The Sunday Briefing: PokerStars Celebrates 900 Millionth Tournament With $1M Guarantee

Brett Collson Chief Editor

Apr 28, 2014 3 min read

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PokerStars reached another huge milestone over the weekend. The world's leading online poker site celebrated its 900 millionth tournament with a special $109 buy-in event with a massive $1 million guaranteed prize pool, and also gave away more $100,000 in added tournament tickets, cash, and live event packages.

More than 18,700 players competed in the historic 900 millionth tournament, and after 14 hours a deal was reached between three players who each locked up a minimum of $152,000. The UK's Dan "judgedredd13" Charlton was among the final three, but in the end it was Canada's "earlgrey23" who claimed the title.

According to our friends over at UK PokerNews, Charlton’s $153,681 score was the biggest of his online poker career and helped him eclipse the $1.5 million mark in career cashes. Charlton’s previous best score came in 2009 when he won the PokerStars Super Tuesday for $71,750.

Other notables scooping big paydays on Sunday were Louis "lhennessey" Hennessey, Simon "ministerborg" Ravnsbaek, Andreas "daskalos20" Christoforou, Balazs "birs320" Botond, Michael "StrungOut1" Wasserman, and Martin "filfedra" Staszko, who won the PokerStars Sunday Supersonic for $56,399.

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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Tournament Number 900 Million ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$100+9	18,711	$1,871,100

Place	Player	Prize
1	earlgrey23	$152,532*
2	PaPakwanto	$176,278*
3	Dan "judgedredd13" Charlton	$153,681*
4	djwilo	$84,199
5	ilstmfkraliv	$65,488
6	tatasanjuan	$46,777
7	acehighdro	$28,066
8	mikulita	$16,839
9	MCRez	$11,226

_{*Reflects three-handed deal}

Notable Finishes: Jan "hownorez" Nakladal (52nd - $2,338)

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Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	7,355	$1,471,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	emjkemjk	$220,650
2	GadMO	$162,354
3	vlem99	$117,680
4	kinglune	$77,963
5	AnndriaNN	$60,311
6	Georg7719	$45,601
7	sunamivolk	$31,626
8	Chris "NigDawG" Brammer	$17,652
9	David "djc79797" Clifford	$11,400

Notable Finishes: Ben "ShankingYou" Palmer (25th - $3,427), Sean "wormnorton" Getzwiller (32nd - $3,059), James "jamerOK" Cawley (36th - $3,059), Joel "Odonkor1" Nordkvist (50th - $2,544)

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Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	3,390	$678,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	Aldo2316	$106,466
2	alexandr18ru	$79,326
3	needdollarz	$55,935
4	Louis "lhennessey" Hennessey	$38,985
5	Simon "ministerborg" Ravnsbaek	$28,815
6	Andreas1603	$22,035
7	No10Nostr8	$15,255
8	Lukas "superkid-bam" Berglund	$8,475
9	1diego_35	$5,424

Notable Finishes: Mads "MadsMP" Pedersen (14th - $3,051), Jonathan "OMGjonnyctt" Concepcion (24th - $1,728)

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$250K Guarantee

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,347	$269,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	Staszek	$53,800
2	MaXiOwnS	$35,884
3	MuthaFlushaa	$25,593
4	EastLansing	$19,127
5	cheriekanami	$14,278
6	Nick "PureCash25" Rampone	$10,506
7	Phil Ivey 18	$7,812
8	Kenny010	$5,657
9	II LIKE A G6 II	$xxx

Notable Finishes: Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo (12th - $2,694), Ben "bonafidedonkey" Palmer (17th - $1,562)

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Sunday Brawl ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$240+15	1,142	$228,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	sava-lenivec2	$45,860
2	max15183	$30,422
3	Faranius	$21,698
4	Pinowww	$16,216
5	blackDonii	$12,105
6	marlin5555	$8,907
7	Rayan "rkruok" Nathan	$6,623
8	Rottweiler	$4,796
9	DecanoBR	$3,426

Notable Finishes: Russell "rdcrsn" Carson (19th - $982), TJ "DarkHorse19" Ulmer (21st - $982), Randy "rh300487" Hereman (25th - $982)

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200K Guaranteed Sunday

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,047	$200,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	Imbiss-Bronkow	$27,400
2	TurtleManyeyeye	$16,500
3	Wurzlwastl1	$9,800
4	Sam "Sammy_squid" Grafton	$7,400
5	fullserviceplz	$5,300
6	vadimvalm	$3,900
7	fg911	$2,900
8	VT_chisna	$2,400
9	OhsoDante	$1,900

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Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+30	875	$437,500

Place	Player	Prize
1	casita_21	$70,180*
2	Andreas "daskalos20" Christoforou	$65,444*
3	Balazs "birs320" Botond	$42,437*
4	Michael "wywrotX" Wywrot	$31,718
5	apostolis20	$22,050
6	ABC POKERS	$17,500
7	gifuhorna	$13,125
8	Toby "810ofclubs	$8,750
9	Monk532	$5,250

_{*Reflects heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: Mikhail "mwnnj" Karpov (10th - $4,375), Mat "matfrankland" Frankland (11th - $4,375), Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsky (13th - $3,500), Kevin "torino2000" Killeen (17t - $2,650), Jon "LUFCBas" Spinks (26th - $1,968), Rhys "floppinhel" Jones (27th - $1,968)

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

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$109 Sunday Rebuy ($225K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$100+9	1,013	$305,900

Place	Player	Prize
1	hneves182	$56,591
2	Michael "StrungOut1" Wasserman	$40,990
3	LammingerFlo	$30,590
4	Jonathan "OMGjonnyctt" Concepcion	$22,942
5	NormyDozer	$16,059
6	flipmoreira	$13,000
7	Matias "Festivuss" Gabrenja	$9,941
8	ex6stenceLV	$6,882
9	BrightStripe	$4,282

Notable Finishes: Jonas "jonaj10" Jorgensen (10th - $3,211), Sebastien "p0cket00" Sikorski (11th - $3,211), Alex "AK87" Kim (12th - $3,211), Pratyush "Shane Gamble" Buddiga (15th - $2,600), Robby "PlayaPlz" Lipkin (17th - $1,988), Larry "BBOY3110" Sharpe (23rd - $1,376)

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Sunday Supersonic ($125K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$210.80+4.20	1,509	$318,097

Place	Player	Prize
1	Martin "filfedra" Stazko	$56,399
2	GoodStoryBro	$41,352
3	babecallme	$31,809
4	Nikolay "NikolasDLP" Prohorskiy	$23,857
5	uaredead lol	$16,700
6	jvieiradias8	$13,519
7	Pedraum	$10,388
8	Craig "mcc3991" McCorkell	$7,157
9	Alen "lilachaa" Bilic	$4,453

Notable Finishes: Jeremy "EndlessJ" Menard (11th - $3,021), Yuri "theNERDguy" Martins (16th - $1,749), Peter "Se7enTr3y" Akery (20th - $1,081), Salman "salshb" Behbehany (27th - $1,081)