The Sunday Briefing: Joe Cada Wins Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl

Brett Collson Chief Editor

Mar 24, 2014 4 min read

There weren't many soft spots at the final tables of Full Tilt Poker's Sunday Majors this week. Nearly a dozen well-known pros were competing for titles in the two weekly flagship tournaments, the $250,000 Guarantee and the Sunday Brawl.

2009 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Joe Cada outlasted a tough field to win the Sunday Brawl for $42,880. The final table included established online pros Kevin "Wu_Wizard" MacPhee, Sebastian "p00cket00" Sikorski, Caio "Pessagno" Pessagno, Matt "NoBadBeatsPlz" Kay, and Frank "roo_400" Billard. Cada bested MacPhee heads-up for the title.

In the $250,000 Guarantee, Nick "PureCash25" Rampone ousted Toby "sexystuff1989" Lewis heads-up after the two pros agreed to a deal. Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger finished third, and Maria "Femmeonfelt" Ho took eighth.

Over at PokerStars, the seventh edition of the MicroMillions tournament series came to a close with the conclusion of the $22 Main Event. More than 63,000 players participated in the tournament, creating a prize pool worth $1,264,740. The last player standing was the U.K.'s Raphael "RainmanRJA" Augustin, who locked up $78,802 after a heads-up deal with Russia's "olimpiada."

The biggest earner this week was Brazil's Bernardo "bedias" Dias who took down the PokerStars Sunday Million for $233,674. Mike "RichieRichZH" Friedrich, who won the fifth biggest Sunday Million in history back in 2010, finished fourth for $78,513.

Here's a full look at the results from the Sunday Majors on PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, partypoker and WSOP.com:

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Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	7,789	$1,557,800

Place	Player	Prize
1	Bernardo "bedias" Dias	$233,674
2	RudiTurbo	$171,358
3	MarkBang	$116,835
4	Mike "RichieRichZH" Friedrich	$78,513
5	kurb1234	$62,312
6	TuckYouIn	$46,734
7	GallsBalls	$31,156
8	wasylisa	$17,914
9	marscekan	$12,072

Notable Finishes: Erik "Kihlstrom" Olofsson (14th - $6,231), Tobias "H.Oussale" Wenker (17th - $4,128), Will "CutiePi314" Ma (21st - $3,427), Heikki "kekkhou" Piira (26th - $3,427), Pratyush "Shane Gamble" Buddiga (32nd - $3,115)

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MicroMillions Main Event ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$20+2	63,237	$1,264,740

Place	Player	Prize
1	Raphael "RainmanRJA" Augustin	$78,802*
2	olimpiada980	$69,480*
3	BMGyV	$54,902
4	stefanfol1	$43,911
5	Kaeresen	$32,933
6	castlbek	$21,955
7	antzzzap	$15,670
8	tomthelong	$10,977
9	albiko	$8,220

_{*Denotes heads-up deal}

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Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	3,123	$624,600

Place	Player	Prize
1	_JMCD_89	$98,064
2	Timorm1	$73,078
3	tutull	$51,841
4	sexysmith579	$35,914
5	nelsonal	$26,739
6	easylimp	$20,299
7	U_2GOOD4_M3	$14,053
8	Niclas "mezzias" Adolfsson	$7,807
9	nyc_bullets	$4,996

Notable Finishes: Rafael "zugzwang16" Porzecanski (15th - $2,904), Daniel "nobladonk" Stacey (23rd - $1,655), Slaven "suarez_BG" Popov (27th - $1,655)

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$250K Guarantee

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,261	$252,200

Place	Player	Prize
1	Nick "PureCash25" Rampone	$47,380*
2	Toby "sexystuff1989" Lewis	$36,652*
3	Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger	$23,959
4	Kennethmedh	$17,906
5	biz-tings	$13,366
6	torerotibetano	$9,835
7	DQnk	$7,313
8	Maria "Femmeonfelt" Ho	$5,296
9	MySkill4U	$3,783

