When an online casino player named Vikidin was able to walk away with the top prize at the most recent $1.5 million guarantee Sunday tournament, it caused quite a stir. This competition , held at PokerStars.com, is one of the top draws for fans of online casinos and poker rooms this season. This time the energy among the contestants was fierce. With a mere eight players vying for glory at the final table event, one of the top front-runners appeared to be well positioned to take the whole tournament but then he went bust, leaving the door wide open for the winning player. The winning casino player managed to score a respectable $220,000 for his first-place win. That sure is a decent amount of money to walk away with in this day and age.

The former front-runner of the event wound up finishing in ninth place and left with only $11,625. Compared to what the final winner took home, that had to have stung a bit. The winner, Vikidin was able to catch a few pocket aces at just the right moment and one by one began giving his competitors the boot.

Still, the pool was so impressive going into this event with the amount of money on the line to be divided up among all of the winners that even the players from online casinos and poker rooms that finished in sixth or fifth place left with a decent chunk of cash under their arms. The fifth place casino gamer took a cool $61,500 and the sixth place finisher was able to leave the scene with $46,500. Neither of those prize packages would be something that I would be able to turn down so they had to feel pretty good about their performances.

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