The Sunday Briefing: Sunday Million Attendance Grows, "kevsteele" Wins $128,792

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Jul 18, 2011 3 min read

Another Sunday down, another round of PokerStars Sunday tournaments in the books. Attendance numbers for the PokerStars Sunday Million were up again and three players added six-figures to their bankrolls. The PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up also saw a massive field, bringing first-place prize money near the $100,000-mark, but the winner had to settle for $99,000 instead.

PokerStars Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)

With attendance numbers up from last week, the Sunday Million ended up offering three six-figure pay days to those who battled it out over 11 hours on the virtual felt. "Aricontre" may have taken the largest chunk of prize money after a deal was struck five ways, but "kevsteele", who began the final table as one of the shorter stacks, battled back and won the title. For that, he earned $20,000 more than was guaranteed when the chop was made. On the final hand of the night, "manuelmendes" found himself in a dominating spot, holding pocket kings over "kevsteele's" pocket nines. Sometimes it's just not your night, however, and his kings were cracked when the board rolled out 10♦5♠2♠9♠5♣.

To read more about this week's Sunday Million head over to PokerStarsBlog.com

*denotes five-handed deal

Notable Finishes: Dan "javahound" Tarnopol (34th - $2,584)

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

There may have been $500,000 guaranteed for the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up, but with 3,175 entrants, the prize pool shot up to $635,000. First place was guaranteed just short of $100,000. Team PokerStars Pro Jan Heitmann played his way to the final table and finished fourth after holding the chip lead for a bit. In his final hand, Heitmann min-raised from the cutoff and called a 7.8 million chip shove from "detee" in the big blind. Heitman showed tens and was ahead of his opponent's ace-ten. The board rolled out 2♠3♠4♠Q♠5♠ giving "detee" a straight on the river, eliminating Heitmann. Heads-up play was between "detee" and "jc_bluej". After two big pots and about half an hour, "jc_bluej" was staring at all the chips in his corner, taking the title, and $99,695 first-place prize money.

If you want an even more in-depth recap of the action of the PokerStars Warm-Up, head on over to PokerStarsBlog.com.

Notable Finishes: Georgios "gkap13" Kapalas (17th - $1,905)

PokerStars Sunday 500 ($250K Guaranteed)

Notable Finishes: Felipe "Improved" Montenegro (12th - $3,372)

PokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance ($125K Guaranteed)

Notable Finishes: David "dave798111" Allan (23rd - $942)

*denotes six-handed deal

PokerStars $109 Sunday Rebuy ($200K Guaranteed)

Notable Finishes: Rayan "rkruok" Nathan (15th - $2,272), Jay "shaihulud" Kinkade (24th - $1,262)

PokerStars Sunday Storm

*denotes heads-up deal

PokerStars Sunday Kickoff ($75K Guaranteed)

_{*PokerStars data obtained from PokerStarsBlog.com and officialpokerrankings.com}

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