final table would be Kendog39. Kendog39 went all in with pocket fours only to be shut down by bayleesmom who had pocket Aces.

Pokerbrat13 was the next to go when he went all in with J-10 and was called by Iceman1278 who had pocket aces. JLande would soon follow after going all in with A-4 against Brendan42’s pocket Jacks. Players continued to drop like flies until only Brendan42, TheCronic and Iceman1278 were left.

Brendan42 had played well all night but when he went all in with pocket fours it was the end of the road. TheChronic420 called with pocket jacks and knocked Brendan42 out in third. Now heads up play would begin between TheChronic420 and Iceman1278.

Heads up play would last some time before the final hand would be played. Iceman1278 would pressure TheCronic420 to go all in as Iceman1278 held the majority of the chips. In the end iceman1278 would take the hand and the almost $200,000 win.

Pokerstars sunday Million Final Table Results:

1st - Iceman1278 ($196,024.50)

2nd - TheCronic420 ($132,176.52)

3rd - Brendan42 ($89,611.20)

4th - bayleesmom ($72,809.10)

5th - WhatArunAA ($56,807.10)

6th - vietcong01 ($40,805.10)

7th - JLande ($28,003.50)

8th - pokerbrat13 ($18,402.30)

9th - kendog39 ($11,201.40)

As anyone who follows the online poker industry with the slightest interest is well aware of, PokerStars is by far the largest, most popular online poker room in the entire world. That long-time standing was further magnified as PokerStars hit a major milestone, signing up its 20,000,000th member.

To bring that number into perspective, 20 million is about the same as combining the entire population of New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. This landmark event follows on the heels of PokerStars having recently dealt its 25-billionth hand, a historic Omaha Hi-Lo hand that paid out hundreds of thousands to the collective participants on February 18th, 2009.

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PokerStars 20,000,000th member is “Piposko”, a Scandinavian player who signed up an account on February 21st – just 3 days after the 25-billionth hand was played. “Piposko” received a $215 Tournament Ticket for being the historic 20-millionth member to sign up an account with PokerStars.

It was only 3 years ago PokerStars announced a similar landmark event, having registered its 5-millionth member in March of 2006. PokerStars has been setting plenty of records since its inception to the online poker world. Just a few months back, in December of 2008, PokerStars hosted the world’s largest online poker tournament, attracting 35,000 players to an $11 buy-in, $500k guarantee tournament. Had there been no player cap on the event, surely the numbers would have soared even higher.

Proffering what is commonly known as the absolute best online poker software client in the business, along with a phenomenally lucrative tournament schedule that guarantees more than $13 million each month – including the $1.5 million guarantee each Sunday – it’s no wonder that PokerStars has attained, and maintained, the status as the world’s largest online poker room for so long.

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PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, has finally been given the official heads-up to begin offering real-money online poker to residents of Italy. PokerStars is one of only a few sites to receive official regulatory approval from Italy’s government.

According to the terms of the certification from the Italian Monopolies of State (AAMS), PokerStars began hosting real-money tournaments open to Italian residents on February 25th. Currently, the online poker room offers Italian tourneys with buy-ins scaling from €0.50 to €100.

Angeli Bufalin, PokerStars Italian Country Manager stated, “The online poker phenomenon has seen a huge growth recently and with the launch of PokerStars.it we aim to recreate in Italy the success that PokerStars has achieved worldwide. This is thanks to our industry renowned software and security which guarantees players a high level poker experience and support 24 hours a day.”

PokerStars will be expanding its Italian tournament line-up over the next few weeks to offer more versatile events with a wider range of buy-ins.