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Sunday Million Live Reaches Final Table With €150,000 Up Top

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Bjorn Lindberg 22 minutes ago

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PokerStars’ Sunday Million Live returns after nine years with record participation and a €1,119,853 prize pool.
Riccardo D’Errico leads the final table with a dominating chip stack as nine players compete for a €150,000 first prize.
The event’s hybrid online/live format and accessible buy-in helped attract over 5,200 entries, surpassing its guarantee.

PokerStars’ Sunday Million Live has reached its final table at Casino di Campione in Italy, with nine players left chasing the title and a €150,000 first prize.

The €250 tournament attracted 5,213 entries across its online and live starting flights, generating a final prize pool of €1,119,853 and comfortably beating the €1 million guarantee.

Riccardo D’Errico will return as the clear chip leader after a dominant run through Day 3. He holds 75.6 million chips, more than twice the stack of his nearest challenger as one of PokerStars’ best-known tournament brands prepares to crown its latest live champion.

D’Errico Holds Commanding Sunday Million Live Lead

D’Errico sits well clear of Jingchun Yu, who begins the final table with 35.5 million.

Andrea Celestino is third with 25.5 million, while Paolo Compagno remains firmly in contention on 24.9 million after leading the field earlier in the tournament.

With play resuming at blinds of 400,000/800,000 and an 800,000 ante, D’Errico starts with almost 95 big blinds. Most of the field behind him will have considerably less room to manoeuvre, making the opening levels particularly important for the shorter stacks.

Position	Player	Chips
1	Riccardo D’Errico	75,600,000
2	Jingchun Yu	35,500,000
3	Andrea Celestino	25,500,000
4	Paolo Compagno	24,900,000
5	Ettore Santoprete	23,700,000
6	Aris Marcellino	20,600,000
7	Antonio Mangialardo	19,800,000
8	Federico Federici	17,100,000
9	Ivan Argentino	5,300,000

Ivan Argentino begins as the shortest stack with 5.3 million, leaving him with fewer than seven big blinds when play resumes.

€150,000 Awaits the Champion

Finish	Prize
1st	€ 150,000
2nd	€ 93,000
3rd	€ 61,000
4th	€ 44,000
5th	€ 32,000
6th	€ 25,000
7th	€ 20,400
8th	€ 17,000
9th	€ 14,153

The difference between ninth and first is more than €135,000, giving even the middle stacks plenty to consider as the pay jumps increase.

Sunday Million Returns to the Live Tables

The event marks the return of Sunday Million Live after a nine-year absence.

PokerStars brought the tournament back as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations, running the festival at Casino di Campione from October 2 to 12.

Players could qualify for Day 2 through three online starting flights and six live flights in Italy. That hybrid structure helped retain much of the Sunday Million’s traditional identity: a comparatively accessible buy-in, a huge field and a seven-figure prize pool.

The original Sunday Million remains one of the most recognisable tournaments in online poker, with the weekly PokerStars event having become a fixture of the global tournament schedule since its launch in 2006.

Bringing the format back to the live felt gave players another route into one of the operator’s flagship titles while producing a turnout large enough to push the prize pool almost €120,000 beyond its guarantee.

Now only nine players remain.

D’Errico has built himself a substantial advantage, but with €150,000 and the Sunday Million Live title still undecided, the final table has plenty left to play for.