This week? The registration number jumped by more than 50 players, and the prize pool soared to nearly $15K. It should be no surprise that more women are stepping into the tournament arena, but the growth over the past year, especially in PokerStars Women events, has been impressive and indicative of the changing times in poker. Women have long been a force at the tables, but they are now becoming more involved, playing higher stakes, and eventually becoming pro players. It's an exciting time for women in poker!

With that, let's take a look at those aforementioned numbers for this week's Women's Sunday:

Total players: 296
Prize pool: $14,800.00
Paid finishers: 45

Among the sizeable crowd, several players brought their red spade PokerStars logos, along with $50 bounties for anyone who could knock them out of the tournament.

The first to go was Team Online's Adrienne "talonchick" Rowsome, who arrived home from vacation just in time to get in on the action. Sadly, though, she finished in 190th place. Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree decided to make a run at it, but she finished in 156th place. Team Pro Vanessa Selbst made it into the top 100 players but finished in 97th place, and Ana Marquez of Spain was eliminated in 66th place.

Well into the second hour, though, the last Team Pro standing was Celina Lin, who was going strong as the field dwindled to four, then three, and finally two tables.

Congratulations to pescar_hoina of Romania, who won the Women's Sunday tournament and the $2,863.80 in prize money that went with it.

Women's Sunday Results for 11/13/11:

1st place: pescar_hoina ($2,863.80)
2nd place: mrsbeer ($2,146.00)
3rd place: Mamenmiriam ($1,628.00)
4th place: Team PokerStars Pro Celina Lin ($1,221.00)
5th place: 1time4meee ($843.60)
6th place: jamjars69 ($651.20)
7th place: Sharp1Blade ($503.20)
8th place: claufrancho ($355.20)
9th place: balticblonde ($259.00)

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