The Sunday Briefing: "Halfrek" and "bmky88" Score Sunday Victories

July 04, 2011

Mickey Doft Live Reporter

Well, we know that Americans weren't spending the July 4 weekend winning seven figures online, but that didn't stop others from doing so. The PokerStars Sunday Million was won by "bmky88" for $161,000 after defeating Pavel "besar_cz" Lipa heads up. Also notching a victory on Sunday was Danish online phenom "Halfrek", who won the $109 Sunday Rebuy for $44,175.

PokerStars Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+$15	5,718	$1,143,600

Place	Player	Prize
*1	bmky88	$161,000
*2	Pavel "besar_cz" Lipa	$147,774.79
3	Cuzco	$92,631.60
4	Crusher Jun	$64,213.14
5	iso dj	$48,031.20
6	R.J_Legit	$36,595.20
7	Francix	$25,159.20
8	WhiteRabbito	$14,295
9	uarts2	$8,920.08

*denotes heads-up deal

Notable Finishes: Derek "derek8" Lerner (33rd - $2,402)

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+$15	2,917	$583,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	maicon178	$91,594.42
2	micado74	$68,257.80
3	moderman22	$48,433.86
4	The_swan06	$33,545.50
5	abeainy	$25,086.20
6	guillet76	$19,252.20
7	SafinRadik	$13,418.20
8	Emaa	$7,584.20
9	progre69	$4,667.20

Notable Finishes: Tim "weygang" English (30th - $1,342), Greg "gregior" Howard (31st - $1,342)

PokerStars Sunday 500 ($250K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+$30	511	$255,500

Place	Player	Prize
*1	Milana Jones	$40,546
*2	pAtcAsh83	$34,615
*3	WhatIsICM	$33,683
4	rouliroul	$19,418
5	BabbieNuk	$13,644
6	moneyMiker11	$10,859
7	Sherrii	$8,304
8	mjw006	$5,749
9	Ben "bazooka87" Gilholme	$3,833