The Sunday Briefing: "kofi89" Wins Tournament Number One Billion at PokerStars ($330,000)

December 01, 2014

Brett Collson Chief Editor

PokerStars celebrated another huge milestone on Sunday by hosting Tournament Number One Billion, a $109 buy-in event which carried a massive $2 million guaranteed prize pool. The event was a huge hit as a total of 34,081 players generated a prize pool of $3,408,100. And, in addition to the guarantee, for the first 2.5 hours of the tournament more than $200,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded to randomly selected tables.

After nearly 15 hours of play it was Uraguay's "kofi89" who emerged victorious with the outright win for $329,586. Germany's "kaveh001" finished runner-up for a still-superb payday of $241,566, while former Sunday 500 winner Joas "No Limit NL" Mudde placed fourth for $129,780.

Others finding success across the major tournaments on Sunday were Michael "SilentPurple" MacHugh, Simon "ministerborg" Ravnsbaek and Steve "Illini213" Barshak. Here's a full look at the results from the Sunday Majors on PokerStars, partypoker and WSOP.com:

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Tournament Number One Billion ($2M Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$100+9	34,081	$3,408,100

Place	Player	Prize
1	kofi89	$329,586
2	kaveh001	$241,566
3	zardy912	$177,050
4	Joas "No Limit NL" Mudde	$129,780
5	svendottke	$95,120
6	dzambur	$69,729
7	BlindRazorJJ	$51,121
8	KiepDoDen007	$37,455
9	StepaPupkin	$27,469

Notable Finishes: Karolis "g.karolis" Grybauskas (41st - $2,317)

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Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	7,389	$1,477,800

Place	Player	Prize
1	leonid6691	$221,674
2	BOLDONEALLAN	$163,104
3	Lubczyk88	$118,224
4	Michael "SilentPurple" MacHugh	$78,323
5	JhonyFonseca	$60,589
6	LuckyDave83	$45,811
7	joquannez	$31,772
8	Solidthought	$17,733
9	Epkathy0901	$11,452

Notable Finishes: Ken “kenny05” Smaron (19th - $3,443), Keith "DaMurdera3" Ferrera (26th - $3,443), Peter "Apathy123" Jeten (35th - $3,073), Billy "Patrolman35" Kopp (50th - $2,556)

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Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	3,428	$685,600

Place	Player	Prize
1	CMRolfes1990	$99,398*
2	ModzillaPL	$88,456*
3	K1ngdomCome	$56,562
4	gardze_wami	$39,422
5	Simon "ministerborg" Ravnsbaek	$29,138
6	O''Pazzzo"	$22,282
7	Nelis020	$ $15,426
8	Sergio "trujustrus" Cabrera	$8,570
9	QuadVQuadMe	$5,484

_{*Reflects heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: Marshall "vvirtue" Virtue (17th - $2,056)

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Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+30	806	$403,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	1745g	$65,465*
2	carpediem200	$59,465*
3	E1 Cañero	$39,091
4	Steve "Illini213" Barshak	$29,217
5	bulkir	$20,311
6	rbhatia3	$16,281
7	IgorKarkarof	$12,251
8	Grizzlypower	$8,261
9	TTimallin	$5,037

_{*Reflects heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: Kenny "LoneHixx" Hicks (10th - $4,321), Steve "betrthanphil" Tripp (12th - $4,231), TJ “WhatArunAA” Slifka (24th - $1,853), Charlie "JIZOINT" Combes (26th - $1,853)

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-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$100+9	1,042	$301,900

Place	Player	Prize
1	scrooch025	$47,291
2	ThoNapalm	$42,839
3	neeno1990	$36,364
4	CesarMorales	$22,642
5	jpvr	$15,849
6	Jazzer32	$12,830
7	donvito1st	$9,811
8	Artem "FaNjkEEE" Kobylynskyi	$6,792
9	someguy9	$4,226

Notable Finishes: Aidan "whereisdonny" Tam (10th - $3,169), Kevin "Civell" Vandersmissen (16th - $1,962), Stefan "I'am_Sound" Huber (19th - $1,358), Ivan "vandir4rek" Soshnikov (22nd - $1,358), Will "molswi47" Molson (25th - $1,358)

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200K Guaranteed Sunday

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,018	$200,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	fiatpando0	$31,800
2	trust_me__	$22,780
3	MuyGlaseado69	$16,330
4	TyHardin	$12,520
5	lek1997	$10,200
6	KlittyHo	$8,200
7	kyngen12	$6,200
8	IEatBears	$4,300
9	NutsKillUrself	$3,280

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Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,364	$272,800

Place	Player	Prize
1	eijseijs	$37,690
2	agnik80	$35,649
3	41g3r	$33,760
4	Patrick “Pads1161” Leonard	$18,986
5	softcored	$13,503
6	Andreas "gnetaren" Samuelsson	$10,775
7	klinger63	$8,047
8	LuisFigo1014	$5,319
9	Matias "Festivuss" Gabrenja	$3,000

_{*Reflects three-handed deal}

Notable Finishes: Caio “Pessagno” Pessagno (10th - $2,427), Thomas “SirSwish6” Conway (15th - $1,882), Jordan “Jymaster11” Young (17th - $1,336), Richard "nutsinho" Lyndaker (27th - $1,145)