Brazil Fills Five Sunday Million Final-Table Seats as Kume23 Wins Spooky Season Finale
Kume23 collected $79,149 after the $1 million guaranteed Progressive KO event drew 9,128 entries and produced an $87,200 overlay.
- Kume23 beat Izinmsr heads-up for $79,149 in PokerStars’ Spooky Season Sunday Million finale.
- Brazilian players occupied five of the nine final-table seats and four of the final five positions.
- The $109 Progressive KO tournament drew 9,128 entries, leaving an $87,200 overlay on its $1 million guarantee.
- Izinmsr earned $73,616 in second place, while WrongOne364 finished third for $45,888.
PokerStars’ Spooky Season closed with a Brazil-heavy final table in its $109 No-Limit Hold’em Progressive KO Season Finale Sunday Million. Kume23 defeated Izinmsr heads-up for $79,149 after the $1 million guaranteed event drew 9,128 entries and finished with an $87,200 overlay.
Brazilian players took five of the nine seats at the final table and four of the last five places, according to PokerNews. The result completed the Halloween-themed series with Brazilian finalists claiming four of the tournament’s top five finishes.
As we reported in October, PokerStars had set a $1 million guarantee for the Spooky Season’s concluding Sunday Million.
Izinmsr entered heads-up with $14,480 already collected in bounties, then finished second for total winnings of $73,616. Thailand’s WrongOne364 placed third for $45,888, while Brazilian players fedazete and Gipzinho finished fourth and fifth, earning $24,166 and $36,282 respectively.
Estonia’s vdp2.0 was sixth for $18,449. Bulgaria’s Hristiyan “cskar4e1” Panchev, who had led the returning field and was the only player to convert a top-10 stack at that point into a final-table appearance, finished seventh for $15,036. Panchev had also won the $530 Bounty Builder High Roller for $14,214 while playing Day 1 of the Sunday Million.
Brazil’s Caue “cauee_am” Augusto de Macedo took eighth for $9,181, and UPERAD finished ninth for $9,651. The tournament had been reduced to 118 players after Day 1; PokerStars ambassadors Marle “MarlzTV” Spragg, Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg and Sebastian “peace&love” Huber all exited before then, cashing for $104, $192 and $628.
The $109 event used a Progressive KO format, meaning players could earn bounty money without reaching the regular prize-paying positions. Each entrant began with a $50 bounty, with half of an eliminated player’s bounty paid immediately to the player making the knockout and the other half added to that player’s own bounty.
