Canadian player wins PokerStars Sunday Million 10th Anniversary tournament for $970,000

(PRESS RELEASE) -- Canadian player "a.urli" won the Sunday Million 10th Anniversary tournament for $970,000.

After nearly 16 hours at the virtual tables, the player finished first from a total of 55,059 entries (including 9,706 re-entries) to scoop the prize of nearly $1 million.

A deal was made four-handed, before a.urli went on to secure the milestone title by beating "mladenova62" heads up. a.urli's previous biggest online tournament prize at PokerStars.com was $40,184, which was won when finishing runner-up in a WCOOP event in 2014.

The prize pool of $11,011,800 made it the fourth richest online poker tournament ever, bettered only by two previous Sunday Million special anniversary tournaments and the 2010 WCOOP Main Event. The record prize pool still stands at $12,423,200. The first place prize payout was the 18th largest in PokerStars online tournament history.