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The PokerStars Sunday Million is a weekly tournament that is notable for its guaranteed prize pool of $1.5 million, which is by no means a small sum of cash. In fact, the PokerStars Sunday Million is the biggest weekly online poker tournament in the world. Winners of the tournament can expect to earn around $160,000 or more for a buy-in of just $200 + $15.

Occasionally, the PokerStars Sunday Million jackpot will inflate well above $1.5 million. On Sunday, PokerStars saw its biggest ever Sunday Million prize pool of $7.2 million, which was contested by an enormous field of 36,169 players. According to PokerStars, the previous biggest ever Sunday Million comprised 16,260 players on December 28th 2008 and generated a prize pool of $3,252,000, so last Sunday’s tournament was more than twice the size of anything before.

RichieRichZH of Switzerland won the PokerStars Sunday Million with pocket threes against lankeshwar’s A-4. Taking home a staggering top prize of $1,141,510, RichieRichZH adds to his recent success on several other international and UK online poker sites. In finishing second, lankeshwar ought to be happy with $754,775, whilst petinvest7 scooped $506,366 after finishing third overall. The enlarged guaranteed pot available in last week’s PokerStars Sunday Million was due to the tournament celebrating its fourth anniversary, so players were obviously keen to compete for the huge cash sums available.

PokerStars is not the only international and UK online poker site to offer regular top tournaments, with sites such as iPoker hosting top UK poker tournaments every so often. Online poker players tend not to confine themselves to just one site, which is why the biggest winners can be found in various different places. To illustrate the point, RichieRichZH won the Full Tilt Poker $100 Cubed in December last year for a cool $9,200.