The Sunday Briefing: Another Sunday Brawl Title for Jonathan Karamalikis

Brett Collson
Chief Editor
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Jonathan Karamalikis

Australian poker pro Jonathan "xMONSTERxDONGx" Karamalikis added another major title to his esteemed online résumé on Sunday. Only four months after he won the Full Tilt Sunday Brawl for the first time, he won it again Sunday for $25,372 after defeating a field of 597 players. According to PocketFives.com, Karamalikis is one of only 21 players with more than $5 million in career online tournament cashes, with nearly $2 million of that coming on Full Tilt.

Elsewhere on Sunday, Vladimir "vovtroy" Troyanovskiy made a pair of final tables on PokerStars to pocket more than $65,000 in cashes. Troyanovskiy finished runner-up in Sunday Supersonic for $38,310 after placing fourth in the Sunday 500 for $27,484 earlier in the day. Others hitting big scores at PokerStars on Sunday were Michael "wywrotX" Wywrot, Jeremy "00psiedaisy" Fitzpatrick, Pavel "3P3NIPA" Plesuv, and Ben "1Don'tStop1" Heath, who chopped the Sunday Million for $167,836.

Over at partypoker, the $500K Guaranteed had a $108,000 overlay as only 2,106 players turned up to play the major event. "Martind24" was the biggest benefactor, turning his $200 entry fee into $100,000 after defeating "Mr Lagenda" heads-up for the title.

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-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+156,809$1,361,800
PlacePlayerPrize
1NHalabardzie$192,500*
2Ben "1Don'tStop1" Heath$167,836*
3PickyTooth$108,944
4kry19kry$74,899
5NCRL1$57,195
6Thomas "üä-qaypö.wsx" Butzhammer$43,577
7AVI-MBP$29,959
8Maxi "mikki696" Lehmanski$16,341
9Noseblow$10,553

*Reflects heads-up deal

Notable Finishes: Adria "Chojjasd" Balaguer (11th - $7,626), Andrew "Roylize" Stumpf (12th - $7,626), Alen "lilachaa" Bilic (22nd - $3,186), Joao Paolo "IneedSamari" Simao (27th - $3,186)


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Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+152,896$579,200
PlacePlayerPrize
1dntrvrmplz$83,923*
2Michael "wywrotX" Wywrot$75,356*
3Penelas08$48,652
4AndreBusato$33,304
5platoX314$25,195
6Matt "mjw006" Wakeman$19,403
7travisohc$13,611
8dev209$7,830
9mischa84$4,923

*Reflects heads-up deal

Notable Finishes: Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsky (11th - $3,620), Andrew "wiisssppppaa" Taylor (12th - $3,620), Sylvain "calculer_" Loosli (16th - $1,882)Mayu "marocca5" Roca (17th - $1,882)


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500K Guaranteed Sunday

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$186+$142,106$500,000

PlacePlayerPrize
1martind24$100,000
2Mr Lagenda$52,000
3GRANDAD_BAZ$32,000
4umbroSS$25,950
5Znork666$20,750
6SSSMfor_life$15,750
7luckbox247$12,000
8UlDuffer$8,600
9spyver$6,150

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Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$500+30753$376,500
PlacePlayerPrize
1Bostero10$68,146
2iissrr$48,945
3Pavel "3P3NIPA" Plesuv$36,708
4Vladimir "vovtroy" Troyanovskiy$27,484
5Thomas "king2173" Scholze$19,389
6Rui "RuiNF" Ferreira$15,624
7otavioMNY$11,859
8PokerLoans1$8,320
9TEENageTuRtL$$4,819

Notable Finishes: Robby " PlayaPlz" Lipkin (10th - $4,066), Frazer "frazmac" MacIntyre (13th - $3,313), Noah "dirty.brasil" Vaillancourt (16th - $2,560), Bryan "theczar19" Piccioli (18th - $2,560)

