Read the recaps for Sunday’s flagship events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, UltimateBet, Cake, and Bodog below:
PokerStars Sunday Million
The PokerStars Sunday Million attracted a field of 8,800 players, generating a prize pool of $1,760,000. It was a huge drop from the field of 13,267 players who bought in last week, but that was for the special 25-billionth-hand promotion, meaning everything returned to normal this week.
A total of 1,260 places were paid to notables such as Don "Donk Crusher" Stevens (117th), bootswild (116th), Jason "strassa2" Strasser (89th, pictured left), exposabre (58th), Josh "DahJinerat" Mancuso (53rd) and thechemist83 (25th).
Online superstar and OPOY candidate Jonathan "MONSTER_DONG" Karamalikis managed a final-table finish, but fizzled out in ninth place, earning $12,320. Karamalikis made a move on the short-stack with 9-7, but was looked up by cmyworth’s J-10. The flop brought a jack, and Karamalikis was eliminated.
When heads-up play began, iggymcfly held a nearly 4.5-1 chip lead on cmyworth, but a crucial double-up with K-J against K-8 made the match closer to even. cmyworth doubled up again with pocket sevens against iggymcfly’s pocket threes.
Finally, iggymcfly got the rest of his stack in with A-2, only to be outflopped by cmyworth’s K-10. For the first time in a while, a player had won the tournament outright.
Here were the final table results:
- cmyworth — $213,136
- iggymcfly — $143,440
- davidb666 — $97,680
- pianospike — $79,200
- chkplz — $61,600
- softel — $44,000
- IZSHUA — $30,800
- CharismA3 — $20,240
- Jonathan "MONSTER_DONG" Karamalikis — $12,320
Full Tilt $750,000 Guarantee
Full Tilt attracted a field of 4,048 for it’s $750,000-guaranteed tournament. The overall prize pool reached $809,600 and was paid out to 585 players.
Among those to finish in the money were Chris "herdgolf86" Tipper (89th), Steven "stevie444" Chidwick (88th), Brian "dubbeemin" Mintz (84th), Peter "breeth" Turmezey (75th), Frank "Gator93" Hernandez (61st), Mark "dipthrong" Herm (46th), Lee "acumen53" Childs (22nd), Amanda "Mandy B" Baker (17th), and Josh "DahJinerat" Mancuso (16th).
One of the hottest players online right now managed to make the final table. Va Shon "Julian Verse" Watkins (pictured above right), who won an FTOPS event a few months back and picked up another win just two weeks ago, managed a fourth-place finish in this tournament for $44,528. In all, Watkins has $680,000 in online winnings in just the past year alone.
Majchi and KingFish83 got heads up, and the tournament ended when Majchi made a move holding K-4. KingFish83 woke up with pocket tens, and when they held, he claimed the $142,967 first-place prize.
Here are the final table results:
- KingFish83 — $142,967
- Majchi — $86,546
- Adnan "nanQ" Qureshi — $56,672
- Va Shon "Julian Verse" Watkins aka Vinnie Verse — $44,528
- Dwayne "DwayneStacey" Stacey — $33,436
- flikkflak — $24,774
- govshark2 — $18,621
- QuirkyDragon3 — $14,573
- BaDMnKeY — $10,849
UltimateBet $200,000 Guaranteed
UltimateBet drew 1,007 entrants for it’s weekly $200,000-guaranteed tournament. The extra seven players created a total prize pool of $201,400.
The final 11 tables were paid, meaninig 99 players made the money, including Jon "Pokertrip" Friedberg (95th), Luke "IWEARGOGGLES" Staudenmaier (89th), David "Bussa Buss" Baker (74th), Jonathan "M0NSTER_D0NG" Karamalikis (73rd), Shawn "Phat_Cat" Luman (49th), Mark "P0KER_H0" Kroon (43rd), Casey "BIGDOGPKT5S" Jarzabek (32nd), Brendan "moe86" Mahoney (18th), and Brian "dubbeemin" Mintz (16th).
Adam "Roothlus" Levy (pictured left) has been on a tear, recently taking second in the $5,000 FTOPS event and finishing third in the Sunday Warmup on PokerStars. Levy took fourth in this event, bringing his OPOY point total to 2,928, good for second place.
Rob "MyBallzUrFace" Saltiel and MYNINETOFIVE decided to chop once they got heads up, though the details are unknown.
Here are the final table results:
- MYNINETOFIVE — $44,972
- Rob "MyBallzUrFace" Saltiel aka jobless23 — $26,886
- Gusavo — $18,226
- Adam "Roothlus" Levy — $12,990
- slice35 — $10,976
- JOSHT05 — $8,962
- PGHCHIPSTACK — $6,948
- MR_SCHLONGD — $4,934
- CHOUMA — $3,423
Bodog $100,000 Guaranteed
Bodog was up this week to 675 players from last week’s 657 players.
The tournament paid out 90 spots to the players who benefitted from the site’s overlay. Kyle "KCannon" Cannon narrowly missed the final table in 11th place, but other than that the tournament was lacking in notables.
It all came down to deadmoney627 and ET1, who fought it out for the title. deadmoney627 came out on top and won the $23,600.
Here were the final table results:
- deadmoney627 — $23,600
- ET1 — $13,600
- ballgame777 — $9,100
- JmfinD — $7,000
- jdrocks1967 — $5,700
- La_Crankiole — $4,500
- Ace2theJ — $3,300
- mannyg16 — $2,200
- Skeeeter – $1,300
Cake Poker $250,000 Guaranteed
Cake Poker got a prize pool boost in their guarantee thanks to an increased in the buy-in from $150 to $250. A total of 1,222 entrants bought in, creating a prize pool of $305,500.
The win came down to a showdown between fiffi and LitezOut, who were both gunning for the $60,489 first-place prize. LitezOut came out on top and took it down.
Here were the final table results:
- LitezOut — $60,489
- fiffi — $42,465
- x Wackopig x — $28,350
- ghoooooooost — $20,957
- Doc_Random — $14,175
- very easy — $10,723
- Nabor Joe — $7,851
- Wu Wizard — $5,886
- errr_icall — $4,949
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