PokerStars’ Sunday Hundred Grand gets even bigger

March 24th, 2008

PokerStars’ giant weekly tournament, the Sunday Hundred Grand, just got bigger and shows no signs of slowing down.

PokerStars’ increased the field to 22,500 people for this Sunday’s edition of the tournament, an $11 buy-in. And the field was still full. When the tournament first started, it had a cap of 10,000 players.

Pokerkingblog.com put together some amazing statistics about the tournament:

-Pokerstars makes $22,500 in total rake every time this tournament runs

-the total prize pool is an incredible $225k

-first place gets paid $20,250.00, making this tournament an incredibly attractive proposition for a low limit grinder

-the top 3375 players get paid

Whole thing here.

The blog also notes that some top pros are starting to play the tournament every week because of the huge prize pool.


Article Credit: Dustin

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AA on safe board, no limit full ring - DailyHandQuiz

Game type: 25/50 Full Ring Cash, PokerStars
Your image: Active, possibly a little frustrated
Opponent's image: Very aggressive preflop
Your hand: Ad Ah

The setup: You've had an uneven session so far and it's been a bit since you won a hand. This hand there's a poster in the hijack preflop. The table folds to him and he checks. You raise $200. The button folds and the SB three bets to $825. The BB and hijack fold, and you flat.

You have a good amount of history with the raiser. He is a very active three bettor and seems to have your number in recent sessions. He is very aggressive against your preflop raises, especially if there's a squeeze opportunity. He's also a pretty steady continuation bettor.

You flop about as dry as can be:

jc 2h 6d

The SB leads for $985 into $1750. What's your play?


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