Sunday Briefing: Double Win For Marc Wright
Many online poker tournament players never experience the joy of winning an event, but the United Kingdom’s Marc “railthe23price” Wright won two in a single night at partypoker.
Wright took down the $40,000 Gtd Drago for an $8,949.05 score then followed that win up by triumphing in the $50,000 Gtd Weigh-In for $11,910.58.
The biggest score at partypoker this Sunday was the $50,376.90 that “BBCgiants” won by taking down the inaugural $300,000 Gtd Title Fight, a 425 buy in tournament that missed the guarantee by more than $40,000. Oliver “ThreeBunPass” Price continued his hot streak in the $2,600 Super High Roller by emerging victorious for a $46,312.50 addition to his bankroll.
This week’s $200,000 Gtd High Roller saw “uzbekpro” top a field of 404 to bank $39,390, while Niklas “Lena900” Astedt and Aleks “hitaremchok” Dimitrov chopped the $150,000 Main Event for scores of $22,176.21 and $20,607.99, respectively.
Over at PokerStars, Brazil's “arkolino” won the Sunday Million for a massive $142,200.99 after a heads-up chop with “Nec Arg” who collected $115,041.33.
Other big PokerStars wins included:
- “Allmightry” – winner of the $109 Sunday Starter for $6,917.41
- “tsikwz” – winner of the Big $162 for $5,469.02
- “turontour” – winner of the $109 Sunday Kickoff for $22,329.95
- “50km” – winner of the Hot $162 for $8,241.52
- “POLKER$EGUN” – winner of the $215 Bounty Builder for $14,890.20
- Peter “Solidthought” Rees – winner of the $215 Sunday Warm-Up for $44,708.47
- “AAKaliber1” – winner of the $215 Weekender for $12,303.07
- Fellipe “FellipeD” Drapichinski – winner of the Big $109 for $23,424.84
- “niknaknuk7” – winner of the Hot $162 for $16,214.60
- Jerry “Perrymejsen” Odeen – winner of the $700 Super-Sized Sunday for $35,203.12
- “jackfive211” – winner of the $109 Bounty Builder for $16,047.50
- Michael “MAE9690” Eiler – winner of the Hot $109 for $16,420.30
- David “davaman” Lopez – winner of the $1,050 Sunday Grand NLHE for $55,408.39
- “IAmSoSo” – winner of the $1,050 Sunday Grand PLO for $34,455.99
- “Bhrine” – winner of the Big $215 for $26,471.02
- “cold_smile” – winner of the $109 Sunday Cooldown for $22,851.87
- Louis “5pathic” Salter – winner of the $215 Sunday Supersonic for $23,174.90
- “PoluKalos” – winner of the Hot $215 for $18,118.90
- “kris.aarr” – winner of the $109 Sunday Wrap-Up for $9,026.07
Finally, over to 888poker where “ZDamian” secured the $20,840.34 first-place prize in the $100,000 Baby Whale. The United Kingdom’s “djmtm” and Tim “da_wolf90” Cramer of Germany chopped the $120,000 Mega Deep to add $20,673.06 and $21,251.94 to their bankrolls.
It was Fabrizio “sevensense” Gonzalez who took the $45,000 Turbo Mega Deep for $9,243.40 with Canada’s “popsnpoker” winning the $60,000 Sunday Crocodile for a $12,711 score. Lastly, a shout out to Rocco “sephir0t” Palumbo who won $15,825.75 by triumphing in the $80,000 Sunday Challenge.
