The Sunday Briefing: Mike "Timex" McDonald Wins Biggest Score Ever at PokerStars

Brett Collson Chief Editor

Mar 17, 2014 4 min read

By the time 2014 comes to a close, Mike "Timex" McDonald might have all the money.

The current GPI Player of the Year leader already has more than $4.3 million in live tournament earnings in 2014 thanks to a trio of seven-figure scores at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and the Aussie Millions. He added some "pocket change" on Sunday, winning the PokerStars $109 Sunday Rebuy for $56,813.

We were surprised to learn that the $109 Rebuy score was the biggest ever for McDonald at PokerStars. According to PocketFives.com, McDonald's previous biggest online cash came in the PokerStars Bigger $109 tournament in November 2011 for $48,503. He now has more than $1.2 million in online tournament winnings to go along with $10 million on the live felt.

Other notables finding success on Sunday were Maksim "MAMOHT_T" Viktorovich, Paul "pvas2" vas Nunes, Dennis "el_klonkador" Bejedal, Michael "moneyinbag" Aron, John "bullyon" Buglion, Fergal "MidniteKowby" Nealon and Fedor "CrownUpGuy" Holz. Nealon defeated Holz heads-up to win the PokerStars Sunday Supersonic for $56,249.

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	8,306	$1,661,200

Place	Player	Prize
1	Booobich	$139,000*
2	mikael0117	$101,804*
3	Mr Tytte	$135,572*
4	Dinesh "NastyMinder" Alt	$160,503*
5	SlaterDaKing	$105,000*
6	AB_Poker_12	$105,000*
7	AlexRidov	$33,224
8	ujisho	$18,273
9	Libor "libormar" Marek	$12,874

_{*Denotes six-handed deal}

Notable Finishes: Lex Veldhuis (11th - $8,804), Ori "OriQ9s" Hasson (13th - $6,561), Simon "Sirocko" Christensson (17th - $4,319)

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Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	3,362	$672,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	Count_NN	$97,119*
2	Broose51	$87,119*
3	LoosControl	$55,473
4	qualle400	$38,663
5	Cafl	$28,577
6	-#1Lottery-	$21,853
7	Vyacheslav "vip25459" Bordartsev	$15,129
8	grind4fame	$8,405
9	dulek_jason	$5,379

_{*Denotes heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: Michael "BillyDaKidXX" Hartmann (28th - $1,512)

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$250K Guarantee

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,317	$263,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	Maksim "MAMOHT_T" Viktorovich	$52,680
2	Steve575	$35,084
3	mattyv	$25,023
4	Jennnyy19	$18,701
5	joaosimaobh	$13,960
6	Flippa42	$10,272
7	YARGEN	$7,638
8	pyxlius	$5,531
9	last-samurai5	$3,951

Notable Finishes: Joel “Odonkor1″ Nordkvist (10th - $2,634), Nick "Rounder63" Carillo (11th - $2,634), James "TheFatFISH" Obst (17th - $1,527), Nick "FU_15" Maimone (21st - $1,132), Jeff "YoungSupremacy" Hakim (23rd - $1,132), Christian "eisenhower1" Jeppsson (24th - $1,132)

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Sunday Brawl ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$240+15	1,091	$218,300

Place	Player	Prize
1	Paul "pvas2" Vas Nunes	$29,105*
2	easylimpxyz	$25,243*
3	Dennis "el_klonkador" Bejedal	$23,112*
4	The_Hero_Nr1	$20,315*
5	Sshortyone	$22,712*
6	Joe "bigegypt" Elpayaa	$8,509
7	WHOPPWHOPP	$6,327
8	mysto20	$4,582
9	barry manilow	$3,273

_{*Denotes five-handed deal}

Notable Finishes: Elio "smokrokbyflock" Fox (11th - $2,182), Jon "apestyles" Van Fleet (23rd - $938)

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Pokerfest Main Event

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$186+14	1,769	$329,034

Place	Player	Prize
1	lede007	$43,598
2	showttizzle	$26,158
3	m1ronO	$15,464
4	kokonakueka	$11,516
5	nipa3p3	$8,061
6	WeRize	$6,087
7	SophieMoone	$4,606
8	RedKinGGs	$3,619
9	OneOfTheseDays	$2,796

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Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+30	924	$462,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	lupe1981	$83,160
2	UhhRooj	$59,274
3	jvieiradias8	$44,352
4	NeoForastero	$33,264
5	tupac_sjr	$23,100
6	xMAESTROx	$18,484
7	TiltMeHarder	$13,860
8	Rafael"zugzwang16" Porzecanski	$9,240
9	Jochum "groengras" Weenink	$5,544

Notable Finishes: Andreas "andreasbar" Lobzhanidze (10th - $4,389), Nick "FU_15" Maimone (12th - $4,389), Sebastian "bassyasaffari" Saffari (13th - $3,465), Roman "Roma-Tilt" Korenev (18th - $2,541), Ryan "ryanghall" Hall (19th - $2,032), Julian "jutrack" Track (20th - $2,032), Joel "Odonkor1" Nordkvist (22nd - $2,032)

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	998	$307,100

Place	Player	Prize
1	Mike "Timex" McDonald	$56,813
2	Skilled G	$41,151
3	LFFF22	$30,710
4	Pavel "He4HaiKa" Pravdukhin	$23,032
5	Sebastien "p0cket00" Sikorski	$16,122
6	byfon	$13,051
7	Vladimir "vovtroy" Troyanovskiy	$9,980
8	Laurynas "LaurisL91" Levinskas	$6,909
9	Ryan "ryanghall" Hall	$4,299

Notable Finishes: Connor "blanconegro" Drinan (10th - $3,224), Charlie "JIZOINT" Combes (11th - $3,224), Marton "noirduck" Czuczor (13th - $2,610), Joel "Odonkor1" Nordkvist (16th - $1,996), Andras "probirs" Nemeth (17th - $1,996), Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick (18th - $1,996), Domantas "Doommy" Klimciauskas (21st - $1,381), Simon "pokerbrat13" Charrette (23rd - $1,381)

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Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,543	$308,600

Place	Player	Prize
1	Alonnnnnn	$51,551
2	Michael "moneyinbag" Aron	$37,649
3	John "bullyon" Buglion	$28,391
4	tabrizli	$20,984
5	TUTI88	$15,121
6	alexandrapau	$12,035
7	J0hn Mcclean	$8,949
8	Andreas "daskalos20" Christoforou	$5,863
9	Stivi Ger	$3,209

Notable Finishes: Andras "probirs" Nemeth (13th - $1,052), Kelvin "Kelvin_FP:AR" Kerber (16th - $1,481), Chris "ImDaNuts" Oliver (26th - $1,234)

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Sunday Supersonic ($125K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$210.80+4.20	1,505	$317,254

Place	Player	Prize
1	Fergal "MidniteKowby" Nealon	$56,249
2	Fedor "CrownUpGuy" Holz	$41,243
3	OverTheTop43	$31,725
4	1_conor_b_1	$23,794
5	mora7777	$16,655
6	HeadShotFyoV	$13,483
7	john4kos8	$10,310
8	R&O--UL	$7,138
9	Kenny "LoneHixx" Hicks	$4,441

Notable Finishes: Radoslaw "Raaadzio91" Morawiec (11th - $3,013), Johannes "Psier" Strassmann (13th - $2,379), Julia "FONBET_RULIT" Smirnova (14th - $2,379)