The Sunday Briefing: Volpe Wins Sunday Million Outright
While many were glued to their television sets to learn who would be playing in this year’s Super Bowl, thousands of others were back to the online grind for the Sunday majors. The top prize went to [B]Paul “paulgees81” Volpe[B] winning the [URL="https://www.pokernews.com/pokerstars"+]PokerStars[/URL] Sunday Million outright for a whopping $253,894.60. The [URL="https://www.pokernews.com/full-tilt-poker"+]Full Tilt Poker[/URL] $750,000 Guarantee was taken down by [B]"Im young money"[/B] for $144,238.71.
[H]PokerStars Sunday Million[/H]
[TABLE]*Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool*
$200+$15 | 8,630 | $1,726,000[/TABLE]
[TABLE]*Place | Player | Prize*
1 | Paul “paulgees81” Volpe | $253,894.60
2 | ser svensson | $185,545
3 | grayzee1 | $ 129,450
4 | BleedBlue33 | $86,300
5 | Ninemil | $69,040
6 | samilero | $51,780
7 | 4Kings_Hit | $34,520
8 | shizgared89 | $18,986
9 | nickthenasty | $13,376.50 [/TABLE]
Notable Finishes: Arnaud “frenchkiss” Mattern (11th - $9,147.80), James “croll103” Carroll (111th - $1,380.80)
[H]PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up[/H]
[TABLE]*Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool*
$200+$15 | 4,807| $961,400[/TABLE]
[TABLE]*Place | Player | Prize*
*1 | J4d3dr4g0n | $122,112.76
*2 | Philipoune | $100,000
*3 | Johnny Lodden | $119,600
4 | mrhavanna | $54,319.10
5 | StackinCake | $40,859.50
6 | Jan2000 | $31,245.50
7 | magic032 | $21,631.50
8 | Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron | $12,017.50
9 | Manor | $7,691.20 [/TABLE]
[I]*denotes three-handed deal[/I]
Notable Finishes: Martin “AABenjaminAA” Hruby (16th - $2,836.13), Michael “mossified84” Skomac (35th - $2,067.01), Jason “munson1049” Deutsch (47th - $1,778.59)
[H]PokerStars Sunday 500[/H]
[TABLE]*Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool*
$500+$30 | 1,132 | $566,000[/TABLE]
[TABLE]*Place | Player | Prize*
1 | Patonius2000 | $96,220
2 | JPette333 | $70,750
3 | Angel Guillen | $53,713.40
4 | Stephen “stevie444” Chidwick | $38,488
5 | David Williams | $28,017
6 | zugzwang16 | $22,357
7 | Obar89 | $16,697
8 | rizih | $11,037
9 | Brandon “oncommand” Meyers | $6,112.80 [/TABLE]
Notable Finishes: Jason “jakoon1985” Koon (13th - $3,848.80), Jimmie “AlusivPnkBny” Guinther (18th - $2,716.80)
[H]PokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance[/H]
[TABLE]*Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool*
$200+$15 | 1,530 | $306,000[/TABLE]
[TABLE]*Place | Player | Prize*
1 | Setherson2 | $55,202.40
2 | Runnin Rich | $39,933
3 | Dan “Wretchy” Martin | $30,600
4 | soloh0mer | $22,950
5 | Dtrain27 | $16,065
6 | FIREintheSUN| $13,005
7 | Azazel1980 | $9,945
8 | xxxALBxxx | $6,885
9 | _CIF_ | $4,284 [/TABLE]
Notable Finishes: Tommy “tcblade” Chen (15th - $2,295), Alex “He1en ke11er” Moore (21st - $1,132.20)
[H]Full Tilt $750,000 Guarantee[/H]
[TABLE]*Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool*
$200+$16 | 4,084 | $816,800[/TABLE]
[TABLE]*Place | Player | Prize*
1 | Im young money | $144,238.71
2 | white_kong20 | $87,315.92
3 | pokerlogic1 | $57,176
4 | TrueGrinding | $44,924
5 | fabtel | $33,733.84
6 | BPV | $24,994.08
7 | JayJay1 | $18,786.40
8 | morris2055 | $14,702.40
9 | Roczilla | $10,945.12 [/TABLE]
Notable Finishes: Luis “Luis Velador 7” Velador (45th - $1,878.64), Pascal LeFrancois (46th - $1,470.24)
[H]Full Tilt Sunday Brawl[/H]
[TABLE]*Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool*
$240+$16 | 2,995 | $599,000[/TABLE]
[TABLE]*Place | Player | Prize*
1 | Christopher “boNeZee” Bonita | $121,597
2 | Flying Smile | $78,469
3 | moisei1986 | $58,103
4 | foldimo | $43,727
5 | boahboah | $30,549
6 | SteadyCash | $20,366
7 | ArchietheGreed | $13,777
8 | BIGOne_FFM | $9,584
9 | tiltass33 | $7,188 [/TABLE]
Notable Finishes: Josh “brikdog24” Brikis (12th - $4,492.50)
[H]Full Tilt $200,000 Guarantee (Rebuy)[/H]
[TABLE]*Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool*
$150+$13 | 659 | $329,700[/TABLE]
[TABLE]*Place | Player | Prize*
*1 | gBallz4aLL | $70,492.58
*2 | hotmark777 | $60,563.17
3 | Isaac Baron | $37,091.25
4 | asaedbomrules | $28,848.75
5 | springmaster | $21,430.50
6 | That’s The Thing | $15,660.75
7 | Jimmie “jimmie23” Guinther | $10,220.70
8 | Mario “Pokerccini” | $7,912.80
9 | uppino1 | $6,264.30 [/TABLE]
[I]*denotes two-handed deal[/I]
[H]Full Tilt Sunday Mulligan[/H]
[TABLE]*Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool*
$200+$16 | 1,243 | $248,600[/TABLE]
[TABLE]*Place | Player | Prize*
1 | bigcdeboss727 | $54,692
2 | toddybrun2 | $34,804
3 | too eazy | $25,170.75
4 | SaU_KRIS | $20,572.50
5 | Alex “-Akwow-“ Kim | $15,521.16
6 | GASSITT | $11,394
7 | Nick “FU_15” Maimone | $7,432.80
8 | TCrema | $5,317.20
9 | Slips713 | $3,798 [/TABLE]
Notable Finishes: Scott Fischman (14th - $1,541.32)
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