The Sunday Briefing: PokerStars Sets Another Guinness World Record

Brett Collson
Chief Editor
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PokerStars one-upped itself again on Sunday. The world's leading online poker site attempted to break its own Guinness World Record for the biggest ever online tournament in poker history, and accomplished just that when 225,000 players participated in a $1 tournament on Sunday afternoon. The buy-ins contributed $225,000 to the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool, with PokerStars putting up the other $75,000. When it was all over, Mr.SlavaPro from Russia turned his single buck into $25,000.

In addition to holding the largest online poker tournament ever, PokerStars ran its usual Sunday Majors schedule. Among the notables who collected big scores were Ole “wizowizo” Schemion, Andrew "Drewfus81" StJean, Alex "dynoalot" Difelice, and Bradley "BaZa88" Bower.

Here's a look at the results from the Sunday Majors at PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker:

PokerStars Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+156,435$1,287,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1Capote18$171,839*
2pumabos$106,000*
3JamsLaNoche$115,000*
4tgf18tgf$93,000*
5MCFelin$82,500*
6kdfishunter$41,184
7aammpp$28,314
8Ruaction$15,444
9ASHLEYDAWKO$9,974

*Denotes five-handed deal

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+152,872$574,400
PlacePlayerPrize
1sava-lenivec$73,203*
2Andr the gun$66,428
3LoredanKK$66,578
4manio57$33,028
5orange6$24,986
6K0VAK$19,242
7ply10$13,498
8shteddy$7,765
9matze_widi$4,882

*Denotes three-handed deal

PokerStars Guinness World Record Attempt ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$1225,000$300,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1Mr.SlavaPro$25,000
2johnnykara75$15,000
31star09$10,000
4jpstef06$7,500
5Tormenter85$5,000
6KARI#9$3,500
7SOY PATO355$2,500
8jmmetra$2,000
9Ravic77$1,500

Full Tilt $350K Guarantee ($250K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+151,276$255,200
PlacePlayerPrize
1jnack19$51,040
2Angell Cloud$33,992
3flashdisastr$24,244
4azzabentonaces$18,119
5ZISIMO7$13,525
6T3G3S$9,925
7Knossalla88$7,400
8SonnyBlack87$5,359
9Romeopro33$3,828

Full Tilt Sunday Brawl ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$240+151,011$202,200
PlacePlayerPrize
1ashmanofdoom$40,400
2Antonio "apalma" Palma$26,933
3germoneygame$19,209
4WtFoMGOAO$14,356
513otur$10,716
6Machinguer$7,885
7PetjeXL$5,863
8IneedMoneyXX$4,246
9SoFrischSoGut$4,246

PokerStars Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$500+30694$347,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1daddikos$63,674
2ShagWell$45,457
3Lucifer81$34,353
4PokerSavage1$25,851
5Lena900$18,044
6Andrew "Drewfus81" StJean$14,574
7KIngAntsi$11,104
8carozo1959$7,634
9R_Caiaffa$4,511

PokerStars $109 Sunday Rebuy ($225K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$100+9842$262,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1spetsern$49,125
2jogk$35,370
3Deanuzz$26,200
4DMS75$19,650
5foldbudiao$13,755
6Peanut172$11,135
7vinixxx1$8,515
8Fofan10$5,895
9Yukold$3,694

PokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+151,161$232,200
PlacePlayerPrize
1Striker33333$41,796
2Golfdish$29,791
3thaleskoppe$22,291
4Klebanov999$16,718
5TroyJones$11,610
6mjw006$9,288
7ATLienCP$6,966
8Cashcid Linc$4,644
9eeee_wl$2,786.40

PokerStars Sunday Supersonic ($125K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$210.80+4.201,163$245,160
PlacePlayerPrize
1DonkedUNoob$44,521
2Sheeeeep$32,361
3Ole “wizowizo” Schemion$24,516
4Alex "dynoalot" Difelice$18,387
5Bradley "BaZa88" Bower$12,870
6czlol$10,419
7On The Mac$7,967
8Map97$5,516
9CHAINSAWDONK$3,432

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