The Sunday Briefing: Andriy "imperior" Pavlyuk Takes Top Sunday Prize
Apr 25, 2011
3 min read
Last updated Dec 08, 2025
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-in Entrants Prize Pool $300+$22 3,942 $1,250,000
Place Player Prize *1 Andriy "imperior" Pavlyuk $205,500 *2 Michael "tokyo09" Le $172,250 3 syyyke_mann $111,000 4 Ami "UhhMee" Barer $82,500 5 cassiopak $61,250 6 Mick "BIGMICKG" Graydon $42,500 7 Tobias "fishhookn1" Reinkemeier $28,750 8 Civelus $20,000 9 Graywind1 $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-in Entrants Prize Pool $120+$9 10,650 $1,065,000
Place Player Prize *1 obvisobv $146,900 *2 1millionbankrol $130,000 3 Whitesnake1 $78,810 4 Tomáš "czechpro" Kvapil $56,658 5 Barbara_52outs $41,535 6 bu0rky $29,820 7 cardlover69 $21,300 8 Ben "NeverScaredB" Willinofsky $15,229.50 9 Aditya "Intervention" [Removed:550] $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-in Entrants Prize Pool $10,000+$300 21 $210,000
Place Player Prize 1 Peter Jetten $94,500 2 BlondieCutie $52,500 3 DjAdi $31,500 4 Schoitl $31,500
Full Tilt FTOPS XX Event #23 (No-Limit Hold'em w/ Rebuys)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $150+$13 642 $300,000
Place Player Prize *1 Hugo "adametes" Adametes $56,935.71 *2 maksimus78 $52,007.87 *3 TheClaimer $44,056.42 4 Michael Tureniec $26,250 5 DeGamblor $19,500 6 fadsy $14,250 7 PoutsoKefalos $9,300 8 Jonathan "therookieqq9" Plens $7,200 9 zmb $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-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$15 6,552 $1,310,400
Place Player Prize *1 VanDerPelto $131,000 *2 Peter "Belabacsi" Traply $156,000 *3 DreamOnDream $97,000 *4 steintommy $106,176.69 *5 oskar0610 $88,500 6 zokete $41,932 7 susakh $28,828.50 8 tanktown82 $15,724.80 9 orexx75 $10,155.60
*denotes five-handed deal
Notable Finishes: Charles "QcKimo" Gagnon (28th - $2,738.73)
PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guarantee)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$15 3,364 $672,800
Place Player Prize 1 abeainy $105,630.68 2 ALKADYPA $78,717.60 3 charoff $55,506 4 Johan "busto_soon" van Til $38,686 5 drifto88 $28,594 6 risk2Dupside $21,866 7 LuckyOrei $15,138 8 Tom "Jabracada" Hall $8,410 9 Patrik "Coxxa" Andersson $5,382.40
Notable Finishes: Hugo "adametes" Adametes (34th - $1,513.80)
PokerStars Sunday 500 ($250K Guarantee)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $500+$30 558 $279,000
Place Player Prize 1 Mick "BIGMICKG" Graydon $52,452 2 Alexandre "Allingomes" Gomes $38,223 3 bar-bar9999 $28,179 4 zwuerbs $21,204 5 KGtheACE $14,898.60 6 Daniela "Zapiello" Zapiello $11,857.50 7 Hugh "Jackovich" Cohen $9,067.50 8 shumeilove $6,277.50 9 goleafsgo41 $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-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$15 779 $155,800
Place Player Prize 1 viirusss $29,212.50 2 mendezoo $21,033 3 camposi $15,580 4 lnm_7 $11,685 5 Stevan "random_chu" Chew $8,179.50 6 nestegg1 $6,621.50 7 Michael "PapaGreggio" Hawkins $5,063.50 8 Thiago "XTheDecanoX" Nishijima $3,505.50 9 isop77777 $2,196.78
Notable Finishes: Chris "sparky522" Parker (17th - $1,090.60)
PokerStars $109+R NL Hold'em ($200K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $100+$9 737 $254,000
Place Player Prize 1 I_M_ICM $47,625 2 Rens02 $34,290 3 paulitschMC $25,400 4 m4gm4n $19,050 5 Matthias "goodvibe1" Neu $13,355 6 Tardeea $10,795 7 pravant $8,255 8 Jason "poker_lord76" Brown $5,715 9 Ryan "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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