Million Dollar Sunday Results & Overlay on Americas Cardroom (WPN)

Total Overlay: $859,750

8 total events since August 2, 2015 for an average overlay of $107,468.75 per event.

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Update November 9: The final MDS event was this past weekend and ended the series with an $82,000 overlay. In all, there were 1,672 entries. Here is how the final table ended:

Final Table Payouts

1st Wildcoin! ($100,000)
2nd BlackRanger ($55,500)
3rd Whoareya1 ($36,900)
4th WaveRave ($29,400)
5th Frankie Knuckles ($22,400)
6th 6BScissormeWit42off ($15,900)
7th handicapped89 ($11,400)
8th BHelf33 ($8,750)
9th nguyenj ($6,600)

There currently are no other Million Dollar Sunday events scheduled and ACR has not announced anything. It seems likely that they will not continue seeing as there was an average of $107,000 overlay per event.

ACR has shifted their marketing efforts to the Online Super Series 5 which is their yearly tournament series. This year it runs from November 27 – December 6. However, the main event of the OSS V does have $1,000,000 guaranteed with a $540 buy-in. So even though it’s not a MDS event, in less than one month, there will be another million dollar tournament.

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Update November 2: The overlay just keeps getting larger. This past weekend there were a total of 1,532 entries for an overlay of $117,000! Yikes.

Final Table Payouts

1st aaronmermel ($100,000)
2nd NiagaraBalls ($57,250)
3rd Presto136 ($39,750)
4th krushurdreams ($30,500)
5th BTCBlade ($23,000)
6th GETurFKNshineBOX ($16,300)
7th Loco4coco ($11,750)
8th scoopjackson9 ($9,000)
9th daddyshome420 ($6,800)

There is one more MDS event next Sunday. Unless the numbers somehow drastically turn around, I expect it to be the last one.

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Update October 26: Another $500k MDS finished yesterday and this event still has yet to crack the guaranteed amount. In all, there were 1,788 entries for a total prize pool of $447,000 and overlay of $53,000.

Final Table Payouts

1st MR FABULOUS ($100,000)
2nd casperhmubbs ($55,500)
3rd jiggajane12 ($36,900)
4th bartodelagente ($29,400)
5th bradmac10489 ($22,400)
6th HollaAtYaBoi ($15,900)
7th romancio ($11,400)
8th frenchy_pwns ($8,750)
9th vasya9 ($6,600)

There are still two more MDS events scheduled. It’s not sure if these will continue beyond November 8th. Cya next Sunday! Oh, and I added a running overlay total to the top of the post.

I also updated the post title to reflect the constant updates of this post. It used to be “$1,000,000 Guaranteed Tournament on WPN Concludes with a $30,500 Overlay”.

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Update October 19: Americas Cardroom made the decision this week to lower the buy-in from $540 to $270, and also lower the guarantee from $1,000,000 to $500,000. They obviously did this out of lack of participation and to not be bleeding hundreds of thousands of dollars each week. But this isn’t bad news as $500k guaranteed is still HUGE for USA poker. If this becomes a regular event, which it sounds like it may, it would be would be very nice for tournament grinders.

The name of these events has also been changed to MDS Main $500,000 GTD.

The MDS Main concluded yesterday with total 1,931 entries making the prize pool $482,750. This created an overlay of $17,250, which is much lower than the previous Million Dollar events.

Final Table Payouts

1st Bocha12 ($100,000)
2nd Ottermilch ($55,500)
3rd TonyAllenFTAD ($36,900)
4th Riodeshabani ($29,400)
5th T4YLORSW1FT ($22,400)
6th Ayri ($15,900)
7th Ctraltdegen11 ($11,400)
8th Sneakypete01 ($8,750)
9th 2rich2care ($6,600)

Until next Sunday!

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Update October 12: Another week, another 6 figure overlay. Although, participation did go up this week with 1,726 entries creating a total prize pool of $863,000. The total overlay dropped down to $137,000.

