Sunday Briefing: Brazil’s 'BrunoBoucas' Wins Sunday Million

July 09, 2018

The Brazilian national team may have crashed out of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia at the quarter-finals stage, but “BrunoBoucas” has plenty to celebrate, thanks to triumphing in this weekend’s PokerStars Sunday Million, a result worth a cool $117,883 after a four-way chop.

PokerStars Sunday Million

It didn’t take long for the first player to bust from the final table, that dubious honor going to China’s “Peng HY”. “Kley” opened with a 446,000 raise and then called when Peng HY three-bet jammed for 1.61 million with what turned out to be a pair of queens. Kley showed ace-jack of hearts, turned a Broadway straight and Peng HY became the first casualty of the nine-handed final table.

BrunoBoucas then sent fellow Brazilian “Warleyruno” to the sidelines in a cooler of a hand. A min-raise from BrunoBoucas under the gun was met with a three-bet all-in from WarleyBruno in the small blind and an instant call. It was ace-king for WarleyBruno but pocket aces for BrunoBoucas. The rockets were not shot down and WarleyBruno busted.

Argentina’s “tinchoarce” lost a huge flip with ace-king versus pocket jacks and was in survival mode. They managed to double their stack after their ace-jack flopped a jack to beat the dominating ace-queen of “reidir” but their world came tumbling down when they pushed all-in with king-queen and were called by reidir holding ace-five of hearts. Reidir flopped two hearts and turned the flush to send tinchoarce home in seventh place.

Kley was the next player to bust, with red jacks losing to the eight-seven of clubs of “filusPL” after the latter improved to a nine-high straight, before eight-seven came back to haunt filusPL in a massive pot. Holding top pair, top kicker, filusPL lost when their opponent improved to a full house with eight-seven.

A few hands later, filusPL called all-in from the big blind with seven-trey and lost to the queen-trey of reidir.

That left only four players at the final table and they all agreed to discuss a deal for the remaining prize pool. A deal was agreed upon almost immediately, so play resumed.

Five minutes later, “2late4play” committed their 6.75 million stack from the button with a suited queen-ten and BrunoBoucas called in the big blind with pocket sixes. 2late4play flopped an open-ended straight draw that never came in, and the player count was reduced by one.

Third-place went to reidir, who busted at the hands of fellow Brazilian BrunoBoucas. Reidir’s nine-eight of diamonds flopped an open-ended straight draw against BrunoBoucas’ top pair, made with ace-king, but the straight never arrived and reidir was out.

BrunoBoucas held a near four-to-one chip advantage over Denmark’s “Palsgaard1” going into heads up and it proved too much of a gap for the Dane to bridge, eventually busting with top pair against the flopped two pair of BrunoBoucas, this week’s Sunday Million champion.

*reflects a four-handed deal

PokerStars Sunday High Roller: $80K Gtd

“Etxnl01” of the Netherlands topped a star-studded field of 60 entries in this week’s PokerStars $2,100 Sunday High Roller to get their hands on the $37,286 first-place prize.

Such a high buy-in online tournament always attracts the game’s elite players and one such player, Steve “Mr. Tim Caum” O’Dwyer was the first to bust inside the money places, falling in eighth-place for $4,400.

The United Kingdom’s Ian “olehaswonit” Hunter fell in seventh place before “Remo Lebo_10” of Ukraine crashed out in sixth.

“Bartek901” finished sixth in this very tournament last week and busted in fifth place this week. Their fifth-place finish saw them turn $2,100 into $10,161, the first player to bank a five-figure score in this event.

Fourth place and $13,430 went to Brazil’s “Guithome” before last weekend’s champion “hello_totti” busted in third place for $17,752.

Heads up saw Greece’s Koukouris “hateblondies” Spiros and etxnl01 lock horns and it was the latter who emerged victorious to secure a chunky $37,286 payout.

partypoker 1K Sunday Big Bounty Hunter-HR

“HungarysHero” is the latest player to win the partypoker 1K Sunday Big Bounty Hunter after topping a field of 148 entrants. The prize this week for taking down this massive tournament was $15,416 from the main prize pool and an additional $13,702 worth of bounties.

The eight-handed final table had some excellent players at it, including Uruguay’s Fabrizio “DrMiKee” Gonzalez who busted in sixth place for $3,594 plus $4,273 worth of bounty payments.

Exiting one place later was the reigning partypoker MILLIONS Online champion Jonathan “sordykrd” Van Fleet who walked away with $4,809 plus $3,136 for his efforts.

Heads-up saw HungarysHero clash with Canadian pro Dan “shady_deuces” McGregor for the title and a substantial bounty payment as the champion not only wins the runner-up’s bounty, but also their own.

It was a battle that saw HungarysHero come out on top to scoop $15,416 plus $13,702 worth of bounties courtesy of sending four players to the showers on the way to the victory.

partypoker Super Sunday 1K Deepstack

“Megustaestrecha” outlasted 96 opponents in this week’s partypoker Super Sunday 1K Deepstack to turn a $1,050 investment into $24,500.

Sixteen places were paid in this tournament so Owain “ows86” Carey’s 17th-place finish meant he was the last player not to receive any prize money for his efforts.

Each of the eight players at the final table were guaranteed $3,250, the sum collected by Swedish superstar Simon “HellmuthTheGr8” Mattsson. The Swede was followed to the rail by Team partypoker’s Patrick “Patrick_Leonard” Leonard in seventh place.

The first player to lock up at least five-figures was “pelicangirl” who busted in third place. This left Fabrizio “DrMiKee” Gonzalez and megustaestrecha to play one-on-one for the title. Gonzalez is usually deadly in these situations, but it was not to be in this tournament and he had to settle for runner-up and $17,500.

888poker $50,000 Whale

A compact field of 49 entries took part in the 888poker $50,000 Whale this weekend and all were outlasted by Russian grinder “Black88”. Black88 came out on top to turn $1,050 into $20,000 after defeating Sweden’s “backdown8” heads up, resigning the Swede to the $13,500 consolation prize.

Malta’s “Farrugia_1” had crashed out in fifth place for a $4,000 score, with “DaFucha” banking $5,000 from their computer in Thailand. Another Swedish player, “cuadrado12” busted in third place to secure a $7,500 payout.

888poker $75,000 Sunday Mega Deep

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The 888poker $75,000 Sunday Mega Deep title headed to Malta on July 8 courtesy of “shadinho888” triumphing over 354 opponents. Shadinho888 defeated “Beesley1986” of the United Kingdom when the tournament was heads up to get their hands on the lion’s share of the prize pool; Beesley1986 locked up $11,625 and was the only other player to bank five-figures.

Perhaps the highest profile player at the final table busted in seventh place. Robin “Inho” Ylitalo is a former world number two for online poker tournaments during 2017 and is a former EPT champion having taking down the London Main Event in 2013.

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