The Sunday Briefing: Martin Staszko Wins PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up

Brett Collson Chief Editor

Dec 22, 2014 3 min read

Poker players were seeing double during their Sunday grind on PokerStars. The world's leading online poker room ran the Sunday Million and Sunday Warm-Up twice as part of Double Vision Sunday. In all, more than $3.5 million was up for grabs between the four biggest tournaments available on Sunday's tournament slate.

Last week, 2014 November Niner Jorryt van Hoof headlined the Sunday Briefing after winning the PokerStars Sunday Warm-up. Another WSOP Main Event finalist took down the same title on Double Vision Sunday as Martin "filfedra" Staszko won the 6-Max Sunday Warm-Up for $110,478.

Staszko, who finished runner-up in the 2011 WSOP Main Event for $5.4 million, bested a field of 2,939 in Sunday's six-max tournament. The final table also included Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsky, who placed third for $52,249.

Longtime poker pros Jon "apestyles" Van Fleet and Greg "gregior" Howard reached the final table of the Sunday Million on Sunday, but it was Pablo "Rhyno2008" Nerro who landed in the winner's circle. Nerro was the biggest winner of the day, pocketing a $217,717 top prize.

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	7,420	$1,484,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	Pablo "Rhyno2008" Nerro	$217,717
2	kostelo	$149,735
3	Jon "apestyles" Van Fleet	$102,959
4	Armaan007	$70,816
5	RUS_FISH	$48,704
6	eurowinner1	$33,493
7	KK_Killer_AA	$23,046
8	Greg "gregior" Howard	$15,863
9	Douglas "Dowgh-Santos" Ferreira	$10,907

Notable Finishes: Joao Mathias (10th - $7,494), Christian "Gambler4444" Nolte (13th - $5,179), Aaron "Aguskb" Gustavson (14th - $5,179), Jonas "donut604" Mackoff (17th - $3,591), Ignat "0Human0" Liviu (18th - $3,591), Connor "blanconegro" Drinnan (25th - $2,641)

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Sunday Million II ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	4,802	$1,000,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	Bluf_To_Much	$120,527*
2	BWFCLEE	$84,342*
3	BORRAURELIO	$100,539*
4	girafganger7	$88,560*
5	Tom "hitthehole" Middleton	$35,460
6	emi_ntn	$24,390

_{*Reflects four-handed deal}

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Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	3,562	$712,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	Killer_ooooo	$122,621*
2	GamadGADOL	$111,229*
3	Mark "scrubbyz" Zajdner	$65,533
4	Nuazo	$45,066
5	robbancs214	$30,989
6	gordijú	$21,315
7	Merceko	$14,661
8	sonajero	$10,080
9	CHIPFLOW	$6,938

_{Reflects heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: Markus "MarkusG91" Garberg (25th - $2,265)

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Sunday Warm-Up II ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	2,939	$587,800

Place	Player	Prize
1	Martin "filfedra" Staszko	$110,478
2	H0LDiT	75,973
3	Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsky	$52,249
4	danger0us	$35,938
5	slon7716	$24,716
6	Der Besen	$16,999

Notable Finishes: Matias "Festivuss" Gabrenja (19th - $2,809), Dominykas "Domce" Karmazinas (23rd - $2,809)

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Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+30	759	$379,500

Place	Player	Prize
1	Jannick "EDWARDHOPPER" Wrang	$62,012*
2	dadowiec	$56,012*
3	apostolis20	$37,001
4	Angelical20	$27,703
5	Florian "happyfister" Bußman	$19,544
6	sousinha23	$15,749
7	HuntItShipIt	$11,954
8	Mahalael	$8,386
9	Ansimans	$4,857

_{*Reflects heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: Patrick "pmahoney22" Mahoney (10th - $4,098), Matt "FaceStealer" Volosevich (16th - $2,580), Marc-Andre "FrenchDawg" Ladouceur (17th - $2,580), Matias "Festivuss" Gabrenja (21st - $1,821), Mayu "marroca5" Roca (24th - $1,821)

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

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200K Guaranteed Sunday

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	970	$200,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	ImaCriminalYo	$32,200
2	Guerg	$22,900
3	gixxser	$16,360
4	floppinhel	$12,650
5	mrbiglaci813	$10,280
6	info_raise	$8,280
7	prognosticator9	$6,280
8	stevenstevenson	$4,360
9	McDIsiLDrOoN	$3,320

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The Sunday Major ($150K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	940	$188,200

Place	Player	Prize
1	m-klon	$37,640
2	IK_Schoeni	$25,068
3	Steve "Illini213" Barshak	$17,879
4	rguimas	$13,362
5	philhellmatt	$9,974
6	seonkett1	$7,339
7	tcrames88	$5,457
8	Jeremy "daisyxoxo" Fitzpatrick	$3,952
9	Medved Hornet13	$2,823

Notable Finishes: Jake "baseman" Bazeley (12th - $1,882), Mike McDonald (17th - $1,091), Karolis "karolis666" Grybauskas (20th - $809), Ryan “HITTHEPANDA” Franklin (23rd - $809)

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Sunday Brawl ($100K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$240+15	624	$124,800

Place	Player	Prize
1	APokanov	$23,308*
2	podnil	$21,308*
3	RoccoPa	$13,728
4	mcfishers114875	$10,483
5	MintBerryCru	$7,737
6	unbeZieglar	$5,492
7	popyriZ	$3,993
8	Kask123	$2,995
9	escream1	$2,246