The Sunday Briefing: Joe Cada Wins Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl

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There weren't many soft spots at the final tables of Full Tilt Poker's Sunday Majors this week. Nearly a dozen well-known pros were competing for titles in the two weekly flagship tournaments, the $250,000 Guarantee and the Sunday Brawl.

2009 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Joe Cada outlasted a tough field to win the Sunday Brawl for $42,880. The final table included established online pros Kevin "Wu_Wizard" MacPhee, Sebastian "p00cket00" Sikorski, Caio "Pessagno" Pessagno, Matt "NoBadBeatsPlz" Kay, and Frank "roo_400" Billard. Cada bested MacPhee heads-up for the title.

In the $250,000 Guarantee, Nick "PureCash25" Rampone ousted Toby "sexystuff1989" Lewis heads-up after the two pros agreed to a deal. Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger finished third, and Maria "Femmeonfelt" Ho took eighth.

Over at PokerStars, the seventh edition of the MicroMillions tournament series came to a close with the conclusion of the $22 Main Event. More than 63,000 players participated in the tournament, creating a prize pool worth $1,264,740. The last player standing was the U.K.'s Raphael "RainmanRJA" Augustin, who locked up $78,802 after a heads-up deal with Russia's "olimpiada."

The biggest earner this week was Brazil's Bernardo "bedias" Dias who took down the PokerStars Sunday Million for $233,674. Mike "RichieRichZH" Friedrich, who won the fifth biggest Sunday Million in history back in 2010, finished fourth for $78,513.

Here's a full look at the results from the Sunday Majors on PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, partypoker and WSOP.com:


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Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+157,789$1,557,800
PlacePlayerPrize
1Bernardo "bedias" Dias$233,674
2RudiTurbo$171,358
3MarkBang$116,835
4Mike "RichieRichZH" Friedrich$78,513
5kurb1234$62,312
6TuckYouIn$46,734
7GallsBalls$31,156
8wasylisa$17,914
9marscekan$12,072

Notable Finishes: Erik "Kihlstrom" Olofsson (14th - $6,231), Tobias "H.Oussale" Wenker (17th - $4,128), Will "CutiePi314" Ma (21st - $3,427), Heikki "kekkhou" Piira (26th - $3,427), Pratyush "Shane Gamble" Buddiga (32nd - $3,115)


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MicroMillions Main Event ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$20+263,237$1,264,740
PlacePlayerPrize
1Raphael "RainmanRJA" Augustin$78,802*
2olimpiada980$69,480*
3BMGyV$54,902
4stefanfol1$43,911
5Kaeresen$32,933
6castlbek$21,955
7antzzzap$15,670
8tomthelong$10,977
9albiko$8,220

*Denotes heads-up deal


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Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+153,123$624,600
PlacePlayerPrize
1_JMCD_89$98,064
2Timorm1$73,078
3tutull$51,841
4sexysmith579$35,914
5nelsonal$26,739
6easylimp$20,299
7U_2GOOD4_M3$14,053
8Niclas "mezzias" Adolfsson$7,807
9nyc_bullets$4,996

Notable Finishes: Rafael "zugzwang16" Porzecanski (15th - $2,904), Daniel "nobladonk" Stacey (23rd - $1,655), Slaven "suarez_BG" Popov (27th - $1,655)


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$250K Guarantee

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+151,261$252,200
PlacePlayerPrize
1Nick "PureCash25" Rampone$47,380*
2Toby "sexystuff1989" Lewis$36,652*
3Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger$23,959
4Kennethmedh$17,906
5biz-tings$13,366
6torerotibetano$9,835
7DQnk$7,313
8Maria "Femmeonfelt" Ho$5,296
9MySkill4U$3,783

*Denotes heads-up deal

Notable Finishes: David "Davidp18" Peters (23rd - $1,084), Dan "KingDan23" Smith (24th - $1,084), Peter "Belabacsi" Traply (26th - $1,084)


