The Sunday Briefing: Sunday Million Attendance Grows, "kevsteele" Wins $128,792

July 18, 2011

Mickey Doft Live Reporter

Another Sunday down, another round of PokerStars Sunday tournaments in the books. Attendance numbers for the PokerStars Sunday Million were up again and three players added six-figures to their bankrolls. The PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up also saw a massive field, bringing first-place prize money near the $100,000-mark, but the winner had to settle for $99,000 instead.

PokerStars Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+$15	6,182	$1,236,000

With attendance numbers up from last week, the Sunday Million ended up offering three six-figure pay days to those who battled it out over 11 hours on the virtual felt. "Aricontre" may have taken the largest chunk of prize money after a deal was struck five ways, but "kevsteele", who began the final table as one of the shorter stacks, battled back and won the title. For that, he earned $20,000 more than was guaranteed when the chop was made. On the final hand of the night, "manuelmendes" found himself in a dominating spot, holding pocket kings over "kevsteele's" pocket nines. Sometimes it's just not your night, however, and his kings were cracked when the board rolled out 10♦5♠2♠9♠5♣.

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Place	Player	Prize
*1	kevsteele	$128,792.58
*2	manuelmendes	$109,523.92
*3	aricontre	$165,227.63
*4	pyszalek	$77,936.40
*5	hvete	$64,517.58
6	Renatoart	$39,564.80
7	DavoDam	$27,200.80
8	r0xer88	$14,836.80
9	Drawzee	$9,582.10

*denotes five-handed deal

Notable Finishes: Dan "javahound" Tarnopol (34th - $2,584)

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+$15	3,175	$635,000

There may have been $500,000 guaranteed for the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up, but with 3,175 entrants, the prize pool shot up to $635,000. First place was guaranteed just short of $100,000. Team PokerStars Pro Jan Heitmann played his way to the final table and finished fourth after holding the chip lead for a bit. In his final hand, Heitmann min-raised from the cutoff and called a 7.8 million chip shove from "detee" in the big blind. Heitman showed tens and was ahead of his opponent's ace-ten. The board rolled out 2♠3♠4♠Q♠5♠ giving "detee" a straight on the river, eliminating Heitmann. Heads-up play was between "detee" and "jc_bluej". After two big pots and about half an hour, "jc_bluej" was staring at all the chips in his corner, taking the title, and $99,695 first-place prize money.

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Place	Player	Prize
1	jc_bluej	$99,695
2	detee	$74,295
3	JcostUmoney	$52,387.50
4	Jan Heitmann	$36,512.50
5	POED1	$26,987.50
6	Ronzie99	$20,637.50
7	utvekklo2	$14,287.50
8	777RENGEN777	$7,937.50
9	Lionel466	$5,080

Notable Finishes: Georgios "gkap13" Kapalas (17th - $1,905)

PokerStars Sunday 500 ($250K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+$30	613	$306,500

Place	Player	Prize
1	limbolambon	$57,469
2	bigoots	$41,378
3	Biffmeister	$30,650
4	Roma-Tilt	$22,988
5	NaskoXX	$16,091
6	antonionel	$13,026
7	filthyfish	$9,961
8	huiiiiiiiiiiii	$6,896
9	bEatNick"OG"	$4,322

Notable Finishes: Felipe "Improved" Montenegro (12th - $3,372)

PokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance ($125K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+$15	1,024	$204,800

Place	Player	Prize
*1	hayekizate	$30,500
*2	bigpeaj	$16,995
*3	Lokkem	$19,639
*4	Kiirovits	$11,946
*5	Pocket55ives	$21,959
*6	dal_elama	$15,579
7	MDGR	$6,226
8	blablonae	$4,198
9	bassiejj	$2,560

Notable Finishes: David "dave798111" Allan (23rd - $942)

*denotes six-handed deal

PokerStars $109 Sunday Rebuy ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$100+$9	784	$252,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	George "timoros" Vasilakis	$44,470
2	kbp00	$36,929
3	NANORM1963	$25,240
4	fviana	$18,930
5	GS_LT	$13,251
6	Exan13	$10,727
7	pawnUz	$8,203
8	pablox55	$5,679
9	glissario	$3,559

Notable Finishes: Rayan "rkruok" Nathan (15th - $2,272), Jay "shaihulud" Kinkade (24th - $1,262)

PokerStars Sunday Storm

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$10+$1	29,553	$295,530

Place	Player	Prize
*1	corgex	$26,660
*2	ALEX.NAUMOV	$21,240
3	DECOPEL798	$13,151
4	niet2maar3	$10,196
5	longgiatoc	$7,240
6	araber1011	$4,433
7	spyrosR21	$3,103
8	Lowkey01	$2,069
9	batoon635	$1,463