Sunday Briefing: 'mdf92' Turns $215 into $212,109 at PokerStars
PokerStars once again saw a massive turnout for its Sunday Million tournament thanks in part to halving the $215 buy-in to $107.50. A huge field of 20,540 entries saw the $1 million guaranteed prize pool more than double to $2,054,000 of which more than $212,000 was reserved for the champion.
That champion turned out to be “mdf92” who walked away with $212,109 for his efforts. Mdf92 took full advantage of the re-entry format of the half price Sunday Million and put his second bullet to good use. The champion was joined at the final table by a host of talented players including Artem “veeea” Vezhenkov who had won the Sunday Million twice previously. Vezhenkov eventually fell in sixth place for $39,036.
Mdf92 found himself heads up with Brazil’s “ladygambiti” with a massive lead of 169 million to 36.1 million. The deficit proved too much of a gap for the Brazilian to bridge.
As usual, there were some substantial scores at PokerStars this week. Here is a pick of the best of them.
| Event | Champion | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| $215 Sunday Warm-Up | SpaceBonyiga | $42,866 |
| $1,050 Sunday Grand NLHE | AllLoot4Me | $34,026 |
| $215 Sunday Supersonic | maxyshark | $27,518 |
| $700 Super-Sized Sunday | playboy99999 | $27,023 |
| $1,050 Sunday Grand PLO | ekziter | $22,402 |
| Big $109 | x_zola25 | $19,441 |
| $109 Sunday Cooldown | soldado310 | $19,422 |
| Big $215 | Stevan “random_chu” Chew | $16,624 |
| $109 Sunday Kickoff | lawatchi1984 | $15,760 |
| Hot $109 | ex6tenceLV | $15,230 |
| $215 Bounty Builder | Can’tStopMee | $13,098 |
| Hot $215 | Joe “jcada99” Cada | $12,692 |
| $109 Bounty Builder | GioPN | $10,951 |
| Hot $162 | charkovsky2 | $9,742 |
| $109 Sunday Wrap-Up | danino655 | $9,150 |
| $109 Bubble Rush | ramastar88 | $6,142 |
| $109 Sunday Starter | onlymtt748 | $5,456 |
| Hot $162 | Kippling25 | $5,426 |
| Big $162 | gonzar15 | $4,251 |
Over to 888poker now, where Russia’s “EvnomiYa” triumphed in the $100,000 Whale to turn $1,050 into a most impressive $31,200; the Russian defeated the United Kingdom’s “FatStacksY0” heads up to leave the Brit to collect the $20,800 consolation prize.
Argentina’s “largomen1” won the $35,000 Turbo Mega Deep for a $8,575 score, “ILoveToPlay” walked away with the $5,375 first-place prize of the $25,000 Sunday Crocodile and “DonMaxiQQ” became the $50,000 Sunday Challenge champion, collecting $11,077.
Finally, the biggest single cash at partypoker on Aug. 20 went to “dnvz23” courtesy of taking down the $250K Gtd Title Fight for $43,000. A total of 1,044 players got into the $215 buy-in tournament, which left partypoker nursing a near $42,000 overlay, an overlay that dnvz23 took full advantage of.
Some of the other notable victories at partypoker included:
| Event | Champion | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| $100K Gtd Main Event | BRESTLEON | $20,467 |
| $100K Gtd High Roller | WWWpartyCOM | $19,878 |
| $75K Gtd Title Fight Warm Up | luckyzebra | $16,808 |
| $75K Gtd High Roller | BenRichards1 | $15,624 |
| $35K Gtd PKO Weigh-In | RedDwarf9 | $3,676 |
| $20K Gtd PKO Eliminator | Dzmitry “Dzmitry_Urbanovic” Urbanovic | $2,474 |