_{*Denotes heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: David "Davidp18" Peters (23rd - $1,084), Dan "KingDan23" Smith (24th - $1,084), Peter "Belabacsi" Traply (26th - $1,084)

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Sunday Brawl ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$240+15	1,072	$214,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	Joe "jcada99" Cada	$42,880
2	Kevin "Wu_Wizard" MacPhee	$28,558
3	Sebastian "p00cket00" Sikorski	$20,368
4	alexisontilt	$8,361
5	planetearf	$11,363
6	Caio "Pessagno" Pessagno	$8,361
7	Matt "NoBadBeatsPlz" Kay	$6,217
8	your nightmare8	$4,502
9	Frank "roo_400" Billard	$3,216

Notable Finishes: Ana "Nyx86" Marquez (10th - $2,144), Ondrej "Vinkyy" Vinklarek (13th - $1,629), Clark "Snake8484" Hamagami (14th - $1,629), Randy "rh300487" Hereman (21st - $921)

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$200K Guaranteed Sunday

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	945	$200,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	xitaquemuxu	$20,000*
2	m1ronO	$19,900*
3	bexundso1	$15,000*
4	debesciak2	$7,600
5	coco2149	$5,500
6	player1	$4,000
7	paulapok	$3,180
8	ligger_	$2,500
9	Polymath	$2,000

_{*Denotes three-handed deal}

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Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+30	777	$388,500

Place	Player	Prize
1	LAP1293	$69,930
2	Kirill "Milana Jones" Telezhkin	$50,505
3	ismo<3seppo	$37,684
4	Steve "Stev0L_" Leonard	$28,166
5	hellzito	$19,580
6	KornHizzle20	$15,695
7	Jason "TeamWispy" Helder	$11,810
8	mandrake10	$7,964
9	Erik "IAmSoSo" Tamm	$4,856

Notable Finishes: Jamie "pokerjamers" Armstrong (10th - $4,079), Fabian "fabstinho" Quoss (20th - $1,787), Martin "Face333X" Schleich (21st - $1,787), Tobias "PokerNoob999" Reinkemeier (23rd - $1,787), Karolis "g.karolis" Grybauskas (25th - $1,787), TJ "1BigAceHole" Ulmer (27th - $1,787)

Get in on the Sunday Majors action yourself by visiting PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and PartyPoker.

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$109 Sunday Rebuy ($225K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$100+9	974	$297,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	cynicalfish	$55,019
2	Joao "Naza114" Vieira	$39,851
3	Emil "Emilohlsson" Ohlsson	$29,740
4	777xyz777	$22,305
5	sonmonedas	$15,613
6	Fabian "fabstinho" Quoss	$12,639
7	Angel1ka1988	$9,665
8	ce1ebrity555	$6,691
9	pickledoe	$4,163

Notable Finishes: Leandro "leopeluca" Csome (10th - $3,122), Mick "BIGMICKG" Graydon (11th - $3,122), Mike "SirWatts" Watson (13th - $2,527), Michael "WaGe N Warz" Fadersen (16th - $1,933), Rens "Rens02" Feenstra (19th - $1,388), Viktor "vic_xcite" Wessman (20th - $1,338), Steve "Stev0L_" Leonard (22nd - $1,338)

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Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,355	$271,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	Tom "tollgate" Grigg	$46,774
2	jeffezaa	$33,875
3	Trance 4	$25,745
4	Daniel "judgedredd13" Charlton	$18,861
5	beukie555	$13,414
6	pokerturo	$10,704
7	GoToCa$hier	$7,994
8	Artur "pokerturo" Koren	$5,284
9	tdotsup1	$2,981

Notable Finishes: Nicolau "nicofellow" Villa-Lobos (12th - $2,411), Amir "AmirSF" Lehavot (14th - $1,869), Thomas "king2173" Scholze (15th - $1,869)