Sunday Briefing: Henrique Bastos “galochina10” Coutinho Wins the Sunday Million

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Jun 11, 2018 5 min read

The 2018 World Series of Poker may have dragged thousands of poker players to the Nevada desert, but there were still tens of thousands of poker players grinding on PokerStars, partypoker and 888poker on Jun. 10 and some of those grinders helped themselves to massive prizes.

PokerStars Sunday Million

Henrique Bastos “galochina10” Coutinho got his hands on online poker’s biggest weekly prize when he outlasted a field of 5,490 entrants in the PokerStars Sunday Million. Coutinho came into the final table in the middle of the pack but fought his way to victory to bank $148,292 and almost doubling his lifetime winnings.

“miniDanny028” of Russia bust in ninth-place when their pocket queens lost to the ace-jack of “ELLA_ELIAS” when the latter hit a Broadway straight on the river. They were followed to the rail by Norway’s “Cndale1” whose ace-jack couldn’t get there against the pocket tens of “It.happ3ns.”

The player count was reduced once more when Latvia’s Romans “RovoDice” Voitovs, at his third Sunday Million final table, three-bet all-in with a pair of black tens after Andreas “mrAndreeew” Berggren had opened the betting with ace-king. Berggren called, flopped a king, and sent Voitovs to the sidelines.

“Bagelakis23” exited in sixth-place at the hands of Coutinho before Berggren’s tens held against a short-stacked shove with ace-deuce from “felipebeltra” to leave only four players in the hunt for the title.

Those four became three when "ELLA_ELIAS" crashed out after Coutinho flopped a wheel then Berggren ran out of steam when his ace-five of diamonds lost to the black eights in Coutinho’s hand when the board four-flushed.

Heads-up saw "It.happ3ns." and Coutinho battle for the victory. Only four hands of one-on-one action took place before Coutinho jammed all-in with king-three and "It.happ3ns." called with a pair of aces. A king on the flop and another on the river was enough for Coutinho to win the hand and therefore the entire tournament.

PokerStars Sunday High Roller: $125K Gtd

The PokerStars Sunday High Roller always attracts a stellar crowd and this week was no different with some of online poker’s elite grinders exchanging $2,100 for the chance to win this high profile event.

There can only be one winner in tournament poker and that winner this week was Croatia “sousinha23” who scooped a cool $45,028. The victory didn’t come easy because they had to battle with the likes of Niklas “Lena900” Astedt (ninth for $5,528), Finnish star Samuel “€uop€an” Vousden (eighth for $6,433), Michael Chi “mczhang” Zhang (seventh for €8,495), Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson (fifth for $14,812), and Andras “probirs” Nemeth (third for $25,825).

partypoker KO Series #37-HR: $500K Gtd Championship Event 6-Max NL Hold’em

“LordPuasonG” won the first of two $500,000 guaranteed KO Series Championship Events at partypoker to get their hands on more than $79,000 including bounty payments.

The eventual champion sent 17 opponents to the rail in their way to victory to secure $31,841 in bounty payments. Add this to the $47,470 they were awarded for being the last player standing in the tournament and their $530 investment swelled to a cool $79,311.

Everyone at the six-handed final table locked up at least $8,377 plus a minimum of $3,562 worth of bounties. Preben “prebzzz” Stokkan was arguably the highest profile player at the final table, but they fell in fifth-place for a combined score of $15,968.

partypoker KO Series #38-HR: $500K Gtd Championship Event Smooth NL Hold’em

“Aspartam1967” was crowned the partypoker KO Series #38-HR: $500K Gtd Championship Event Smooth champion, an accolade that banked them $89,905 in total. After sending 13 opponents to the showers, including runner-up “Netto135,” Aspartam1967 won $40,255 from the bounty prize pool, an inflated figure due to the fact they also won the bounty that was on their own head.

Nobody eliminated more players than Aspartam1967 although both “MentulaMagna” and “PCMPCM” who finished in ninth-place and 11th place both claimed 10 bounties.

888poker $50,000 Whale

Ivan “Hurrrrican3” Gabrieli and Alessandro “ZeroNineee” Valli were the big winners in the $50,000 Whale, a $1,050 buy-in tournament at 888poker.

Gabrieli and Valli struck a deal when there were only two players remaining in the tournament to slightly flatten the payout structure. Gabrieli walked away with $24,596 and Valli $17,378 with the original payouts for first and second-place being $25,550 and $16,425 respectively.

Third-place went to Uruguayan Fabrizio “DrMiKee” Gonzalez who collected $10,950. Gonzalez would later go on to win one of 888poker’s other Sunday Majors.

*reflects a heads-up deal

888poker $100,000 Sunday Mega Deep

Fabrizio “DrMiKee” Gonzalez won $19,250 after he topped a field of 489 players in the $100,000 Mega Deep. Gonzalez had earlier finished third in the $50,000 Whale for an additional $10,950 for what was a profitable day for the talented grinder.

Alessandro “ZeroNineee” Valli finished in eighth-place for the second time in two weeks and banked $2,250 to go with the $17,378 he secured for finishing second in the $50,000 Whale.

Both “GangstaGo” and “DePittsterje” added five-figure scores to their resumes by finishing as the tournament’s runner-up and the third-place finisher.

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Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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