Sunday Briefing: Half-Price Sunday Million Creates Huge Turnout
PokerStars reduced the buy-in for the Sunday Million from $215 to $107.50 on Dec. 10 and it proved a popular move with a staggering 18,973 players buying in, which created a $1,897,300 prize pool.
Some 3,140 players received prize money for the efforts, with the likes of Adrienne “talonchick” Rowsome, Jens “Fresh_oO_D” Lakemeier, Rafael “GM_VALTER” Moraes, Rafael “zugzwang16” Porzecanski, Tom “hitthehole” Middleton and Dara “SlowDoke” O’Kearney reaching the money places, with the latter falling in 12th place for $9,368.
Everyone at the final table was guaranteed $13,142 and that was the sum “just_two_ace” collected for busting in ninth. The Russian player was followed to the sidelines by “longbreath”, “jagdtreiba”, “Ticiz”, “Killuckkk”, and “roddc”.
Third-place went to Sweden’s “mamamamama70” who had reached the final table of the Super Tuesday in October. The Swede fell in third place when his ace-deuce was beaten by a seven-high straight made by Brazil’s “SitPro2011”.
SitPro2011 ran out a worthy winner when Malta-based “Kelevrafckj” moved all-in for 15 big blinds with ace-deuce and SitPro2011 called with ten-seven of clubs. SitPro2011 improved to a pair of tens on the flop and his hand remained best to send his opponent to the rail in second place.
Sunday Million Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SitPro2011 | Brazil | $197,162 |
| 2 | Kelevrafckj | Malta | $140,529 |
| 3 | mamamamama70 | Sweden | $100,174 |
| 4 | roddc | Brazil | $71,408 |
| 5 | Killuckkk | Malta | $50,902 |
| 6 | Ticiz | Netherlands | $36,284 |
| 7 | jagreiba | Germany | $25,865 |
| 8 | longbreath | Switzerland | $18,437 |
| 9 | just_two_ace | Russia | $13,142 |
Some of the other big wins at PokerStars on Dec. 10 included:
| Tournament | Winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| $530 Bounty Builder High Roller | jonybulan | $61,097* |
| $2,100 Sunday High Roller | flong78 | $47,398 |
| $215 Sunday Warm-Up | B0neShaker | $39,514 |
| $215 Bounty Builder | Norbert “wantme1234” Berent | $33,554* |
| Sunday 500 | hello_totti | $28,921 |
| $109 Bounty Builder | Marius “mariusas91” Daniel | $28,199* |
| $215 Sunday Supersonic | Alex “dynoalot” Difelice | $27,830 |
| Bigger $109 | Sr.Rouquinho | $25,270 |
| Bigger $215 | UltimoRJ | $20,587 |
| Hotter $109 | germaxi | $18,825 |
| Hotter $215 | Saquird | $18,225 |
| $109 Sunday Kickoff | Romans “RovoDice” Voitovs | $15,500 |
| $109 Sunday Cooldown | Machadada RS | $14,605 |
| $530 Omania High Roller | Alex “Ahhh Is It?” Lindop | $13,413 |
| $215 NLO8 Sunday Supersonic | vrash21 | $8,047 |
| Hotter $162 | koquito5 | $7,003 |
| $109 Omania | Marco “Salsicha” Alves | $6,833 |
| $215 Triple Threat | DaniAnnaLevi | $6,740 |
| $109 Sunday Wrap-Up | Tim “TTWIST” Kelly | $6,705 |
| $109 Bubble Rush | Coolhandluke83 | $5,741 |
| $109 Sunday Starter | read me pro | $5,500 |
| Bigger $162 | Sinorelo | $5,140 |
*includes bounty payments
Big Scores at partypoker
“Dreamlivewsop” collected a substantial $43,875 prize by taking down the $100K Gtd Super High Roller at partypoker. The $2,600 buy-in event saw 42 entries processed and a $105,000 prize pool played for.
“TheTryangle” was the unfortunate soul to burst the money bubble paving the way for the final six players to collect at least $5,182. Dreamlivewsop took on “girafganger” heads-up for the title and emerged victorious to leave the runner-up to collect $22,269.
Some of the other notable partypoker wins included:
| Tournament | Winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| $100K Gtd High Roller | letsgodancing | $21,992 |
| $100K Gtd Title Fight Warm Up | Ollie1049 | $21,025 |
| $100K Gtd High Roller Warm Up | RedDwarf9 | $20,201 |
| $100K Gtd Main Event Warm Up | zo0preme | $15,201 |
| $50K Gtd Title Fight Kick-Off | benderbei1 | $10,195 |
| $20K Gtd High Roller Turbo | Chaisurvirat | $9,493 |
| $50K Gtd Main Event Kick-Off | haegar54 | $9,425 |
| $20K Gtd Title Fight Turbo | Chaisurvirat | $7,524 |
| $20K Gtd Main Event Turbo | PeitodePeru | $6,246 |
Biggest Results from 888poker
Over at 888poker, the $15,000 Turbo Mega Deep ended in a heads-up deal between eventual champion “Klonkfisken” and the ironically named John “Dealm8ker69” Cook who walked away with $5,127 and $4,754.
Also at 888poker, Russia’s “abmarin” won the $80,000 Mega Deep for $16,362, “aandy48” turned $109 into $10,106 by winning the $50,000 Sunday Challenge, and “Razielskat” took down the $12,000 Sunday Monsoon for $3,210.
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