Sunday Tournament Roundup May 19 2008

This past weekend marked the finale of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII. After eighteen events in eleven days, cheesemonster emerged victorious, taking home $410,780 and the title of Main Event Champion. The $535 Main Event attracted a blistering 4,750 players from around the globe. MarMoss finished second for $249,375, SLmelonman captured third for $161,500, and frostey landed in fourth place for $125,875. A total of 18 people cashed for at least $10,000. That’s life-changing money.

The Bodog $100,000 Guarantee had a magnificent overlay, as it does every week. If you’re looking for real value, play in this tournament. On Sunday, it boasted a $30,000 overlay while the entire poker world was focused on Full Tilt Poker. Typical weekly overlays in this tournament run between $20,000 and $30,000. Panicked took home $23,600 for first in this $109 buy-in Sunday Major. If you have no clue what an overlay is, it means that the guaranteed prize pool (in this case, $100,00) exceeded the actual prize pool.

Every weekend, Party Poker holds a $300,000 Guarantee, which regularly attracts the best players outside the United States. Posuda took home just over $61,000 for first. LetsBust busted out second for $33,594, IgotdaLoop finished third for $21,073, and ALEKSEY_777 finished fourth for $16,644. Remember, PartyPoker does not accept U.S. customers.

This past weekend was one of the few weekends that PokerStars was not the center of the online poker universe. The Sunday Million attracted 7,112 entrants, each of whom either won a satellite to get in or bought in for $215. In the end, kared69 emerged a winner, taking home $200,558. Talk about a massive payday! Etushekki finished second for $100,990 and bestbuy82 made his company proud, winning $71,120 for third place.

In the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up, a half-million dollar guarantee tournament that runs every weekend, rubenrtv blazed through a field of 3,270 players in route to a $112,946 payday. Sooners finished second and won $57,617. Boateng finished third, winning $41,398. As usual, the Sunday Warm-Up shattered its $500,000 guarantee.

There were 1,399 entrants into the PokerStars Second Chance, which runs every Sunday and offers a $200,000 guaranteed prize pool. It’s a $215 buy-in tournament and this past weekend S_System reined supreme, winning $49,105. ViP_MoDee finished second for $36,374. Coming in third place was jdawg217, who banked $27,980.

Finally, over at UltimateBet, the $200,000 Guaranteed attracted 856 combatants at $215 each, meaning the tournament boasted a $30,000 overlay. ENIGMA4U4ME brought home $45,000 for first place. Finishing as the runner up was theinductive, who won $27,000. Racking up $18,500 for third place was xXtiltXx. The UB $200k has seen an overlay between $25,000 and $30,000 recently, so it’s an excellent tournament to play if you haven’t lately.