The Sunday Briefing: Rob Tinnion Wins Second Sunday Million in Five Months

Brett Collson Chief Editor

Feb 09, 2015 3 min read

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Poker pro Rob "robtinnion" Tinnion joined elite company on Sunday. Tinnion, a tournament grinder from the United Kingdom, won the PokerStars Sunday Million for the second time in five months, adding his name to a short list of two-time winners that includes Jesper "KipsterDK" Hougaard, Peter "twirlpro" Turmezey and Kevin "kevsteele" Steele.

Tinnion outlasted 6,578 other players to take down the flagship tournament on Sunday for $200,136. He was met with stiff competition at the final table as top online players Seth "Setherson2" Davies and Simon "ministerborg" Ravnsbaek were also in contention. Davies bowed out in fifth place for $72,369, while Ravnsbaek finished runner-up for $148,027.

Tinnion won his first Sunday Million in September for $213,994 after defeating a field of 7,133 players. According to PocketFives.com, he now has more than $1.2 million in career online cashes.

Others banking big scores on Sunday were Charlie "Epiphany77" Carrel, Matt "FaceStealer" Volosevich, Andy "wiisssppppaa" Taylor and Alex "TheAssassinato" Fitzgerald.

Here's a full look at the results from the Sunday Majors on PokerStars, Full Tilt, partypoker and WSOP.com:

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Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	6,579	$1,315,800

Place	Player	Prize
1	Rob "robtinnion" Tinnion	$200,136
2	Simon "ministerborg" Ravnsbaek	$148,027
3	elme1989	$103,264
4	Seth "Setherson2" Davies	$72,369
5	dieterD6	$55,263
6	boloban25	$42,105
7	rybn1k	$28,947
8	Mylo723	$15,789
9	kadafi11	$10,197

Notable Finishes: Pascal "Pass_72" LeFrancois (13th - $5,526), Aleh "cooltwister" Plauski (19th - $3,078)

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Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	2,882	$576,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	candy1984	$84,255*
2	dávid68	$74,255*
3	dudd1	$48,417
4	Julian "nailuj90" Stuer	$33,143
5	Rui "sousinha23" Sousa	$25,073
6	Greenstone25	$19,309
7	big_pot1984	13,545
8	Noah "dirty.brasil" Vaillancourt	$7,792
9	550as	$4,899

_{*Reflects heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: Steven "SvZff" van Zadelhoff (10th - $3,602), Reed "reeda205" Hensel (26th - $1,585), Charlie "JIZOINT" Combes (27th - $1,585)

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Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+30	741	$370,500

Place	Player	Prize
1	Charlie “Epiphany77” Carrel	$67,060
2	salaliitto	$48,165
3	josh prager	$36,123
4	AnIrishFinn	$27,046
5	David "DonkCommited" Miscikowski	$19,080
6	fuddebuf	$15,375
7	bgame153	$11,670
8	Pavalinya	$8,188
9	Marty "TheLipoFund" Mathis	$4,742

Notable Finishes: Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira (14th - $3,260), Randall "RandALLin" Flowers (16th - $2,519), Michal "wywrotX" Wywrot (18th - $2,519), Alex "Schildy1984" Debus (24th - $1,778)

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	905	$267,600

Place	Player	Prize
1	Matt "FaceStealer" Volosevich	$50,175
2	Andy “wiisssppppaa” Taylor	$36,126
3	hamanof	$26,760
4	Naslund44	$20,070
5	markovitsus	$14,049
6	Ben "NeverScaredB" Wilinofsky	$11,373
7	LadyDoDo91	$8,697
8	A.Cretu	$6,021
9	garyknife	$3,773

Notable Finishes: Claas "neckbr4ke" Stoob (16th - $1,739), Mike "SirWatts" Watson (19th - $1,204), Robin "robinho" Ylitalo (22nd - $1,204), Marcin "pyszalek" Wydrowski (26th - $1,204), Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov (27th - $1,204)

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200K Guaranteed Sunday

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$186+$14	990	$200,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	ilik3turtl3s	$25,638*
2	Wilmeras	$23,298*
3	P0L4R1C3	$21,972*
4	n0ctuVigilus	$12,500
5	lovecClCA	$10,200
6	WestCliff21	$8,200
7	B3835521	$6,200
8	milfseeker69	$4,300
9	BananaWarrior	$3,280

*Reflects three-handed deal

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Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,203	$240,600

Place	Player	Prize
1	strtflushtome	$43,308
2	hopezACE	$30,868
3	otavioMNY	$23,097
4	Carster	$17,323
5	Andy71210	$12,030
6	leobello	$9,624
7	Vahag1980	$7,218
8	xSuPrA	$4,812
9	caps42	$2,887

Notable Finishes: Felipe "fcarrico" Carrio (10th - $2,285), Casey "Sobizzle21" Sobczewski (21st - $1,058), Nick "Rounder63" Carillo (22nd - $1,058), Marcin "pyszalek" Wydrowski (23rd - $1,058)

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The Sunday Major ($150K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$233+17	830	$193,390

Place	Player	Prize
1	EdgarRBCVO	$39,644
2	Alex "TheAssassinato" Fitzgerald	$27,074
3	FarSeerCantDie	$20,325
4	fold2late	$15,471
5	graf_zaal	$11,216
6	UHAVESMALLPP	$7,928
7	mralan2950	$5,801
8	nebo_blizko	$4,447
9	Dudator	$3,287

Notable Finishes: David "dave798111" Allan (14th - $1,643), Lukas "Lukethafluke" Berglund (21st - $850)

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Sunday Brawl ($125K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$235+15	565	$125,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	THCHunter	$26,562
2	Samvetet	$18,125
3	NikolasDLP	$13,750
4	mrNemo	$10,500
5	Jude "j__thaddeus" Ainsworth	$7,750
6	Rocky2810	$5,500
7	Rick the Trick	$4,000
8	cheettt	$3,000
9	MUFAZZA	$2,250