After over 15 hours of play, ‘sica26‘ was crowned this week’s PokerStars $109 Sunday Million winner banking $101,770. The prize pool was set at $1,022,400 after 10,225 entrants took to the tables, and when the field was reduced to the final three, over 14 hours of play had elapsed.

Normally when you call a person a “rocket scientist,” you’re kidding. When you call Ireland’s Dan ‘NukeTheFish’ Wilson a “rocket scientist,” however, you’re telling the truth. Fact.

Over the first weekend in March, Dan NukeTheFishWilson (pictured) was one-half of a heads-up chop of the PokerStars Sunday 500and raked in $58,000. It was the largest score of his online tournament career by a factor of almost three and he has since shot up to #245 worldwide in the PocketFives Poker Rankings. We caught… Continue reading A PhD in Astrophysics, But a Career in Poker