The Sunday Briefing: Joe Cada Wins Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl
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 :
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)
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
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)
$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)
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)
$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
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 .
$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)
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)
$25,000 Weekly Sunday Guarantee (New Jersey)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$200+15 128 $25,600
Place Player Prize
1 TurbOLicious $7,040
2 tino1126 $4,096
3 The_Tuz14 $2,329
4 drogba $1,817
5 MakemeFold $1,561
6 Moose4Life $1,305
7 fuzzyworthy $998
8 MahaKala108 $640
9 HarryStylist $460
$15,000 Weekly Sunday Guarantee (Nevada)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$200+15 96 $19,200
Place Player Prize
1 TimTebow $5,472
2 scross $3,168
3 brokefinger $1,920
4 mlawson $1,536
5 Luck_Equity $1,324
6 bk1048 $1,132
7 pgreazy $940
8 cantfakeit $652
9 SuGaRaY71 $518
Special thanks to Stanislav Serov
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