Sunday Briefing: Huge $214K Score for AchoBogdanov

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Jul 16, 2018 5 min read

While France were celebrating winning the 2018 FIFA World Cup and John Cynn was getting used to being poker’s World Champion, Bulgaria’s “AchoBogdanov” was busy writing his own story and helping himself to almost $215,000.

PokerStars Sunday Million

This week’s Sunday Million was by far the biggest in recent weeks as players returned to the virtual felt after their World Series of Poker exploits. A field of 7,603 created a $1,520,600 prize pool that was shared among the top 1,259 finishers.

Everyone at the nine-handed final table locked up $11,938 for their efforts, the sum Brazil’s Vinicius “jason13-2008” Steves banked when his king-queen ran into the ace-queen of “zemachess” on the turn of a queen-high board.

Canada’s “sauce3000” lost a coinflip with pocket queens against the ace-king of zemachess before AchoBogdanov caught a ten on the flop to see their ace-ten come from behind to best the ace-jack of “vidi.pkr” to reduce the player count by one.

Sixth-place went to zemachess who endured a rollercoaster of emotions at the final table. The start of their undoing came courtesy of “Crashsite!!” after their pocket aces melted the zemachess’ snowmen (pocket eights). Zemachess then jammed all-in with ace-jack and ran into the ace-king of AchoBogdanov to exit in sixth.

AchoBogdanov then found ace-king again and it flopped an ace to crack the pocket eights of “alexos888” to leave only four players in the hunt for the title. The final four became three when Crashsite!! Moved all-in with ace-four and lost to the ace-king of AchoBogdanov.

Heads-up was set when AchoBogdanov continued to send players to the rail. This time the Bulgarian found a pair of kings in the hole in a hand with “Januliatko87” who had three-bet all-in with a pair of sevens. A king on the flop left Januliatko87 drawing to running sevens, which never appeared.

Thanks to the run of eliminations, AchoBogdanov held a massive 10-to-1 chip lead over “dunny03” going into the heads-up. Dunny03 fought valiantly for five minutes before calling off their chips with pocket sixes when AchoBogdanov set them all in while holding ten-nine. The door card was a nine, no sixes landed on the felt and AchoBogdanov turned their $215 investment into a massive $214,893 score, the largest cash of their career to date.

PokerStars Sunday High Roller: $75K Gtd

The $2,100 Sunday High Rollerat PokerStars saw a compact field of 49 entries compete for a slice of a $98,000 prize pool, and it was the United Kingdom’s “T-Macha” who got their hands on the lion’s share of the money, namely $37,450.

T-Macha defeated Hungary’s Laszlo “omaha4rollz” Bujtas heads-up to leave the Hungarian to collect the $23,028 consolation prize.

Only six places were paid and it was “Bigfish112932” from the Philippines who busted in sixth-place, a finish worth $4,686. They were followed to the sidelines by Swedish superstar Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson and then German duo “pappadogg” and Julian “jutrack” Track, the latter busted in third place for a $15,467 addition to his bankroll.

partypoker 1K Sunday Big Bounty Hunter-HR

“ld3f1x89” was one of the biggest winners at partypoker on Jul. 15 courtesy of them taking down the 1K Sunday Big Bounty Hunter. A field of 136 players competed for a share of $138,720 in the $1,050 buy-in event and only 23 of those starters got their hands on some prize money.

“SchelampigaUhu” was the eight-handed final table’s first casualty. They busted and banked $1,844 plus an additional $2,080 worth of bounties; only the runner-up and eventual champion claimed more scalps.

“Arxigos”, “Ewokwat” and “sweet_dreammm” all crashed out before Niklas “Drulitooo” Astedt busted in fourth-place for a combined score of $8,155.

Russian pro “MAM0HT_T” exited in third-place for $7,912 and $4,907 worth of bounties to leave “z-boooo” and ld3f1x89 to lock horns heads-up for the title. It was a battle ld3f1x89 emerged victorious from, securing a combined $32,691 and leaving z-boooo to walk away in second-place with a $13,902 addition to their bankroll.

partypoker Super Sunday 1K Deepstack

“M1ndBl0w” turned $1,050 into a $25,480 score by taking down the partypoker Super Sunday 1K Deepstack.

Philipp “Phil_Gruissem” Gruissem, a member of Team partypoker, narrowly missed out on a final table appearance. Gruissem busted in ninth-place for $2,600 and he burst the final table bubble.

Eighth-place and $3,380 went to “pruttzz12” before “Demba_Pa” busted in seventh-place. They were joined on the rail by “chhurro” and “Thanks-Dude” and “spinner2255.” A special mention has to go to spinner2255 because they finished fifth in this very tournament last week and followed that up with a fourth-place finish this week.

Third-placed “HungarysHero” was the first player to collect a five-figure score, namely $13,000 and their exit left “barrm111” and M1ndBl0w to play heads-up for the victory. It was a victory that went the way of “M1ndBl0w”, a finish worth $25,480, which left barrm111 to collect the $18,200 consolation prize.

888poker $50,000 Whale

Malta’s “Farrugia_1” came out on top of this weekend’s 888poker $50,000 Whale that hit its guarantee after 58 players exchanged $1,050 for a shot at glory.

Farrugia_1 walked away with a cool $21,460 for their victory after defeating Sweden’s Niklas “tutten7” Astedt in the heads-up battle; the Swede collected $14,500.

Six places were paid in this tournament with “UrShitStorm” of Sweden falling in sixth-place for $3,190. They were followed to the showers by “Pik00rs” of Austria, “DeuceofDuc0” of the Netherlands and Uruguay’s elite grinder Fabrizio “DrMiKee” Gonzalez in third-place.

888poker $50,000 Sunday Mega Deep

The $50,000 Sunday Mega Deep title is now in Brazil thanks to Ivanildo “ivanlimeira” Limeira outlasting a field of 387 in the $215 buy-in event. This week’s guarantee was surpassed by $27,400 and Limeira took full advantage of the juicy prize pool, getting his hands on $15,093.

The final three players of this event would not have looked out of place in a tournament 10 times the buy-in. Mike “Pipedream17” Dietrich busted in third-place for a $8,514 score and fellow Canadian Alex “Dynoalot” Difelice was the runner-up, a finish worth $11,223.

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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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