The Women's Sunday was the brainchild of the PokerStars Women team who wanted to offer something along the line of the Sunday majors for the women who have been participating in the Women's Poker League and others who wanted a chance at a solid guarantee. That prompted PokerStars to load up a $5K guarantee for the tournament, put $50 bounties on the PokerStars players, and get it off the ground.

Enter March 27th and the first ever Women's Sunday event. Representing PokerStars in the field was Friend of PokerStars Charlotte "Sjlot" Van Brabander of Belgium. The gamer and university student has been playing more at the tables and was excited to get in on the action today.

There were other notables in the field as well. Names you might recognize from the PokerStars Women articles and interviews were Rebekah Mercer playing under the screen name tiltedrose, and chess pro Jen Shahade playing as jenium. And from the world of poker writing, Michele Lewis was in the field as Real Texan, and 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Luxury Ladies Event champion Kristin "change1OO" Bihr was seated just to the right of Van Brabander to start the event. Twitterer and pokerer Tonya Wells, known online as GrrrlZilla, was also at one of the tables.

As registration stayed open for an hour after start time, more women got in on the action, including Team PokerStars Pros Vanessa "V. Selbst" Selbst and Liv Boeree, and Team Online's Mer "PeachyMer" Brit. Cue the action with more $50 bounties in the field!

When the first hour came to an end, the numbers were finalized and prize pool set. And the guarantee was blown out of the water! Drumroll, please...

Total Players: 207
Prize pool: $10,350.00
Paid finishers: 36

The first bounty to be won was in a big hand where PeachyMer's pocket fours were up against the kings of Tammi-1 and A-K of dorcca, but the board came Q-6-T-4-J for the straight, and dorcca eliminated two players and collected the $50 because PeachyMer was one of them.

read more here:  PokerStars Women

Woman Poker Player would like to congratulate all of the winners.  See you at the next one!