Sunday Briefing: Poland has a Sunday Million Champion

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Aug 06, 2018 6 min read

Poland’s “pyszalek” had previously reached the final tables of the PokerStars Sunday Million and Super Tuesday, finishing second in the latter, but never managed to get their hands on the title. Aug. 5 was the day they finally got the proverbial monkey off their back, let’s see what happened.

PokerStars Sunday Million

Some 5,875 players took to the PokerStars virtual felt for this week’s Sunday Million, many staying out of the intense heat in Europe. This substantial crowd created a prize pool of $1,175,000 that was shared among the top 1,052 finishers.

The least any of the nine final table members could win was $9,332 and this is the sum “kZhh” of Hungary took home. A previous Sunday Million winner, kZhh three-bet shoved with ace-queen after pyszalek had opened with a min-raise from the cutoff. Pyszalek called with ace-king, turned a king and sent kZhh to the showers.

Pyszalek busted another opponent to leave only seven player in the tournament. “Jappsa” open-shoved with a suited king-jack and pyszalek called with a suited ace-queen. The Polish grinder paired the ace on the flop, another on the turn, and filled up on the river.

The champion elect continued their wrecking spree by sending “Hadendude” to the rail when their pocket queens prevailed against a pair of nines.

And the same pocket pairs matched up again to send “zl4pped” to the rail. zl4pped committed their stack with a black pair of nines and “HakkaZilla” looked them up with a pair of queens. The former flopped a nine to soar into the lead, but the queen of diamonds landed on the turn to put the ball in HakkaZilla’s court. No miracle one-outer on the river reduced the player count by one.

Pocket jacks were no good for “LBBigSlickAK”. Their jacks ran into the tens of pyszalek who flopped four-of-a-kind to leave LBBigSlick needing running jacks to survive. Only the river was a jack and only four players remained in the hunt for the $158,644 top prize.

Those four became three with the elimination of HakkaZilla who moved all-in with ace-ten of clubs and pyszalek called with a pair of sevens. That pair turned into a set on the flop and they sent another player home despite a scary board.

Heads-up was set soon after when pyszalek ramped up the aggression and used their chip lead to perfection. Pyszalek open-shoved on the button with the lowly eight-four and “ROSTBURK” called with king-queen. A four on the flop and an eight on the river sent ROSTBURK home in third place.

Pyszalek enjoyed a 54.5 million to 4.1 million chip advantage over Tinchoolp768, yet the latter clawed their way back into contention by reducing the lead to 20 million chips. That was as close as they got to a full comeback though because they moved all-in with king-jack and pyszalek called with the dominating ace-jack. Neither player improved their hand by the river; pyszalek’s ace-kicker came into play and Tinchoolp busted in second-place.

PokerStars Sunday High Roller: $125K Gtd

Russia’s “kitaec80” turned $2,100 into $45,976 by taking down the PokerStars Sunday High Roller, a tournament filled with the biggest names in online poker.

“Mikki696” of Austria was the final table’s first casualty, they busted in ninth-place for $5,644. The Austrian was followed to the rail by the UK’s Elliott “elliottpet” Peterman before Ukraine’s “Remi_Lebo_10” busted in seventh-place; the Ukrainian busted from this very tournament last week in seventh-place also.

Sixth-place went to the highly talented Belgian “girafganger7” before Luc “YRWTHMELTHR” Greenwood ended his run in fifth-place - worth $15,123.

Next to fall was Sweden’s Johannes “Greenstone25” Korsar and he was joined on the rail by Scott “Aggro Santos “ Margereson who also reached the final table of this tournament last week. Margereson, a British pro residing in Mexico, netted $26,369.

Heads-up was between Brazil’s “frredd” and kitaec80. The latter emerged victorious to pick up the $45,976 top prize and resign the Brazilian to a $34,818 consolation prize.

partypoker 1K Sunday High Roller-HR: $100K Gtd 6-Max

A brand-new tournament hit partypoker on Aug. 5, a $1,050 buy-in six-handed high roller event with a $100,000 guarantee. Some 106 players boought in to surpass the guarantee by $6,000.

Team partypoker’s Dzmitry “Dzmitry_Urbanov” Urbanovich was the first player to cash. He busted in 12th place for $2,904. By the time the final table was reached, $4,505 was the least anyone could win.

“Chelsea72” was the first of the six finalists to bust out of the event and they were followed to the sidelines by “psycoelios”, “HungarysHero” and “MaXiMuSpkr”. The latter’s exit left “MisterN411” and the Swedish superstar Simon “HellmuthTheGr8” Mattsson to lock horns heads-up for the title.

The pair of Goliath’s decided to strike a deal for the remaining prize pool, a deal that saw MisterN411 walk away with $25,610 leaving Mattsson to add another $28,216 to his lifetime winnings.

*reflects a heads-up deal

partypoker Super Sunday High Roller

“Maniakboy” is this week’s partypoker Super High Roller champion after they topped a field of 67 entrants. Partypoker boosted the guarantee of this tournament from $100,000 to $150,000 and maniakboy took full advantage of the juicy prize pool.

“PokerG1rl69” busted in eighth-place to become the first casualty of the final table and they were followed to the rail by “barrm111” and Team partypoker’s Roberto “WelshWizard” Romanello.

“ALLYOURLOOT” exited in fifth-place for $11,725 before last week’s champion “onehundredeyes” busted in fourth-place for a $15,075 score. Third-place went to “InthisCity” to leave “uwannagobud” and maniakboy to lock horns heads-up for the title.

It was a battle that maniakboy would ultimately win, which meant they secured the $51,087 first-place prize and uwannagobud had to make do with the $34,337 runner-up prize.

888poker $80,000 Whale

Fresh from a runner-up finish in the partypoker 1K Sunday High Roller-HR: $100K Gtd 6-Max, “MisterN411” walked away with the title of champion in the 888poker $80,000 Whale, a result worth a cool $28,000. The Dutch player defeated Canada’s “guydeet39” heads-up to secure the title.

888poke ambassador Dominik “888Dominik” Nitsche crashed out in seventh-place, the first payout spot in this tournament and a result worth $3,600. Everyone who finished in third-place or above secured a five-figure score with “J0hnmccl3an” of the United Kingdom banking $12,000.

“guydeet39” of Canada had to make do with the $18,000 consolation prize in this event, which is still a healthy return on $1,050 especially when one considers this tournament only takes five and a half hours to complete.

888poker $100,000 Sunday Mega Deep

Germany’s “TonyCipolla9” took down this weekend’s 888poker $100,000 Sunday Mega Deep to turn a $215 investment into a most welcomed $19,250.

Going into the final table all eyes were on 888poker ambassador Parker “888tonkaaaa” Talbot who finished seventh in last weekend’s tournament. The popular Canadian finished seventh again this week to lock up a $2,750 prize. Will the streaming specialist make it three consecutive final tables in next week’s event?

Each of the top three finishers netted a five-figure score. Brazil’s “botteonpoker” was the last player not to net five-figures, their fourth-place finish was worth a still substantial $7,750.

“Tikkapekka” of Finland walked away with a third-place finish worth $10,750 with Russia’s “matros.ru” being the final casualty of the final table, their second-place so them add $14,250 to their 888poker bankroll.

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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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