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Sunday Brawl ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$240+151,072$214,400
PlacePlayerPrize
1Joe "jcada99" Cada$42,880
2Kevin "Wu_Wizard" MacPhee$28,558
3Sebastian "p00cket00" Sikorski$20,368
4alexisontilt$8,361
5planetearf$11,363
6Caio "Pessagno" Pessagno$8,361
7Matt "NoBadBeatsPlz" Kay$6,217
8your nightmare8$4,502
9Frank "roo_400" Billard$3,216

Notable Finishes: Ana "Nyx86" Marquez (10th - $2,144), Ondrej "Vinkyy" Vinklarek (13th - $1,629), Clark "Snake8484" Hamagami (14th - $1,629), Randy "rh300487" Hereman (21st - $921)


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$200K Guaranteed Sunday

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+15945$200,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1xitaquemuxu$20,000*
2m1ronO$19,900*
3bexundso1$15,000*
4debesciak2$7,600
5coco2149$5,500
6player1$4,000
7paulapok$3,180
8ligger_$2,500
9Polymath$2,000

*Denotes three-handed deal


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Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$500+30777$388,500
PlacePlayerPrize
1LAP1293$69,930
2Kirill "Milana Jones" Telezhkin$50,505
3ismo<3seppo$37,684
4Steve "Stev0L_" Leonard$28,166
5hellzito$19,580
6KornHizzle20$15,695
7Jason "TeamWispy" Helder$11,810
8mandrake10$7,964
9Erik "IAmSoSo" Tamm$4,856

Notable Finishes: Jamie "pokerjamers" Armstrong (10th - $4,079), Fabian "fabstinho" Quoss (20th - $1,787), Martin "Face333X" Schleich (21st - $1,787), Tobias "PokerNoob999" Reinkemeier (23rd - $1,787), Karolis "g.karolis" Grybauskas (25th - $1,787), TJ "1BigAceHole" Ulmer (27th - $1,787)

Get in on the Sunday Majors action yourself by visiting PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and PartyPoker.


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$109 Sunday Rebuy ($225K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$100+9974$297,400
PlacePlayerPrize
1cynicalfish$55,019
2Joao "Naza114" Vieira$39,851
3Emil "Emilohlsson" Ohlsson$29,740
4777xyz777$22,305
5sonmonedas$15,613
6Fabian "fabstinho" Quoss$12,639
7Angel1ka1988$9,665
8ce1ebrity555$6,691
9pickledoe$4,163

Notable Finishes: Leandro "leopeluca" Csome (10th - $3,122), Mick "BIGMICKG" Graydon (11th - $3,122), Mike "SirWatts" Watson (13th - $2,527), Michael "WaGe N Warz" Fadersen (16th - $1,933), Rens "Rens02" Feenstra (19th - $1,388), Viktor "vic_xcite" Wessman (20th - $1,338), Steve "Stev0L_" Leonard (22nd - $1,338)


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Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+151,355$271,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1Tom "tollgate" Grigg$46,774
2jeffezaa$33,875
3Trance 4$25,745
4Daniel "judgedredd13" Charlton$18,861
5beukie555$13,414
6pokerturo$10,704
7GoToCa$hier$7,994
8Artur "pokerturo" Koren$5,284
9tdotsup1$2,981

Notable Finishes: Nicolau "nicofellow" Villa-Lobos (12th - $2,411), Amir "AmirSF" Lehavot (14th - $1,869), Thomas "king2173" Scholze (15th - $1,869)


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$25,000 Weekly Sunday Guarantee (New Jersey)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+15128$25,600
PlacePlayerPrize
1TurbOLicious$7,040
2tino1126$4,096
3The_Tuz14$2,329
4drogba$1,817
5MakemeFold$1,561
6Moose4Life$1,305
7fuzzyworthy$998
8MahaKala108$640
9HarryStylist$460

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$15,000 Weekly Sunday Guarantee (Nevada)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+1596$19,200
PlacePlayerPrize
1TimTebow$5,472
2scross$3,168
3brokefinger$1,920
4mlawson$1,536
5Luck_Equity$1,324
6bk1048$1,132
7pgreazy$940
8cantfakeit$652
9SuGaRaY71$518

Special thanks to Stanislav Serov

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