Final Table Payouts

1st A1phad0ggg ($200,000)
2nd NickYnius ($111,000)
3rd OpJeMuil ($73,800)
4th ship_it11 ($58,800)
5th MovesLikeDarvin ($44,800)
6th MN_KVANG ($31,800)
7th ballballball ($22,800)
8th LeeroyJenkins40 ($17,500)
9th splatter ($13,200)

There are still two more Million Dollar Sunday events scheduled for October.

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Update October 5: Another Million Dollar Sunday has come and gone, and another six figure overlay. This past weekend a total of 1,605 entrants (including re-entries) created a prize pool of $802,500, for a total overlay of $197,500. I wonder if WPN regrets this promo yet?

Final Table Payouts

1st Runzgood ($200,000)
2nd RepaidByScorn ($111,000)
3rd curzdog ($73,800)
4th payMEfool ($58,800)
5th vickygar ($44,800)
6th YeahButCanYouAWP? ($31,800)
7th P0ppin0ff ($22,800)
8th 5betLIGHTbro ($17,500)
9th jewbum123 ($13,200)

P0ppin0ff made back to back final tables… pretttty pretttttty good.

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Update September 14: The latest Million Dollar Sunday was held yesterday, September 13, which saw much worse results. The total prize pool ended up being $774,500 for a staggering $225,500 overlay. It’s hard to say exactly why the most recent tournament had a much lower turnout, but likely the biggest factor was the NFL season starting on the same day (seriously, who planned that?!), in addition to lack of novelty. But who knows really.

Final Table Payouts

1st JohnLegend ($200,000)
2nd HollaAtYaBoi ($114,500)
3rd whitelime ($79,500)
4th RGarrido8 ($61,000)
5th EpicStation ($46,000)
6th holyguacmole ($32,600)
7th GunJunOko ($23,500)
8th P0ppin0ff ($18,000)
9th Assassinat0 ($13,600)

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The latest Winning Millions event concluded on the Winning Poker Network (WPN) last night. Overall, it exceeded my expectations with 1,939 players and only awarding $30,500 in overlay. It is nice to see tournament poker isn’t totally dead in the USA, although kind of devastating knowing PokerStars does this each and every week with ease.

$5 Million Guaranteed

Due to the success of the event, WPN is now going to offer 5 more installment of the Winning Millions. This means a total of $5 million will be guaranteed. They plan on giving themselves some marketing time, but hope they have picked up enough steam by October to offer the event weekly. It’s quite the feat, but since this August 2nd event was such a hit, I no longer doubt they can now break the million dollar mark fairly easily. It may depend if the hype continues on.

Full schedule:

• September 13th at 3:00pm ET
• October 4th at 3:00pm ET
• October 11th at 3:00pm ET
• October 18th at 3:00pm ET
• October 25th at 3:00pm ET

Final Table Payouts

I wasn’t able to catch any of the action, but here are the happy participants:

1st Ra1syDa1sy ($200,000)
2nd TALKINABOOT? ($109,500)
3rd fast riffs ($72,800)
4th breakfr33 ($57,800)
5th Harpo0n ($43,800)
6th LittleStitch ($30,900)
7th HolyToledo12 ($22,200)
8th Uncle Ruckus ($17,400)
9th GetThere ($12,700)

This final table had a top heavy payout structure, with 20% of the prize pool going to 1st place and 48.69% going to 1st-5th. These numbers were 3.26% higher than the PokerStars Sunday Million from the same day. The higher payouts were probably a marketing tactic. It’s not enough to say $1 million guaranteed anymore, you also need to be able to say $200k guaranteed for the winner.

All final table winners are also offered a free bank wire, so they can instantly cash out as much as they like.

What Does This Mean for US Poker?

Although it’s nothing like it used to be, it still is exciting seeing nearly 2,000 people turnout for a $540 event. That’s no cheap entry, although I assume over half of the participants satellited in, and since none were not allowed to unregister, it’s not exactly shocking.

That all being said, WPN is clearly the place for online poker right now in the United States. No other network can even come close to these numbers.

Winning Poker Network

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