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15 years ago

Luke "Bdbeatslayer" Vrabel Wins Biggest Sunday Million Ever

Long time online tournament player Luke "Bdbeatslayer" Vrabel took down the fifth anniversary PokerStars Sunday Million tournament for $671,093.81 and a new Lamborghini Gallardo early Sunday morning. With all the attention and promotion behind the fifth anniversary of the Sunday Million and $5 million guarantee, 59,128 players enrolled in the $215 tournament creating a prize pool of $11,826,600.


It took around five hours for the money bubble to burst and a total of 14.5 hours until the winner of the Lamborgini Gallardo was determined. Surprisingly, once the final table nine were seated, they negotiated an immediate deal to split the 1st-9th prize pool. It took 40 minutes to work out the deal, but that left just the high prices sports car left up for grabs.

Although wrzr123 from Germany had the largest chip stack at the time of the chip chop, grabbing $844,209.87 in the deal, Vrabel outplayed the table to finish on top with the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 valued at over $200,000, plus the $671,093.81 he secured in the chop.

Here's how the Final Table ended up playing out with chop:

1st: Bdbeatslayer - $671,093.81 (and the Lamborghini)
2nd: sheppyshape - $465,647.02
3rd: wrzr123 - $844,209.87
4th: guccyka - $411,090.13
5th: Syndrome1977 - $799,842.09
6th: zeurrr - $518,402.33
7th: nhar818 - $441,541.06
8th: Jan10004 - $311,023.33
9th: Battmeister - $263,888.06