The Sunday Briefing: "makarios007" Wins MicroMillions Main Event for $93,000
There was some added buzz on PokerStars MicroMillions came to a close with the $22 Main Event. More than 58,000 players participated, creating a massive prize pool of $1,160,000. The eventual winner was Germany's "makarios007" who collected a top prize of $92,899 after a three-handed deal at the final table.
Elsewhere, "PhiRi1" took down the PokerStars Sunday Million after besting a stacked final table that included Jacob "Bazeman11" Bazeley Luke "LFmagic" Fields and Chris "Run dat Game" Lovett . Other notables who pocketed big paydays on Sunday were Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsky , Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev Ami "UhhMee" Barer
Here's a full look at the results from the Sunday Majors on PokerStars , Full Tilt Poker and WSOP.com :
MicroMillions IX Main Event ($1M Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $20+2 58,032 $1,160,640
Place Player Prize 1 makarios007 $92,899* 2 Luckywolk123 $75,384* 3 Fahrenheit88 $75,842* 4 zardy912 $42,340 5 Brachial/SMC $31,035 6 dh7889 $22,760 7 CRONOS95 $16,678 8 costantony $12,233 9 przemz123 $8,960
*Reflects three-handed deal
Notable Finishes: Sebastian "p0cket00" Sikorski (27th - 2,506)
Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+15 6,943 $1,388,600
Place Player Prize 1 PhiRi1 $177,217* 2 checkablint $135,836* 3 KingKong0815 $165,461* 4 Jake "Bazeman11" Bazeley $76,373 5 Luke "LFmagic" Fields $58,321 6 NotYetBust $44,435 7 Chris "Run dat Game" Lovett $30,549 8 rickL-UNIT $16,663 9 Robert "Patonius2000" Woodcock $10,761
*Reflects three-handed deal
Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+15 3,118 $523,600
Place Player Prize 1 -Plz1Tiiime- $71,949* 2 monzemann $51,208* 3 eiro07 $54,100* 4 Felix "TheDegenFund" Van de Put $52,253* 5 Luciano S.H $55,667* 6 RMarland $20,267 7 Shannon "basebal1b" Shorr $14,031 8 Greg "gregior" Howard $7,795 9 needdollarz $4,988
*Reflects five-handed deal
Notable Finishes: Jonathan "OMGjonyctt" Concepción (11th - $3,835), David "Betudontbet" Emmons (15th - $2,988), Sorel "zangbezan" Mizzi (23rd - $1,652)
PokerStars Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $500+30 823 $411,500
Place Player Prize 1 lynskey99 $67,133* 2 Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsky $60,431* 3 Sngwonder $39,915 4 WRUUUUM $29,833 5 robinho $20,739 6 calo88 $16,624 7 Mustapha "lasagnaaammm" Kanit $12,509 8 FROGGERT $8,435 9 VIVILINE1 $5,143
*Reflects heads-up deal
Notable Finishes: Patrick "pmahoney22" Mahoney (11th - $4,320), Alen "lilachaa" Bilic (20th - $1,892), Gleb "Ti0373" Tremzin (25th - $1,892)
$109 Sunday Rebuy ($225K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $100+9 1,017 $298,000
Place Player Prize 1 Kelvin "Kelvin_FP:AR" Kerber $50,784* 2 XingsMaster $44,277* 3 Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev $29,800 4 Guigabraza $22,350 5 OMGACEACEACE $15,645 6 ViziruA $12,665 7 Alex "mistakooll" Keating $9,685 8 Feizal "RedPantRed" Satchu $6,705 9 tiarc $4,172
*Reflects heads-up deal
Notable Finishes: Sebastian "p0cket00" Sikorski (11th - $3,129), Matt "mjw006" Wakeman (12th - $3,129), Stefan "random_chu" Chew (22nd - $1,341), Kyle "KJulius10" Julius (25th - $1,341)
Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+15 1,336 $267,200
Place Player Prize 1 KObySOMU $46,118 2 Ami "UhhMee" Barer $33,400 3 Nathan "ragingquads_" Tuthill $25,384 4 baconbits33 $18,597 5 Elio "smokrokflock" Fox $13,226 6 Samuel "€urop€an" Vousden $10,554 7 MuckCallOK $7,882 8 Ben "NeverScaredB" Wilinofsky $5,210 9 Amit "AMAK316" Makhija $2,939
Notable Finishes: Randy "nanonoko" Lew (11th - $2,378), Paul "padjes" Berende (21st - $1,222)
Sunday Supersonic ($125K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $210.80+4.20 1,447 $299,861
Place Player Prize 1 MuckCallOK $51,475 2 Anton "ekziter" Astapau $40,673 3 Andreas "gnetaren" Samuelsson $29,986 4 Andrey "Anjeyyy" Novak $22,489 5 Sr.TiltMonky $15,742 6 Floorkiller $12,744 7 Kabira $9,745 8 xAndorx $6,746 9 belexe88 $4,198
Notable Finishes: Alex "Allingomes" Gomes (12th - $2,848), Lukas "superkid-bam" Berglund (17th - $1,649), Kyle "KJulius10" Julius ( 21st - $1,019)
The Sunday Major ($150K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+15 983 $196,600
Place Player Prize 1 zlatanera $39,320 2 MURIBE $26,187 3 Jack2u3 $18,677 4 Kevin "KevBoyStar" Stani $13,958 5 SirBaggio $10,419 6 NotsoHidden $7,667 7 Attek $5,701 8 jellyfish223 $4,128 9 efterlock $2,949
Notable Finishes: Thayer "THAY3R" Rasmussen (13th - $1,494), Bryan "bparis" Paris (15th - $1,494), Fabian Quoss (18th - $1,140)
Full Tilt Sunday Brawl ($100K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $240+15 624 $124,800
Place Player Prize 1 ftpballerstatus $26,520 2 JediAllStar $18,096 3 Joao Barbosa $13,728 4 CTAPbllJKA3EJI $10,483 5 Bad10boy10 $7,737 6 PrettyFlacko $5491 7 Ondrej "Vinkyy" Vinklarek $3,933 8 gifuhornet $2,995 9 Arise_pt $2,246
Notable Finishes: Ben "SPRAGGS" Spraggons (18th - $873), Charlie "chaz_man_chaz" Combes (19th - $624)
$15,000 Guaranteed Weekly Sunday (Nevada)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $185+15 85 $15,725
Place Player Prize 1 T54_T97s $4,482 2 strgiostri $2,595 3 Bakan $1,573 4 VPIHokie1970 $1,258 5 BTCBlade $1,085 6 mlawson $928 7 leona $771 8 smrtwntcrzy $535 9 Acquittal $424
*Special thanks to Stanislav Serov
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