Last Sunday’s big online poker tournaments once again illustrated the continued keen interest in playing the game on the Internet, with several winning players taking home six figure payments.

The industry’s regular biggie - the PokerStars Sunday Million - soared past its guaranteed prize-pool level of $1.5 million as 7,836 players bought in, raising the prize pool to $1,567,200.

There was plenty of bold, big money betting before four survivors agreed on a four way chop that would guarantee each a six-figure payday, with the winner taking an extra $30,000.

Once the chop was agreed, play resumed until the final two players, “Metzmagny” and “ldgii” with the former holding a 2 to 1 chip advantage which he exploited to win the game and collect $147,822. As a result of the four-way chop Idgii, h2oace and jiacstrap all received six-figure paychecks of $104,841, $105,771 and $122,067 respectively.

Over at Full Tilt Poker.com the $750,000 guaranteed prize pulled in 3,637 players and was won by “sistabossen,” who pocketed $132,787 and change.

Still at PokerStars, 4,004 hopefuls paid the $200+15 buy-in for the $750,000 guaranteed Sunday Warm-Up, taking the prize pool to $800,000. “124poker” won the tourney and collected $104,104.

Sunday is becoming an interesting poker-day!

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