Sunday Briefing: Ollie Price Reaches Three Sunday Major Final Tables
The United Kingdom’s Oliver Price enjoyed a very profitable Sunday playing poker this week thanks to winning a Sunday Major and finishing second in two others.
Price, playing as “ThreeBunPass” won the $80,000 Baby Whale at 888poker for $16,345.09 after a heads-up chop then went on to finish second in the partypoker $2,600 Super High Roller for $28,125, and then was the runner-up in the PokerStars Sunday Grand PLO for $23,601.20. Price was like a one-man, online poker wrecking crew and boy was it impressive to watch.
The biggest score of the weekend went to Canada’s “snapcall419” thanks to chopping the Sunday Million heads-up before going on to defeat “viirusss” heads-up to bank $137,089.51, leaving his heads-up opponent to scoop $117,375.84.
Familiar names were in the top two finishing positions of the PokerStars Sunday Grand NLHE edition. Mustapha “lasagnaaammm” Kanit was the runner-up for $42,506.31 losing out to German superstar Philipp “philbort” Gruissem who collected $56,814.09.
Other sizable results from PokerStars included:
- “Ultraballs18” – won the Sunday Starter for $5,587.78
- “uknowProsky*” – won the Big $162 for $4,595.90
- “krasark” – won the Sunday Kickoff for $18,506.16
- “Phisherman36” – won the Hot $162 for $6,569.63
- “Zlta3D” – won the $215 Bounty Builder for $13,6693.44
- “S.Dearman” – won the Sunday Warm-Up for $43,453.41
- “Barburas17” – won the Big $109 for $24,207.13
- “KaptainKush” – won the Hot $162 for $14,093.71
- Jerry “Perrymejsen” Odeen – won the Super-Sized Sunday for $32,467.61
- “OLD TIME GIN” – won the $109 Bounty Builder for $14,429.62
- “ArhAngel_29R” – won the Hot $109 for $19,625.92
- “anteen” – won the Sunday Grand PLO for $31,618.41
- “Yayoshow” – won the Big $215 for $26,776.70
- “redkiyGAD” – won the Sunday Cooldown for $21,547.20
- “poker@luffyD” – won the Sunday Supersonic for $34,697.99
- “kofi89” – won the Hot $215 for $18,189.73
- “skitzo333” – won the Sunday Wrap-Up for $9,008.56
Over at partypoker, “butihasreads” secured top spot in the $2,600 Super High Roller, a finish worth $41,625, with “koi_carp1” claiming the $32,272.50 top prize in the $530 High Roller. This week’s $150,000 Guaranteed Main Event was son by Aleks “hitaremchok” Dimitrov who turned $109 into $24,000.
Rounding up the Sunday Briefing for this week are the results from 888poker. We’ve already mentioned that Price won the $80,000 Baby Whale, but need to inform you that “BenGvnn" and “DerEinzahlR” chopped the $100,000 Mega Deep for scores of $21,382.61 and $20,477.89.
It was “DEOSONER” who took the top prize in the $50,000 Sunday Crocodile, namely $12,397.50, with the UK’s Scott “AggroSantos” Margereson banking the $16,182.75 first-place prize in the $80,000 Sunday Challenge.
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