Kid Poker at Pokerstars - Stars Sunday Million - Pokerstars.com Weekly Tournaments

Someone named Kid_Poker47 won the weekly Stars Sunday Million at Pokerstars this week. That means he won somewhere around $200,000.

Guess "kid poker" is a popular nickname in the gambling world these days. I wonder if Daniel Negreanu will sue for copyright infringement.

That makes me wonder how many Poker-Brat-47's and Texas-Dolly-47's there are out there on the internet. I know from playing online (back in the good ole days) there were plenty of asshats who had watched Phil Hellmuth one too many times on ESPN. These guys try to tell someone who took their money they weren't playing the hand right.

"Oh yeah, you're an old pro at this, Phil_47."

Of course, they never told me anything like that. I always played my hand like a pro.

That's the price of playing a popular sport, I suppose. If there weren't a lot of fans trying to push people out of pots and grab their share of glory, these online tournaments couldn't pay out so well.

There were over 7,000 players that signed up to play for this one event. That's how pokerstars.com can pay huge jackpots for these weekly winners. The prize pool topped $1.4 million dollars for this one event alone. And they're able to hold one of these events every Sunday night.

Give the thing a try, if you want a taste of what it's like to sit down at a tournament full of thousands of players. The odds of winning are a little like what you could expect from the World Series of Poker Main Event, with upwards of 5 to 10 thousand entries.

Of course, sitting at a computer screen facing Kid_Poker47 and his little brother Kid_Poker46 are a little bit less intimidating that facing Negreanu himself.

You won't get famous winning the Pokerstars Sunday Million. But you will get a lot of money. And you might get mentioned in this blog.

Kid Poker at Pokerstars - Stars Sunday Million - Pokerstars.com Weekly Tournaments