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PokerStars saw a decent turnout this past weekend for their guaranteed tournaments The Sunday Million and the Sunday Warm-Up. Thousands of players logged on to try their hand at finishing first and taking home a nice prize from the top online poker room.

The PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up saw a really good turnout with 4,417 players competing. The $200 plus 15 no limit hold’em tournament has a guaranteed prize pool of $750,000 but this time so many players were competing that the prize pool was raised to $883,400. 630 spots would be paid with the top finisher taking home just over $138,000.

First place would earn the big prize but second would earn over $100,000 too so either place would reward the player well. When heads up play began it was online players Sn0wb4ll and KenT351 who would face off. KenT351 made all the right moves in the final hand and clinched the victory as he knocked Sn0wb4ll out of the competition.

Final Results:

KenT351 - $138,588

Sn0wb4ll - $102,916

Beto777 - $72,881

El ibero - $49,912

krash778 - $37,545

cabby123 - $28,710

CoachConrad - $19,877

Allingomes - $11,043

MVital23 - $7,067

Moving on to the Sunday Million, 7,515 players registered to compete in the $200 plus 15 event. this tournament guarantees $1.5 million as a prize pool so this time the prize pool was increased by only $3,000, not much but at least it’s something!

1,080 spots would pay out in this competition with first place earning a large prize of just over $225,000. The top three competitors of this tournament earned a six figure pay day so as long as you could finish in the top three you would earn a nice pay day.

Namaddman was able to outlast both jas42 and mikal12345 after three way play began to take the first place prize. namaddman played a great game and can be proud of taking down the win at the top online poker room.

Final Results:

namaddman - $225,450

mikal12345 - $165,886

jas42 - $120,240

RonaldKosh - $79,659

jgrhajsj - $61,623

Nativebounty - $46,593

doulas12 - $32,315

SooSavage - $18,036

TheRealMT - $11,648

Peter Eastgate has been a very busy man. Eastgate has been traveling the world competing in various poker tournaments since his WSOP Main Event win in 2008. After having a hard time at PokerStars EPT Barcelona Eastgate decided to compete in the PokerStars WCOOP High Roller Event. Eastgate did quite well and cashed out in eighth place.

The high roller event took place on September 13th and had a buy-in of $25,500. The guarantee for this event was $800,000 but with 36 players competing, the prize pool was increased to $900,000. Daniel Negreanu was the host of this WCOOP event which was a no limit hold’em event in match play.

Eastgate’s first match was tough and it would take four hours to complete. Eastgate got an early lead but his opponent managed to hang on for some time before Eastgate sealed the deal. The second match for Eastgate was against Tobias Reinkemeier. It did not take Eastgate long to move on to his third match, which would be against online player Adonis112.

Adonis112 is known for being insane at the poker tables along with having a rude attitude. He abuses his opponents verbally and according to Eastgate’s PokerStars blog he was no exception. Eastgate commented: “The third match was over really fast. I played Adonis, who is known as a wild one, who usually verbally abuses his opponents, including me on a couple of occasions.”

Eastgate would get far in the competition but would finish in eighth place in the event. first place would go to online player Iftarii who earned a large prize of $315,000 for his efforts.

Final Results:

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Iftarii $315,000
Sifosis $180,000
Adonis112 $90,000
Zangbezan24 $90,000
Mistakooll $56,250
Joiso $56,250
Skilled_sox $56,250
PeteEastgate $56,250

Kent Senter recently saw a dream come true when PokerStars flew him from Pennsylvania to Las Vegas to participate in the World Series of Poker. Now one might say, ‘well all poker rooms fly players to Vegas for the WSOP if they win a package’. Well Senter was sent to the WSOP because he has multiple myeloma cancer and wanted to participate in the tournament. Now PokerStars is doing even more to help the poker player.

Senter and his family are currently having trouble with the growing number of medical bills they have to pay due to his sickness. So to help out PokerStars decided to run a $10 re-buy tournament this past Saturday at 8pm to help the family with their bills.

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PokerStars stated that the illness had left the family two months behind on rent with their television and phone already shut off. Every bit of the buy-in will go to the Senter family and PokerStars is adding an incentive for players to participate.

The winner of the tournament would win a World Championship of Online Poker main event seat and the runner up would earn a seat to the WSOP Academy. Third through sixth place would earn tournament credit vouchers from $200 to $1,000.

Hopefully the event was able to raise enough money to benefit Kent Senter and his family. Medical bills can certainly put a strain on a family and any help that can be received is appreciated. IT was really great of PokerStars Download to go that extra mile and create the special tournament to benefit Senter.

Senter made a great impression on players at the WSOP as well as PokerStars Team members. Chris Moneymaker commented: “Kent is a great guy and has an amazing family. I had the opportunity to spend some time with them during the main event and really enjoyed getting to know them. It’s amazing that PokerStars sees their members struggling and steps up when appropriate to help out.”

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PokerStars is the number one online poker room for many reasons but one of the top reasons is the many, many tournaments the poker room hosts. Players have a wide variety of tournaments to choose from especially live events. The poker room has created several poker tours and a new Festival has now been added to the mix.

PokerStars has announced the information for the first annual PokerStars Baltic Festival, a new poker event for the poker giant. The Festival will begin on the 28th of October and continue until the 31st. The Festival will take place in Talinn, Estonia at the Swissotel Conference Center.

The Festival will have a four day Main Event which will have a buy-in of €1,100. Organizers are estimating the prize pool will reach six figures if not surpass to seven. Side events will also take place during the Festival and PokerStars will be releasing that information in the coming weeks.

Online players who are interested in competing in the festival can try their hand at qualifying via satellite tournaments. The satellites start as low as $2.20 and free rolls will also be available. This is a great way for a player to earn a seat to the new Festival for very little money.

Tomas Larsson, the Finland and the Baltic PokerStars Country Manager, commented: “PokerStars has hundreds of thousands of poker players from the Nordic countries, the Baltic States, and Russia, but so far there have only been a few interesting live tournaments.” He also stated: “I am convinced that the PokerStars Baltic Festival will attract players not only from neighboring countries, but from all over Europe, including a number of Team PokerStars Pro members and some of the region’s top players.”