Big cash prizes and online gambling are very common today. The weekend of 11th and 12th of October 2008 was very busy for all the established online poker sites. This was due to the guaranteed £750,000 PokerStars’ Sunday Million.  In the previous weekend, the event attracted 7,307 players at a starting bid of £100 plus £8 each. This goes to show that the event generated nearly £20,000. The guaranteed £375,000 Sunday Warm-Up and the guaranteed £150,000 Second Chance is also available weekly on PokerStars.

Around 1,080 participants stood eligible for prizes in the Sunday Million. The highest prize of £92,250 was won by govshark2. He defeated princio to win this award. The runner-up took home £62,975. 3rd place was reached by trangers15 who amassed £42,000. The final table saw BrOke24/7 in 4th place, DueceBuster finishing 5th, BOKINHA in the 6th, Y2JKID in the 7th place and the 8th and 9th positions were reached by MyGambit and Jazz604, respectively.

In the Sunday Warm-Up event held on PokerStars Pokky Star won the first prize of £50,625 by defeating wdrzich who took back £35,625. The final table saw ael1979 in the 3rd place, mozitasin the 4th, wildman22222 in the 5th, Pappe Ruk in the sixth, Puniponken in the 7th and the 8th and 9th positions were reached by bot432931 and IBLUFFULOL, respectively.

PokerStars offers the Sunday Second Chance as the last opportunity for players to make money over the weekend. This weekend’s Second Chance had ozenc emerging as the winner. He won £27,375. in the second place there was Gvillebill, 3rd place was won by pocktnizzles, xxjondxx came 4th, LexLuthor85 finished fifth, POker DOh came 6th, makavelyces finished 7th and the 8th and 9th positions were awarded to Topvorm and yrcanos respectively.