The Sunday Briefing: Mantas "bagoch" Bagočius Wins the PokerStars Sunday Million
Two people earned six-figure profits on the virtual felt Sunday. On PokerStars , "Mantas "bagoch" Bagočius" took down the PokerStars Sunday Million for nearly $170,000, defeating "toddyjnr" in heads-up play.
With the 2015 World Series of Poker nearing its end, more familiar names started returning to final tables, with Mark "AceSpades11" Radoja , Georgios "GeoManousos" Sotiropoulos and Thomas "WushuTM" Muehloecker chief among them.
Over on Full Tilt , the Full Tilt Sunday Major was won outright by "Not a Dane" for the second time in three weeks. Once again he earned $31,875 for his victory.
In Nevada online tournament news, "brokefinger" and "thenalsnalz" took down the biggest prizes, which you can read about below.
Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entries Prize Pool
$200+15 5,399 $1,079,800
Place Player Prize
1 Mantas "bagoch" Bagočius $168,883.15
2 toddyjnr $125,796.70
3 sun-of-god $88,921.53
4 roppengalle $61,008.70
5 Brøndbøh $45,891.50
6 dustin1980 $35,093.50
7 Cichosza $24,295.50
8 kpl_ole86 $13,497.50
9 Georgios "GeoManousos" Sotiropoulos $8,638.40
Sunday Warm-Up ($400K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entries Prize Pool
$200+15 2,014 $402,800
Place Player Prize
1 Remi Lebo_10 $60,392*
2 AngleZero $52,392*
3 BearBore $36,252
4 Matt "OLD TIME GIN" Stone $24,973
5 Aaron “Aguskb” Gustavson $18,126
6 Mpa3yka $14,098
7 NogisCZ $10,070
8 Enrico "WhaTisL0v3" Camosci $6,847.60
9 Diego "Mr.Bittar" Bittar $3,826.60
*Denotes a heads-up deal.
Sunday 500 ($250K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entries Prize Pool
$500+35 544 $272,000
Place Player Prize
1 ulan2009 $51,136
2 Miss Baxter $37,264
3 Thomas "WushuTM" Muehloecker $27,472
4 Peter "Solidthought" Rees $20,672
5 Mark "AceSpades11" Radoja $14,524.80
6 majkl1812 $11,560
7 Rupert "ElRupert" Elder $8,840
8 UkupniKK $6,120
9 TrankiNLVida $4,080
*Denotes a heads-up deal.
Get in on the Sunday Majors action yourself by visiting PokerStars , Full Tilt , and partypoker .
Full Tilt Sunday Major ($150K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$233+17 515 $150,000
Place Player Prize
1 Not a Dane $31,875
2 quantum leaper1 $21,750
3 Vote L 4T2L0 $16,500
4 BILLGATESTILTIN $12,600
5 Langers1990 $9,300
6 DJWTF $6,600
7 Mike "SowersUNCC" Sowers $4,800
8 I CK90 I $3,600
9 Rasmus "Champ1988" Larsen $2,700
Full Tilt Sunday Brawl ($75K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$235+15 354 $75,000
Place Player Prize
1 jacob126b38 $16,500
2 Eblin $11,250
3 bigt439 $8,325
4 DiaperSniper14 $6,375
5 DonQQinger $4,725
6 boxing87 $3,375
7 LucianoHollanda $2,475
8 Chamois999 $1,875
9 cliff47 $1,425
$15,000 Weekly Sunday Guarantee (Nevada)
Buy-in Entries Prize Pool
$185+15 180 $33,300
Place Player Prize
1 brokefinger $8,991
2 thenalsnalz $5,244.75
3 VGN42 $2,997
4 jres1905 $2,331
5 Polar_Eyes $1,998
6 ValueTown $1,665
7 attila $1,265.40
8 PackRatGG $799.20
9 johnnykarma $566.10
$10,000 Sunday Reloader (Nevada)
Buy-in Entries Prize Pool
$91+9 89 $16,835
Place Player Prize
1 mlawson $5,050.50
2 bcmclawh $3,367
3 FromBehind $2,020.20
4 SEE_3_P_O $1,599.32
5 daluxxx $1,346.80
6 luckboxkins $1,010.10
7 Zizi7 $841.75
8 flawlessbink $673.40
9 forthenguyen $505.05
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