The Sunday Briefing: "h2oace" Walks Away the Big Winner

Mickey Doft
Live Reporter
2 min read
Stacks of Cash

It was an action-packed Sunday as hundreds of thousands of dollars were on the line in events all across the virtual felt. For most online poker sites, it was business as usual. Over at Full Tilt, it was the first Sunday of FTOPS XIII and that meant three gold jerseys were at stake, not to mention hefty first-place pay days. Winning their respective events were t1ger heat, NNNobodYYY, and mikeyG16, while the biggest prize of the weekend went to h2oace, $240,210.01, for winning the PokerStars Sunday Million.

PokerStars Sunday Million
Buy-in: $200+15
Prize Pool: $1,601,400
Entrants: 8,007

1. h2oace - $240,210.01
2. jacob126b38 - $176,514.01
3. FOREVER_RU - $120,105.01
4. th9nip - $80,710.57
5. kurvekat - $64,056.01
6. danger0us - $48,042.01
7. D.K.5 - $32,028.01
8. fetchmeabeer - $18,416.11
9. lordhuttyx - $12,410.86

Notable Finishes: Paul “ComeonPhish” Lieu (21st - $3,523.09), METZMAGNY (56th - $2,482.18), Craig “1GENERAL_TAO” Bergeron (69th- $2,241.97)

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up
Buy-in: $200+15
Prize Pool: $818,000
Entrants: 4,090

1. mellowGold11 - $128,426
2. hwtd1 - $95,706
3. haneferd - $67,485
4. happyfister - $47,035
5. Bassduck - $34,765
6. Paulmclean23 - $26,585
7. powerle - $18,405
8. prallimall - $10,225
9. Dan “dan82mur” Murariu - $6,544

Notable Finishes: Kenny “Kenny Rap” Weinstein (19th - $2,085.90), JP “JP 5-time” Kelly (39th - $1,676.90), Jon “TwistedEcho” Heath (40th - $1,676.90)

PokerStars Sunday 500
Buy-in: $500+30
Prize Pool: $555,000
Entrants: 1,110

1. OGURI – 94,350
2. Jesse “FULMER08” Fulmer - $69,375
3. Jeff "kobeshomie" Madsen - $52,669.50
4. Michiel “utreg” Brummelhuis - $37,740
5. Sumpas - $27,472.50
6. YaGotBurnt - $21,922.50
7. Nick “PureCash25” Rampone - $16,372.50
8. Norm427 - $10,822.50
9. Bergmannen - $5,994

Notable Finishes: Jeff "kobeshomie" Madsen (3rd - $52,669.50) Ben “NeverScaredB” Willinofsky (11th - $4,884), Michael “MSampoerna” Sampoerna (14th – 3,774), Tristan “Withnail160” McDonald (16th - $2,664)

Full Tilt FTOPS XIII – Event #10 – NL Hold'em
Buy-in: $320+22
Prize Pool: $1,698,000
Entrants: 5,660

*1. t1ger heat - $189,318.58
*2. conslice - $219,772.04
*3. POSITIV_NEGITIV - $160,330.60
*4. BacoPride - $176,000.78
5. tiltslowplayer - $81,419.10
6. mrob00 - $56,034
7. CWTREFEREE04 - $36,507
8. Mike Daciuk - $25,470
9. HevvyDevvy - $17,829
* - per four-handed deal leaving $50,000 divvied up

Notable Finishes: Tom “7tHEcROw7” MacDonald (13th - $9,339), Danny “cpfactor” Smith (20th - $4,584.60), Matt “Mcmatto” Affleck (21st - $4,584.60), Bryan “Micon” Micon (31st - $3,396), Andy Bloch (42nd - $3,396)

Full Tilt FTOPS XIII – Event #9 – NL Hold'em Heads-up
Buy-in: $500+35
Prize Pool: $512,000
Entrants: 1,024

*1. NNNobodYYY - $72,721.09
*2. Craig “MrsESPN” Gray - $69,614.91
3. Geoff “GeoffRas22” Rasmussen - $27,136
4. elymint - $27,136
5. Donkey Balboa - $14,336
6. Dustin “DDBeast” Dorrance-Bowman - $14,336
7. SakiSaki - $14,336
8. Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis - $14,336
* - deal made final match

Notable Finishes: Maximilian “MLH90” Heinzelmann (9th - $7,680), Kenny “SpaceyFCB” Hallaert (10th - $7,680), Scott Clements (14th - $7,680), Yevgeniy “bballer88” Timoshenko (17th - $4,096), Darren “darrenelias” Elias (24th - $4,096)

Full Tilt FTOPS XIII – Event #8 – NL Hold'em Knockout 6-Max
Buy-in: $240+16
Prize Pool: $928,800
Entrants: 4,644

1. mikeyG16 - $177,419.38
2. Capax Infiniti - $108,669.60
3. animalcraka - $75,418.56
4. bob2bob - $55,728
5. pokermatt01 - $40,867.20
6. Isaac Baron - $27,864

Notable Finishes: Luke “IWEARGOGGLES” Staudenmaier (8th - $17,295.84), Darkhorse19 (11th - $8,544.96, Tyler “TheBrain” Cornell (47th - $1,708.99), Eric “sheets” Haber (50th - $1,708.99)

Ultimate Bet $200K GTD
Buy-in: $200+15
Prize Pool: $215,800
Entrants: 1,079

1. PHILBORT - $48,188.14
2. Brock “MARIA NUCCIA” Parker - $28,809.30
3. KEV1 - $19,529.90
4. THISTLE66 - $13,919.10
5. LOLPWNU - $11,761.10
6. JHR6 - $9,603.10
7. 1DONKEYLIPS - $7,445.10
8. BIGGIESIZEIT - $5,287.10
9. BRENNAN1283 - $3,668.60

Notable Finishes: Mark “P0KER H0” Kroon (19th - $1,143.74)

For your shot at a big win, sign up at Full Tilt, PokerStars, and Ultimate Bet. Be sure to follow us on twitter for up to the minute news.

Share this article
Mickey Doft
Live Reporter

More Stories

Other Stories