That's a Sunday Wrap - See You Next Week!
That's a wrap on the partypoker Sunday LIVE coverage from PokerNews, but here's a quick recap of the day.
The Grand
After bagging the biggest stack in Day 1a last Sunday, Christoph Vogelsang came back this Sunday with a vengeance, taking down The Grand for $46,434. Vogelsang came back from a big deficit head's up to beat Canadian Jonah Silverstein. Later in the day, the German phenom cashed for more than $16,000 more for 11th place in the Malibu Big Game.
The Grand drew 237 entries this week, for a total prize pool of $237,312. That was more than 15% above the $200,000 guarantee.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christoph Vogelsang | Germany | $46,434 |
| 2 | Jonah Silverstein | Canada | $32,411 |
| 3 | Jeremy Saderne | United Kingdom | $22,387 |
| 4 | Felipe Ketzer | Brazil | $15,043 |
| 5 | Sylvain Loosli | France | $11,064 |
| 6 | Andras Nemeth | Hungary | $8,947 |
| 7 | Tamás Ádámszki | Hungary | $7,355 |
| 8 | Evgeniy Cherkasov | Russia | $6,123 |
| 9 | Joshua Mccully | United Kingdom | $5,129 |
WCC #10: Malibu Big Game
It took just under 9 hours to finish WCC #10: Malibu Big Game, and Patrick Brooks from the United Kingdom took home the top prize of $152,529. There were a total of 126 entries in the game, putting $646,500 into the prize pool. That was well over the $500,000 guarantee.
The final two players briefly talked about a deal head's up, but couldn't find agreement and chose to play it out. Christian Rudolph made a valiant comeback, doubling up a few times and getting as high as 40 million chips after starting two-handed play with about 16 million. It wasn't to be however as he finally ran ace-five into ace-jack and couldn't get there, sending the pot and first place money to Brooks.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patrick Brooks | United Kingdom | $152,529 |
| 2 | Christian Rudolph | Austria | $103,798 |
| 3 | Jonathan Skovsen | Denmark | $72,753 |
| 4 | Christopher Putz | Austria | $49,865 |
| 5 | Jonathan Proudfoot | United Kingdom | $36,697 |
| 6 | Dzmitry Urbanovich | Belarus | $28,582 |
| 7 | Max Stock | United Kingdom | $23,120 |
Day 1c of WCC #05: Main Event
After just over 7 hours of play, Day 1c of the Main Event ended with 55 players remaining after a starting field of 366 entries. Ioannis Konstas bagged the biggest stack with over 5 million.
| Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| Ioannis Konstas | Greece | 5,097,753 |
| Dinesh Alt | Austria | 3,609,481 |
| Diogo Da Silva | Brazil | 3,287,184 |
Day 1c of WCC #06: Mini Main Event
Day 1c of the Mini Main Event drew 659 entries, with 99 players advancing to Day 2. It took just under 5.5 hours to play down to that level, and Robin Berggren bagged the biggest stack of almost 4 million.
| Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|
| Robin Berggren | Sweden | 3,991,249 |
| Daniel Rezaei | Malta | 3,765,271 |
| Juan Franco | Paraguay | 3,601,360 |
| Steven Van Zadelhoff | Malta | 3,533,548 |
| Christoph Moritz | Germany | 3,533,349 |
