Fred_Brink Wins NEW PokerStars Sunday Million.
August 3, 2008
New $1.5 Million Guaranteed Tournament Gets a Winner.
PokerStars recently unveiled its new Sunday Million Guaranteed in the past few days, upping the guarantee from a cool million bucks to $1.5 million! It wasn’t meant to bring in more players than it already does, but it sure brought on a lot more attention to the tourney than it previously had in the past.
Drawing in an impressive 8,000+ entrants was the simplest part of the tournament.
Getting to the final table isn’t.
Somehow though, after 10+ hours of play, play got down to just 9 players. Online poker legend Andy McLEOD was steamrolling en route to the chip lead before play began. He was hoping to parlay that huge stack into a $205k payday and another notch on his poker tournament belt.
However, as play resumed and the chips started flying around, it was McLEOD who would eventually relinquish his chip lead to some rather unknown opponents. One of these unknowns was a player by the name of ‘Fred_Brink,’ who would end up scooping a lot of big pots late and seem to be catching all the right cards at JUST the right time.
When it came down to crowning a winner, it would be Fred_Brink taking down the event for $200k and change!




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