The Sunday Briefing: Guilherme "VinceVegaMFR" Cheveau Wins PokerStars Sunday Million

Brett Collson Chief Editor

Feb 10, 2014 3 min read

More than 8,000 players participated in the PokerStars Sunday Million this week, resulting in a massive $1.6 million prize pool. The huge payouts at the top of the ladder were eventually split five-handed, with all five players walking away with at least $124,000. In the end it was Guilherme "VinceVegaMFR" Cheveau who walked away with the title and the largest piece of the pie ($161,879). It was by far the biggest online score of the Brazilian player's career.

Others finding success on the virtual felt on Sunday were Paul "pvas2" Vas Nunes, Valdemar "Luigi" Kwaysser, Emil "EmilMaTTsson" Mattsson, Georgios "gkap13" Kapalas, Oleg "Fukuruku" Vasilchenko, Anatoliy "NL_Profit" Filatov, Stefan "I'am_Sound" Huber, and Niklas "Lena900" Astedt, who was part of the five-way Sunday Million deal.

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	8,072	$1,614,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	Guilherme "VinceVegaMFR" Cheveau	$161,879*
2	olligergely	$141,658*
3	Ipl4yNuts	$129,292*
4	Niklas "Lena900" Astedt	$129,669*
5	baeks22	$124,269*
6	marvinnamazi	$48,432
7	rdzyrdza	$32,288
8	Fand0r1n	$18,565
9	chavalaro11	$12,511

_{*Denotes five-handed deal}

Notable Finishes: Kevin "Civell" Vandersmissen (11th - $8,637), Jareth "jareth3542" East (19th - $3,551), Tamer "Tamthemanwho" Kamel (39th - $2,986)

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Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	3,706	$741,200

Place	Player	Prize
1	Paul "pvas2" Vas Nunes	$116,369
2	PhilRoyal888	$86,720
3	tormos	$61,149
4	tummen6	$42,619
5	Georgios "gkap13" Kapalas	$31,501
6	armenioz	$24,089
7	DidzeR	$16,677
8	IsraMazeltov	$9,265
9	KaptianKush	$5,929

Notable Finishes: Michael "RichieRichZH" Friedrich (10th - $4,427), Antonin "Tudlenudle" Duda (15th - $3,335), Paul "padjes" Berende (19th - $1,890), Nicolau "nicofellow" Villa-Lobos (23rd - $1,890)

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$250K Guarantee

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,468	$293,600

Place	Player	Prize
1	DrPill	$58,720
2	Blueturtlefoot	$39,048
3	Valdemar "Luigi" Kwaysser	$27,892
4	Rissah	$20,845
5	seed89	$15,560
6	Henkinho	$11,450
7	BluffBluffGiv42	$8,514
8	skitzo333	$6,165
9	Steve575	$4,374

Notable Finishes: Kevin "Sharp6810" Sharp (30th - $822)

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Sunday Brawl ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$240+15	1,237	$247,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	Emil "EmilMaTTsson" Mattsson	$39,844*
2	justfloppin	$32,636*
3	TheBrain	$33,455*
4	MONSTASTAKK	$17,565
5	Grand Player11	$13,112
6	Blueturtlefoot	$9,648
7	greenwave	$7,174
8	Jim "Mr_BigQueso" Collopy	$5,195
9	jobetzu	$3,711

_{*Denotes three-handed deal}

Notable Finishes: Taylor "ambiguosity" Paur (13th - $1,880)

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200K Guaranteed Sunday

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,159	$215,574

Place	Player	Prize
1	P0L4R1C3	$26,830*
2	LARRY33BIRD	$20,488*
3	DALEX54	$10,563
4	Jokerstarsdegen	$7,976
5	pizzaluigi	$5,712
6	OMGWillYoung	$4,203
7	bassysaffari	$3,125
8	jekpro	$2,586
9	CHIPMONSTR94	$2,069

_{*Denotes heads-up deal}

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Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+30	844	$422,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	Oleg "Fukuruku" Vasilchenko	$65,306*
2	Anatoliy "NL_Profit" Filatov	$65,513*
3	misterious78	$40,934
4	Andre "aakkari" Akkari	$30,595
5	Keith "Kungfumonk" Johnson	$21,268
6	infinity499	$16,880
7	talrushi	$12,660
8	mora7777	$8,440
9	WhatIfGod	$5,064

^{*Denotes heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: Magnus "Giffordonian" Martin (10th - $4,220), Martin "Face333X" Schleich (11th - $4,220), Pablo "pablotenisis" Fernandez (14th - $3,376), Edison "V_RouNder" Nguyen (17th - $2,532), Josef "Jollymakky" Antos (18th - $2,532), Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov (25th - $1,899)

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	1,114	$341,900

Place	Player	Prize
1	NateSD222	$54,413*
2	Stefan "I'am_Sound" Huber	$54,139*
3	Marton "noirduck" Czuczor	$34,190
4	Charlie "JIZOINT" Combes	$25,642
5	PieTrO_925	$17,949
6	Bonse1	$14,530
7	Timorm1	$11,111
8	Konstantinos "arxigos" Nanos	$7,692
9	Thomas "GaggleoKings" Ambler	$4,786

_{*Denotes heads-up deal}

Notable Finishes: Paul "pvas2" Vas Nunes (10th - $3,419), Pablo "pablotavi" Tavitian (11th - $3,419), Steve "HR_Dub" Williams (12th - $3,419), Steve "Stev0L_" Leonard (14th - $2,735), Nick "gbmantis" Niergarth (1th - $2,119), Luke "Bit2Easy" Reeves (21st - $1,538), Craig "mcc3991" McCorkell (22nd - $1,538)

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Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,376	$275,200

Place	Player	Prize
1	WhatDFkCtgry	$38,830*
2	nilsef	$37,800*
3	Iohengrin	$31,413*
4	Julian "nailuj90" Stuer	$19,153
5	Toby "810ofclubs" Lewis	$13,622
6	Viktor "vic_xcite" Wessman	$10,870
7	Daniel "42ayay" Erlandsson	$8,118
8	SteveDean10	$5,366
9	Mr. cariry	$3,027

_{*Denotes three-handed deal}

Notable Finishes: Sam "aaajack" Chartier (15th - $1,898), Roman "TuzNaFlop" Kleyman (19th - $1,155), Emil Ohlsson (23rd- $1,155), Dominic "Bounatirou" Nitsche (25th - $1,155), Matt "ch0ppy" Kay (26th - $1,155)

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Sunday Supersonic ($125K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$210.80+4.20	1,479	$311,773

Place	Player	Prize
1	jack310759	$48,621*
2	filushh	$40,635*
3	Benjamin134	$37,729*
4	checktrap11	$23,382
5	Lauri "IMS DURNK" Pesonen	$16,368
6	AverageGreg	$13,250
7	Thomas "WushuTM" Muhlocker	$10,132
8	v2the3	$7,014
9	mypokerf	$4,364

_{*Denotes three-handed deal}

Notable Finishes: Matt "mjw006" Wakeman (12th - $2,961), Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovskiy (13th - $2,238), Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger (14th - $2,338), Mickey "mement_mori" Petersen (16th - $1,714)