PokerStars Sunday Results: cskar4e1 Wins the $530 Bounty Builder High Roller and Leads the Spooky Season Sunday Million

Most players are happy if they get one good result on a Sunday. Bulgaria’s “cskar4e1” got two. On the last Sunday of PokerStars’ Spooky Season, the Bulgarian won the $530 Bounty Builder High Roller for $14,215.29. They also bagged the overnight chip lead in the $109 Season Finale Sunday Million, which resumes tonight with 118 players left and a $1 million guarantee to share.

Elsewhere, Team PokerStars “Red Spade” Sebastian “peace&loove” Huber won the $215 Sunday Supersonic 6-Max. And the Sunday Million itself told a story every online grinder should notice: the guarantee wasn’t reached, which means the field is playing for extra money PokerStars has to add.

Here’s the full breakdown, what the numbers mean, and how to follow Day 2.

Sunday, November 8: The Winners at a Glance

Tournament	Winner	Prize	Bounties	Total
$530 Bounty Builder High Roller	cskar4e1 (Bulgaria)	$5,918.43	$8,296.86	$14,215.29
$215 Sunday StacKOsaurus	Burak1910	$2,904.42	$4,646.86	$7,551.28
$215 Sunday Supersonic 6-Max	Sebastian “peace&loove” Huber	$5,608.92	–	$5,608.92
$530 PLO Sunday High Roller	aufzuckerter	$4,892.88	–	$4,892.88
$55 Hotter PKO	hasilein1917	$450.37	$979.68	$1,430.05
$109 NLO8 Hyper PKO	Keep3r	$494.97	$681.25	$1,176.22
$109 Season Finale Sunday Million	Day 2 tonight	–	–	118 players left

Totals are our addition of the reported prize and bounty amounts.

cskar4e1: Bounties Did the Heavy Lifting

The most interesting detail in cskar4e1’s win isn’t the trophy. It’s the split. Of the $14,215.29 they collected in the $530 Bounty Builder High Roller, $8,296.86 came from bounties. That’s about 58% of the total, compared with $5,918.43 from the regular prize pool.

That’s how progressive knockout (PKO) tournaments work, and it’s why so many regulars love them. In a PKO, part of every buy-in goes on your head as a bounty. When you knock someone out, you take part of their bounty in cash right away, and the rest gets added to your own bounty. So the bounties grow as the tournament goes on. By the final table, the chip leader carries a huge bounty, and every all-in against them is worth real money on its own.

Practical insight: in late-stage PKOs, you can call all-ins with wider ranges than in a normal tournament, because winning the hand pays you a bounty as well as chips. Players who treat a PKO final table like a regular one leave money on the table. cskar4e1’s split shows how much of the money sits in those knockouts.

Then the Bulgarian took that form straight into the evening’s biggest event and finished Day 1 of the Sunday Million on top of the counts.

The Spooky Season Sunday Million: An Overlay on the Final Sunday

The $109 Season Finale Sunday Million was the headline of PokerStars’ Spooky Season, which ran from October 9 to November 11. It was a progressive knockout with a $1,000,000 guarantee, and the climax of a month of Halloween-themed promotions, ticket giveaways and all-in shootouts.

The turnout:

• 6,965 unique players
• 2,163 re-entries
• 9,128 total entries
• 118 players made it through to Day 2

That wasn’t enough to reach the guarantee. On a $109 buy-in, $100 of each entry normally goes into the prize pool and bounties, with the other $9 as the site’s fee. Using that split, 9,128 entries create roughly $912,800. PokerStars has to top that up to $1 million, so by our estimate the overlay is about $87,000 of extra money.

Why an overlay matters to you: an overlay is the closest thing to free value in tournament poker. When the guarantee is bigger than what the players paid in, the field as a whole is playing for more than it put up. Players who watch for “soft” guarantees, especially late-season events, late-night time slots and series finales, get the most value from them.

How this Sunday Million compares with other 2026 editions

Edition (2026)	Buy-in	Entries	Prize pool	Winner’s prize
New Year Series Sunday Million (January)	$109	n/a	n/a	$138,495 (Ognyan “cocojamb0” Dimov)
Sunday Million 20th Anniversary (September)	Finals via 10-week qualifiers	55,444	$5,544,400	$255,336 (“AHTOCb”, Belarus)
Spooky Season Finale (November 8)	$109	9,128	$1,000,000 GTD (overlay)	TBD tonight

The 20th Anniversary event was a different format, with a ten-week qualification period. But the comparison shows how much field size depends on the occasion. Big branded editions beat their guarantees easily. A regular-sized Sunday at the end of a month-long series can come up short, even with satellites from as little as $1.10.

Day 2: when and how to follow

Day 2 restarts at 6:05 p.m. GMT on Monday, November 9 (11:35 p.m. IST, 1:05 p.m. ET). cskar4e1 starts as the chip leader among 118 players. Day 1 ran for 7 hours and 50 minutes. Blind levels are 12 minutes long during the middle stage and go back to 15 minutes later in the tournament, so Day 2 should move quickly.

Things to watch:

• Can cskar4e1 do the double? Winning a $530 High Roller and a Sunday Million on the same weekend would be one of the standout results of PokerStars’ autumn.
• The size of the leader’s bounty. In a PKO, the chip leader’s bounty grows with every knockout, so cskar4e1 could become the most valuable target at the final table.
• The final payout. With the guarantee paying more than the field put in, the eventual winner’s total (prize plus bounties) will partly be paid for by PokerStars.

Sebastian “peace&loove” Huber Keeps Winning

German streamer and Team PokerStars Red Spade Sebastian Huber won the $215 Sunday Supersonic 6-Max for $5,608.92. Supersonic events use very fast blind levels, so you have to make decisions quickly with short stacks and little room for mistakes. That suits a high-volume player like Huber.

It’s also a familiar result for him. Huber has been one of PokerStars’ most consistent ambassadors on the tournament schedule. He won his first SCOOP title in 2025 and has piled up wins in Sunday side events, including during this Spooky Season.

Practical insight for viewers: if you’re learning, watching a player like Huber stream a Supersonic is one of the best free lessons available. Hyper-speed formats show you shove-or-fold maths in real time, and the same short-stack spots come up in every tournament.

The Rest of Sunday’s Winners

• Burak1910 took the $215 Sunday StacKOsaurus for 7,551.28,andagainbountieswerethelargershare(4,646.86 of the total).
• aufzuckerter won the $530 PLO Sunday High Roller for $4,892.88. Pot-Limit Omaha high rollers usually have small fields, so this is often one of the tougher titles of the day.
• hasilein1917 won the $55 Hotter PKO for 1,430.05.Bounties(979.68) made up more than double the regular prize, the most bounty-heavy result of the day.
• Keep3r won the $109 NLO8 Hyper PKO (No-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo) for $1,176.22. It’s a good reminder that PokerStars’ Sunday schedule rewards players who can handle less common games.

What Players Can Learn From This Sunday

1. Bounties can be more than half of a PKO win. Four of Sunday’s six reported winners played PKO events, and in three of them bounties beat the regular prize money. Learn PKO calling ranges before you play these events.
2. Look for guarantees that won’t be reached. A $1 million guarantee on a $109 buy-in needs more than 10,000 entries to be covered. When a guarantee looks too big for the date and time, it’s worth playing.
3. Satellites are the low-risk way in. PokerStars ran Sunday Million satellites from $1.10 all week. If $109 is more than you’d normally spend on one tournament, win a seat cheaply instead of buying in directly.
4. Small-field games pay well for specialists. PLO and Omaha Hi-Lo winners took home strong scores from fields that are a fraction of the Hold’em majors.

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