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


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$109 Sunday Rebuy ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$100+9935$272,900
PlacePlayerPrize
1Jeremy "00psiedaisy" Fitzpatrick$51,168
2montecarlo13$36,841
3dadowiec$27,190
4Patrick "pads1161" Leonard$20,467
5apostolis20$14,327
6Mikhail "spraise411" Rudoy$11,598
7Stefan "IceStream" Ivanov$8,869
8Mickey "mement_mori_ Petersen$6,140
9Jerry "hummylun" Wong$3,847

Notable Finishes: Adam "Roothlus" Levy (10th - $2,865), Philipp "philbort" Gruissem (17th - $1,773), Tommy "TMoney0209" Miller (20th - $1,228), Sebastian "p0cket00" Sikorski (21st - $1,228)


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Sunday 2nd Chance ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+151,293$258,600
PlacePlayerPrize
1Papa Leitini$45,203
2moneyinbag$32,842
3PIUlimeira$24,567
4Joao Manuel "joaommr" Ribeiro$18,360
5Sergey "gipsy74" Rybachenko$12,930
6LFFF22$10,344
7wudsikurdukk$7,758
8Tom "tollgate" Grigg$5,172
9i need sheet$2,973

Notable Finishes: Nick "chilenocl" Yunis (10th - $2,465), Dimitry "Colisea" Urbanovich (16th - $1,422), Joel "jbrown8777" Brown (17th - $1,422), Noah "dirty.brasil" Vaillancourt (22nd - $1,086), Kent "ForzaVaxholm" Lundmark (26th - $1,086)


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Sunday Supersonic ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$210.80+4.201,398$294,698
PlacePlayerPrize
1quimmixxx$53,046
2Vladimir "vovtroy" Troyanovskiy$38,310
3Artem "Artem205" Metalidi$29,469
4actaml$22,102
5muka_gaming$15,471
6Narcis "Narcisus90" Nedelcu$12,524
7Deniska114$9,577
8Bernd "LR-President" Vogelhuber$6,630
9divvyt1810$4,125

Notable Finishes: Talal "raidalot" Shakerchi (13th - $2,210), Anton "antesvante" Wigg (14th - $2,210), Ole "wizowizo" Schemion (26th - $1,031)


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The Sunday Major ($150K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$233+17817$190,361
PlacePlayerPrize
1Dudator$39,024
2FeynmanJr$26,650
3Steve "Illini213" Barshak$20,006
4Andrew "achen" Chen$15,228
5apjpu3l$11,040
6Aprilz1stson$7,804
7BigNittyBanker$5,710
8flush$4,378
9jknack19$3,236

Notable Finishes: JC "PrtyPsux" Alvarado (11th - $2,189), [Removed:277] (18th - $1,180), Ondrej "Vinkyy" Vinklarek (22nd - $837)


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Sunday Brawl ($100K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$240+15597$119,400
PlacePlayerPrize
1Jonathan "xMONSTERxDONGx" Karamalikis$25,372
2TheAlligatorNo1$17,313
3chippedup1709$13,134
4phounder$10,029
5dlanger610$7,402
6Karolis "karolis666" Grybauskas$5,253
7gigabaston$3,820
842ayaY$2,865
9Raabinator$2,149

Notable Finishes: Bernardo "bedias" Dias (10th - $1,555), Tony "D1rtyR1v3r" Nardi (13th - $1,134), Dylan "InvisibleEnigma" Linde (14th - $1,134), Yann "yadio111" Dion (15th - $1,134), Kyle "kylejf" Frey (16th - $835), Joao Mathias (17th - $835), Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov (20th - $597), Jude "j.thaddeus" Ainsworth (22nd - $597), Mike McDonald (23rd - $597)


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$15,000 Weekly Sunday Guarantee (Nevada)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+15133$24,605
PlacePlayerPrize
1mikedell$6,766
2itsmrtrifle$3,936
3FMyWife$2,239
4POSTA$1,746
5FeelsGoodMan$1,500
6BTCBlade$1,254
7driven$959
8DontBl1nk$615
9xtedlawson04$442

Special thanks to Stanislav Serov

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