The Sunday Briefing: Diego "diegoaiz" Aizenberg Captures Second Sunday Million Crown

April 11, 2011

Mickey Doft Live Reporter

Winning the PokerStars Sunday Million is an impressive achievement. Winning it twice is downright remarkable. That was the story this weekend as Diego "diegoaiz" Aizenberg captured the title for a second time, the first having been in September 2008 for $148,849.49. This time around, Aizenberg collected $243,396.43. Over at Full Tilt Poker, "Mr Boogerz" took down the largest prize of the weekend by winning the $1,500,000 Guarantee for $307,584.

PokerStars Sunday Million

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+$15	8,273	$1,654,600

Place	Player	Prize
1	Diego "diegoaiz" Aizenberg	$243,396.43
2	tonho32	$177,869.50
3	LennanAlm	$124,095
4	Thierry "BOKPOWER" van den Berg	$82,730
5	Jim "jimbo1420069" Casement	$66,184
6	JCSeelbach	$49,638
7	Dercampb	$33,092
8	kam3047	$18,200.60
9	fishvirus	$12,823.15

Notable Finishes: Jonathan "TherookieQQ9" Plens (11th - $8,769.38), Ravi "govshark2" Raghavan (14th - $6,535.67), Happymon32 (20th - $3,640.12)

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+$15	4,634	$926,800

Place	Player	Prize
1	narbe86	$145,398.49
2	Andrew "RunThisTable" Lichtenberger	$107,972.20
3	Dean "dean23price" Price	$76,461
4	mikki696	$52,364.20
5	Chris "d0r1t0s" McClung	$39,389
6	SLOligarh	$30,121
7	Pr0fiteer	$20,853
8	_Chapa_26	$11,585
9	Nels316	$7,414

Notable Finishes: Leandro "AmarulaBR" Balotin (11th - $5,560.80), Chris "Big Huni" Hunichen (13th - $4,170.60), Nick "PureCash25" Rampone (18th - $2,780.40)

PokerStars Sunday 500

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+$30	962	$500,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	Willy Banaan	$87,400
2	Jordan "Jymaster11" Young	$63,500
3	Mike "munchenHB" Telker	$47,500
4	MindFeeling	$35,500
5	LSgambler	$25,000
6	Mr. C. Brown	$20,000
7	Skipaway99	$15,000
8	Joseph "JBlaze20" Chaplin	$10,000
9	Monk532	$5,740

Notable Finishes: Seth "SFisch4" Fischer (14th - $3,750), Brian "brianm15" England (23rd - $2,100), Mohsin "sms9231" Charania (24th - $2,100), Tim "Tim0thee" Adam (25th - $2,100), Chris "RuberbandMan" DeMaci (26th - $2,100)

PokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+$15	1,395	$279,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	"88k"	$50,443.20
2	Castor	$36,549
3	Vinkyy	$27,900
4	Jason "JP OSU" Potter	$20,925
5	Gualter "Gualter S." Salles	$14,647.50
6	westy14	$11,857.50
7	kinheim	$9,067.50
8	Jordan "iMsoLucky0" Morgan	$6,277.50
9	Andrew "Browntown19" Brown	$3,906

Notable Finishes: Josh "jdsmith9" Smith (10th - $2,650.50), Ryan "g0lfa" D'Angelo (12th - $2,650.50), Michael "dapalma150" Palma (16th - $1,534.50)

PokerStars $109+R NL Hold'em ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$100+$9	1,152	$413,500

Place	Player	Prize
1	Sasuke234	$75,670.50
2	Rayan "rkruok" Nathan	$54,995.50
3	Jeff "jeff710" Hakim	$41,350
4	bobbybagpipe	$31,012.50
5	Jamie "pokerjamers" Armstrong	$21,708.75
6	pablox55	$17,573.75
7	patawkubakia	$13,438.75
8	Banderivets	$9,303.75
9	WushuTM	$5,789

Notable Finishes: Ravi "govshark2" Raghavan (10th - $4,135), Joe "hoodini10" Udine (11th - $4,135), Steven "stevejpa" Paul (15th - $3,308)

Full Tilt $1,500,000 Guarantee (Multi-Entry)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+$16	9,612	$1,922,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	Mr Boogerz	$307,584
2	Caio Brites	$211,464
3	Toty0611	$149,947.20
4	BeckReloaded	$109,576.80
5	Tyler "TheBrain" Cornell	$80,740.80
6	PIPERSTARK	$57,672
7	bz833	$40,370.40
8	Alex "TheAssassinato" Fitzgerald	$27,874.80
9	jambrose55	$19,608.48

Notable Finishes: Frank "Frank1The1Tank" Calo (12th - $13,456.80), Alex “-AKwow-” Kim (14th - $9,996.48), XWINK (16th - $7,305.12), Justin "robert07" Young (17th - $7,305.12), Michael "benvo123" Benvenuti (26th - $5,094.36)

Full Tilt Sunday Brawl

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$240+$16	2,676	$535,200

Place	Player	Prize
*1	Exan13	$75,982.21
*2	mimatadero	$73,388.99
*3	lindah3	$81,300
4	aviator0925	$39,069.60
5	Dk4884	$27,295.20
6	BustedWadZ	$18,196.80
7	fly44	$12,309.60
8	MrSwain666	$8,563.20
9	Nakkehai	$6,422.40

*denotes three-handed deal

Notable Finishes: Leandro "AmarulABr" Balotin (16th - $1,980.24), Jordan Morgan (28th - $1,391.52), Cyriel "Supa4real" Dohem (33rd - $1,391.52)

Full Tilt $200,000 Guarantee (Rebuy)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$150+$13	529	$256,050

Place	Player	Prize
1	Keven "Stamdogg" Stammen	$64,012.50
2	Stan "stanman420" Lee	$39,687.75
3	NeverBettor	$28,805.63
4	KenobiJr	$22,404.38
5	Angela1987	$16,643.25
6	Jonathan Karamalakis	$12,162.38
7	n0st0pp1n	$7,937.55
8	Michael "grindtherail" Lavin	$6,401.25
9	Sirocko	$4,992.98

Notable Finishes: Cristiano "crisbus" Guerra (10th - $2,816.55), James "P0KERPR0" Campbell (11th - $2,816.55), Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick (13th - $2,176.43), Ryan "ryanwelch" Welch (18th - $1,536.30)

Full Tilt Sunday Mulligan

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+$16	1,001	$200,200

Place	Player	Prize
1	Yorane "viirusss" Kerignard	$45,045
2	-StAr3k-	$28,528.50
3	SteFior73	$21,121.10
4	dfunks222	$16,516.50
5	Nicky "cod meharly" Evans	$12,512.50
6	Kevin "Wu_Wizard" MacPhee	$9,009
7	ThrillCory90	$6,006
8	Simonvk	$4,504.50
9	WHOPPWHOPP	$3,203.20