HighStakes BIG Sunday €125,000 GTD Delivers

HighStakes took their BIG Sunday tournament series to a new level at the weekend, smashing guarantees and promising even more next time around as players shared in more than €125,000 of guaranteed prizemoney.

By: Andrew Burnett

And so it begins! Our BIG Sunday kicks off with a €5 Freezeout.

The day is packed with buy ins from €0-€1,000 with over €100,000 in guarantee's. #HighStakes #poker pic.twitter.com/mfMWAH07Qa

— HighStakes (@highstakes) October 6, 2019

First up for fans of the newest big-money poker site was the Sunday 215 Opener, the guarantee almost doubled as 32 players chased €13,400.

With the top 5 all securing four-figure payouts, 3rd place went to the aptly-named TheBluffer who bagged €2010 for his efforts.

Heads-up for the first title of the day saw fish2019 overcome brenowlol and walk off with €4958, an excellent ROI to start the day with.

The BIG Sunday fields comprised a decent mix of pros, grinders and recs – roughly half of the players satelliting their way in, or making it via the HighStakes leaderboard races.

The Sunday 215 proper also exceeded its guarantee, and TheBluffer was in the money yet again, this time 7th spot and €864 the result.

The winner, taking the trophy and €3024, was drunkenBR – a player who featured among the prizes several times in the August BIG Sunday.

One player who wasn’t having much luck this time round was Marc 'PlayinWitDreams' Kennedy, although he’ll be sure to return for the next Big Sunday in November…

See you next time! #HighStakes #poker https://t.co/EUXaajRRAL

— HighStakes (@highstakes) October 6, 2019

The Sunday 650 was on the schedule for the first time, with a €10,800 prizepool and 18 runners.

Riverbust made it to the money, a 4th place and €1620 reward for his fine play, while fish2019 showed great consistency with a 3rd spot finish and €2610.

There can be only one winner at a time in poker, of course, and it was Bryan 'BOOMswitch' Paris who landed the top prize, €4320, with FatsoWinmuch receiving €2700 for 2nd

King of HighStakes BOOMswitch has won it! pic.twitter.com/gMxKS50p1i

— HighStakes (@highstakes) October 6, 2019

Players always love to see an overlay, and there was just the one, in the Sunday 500, a free €2330 in the kitty as 38 players vied for supremacy.

Familiar names dotted the deep end, FatsoWinmuch taking 3rd this time for €2600, while DrunkenBR landed another big win by seeing off Civil for the €4200 top prize.

HighStakes plan to increase satellites and raise the guarantees for their next BIG Sunday, so mark November 10th in your calendar and register here to win your way to HighStakes glory!