The Sunday Briefing: Billy "b8chatz" Chattaway Goes Back-to-Back in Sunday 2nd Chance

January 06, 2015

Brett Collson Chief Editor

Before many of online poker's top tournament talents made their way to the Bahamas for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure this week, the year's first big Sunday of online tournament action took place across the major sites. Bringing in the New Year with a bang was Billy "b8chatz" Chattaway who won the PokerStars 2nd Chance for the second straight week!

Last week, Chattaway took down the 2nd Chance for $56,648, earning him the largest score of his online poker career. He added another $43,979 to his bankroll this week by winning the 2nd Chance again, an incredible accomplishment considering both tournaments had field of more than 1,200 players.

Other notables pocketing big paydays on Sunday were Stefan "random_chu" Chew, Mat “checktrap11” Cuthbertson, Steve "StevoL_7" Leonard and Phill "Grindation" Mcallister, who made the final table of the PokerSars Sunday Million.

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-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	7,614	$1,522,800

Place	Player	Prize
1	doypaliza	$196,911*
2	BDmaro	$164,439*
3	Scorpion0999	$148,790*
4	DarkWinDuk	$76,749
5	shulman20	$60,912
6	D0ntTiltOnMe	$45,684
7	Phill "Grindation" Mcallister	$30,456
8	Allantobias	$17,512
9	phil548	$11,801

_{*Reflects three-handed deal}

Notable Finishes: Danny 'DannyN13' Noseworthy (13th - $6,091)

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Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	3,181	$636,200

Place	Player	Prize
1	vip25459	$99,884
2	Stefan "random_chu" Chew	$74,435
3	Tonyfish77	$52,486
4	elliottpet	$36,581
5	Kungfumonk	$27,038
6	10johan6	$20,676
7	4QuietSTorm4	$14,314
8	jusc	$7,952
9	yoz2k11	$5,089

Notable Finishes: Chris "maxxscam" Back (18th - $1,908), Charlie “Epiphany77” Carrel (19th - $1,622)

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Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+30	782	$391,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	Adrijan_S	$64,129*
2	chapecasapek	$57,080*
3	ariel329	$37,927
4	Chris "Run dat Game" Lovett	$28,347
5	Steve "Illini213" Barshak	$19,706
6	Emaa	$15,796
7	IneedMassari	$11,886
8	mighty28	$8,015
9	pedroshd	$4,887

_{*Reflects heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: Nathan "ragingquads_" Tuthill (17th - $2,541), Christian "eisenhower1" Jeppsson (21st - $1,798), Taylor "tRaMp$d0PrAy" Paur (27th - $1,798)

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	942	$276,100

Place	Player	Prize
1	Mat “checktrap11” Cuthbertson	$47,611
2	Ahhh ls lt?	$41,431
3	theZeus333	$27,610
4	luckysir	$20,707
5	alipaba	$14,495
6	Silkesvarten	$11,734
7	Matt "mjw006" Wakeman	$8,973
8	Gordon "holla@yoboy" Vayo	$6,212
9	liedson62	$3,893

Notable Finishes: Taylor "tRaMp$d0PrAy" Paur (12th - $2,899), Naoya "nkeyno" Kihara (13th - $2,346), Johan "busto_soon" van Til (19th - $1,794)

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200K Guaranteed Sunday

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$186+$14	953	$200,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	MackMommy9	$32,200
2	Michelle-84	$22,900
3	CharlizeTheron	$16,360
4	trucking_67	$12,650
5	Ryan_Gosling	$10,280
6	Vababa	$8,280
7	c0rbl1meyguv	$6,280
8	SaintJust_	$4,360
9	RedPant	$3,320

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Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,258	$251,600

Place	Player	Prize
1	Billy "b8chatz" Chattaway	$43,979
2	Sajanas171	$31,953
3	MrBarrett82	$23,902
4	Christophe “chrisdm” De Meulder	$17,863
5	SuperChicken	$12,580
6	bar-bar9999	$10,064
7	BigBang.JR	$7,548
8	Bulat.alt	$5,032
9	Shyam "G's zee" Srinivasan	$2,893

Notable Finishes: Allan "Sifosis" Baekke (10th - $2,390), Reed "reeda205" Hensel (12th - $2,390), Jerry "hummylun" Wong (13th - $1,887), Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko (16th - $1,383), Mike "Pipedream17" Dietrich (26th - $1,056)

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The Sunday Major ($150K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	910	$182,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	Steve "StevoL_7" Leonard	$35,288*
2	George Manousos	$25,353*
3	Graf_Zaal	$17,290
4	Alex "AD_84" Debus	$12,922
5	Raaadzio92	$9,646
6	mcaflix	$7,098
7	Popp1987	$5,278
8	Samvevet	$3,822
9	actionjunky32	$2,730

_{*Reflects heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: Grayson "swish3113" Ramage (20th - $782), Caio “Pessagno” Pessagno (23rd - 782)

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Sunday Brawl ($100K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$240+15	587	$117,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	jackmile	$24,947
2	RushAAKKandQQ	$17,023
3	dlanger610	$12,914
4	ImDoneCallin	$9,861
5	moreno61	$7,278
6	tonyythemaster	$5,165
7	LotzandLotz	$3,756
8	Wine or Whiskey	$2,817
9	nektoshe	$2,113