The Sunday Briefing: Athanasios Polychronopoulos Wins PokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance

Brett Collson Chief Editor

Jan 06, 2014 3 min read

Many of online poker's top tournament talents have made their way to the Bahamas for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, but the Sunday Majors still provided massive payouts this week. Several notables picked up big scores, including Benn "risk2Dupside" Skender, Charlie "JIZOINT" Combes, Alexandru "tilt21sted" Papazian and Jason "jadedjason" James.

Landing in the winner's circle this week was two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Athanasios "Athanasios9" Polychronopoulos. The New York City native, who now lives in Canada, took down thePokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance for $46,049 after outlasting a field of 1,334. It marked the second largest score ever at PokerStars for Polychronopolous; his biggest came from a third-place finish in the 2010 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Main Event-M ($303,188).

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	8,666	$1,733,200

Place	Player	Prize
1	TroopTroop1	$234,028*
2	Alexandru "tilt21sted" Papazian	$176,579*
3	Nelisschuif7	$160,659*
4	Gottonik	$86,660
5	Leonmen44	$69,328
6	ertho435	$51,996
7	fotis060105	$34,664
8	jude187	$19,065
9	matze_widi	$13,432

_{*Denotes three-handed deal}

Notable Finishes: Andrey "ThePateychuk" Pateychuk (12th - $9,185), Viktor "HokuzzPokuzz" Strahl (37th - $3,206)

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Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	3,633	$726,600

Place	Player	Prize
1	heytie	$114,077
2	FOO-92	$85,012
3	Turist093	$59,944
4	random_chu	$41,779
5	bechis	$30,880
6	Hellmosca	$23,614
7	Joe "ender555" Ebanks	$16,348
8	Alexander "BIack88" Trofimov	$9,082
9	teknotom	$5,812

Notable Finishes: Andrew "stato_1" Hulme (18th - $2,179), Ryan "toetagU" Fair (19th - $1,852), Mads Amot (22nd - $1,852), Tommy "TMoney0209" Miller (26th - $1,852)

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$250K Guarantee

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,412	$282,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	BILLGATESTILTIN	$56,480
2	Jason "jadedjason" James	$37,559
3	roo_400	$26,828
4	abeainy	$20,050
5	bajen1999	$14,967
6	derdings	$11,013
7	lordjosejose	$8,189
8	Leanod	$5,930
9	Fresa4ever	$4,207

Notable Finishes: Bryan "bparis" Paris (19th - $1,129)

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Sunday Brawl ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$240+15	1,138	$227,600

Place	Player	Prize
1	Benn "risk2Dupside" Skender	$32,814*
2	Kumasha	$28,143*
3	Jozinho	$36,500*
4	BruceWayneRises	$16,159
5	1SteadyEddy1	$12,062
6	Pal73	$8,876
7	miserd00d	$6,600
8	sandybarr	$4,779
9	LORDXFLVCKO	$3,414

_{*Denotes three-handed deal}

Notable Finishes: Kevin "Wu_Wizard" MacPhee (12th - $2,276), Charlie "chaz_man_chaz" Combes (15th - $1,729), Nick "Grippolio" Grippo (16th - $1,320)

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200K Guaranteed Sunday

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,205	$241,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	pura.vida	$36,503.98*
2	Azamat Bagatov	$35,434.53*
3	humlan11	$15,785.50
4	Grey Area	$13,375.50
5	Crippledeckz	$10,965.50
6	JJanssen1960	$8,555.50
7	BringCabbage	$6,145.50
8	evianwater1	$3,976.50
9	freebieZ	$2,771.50
10	TEECRAMES	$2,169.00

_{*Denotes heads-up deal}

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Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+30	801	$400,500

Place	Player	Prize
1	Assad91	$72,090
2	Elay99	$52,065
3	Yattago	$38,848
4	hauptschule	$29,036
5	Laurynas "LaurisL91" Levinskas	$20,185
6	Martin "nizmo jiz" Kozlov	$16,180
7	Adrzejeczek	$12,175
8	masensio	$8,210
9	beahar	$5,006

Notable Finishes: Maxim "MAMOHT_T" Mamonov (10th - $4,205), Matt "FaceStealer" Volosevich (11th - $4,205), Joel "Odonkor1" Nordkvist (13th - $3,404), Pavel "3P3NIPA" Plesuv (21st - $1,842), Jude "j.thaddeus" Ainsworth (24th - $1,842)

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	1,052	$317,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	Charlie "JIZOINT" Combes	$47,490*
2	cocjambo	$45,844*
3	Maxim "MAMOHT_T" Mamonov	$39,448*
4	Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsky	$23,775
5	blackjak19	$16,642
6	23noraB	$13,472
7	Tommy "TMoney0209" Miller	$10,302
8	micide	$7,132
9	Shyam "G's zee" Srinivasan	$3,328

Notable Finishes: Michael "mossified84" Skomac (12th - $3,328), Lauri "IMS DURNK" Pesonen (13th - $2,694), Dmitry "OhRaisyDaisy" Budnikov (15th - $2,694), Steven "SvZff" van Zadelhoff (20th - $1,426), Thiago "XTheDecanoX" Nishijima (24th - $1,426), Ruben "rubenrtv" Visser (25th - $1,426), Faraz "The-Toilet 0" Jaka (26th - $1,426)

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Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,334	$266,800

Place	Player	Prize
1	Athanasios "Athanasios9" Polychronopoulos	$46,049
2	jveiradias8	$33,500
3	Elmagico19A1	$23,346
4	dhutt	$18,569
5	bossamtisch	$13,206
6	Casey "sobizzle21" Sobczewski	$10,538
7	Keven "Stammdogg" Stammen	$7,870
8	23noraB	$5,202
9	JNJ007	$2,934

Notable Finishes: Kevin "Civell" Vandersmissen (10th - 2,374), Adam "Roothlus" Levy (14th - $1,840), Jerry "hummylun" Wong (16th - $1,307), Kory "s00tedj0kers" Kilpatrick (19th - $1,120), David "dpeters17" Peters (27th - 1,120)

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Sunday Supersonic ($125K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$210.80+4.20	1,463	$308,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	Icgodinho	$54,679
2	Farey2008	$40,092
3	CryMoar	$30,840
4	George "jorj95" Lind	$23,130
5	Justas "selinantis" Semaska	$16,191
6	MidniteKowby	$13,107
7	StaceOP	$10,023
8	jedi9000	$6,939
9	YUGA1979	$4,317