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No fireworks or theatrics this week, just a straight down the middle, run of the mill weekend of big results culminating with the Sunday Million. Read on for all the details.

Weekend highlights on PokerStars

geob000 of Greece wins the Sunday Million and a first prize of $149,332.

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Sunday Million

From what we gather from Jason Kirk’s final table report of this week’s Sunday Million, all hell broke loose from the moment cards were in the air, with the entire final table playing down to a winner inside of an hour. That made is an exception, and a thrilling one, with a first Sunday Million title going to geob000, which you can read about here.

The full result is below:

Sunday Million ($215 NL Hold’em) results (March 5, 2017)
Entries: 5,249
Prize pool: $1,049,800
Places paid: 728

1. geob000 (Greece) $149,332.51
2. BARBARVSSA2 (Russia) $104,794.60
3. ruthless848 (Canada) $73,541.63
4. tonyfellone (United Kingdom) $51,609.21
5. kiely13 (United Kingdom) $36,217.78
6. lilachaa (Bosnia and Herzegovina) $25,416.60
7. flipmm (Brazil) $17,836.52
8. mentor1904 (Austria) $12,517.08
9. fergiecfc (United Kingdom) $8,784.20

Weekend winners

The weekend was about more than the Sunday Million, as the biggest results from the weekend, listed below, demonstrate:

TOURNAMENT WINNER NATIONALITY PRIZE MONEY
$215 SUNDAY MILLION geob000 Greece $149,332.51
$215 Sunday Warm-Up GeoManousos Romania $58,070.04
$1,050 Sunday Grand NLHE Ben86 Canada $53,504.25
$700 Super-Sized Sunday [Progressive KO] Naza114 Netherlands $39,998.30
$215 Sunday Supersonic [6-Max, Hyper-Turbo] Nelisschuif7 Malta $34,028.25
$1,050 Sunday Grand PLO [6-Max] Ahhh ls lt? United Kingdom $29,176.46
$11 Sunday Storm spawllo Brazil $28,753.04
$22 Mini Sunday Million leitalopez Argentina $26,508.94
$109 Sunday Cooldown [Turbo] slm022 Monaco $23,082.34
$109 Sunday Kickoff wnr2050 Romania $19,906.83

Find all the results for the weekend of March 4 to 5, 2017 on PokerStars, by clicking here.

Rozvadov opens its doors

As we reported last week PokerStars festival Rozvadov is upon us, with our coverage beginning on the Blog this week, from Thursday. Our team will be in place to bring reports from the tournament room. If you’re new to the Kings Casino and Rozvadov – a hidden gem of world poker – you can read more about what to expect here.

To Russia with love

As you may have read, PokerStars announced details today of what will be the biggest ever poker event ever held in Russia. The PokerStars Championship Sochi is now inked into the diary, running from 20-31 May, 2017. Click here for all the details of this exciting new event.

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