The Sunday Briefing: Andriy "imperior" Pavlyuk Takes Top Sunday Prize

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As was the case last week, numbers in the Sunday online majors after Black Friday were down from what we have been accustomed to. Nevertheless, nine players added six figures to their bankrolls this weekend. The biggest went to Andriy "imperior" Pavlyuk, earning $205,500 for his win in Full Tilt Poker's FTOPS XX Event #24. The PokerStars Sunday Million was won by "VanDerPelto" for $131,000. A deal made heads-up with Peter "Belabacsi" Traply, though, left Traply with the biggest payday on PokerStars - $156,000.

Full Tilt FTOPS XX Event #24 (No-Limit Hold'em Multi-Entry)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$300+$223,942$1,250,000
PlacePlayerPrize
*1Andriy "imperior" Pavlyuk$205,500
*2Michael "tokyo09" Le$172,250
3syyyke_mann$111,000
4Ami "UhhMee" Barer$82,500
5cassiopak$61,250
6Mick "BIGMICKG" Graydon$42,500
7Tobias "fishhookn1" Reinkemeier$28,750
8Civelus$20,000
9Graywind1$13,750

*denotes heads-up deal

Notable Finishes: Mike McDonald (10th - $9,375), Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi (15th - $6,875), Johan "busto_soon" van Til (17th - $5,000)

Full Tilt FTOPS XX Event #22 (No-Limit Hold'em Multi-Entry Knockout)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$120+$910,650$1,065,000
PlacePlayerPrize
*1obvisobv$146,900
*21millionbankrol$130,000
3Whitesnake1$78,810
4Tomáš "czechpro" Kvapil$56,658
5Barbara_52outs$41,535
6bu0rky$29,820
7cardlover69$21,300
8Ben "NeverScaredB" Willinofsky$15,229.50
9Aditya "Intervention" Agarwal$10,767.15

*denotes heads-up deal

Notable Finishes: Bruno Stefanelli (18th - $3,993.75), Jaroslaw "YanniYankievich" Jaskiewicz (19th - $2,769)

Full Tilt FTOPS XX Event #19 (No-Limit Hold'em Heads-Up)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$10,000+$30021$210,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1Peter Jetten$94,500
2BlondieCutie$52,500
3DjAdi$31,500
4Schoitl$31,500

Full Tilt FTOPS XX Event #23 (No-Limit Hold'em w/ Rebuys)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$150+$13642$300,000
PlacePlayerPrize
*1Hugo "adametes" Adametes$56,935.71
*2maksimus78$52,007.87
*3TheClaimer$44,056.42
4Michael Tureniec$26,250
5DeGamblor$19,500
6fadsy$14,250
7PoutsoKefalos$9,300
8Jonathan "therookieqq9" Plens$7,200
9zmb$5,700

*denotes three-handed deal

Notable Finishes: Laurence "whatariver1" Houghton (10th - $3,150), Johan "busto_soon" van Til (19th - $1,275), Igor "MagicGog" Bakay (24th - $1,275)

PokerStars Sunday Million ($1M Guarantee)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+$156,552$1,310,400
PlacePlayerPrize
*1VanDerPelto$131,000
*2Peter "Belabacsi" Traply$156,000
*3DreamOnDream$97,000
*4steintommy$106,176.69
*5oskar0610$88,500
6zokete$41,932
7susakh$28,828.50
8tanktown82$15,724.80
9orexx75$10,155.60

*denotes five-handed deal

Notable Finishes: Charles "QcKimo" Gagnon (28th - $2,738.73)

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guarantee)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+$153,364$672,800
PlacePlayerPrize
1abeainy$105,630.68
2ALKADYPA$78,717.60
3charoff$55,506
4Johan "busto_soon" van Til$38,686
5drifto88$28,594
6risk2Dupside$21,866
7LuckyOrei$15,138
8Tom "Jabracada" Hall$8,410
9Patrik "Coxxa" Andersson$5,382.40

Notable Finishes: Hugo "adametes" Adametes (34th - $1,513.80)

PokerStars Sunday 500 ($250K Guarantee)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$500+$30558$279,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1Mick "BIGMICKG" Graydon$52,452
2Alexandre "Allingomes" Gomes$38,223
3bar-bar9999$28,179
4zwuerbs$21,204
5KGtheACE$14,898.60
6Daniela "Zapiello" Zapiello$11,857.50
7Hugh "Jackovich" Cohen$9,067.50
8shumeilove$6,277.50
9goleafsgo41$4,185

Notable Finishes: Jamie "Bear4rms" Sykes (23rd - $1,548.45), Tommie "Godfatti" Janssen (32nd - $1,255.50)

PokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance ($125K Guarantee)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+$15779$155,800

PlacePlayerPrize
1viirusss$29,212.50
2mendezoo$21,033
3camposi$15,580
4lnm_7$11,685
5Stevan "random_chu" Chew$8,179.50
6nestegg1$6,621.50
7Michael "PapaGreggio" Hawkins$5,063.50
8Thiago "XTheDecanoX" Nishijima$3,505.50
9isop77777$2,196.78

Notable Finishes: Chris "sparky522" Parker (17th - $1,090.60)

PokerStars $109+R NL Hold'em ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$100+$9737$254,000
PlacePlayerPrize
1I_M_ICM$47,625
2Rens02$34,290
3paulitschMC$25,400
4m4gm4n$19,050
5Matthias "goodvibe1" Neu$13,355
6Tardeea$10,795
7pravant$8,255
8Jason "poker_lord76" Brown$5,715
9Ryan "ryanghall" Hall$3,581.40

Notable Finishes: Nicolas "niccc" Chouity (12th - $2,794), Russell "rdcrsn" Carson (17th - $1,778), Tom "hitthehole" Middleton (18th - $1,778)

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