The Sunday Briefing: Records Break With Almost 20,000 Playing the PokerStars Sunday Million

February 01 2010, Mickey Doft

Playing to win was the theme on this record-breaking Sunday, which closed out the month. Prize pools were increased across the virtual felt as each of the major online poker sites ran special promotions. PokerStars offered a Sunday Million Special Edition tournament, upping its guarantee to $2,000,000. That amount was nearly doubled as a field of 19,377 created a prize pool of $3,875,400, both new Sunday Million records. "OX45AL" claimed the whopping $550,011.29 top prize outright, also a new Sunday Million record.

Ultimate Bet’s Online Championship 4 concluded with a $1,000 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Championship event. Dave “DOUBLEDAVE22” D’Alesandro emerged victorious, pocketing $279,044.50 for his outright victory.

As part of Full Tilt’s $25 Million Double Guarantees Week, the $750,000 Guarantee played as $1.5 Million Guarantee. "BankOfSweden" took it down, winning $212,044.60 per a heads up deal, the only deal struck across all of the Sunday Majors this weekend.

PokerStars Sunday Million Special Edition [$2M guaranteed]
Buy-in: $200+15
Prize Pool: $3,875,400
Entrants: 19,377

1. OX45AL - $550,011.29
2. celofyz33 - $332,540
3. eMarkM - $244,616.42
4. OBVAMENTS - $166,270
5. S.Takmaziyan - $133,016
6. Kostya 77777 - $99,762
7. Gmelkonyan - $66,508
8. austinlewis - $44,227.82
9. hunter10999 - $29,928.60

Notable Finishes: Damien “FibSensei” Griffin (15th - $9,643.66), Ryan “Colombo218” Colombo (16th - $6,817.07), Tyler “brainwash” Cornell (37th - $4,655.56), Jason “Taknapotin” Somerville (69th - $3,491.67)

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up
Buy-in: $200+15
Prize Pool: $1,053,600
Entrants: 5,268

1. SHOGUN1000 - $164,817.24
2. Rawhide0728 - $122,744.40
3. androo11 - $86,922
4. Reds Fan '73 - $59,528.40
5. Stenbek - $44,778
6. JAMES-OO7 - $34,242
7. Le Dolce - $23,706
8. 1234palleB - $13,170
9. smokingjoep - $8,428.80

Notable Finishes: Sam “KingKobeMVP” Stein (12th - $6,268.92), Bryan “badbeatninja” Devonshire (34th - $2,265.24), Vicky Coren (42nd - $2,086.12)

PokerStars Sunday 500
Buy-in: $500+30
Prize Pool: $783,500
Entrants: 1,567

1. Doommy - $125,360.65
2. C.K. - $94,020
3. vikt777 - $70,515
4. Matt “papamat25” Iles - $51,515.12
5. Tommy “TMoney0209” Miller - $37,216.25
6. Highpothead - $28,989.50
7. IAmSoSo - $21,154.50
8. Joseph “bigegypt” Elpayaa - $13,711.25
9. Ruben “rubenrtv” Visser - $7,835

Notable Finishes: Ty “puffinmypurp” Reiman (25th - $2,977.30)

UBOC $1M Championship
Buy-in: $1,000+$50
Prize Pool: $1,307,000
Entrants: 1,307

1. Dave “DOUBLEDAVE22” D’Alesandro - $279,044.50
2. Lauren “SUPERMODL” Kling - $163,244.30
3. Brett “BS0228” Switzer - $115,016
4. Sean “WAWA711” Rice - $83,648
5. Michael Binger - $69,924.50
6. Max “MUCKANDLOSE” Lykov - $56,854.50
7. Josh “DAHJINERAT” Mancuso - $43,131
8. EBSCR00GE - $30,714.50
9. GSKI6986 - $21,565.50

Notable Finishes: Shawn “SB129397” Busse (11th - $13,070), Mike “INISSINT” Glasser (12th - $13,070), Chris “INYOUREYE111” Moorman (15th - $9,802.50)

Full Tilt $1.5 Million Guarantee
Buy-in: $200+16
Prize Pool: $1,515,600
Entrants: 7,578

*1. BankOfSweden - $212,044.60
*2. extassyman - $210,050
3. zhuoyu19791979 - $125,794.80
4. xTrumptightx - $93,967.20
5. SIGGYFREUD - $68,202
6. NLife - $48,499.20
7. nowa1 - $32,282.28
8. kmillionaire83 - $22,430.88
9. guillet76 - $15,762.24

*denotes heads-up deal leaving $15,000 to the eventual winner

Notable Finishes: Jared “bearbuck” Ingles (12th - $10,760.76), Tommy “tommyboy83” Koral (21st - $4,016.34)

Full Tilt Sunday Brawl
Buy-in: $240+16
Prize Pool: $817,600
Entrants: 4,088

1. ozram - $161,884.80
2. swingindoubleds - $99,747.20
3. HustleHyene - $71,948.80
4. mcpickl - $50,691.20
5. Rasmus “mrvogt” Vogt - $36,792
6. SoooSick - $24,528
7. Adam “Dahladino” Dahlin - $16,352
8. COCHOTE - $11,446.40
9. MRIBAS - $8,176

Notable Finishes: Tyler “TBaller247” Netter (19th - $2,289.28), Michael “amrasaralond” Binger (28th - $2,003.12), Jeremy “thechemist83” Gaubert (34th - $2,003.12)

Full Tilt Sunday Mulligan
Buy-in: $200+16
Prize Pool: $427,200
Entrants: 2,136

1. WormNorton - $87,127.44
2. CoeJassidy - $56,390.40
3. ferndog79 - $41,865.60
4. Marsall1121 - $31,612.80
5. antesvante - $22,214.40
6. SThoro1985 - $14,524.80
7. Steven “UFman2” Burkholder - $9,825.60
8. Jeremy “thechemist83” Gaubert - $6,835.20
9. MSUsFINEST - $5,126.40

Notable Finishes: Nicholas “Grippolio” Grippo (17th - $1,580.64), Ozenc “the aviator1” Demir (24th - $1,281.60), Dutch “Dutchalicious” Boyd (25th - $1,281.60)

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