Sunday Briefing: Kristen Bicknell Enjoys a Super Sunday

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Dec 03, 2018 5 min read Last updated Dec 19, 2019

Kristen Bicknell, known as “krissyb24” in online poker circles, enjoyed a fantastic Sunday on Dec. 2 after winning a Sunday Major at PokerStars, finishing second in another while winning two $5,300 MILLIONS Online seats at partypoker, in addition to bubbling the final table of a partypoker tournament.

PokerStars High Roller Club: $2,100 Sunday Cooldown 8-Max Turbo PKO

Bicknell’s biggest cash came in the PokerStars High Roller Club: $2,100 Sunday Cooldown 8-Max Turbo PKO,a tournament that saw 186 players compete for a slice of $372,000. Some of the world’s best players reached the money, including Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, Steve “Mr. Tim Caum” O’Dwyer, “girafganger7” and Preben “prebz” Stokkan, the latter bursting the final table bubble.

“DotComRicher” was the first final table member to bust and was joined on the sidelines by Niklas “Lena900” Astedt. Belarus’ Aliaksei “Ale6ka” Boika, the 2016 EPT Malta champion, was the next to fall.

Fifth-place went to Gary “quiditbear” Hasson before “cigarromata” of Brazil secured a combined score of $25,329. This was more than third-placed “TiltMeBig” won thanks to the former locking up $8,312 worth of bounties.

TiltMeBig’s elimination left Bicknell and Austria’s “mikki696” to lock horns heads-up. Bicknell had already secured $27,296 worth of bounties on her way to heads-up, but couldn’t claim the scalp of mikki696 so had to make do with a $28,508 runner-up score, leaving mikki696 to walk away with a combined $81,444.

PokerStars Bigger $215

After finishing second in the High Roller Club: $2,100 Sunday Cooldown 8-Max Turbo PKO, Bicknell went on to outlast 563 opponents in the Bigger $215 to get her hands on the $19,882 first-place prize.

Bicknell found herself heads-up again Estonia’s “ULOSEMFKR!!” and made short work of them to bag yet another online poker title; the Estonian netted $14,428 for their runner-up finish.

Third-place finisher “Zluka2010” of Latvia was the only other player to win five-figures, namely $10,470.

Earlier at the final table, “tino300469” of the United Kingdom fell in ninth-place with Belgium’s Anthony “OemphaLoempah” Chimkovitch crashing out one place later. Canada’s Shyam “G’s zee” Srinivasan busted in seveth-place with Julian “jutrack” Track banking $4,001 when he fell in sixth-place.

Another Brit, "0409479" was the fifth-place finisher for $5,514 with Gunti “poker@luffyD” Aleskinu falling in fourth-place for $7,598.

partypoker MILLIONS Online Day 1C

The third of five starting flights in the partypoker MILLIONS Online took place on Dec. 2 and saw another massive field buy in for $5,300. Some 1,112 players had bought in by the time late registration closed, taking the total attendance so far to 3,170; partypoker may just hit this $20 million guarantee after all.

Colombia’s Carlos “carlitos350” Camargo finished Day 1C as the chip leader after turning his 1,000,000 starting stack into 19,285,021, giving himself a legitimate chance of winning what will be a $2.5 million first-place prize. Camargo pipped “JORD_GUBBEN” to the chip lead with JORD_GUBBEN bagging up 18,421,926 at the close of play.

Several well-known online pros finished with enough chips to see their names displayed in the top 10 of the Day 1C chip counts. New Zealand’s Hamish “hamishc2” Crawshaw was third in chips with 17,777,764 with “Alien_Army” in fourth-place with 17,351,003; Alien_Army won a massive 888poker XL Inferno event last year.

Team partypoker’s Joni “JJouhki” Jouhkimainen finished the night with 16,158,283 chips, enough for sixth-place on the Day 1C leaderboard, while Laszlo “omaha4rollz” Bujtas and Netherlands’ “Hahaha_Owned” finished with enough chips for ninth and tenth-place in the counts.

Some of the other big-name players to progress to Day 2 included “PhileasFogg”, Fedor “Fedor_Holz” Holz, Daniel “ROTTsFEARestFC” Charlton and Simon “HellmuthTheGr8” Mattsson.

Two flights remain in this massive event. Day 1D shuffles up at 8:00 p.m. CET on Dec. 3 with a turbo-structured Day 1E scheduled for 1:00 p.m. CET on Dec. 4.

partypoker Sunday Super High Roller

A star-studded field of 117 players took to the partypoker tables for the Sunday Super High Roller, creating a $292,500 prize pool as a result.

All but one of the eight players who reached the final table walked away with a five-figure score, Sam “DeanMalenko” Greenwood falling in eighth-place for $9,506.

Greenwood was joined on the rail by Steve “eet_smakelijk” O’Dwyer who netted $11,700 for his seventh-place finish. A pair of players from the UK were the next casualties. Jonathan “proudflop” Proudfoot crashed out in sixth-place for $14,625 with “orud74” busting in fifth-place for $19,012.

Russian pro “aLiNeNok1617” exited in fourth-place and when “madgenius87” fell in third-place heads-up was set.

The final battle in this tournament saw “z-boooo” of Malta take on the UK’s “SpiritDNA” but no deal was struck despite the difference between first and second place being a cool $20,475. This meant z-boooo banked $51,187 when the were eliminated in second-place, leaving the champion to scoop a bankroll-boosting $71,662.

888poker $100,000 Sunday Mega Deep

This weekend’s $100,000 Sunday Mega Deep at 888poker ended in a heads-up chop between “Happynose” of belarus and Malta-based Dutchman Steven “Kale333” van Zadelhoff. The Belarusian secured the larger of the two prizes, namely $17,607 with van Zadelhoff netting $15,892 for his $215 investment.

The UK’s Paul “Senta99” Senter was the first casualty of the final table, his eight-place finish seeing $2,250 added to his 888poker account. Senter was joined as a spectator by “Omegita06” of the Dominican Republic, “SEWart777” and “23NoraB” who won this tournament last week.

Slovenian Ivan “Hurrrrican3” Gabrieli busted in third to leave Happynose and van Zadelhoff to play one-on-one for the title, but the final duo struck a deal instead to guarantee themselves a profitable Sunday session at 888poker.

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888poker $50,000 Sunday Sale Whale

Rounding off the Sunday Briefing for another week is a look at the $50,000 Sunday Whale, which this week attracted 75 entrants who helped surpass the $50,000 guarantee by $25,000.

Taking full advantage of the juicy prize pool was Ukrainian superstar Roman “Romeopro33” Romanovsky who turned his $1,050 buy-in into a much more substantial $26,250. Romanvsky plans to retire from poker in the not too distant future,according to an interview with PokerNews, his opponents will be hoping it is a case of retiring sooner rather than later.

The top three finishers won more than $10,000 each in this event. “Kannwas” of Austria finished third and collected $11,250 while runner-up “PokerJoe332” of Croatia secured a $16,875 payday.

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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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