The Sunday Briefing: Martin Staszko Wins PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up
Poker players were seeing double during their Sunday grind on PokerStars Sunday Million and Sunday Warm-Up twice as part of Double Vision Sunday. In all, more than $3.5 million was up for grabs between the four biggest tournaments available on Sunday's tournament slate.
Last week, 2014 November Niner Jorryt van Hoof Sunday Briefing after winning the PokerStars Sunday Warm-up. Another WSOP Main Event finalist took down the same title on Double Vision Sunday as Martin "filfedra" Staszko
Staszko, who finished runner-up in the 2011 WSOP Main Event for $5.4 million, bested a field of 2,939 in Sunday's six-max tournament. The final table also included Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsky , who placed third for $52,249.
Longtime poker pros Jon "apestyles" Van Fleet and Greg "gregior" Howard reached the final table of the Sunday Million on Sunday, but it was Pablo "Rhyno2008" Nerro who landed in the winner's circle. Nerro was the biggest winner of the day, pocketing a $217,717 top prize.
Here's a full look at the results from the Sunday Majors on PokerStars , Full Tilt Poker , partypoker and WSOP.com :
Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+15 7,420 $1,484,000
Place Player Prize 1 Pablo "Rhyno2008" Nerro $217,717 2 kostelo $149,735 3 Jon "apestyles" Van Fleet $102,959 4 Armaan007 $70,816 5 RUS_FISH $48,704 6 eurowinner1 $33,493 7 KK_Killer_AA $23,046 8 Greg "gregior" Howard $15,863 9 Douglas "Dowgh-Santos" Ferreira $10,907
Notable Finishes: Joao Mathias (10th - $7,494), Christian "Gambler4444" Nolte (13th - $5,179), Aaron "Aguskb" Gustavson (14th - $5,179), Jonas "donut604" Mackoff (17th - $3,591), Ignat "0Human0" Liviu (18th - $3,591), Connor "blanconegro" Drinnan (25th - $2,641)
Sunday Million II ($1M Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+15 4,802 $1,000,000
Place Player Prize 1 Bluf_To_Much $120,527* 2 BWFCLEE $84,342* 3 BORRAURELIO $100,539* 4 girafganger7 $88,560* 5 Tom "hitthehole" Middleton $35,460 6 emi_ntn $24,390
*Reflects four-handed deal
Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+15 3,562 $712,400
Place Player Prize 1 Killer_ooooo $122,621* 2 GamadGADOL $111,229* 3 Mark "scrubbyz" Zajdner $65,533 4 Nuazo $45,066 5 robbancs214 $30,989 6 gordij�� $21,315 7 Merceko $14,661 8 sonajero $10,080 9 CHIPFLOW $6,938
Reflects heads-up deal
Notable Finishes: Markus "MarkusG91" Garberg (25th - $2,265)
Sunday Warm-Up II ($500K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+15 2,939 $587,800
Place Player Prize 1 Martin "filfedra" Staszko $110,478 2 H0LDiT 75,973 3 Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsky $52,249 4 danger0us $35,938 5 slon7716 $24,716 6 Der Besen $16,999
Notable Finishes: Matias "Festivuss" Gabrenja (19th - $2,809), Dominykas "Domce" Karmazinas (23rd - $2,809)
Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $500+30 759 $379,500
Place Player Prize 1 Jannick "EDWARDHOPPER" Wrang $62,012* 2 dadowiec $56,012* 3 apostolis20 $37,001 4 Angelical20 $27,703 5 Florian "happyfister" Bu?man $19,544 6 sousinha23 $15,749 7 HuntItShipIt $11,954 8 Mahalael $8,386 9 Ansimans $4,857
*Reflects heads-up deal
Notable Finishes: Patrick "pmahoney22" Mahoney (10th - $4,098), Matt "FaceStealer" Volosevich (16th - $2,580), Marc-Andre "FrenchDawg" Ladouceur (17th - $2,580), Matias "Festivuss" Gabrenja (21st - $1,821), Mayu "marroca5" Roca (24th - $1,821)
Get in on the Sunday Majors action yourself by visiting PokerStars , Full Tilt Poker and PartyPoker .
200K Guaranteed Sunday
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+15 970 $200,000
Place Player Prize 1 ImaCriminalYo $32,200 2 Guerg $22,900 3 gixxser $16,360 4 floppinhel $12,650 5 mrbiglaci813 $10,280 6 info_raise $8,280 7 prognosticator9 $6,280 8 stevenstevenson $4,360 9 McDIsiLDrOoN $3,320
The Sunday Major ($150K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+15 940 $188,200
Place Player Prize 1 m-klon $37,640 2 IK_Schoeni $25,068 3 Steve "Illini213" Barshak $17,879 4 rguimas $13,362 5 philhellmatt $9,974 6 seonkett1 $7,339 7 tcrames88 $5,457 8 Jeremy "daisyxoxo" Fitzpatrick $3,952 9 Medved Hornet13 $2,823
Notable Finishes: Jake "baseman" Bazeley (12th - $1,882), Mike McDonald (17th - $1,091), Karolis "karolis666" Grybauskas (20th - $809), Ryan ��HITTHEPANDA�� Franklin (23rd - $809)
Sunday Brawl ($100K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $240+15 624 $124,800
Place Player Prize 1 APokanov $23,308* 2 podnil $21,308* 3 RoccoPa $13,728 4 mcfishers114875 $10,483 5 MintBerryCru $7,737 6 unbeZieglar $5,492 7 popyriZ $3,993 8 Kask123 $2,995 9 escream1 $2,246
Notable Finishes: Anthony "holdplz" Spinella (21st - $624), Sean "metfan4590" Ripp (25th - $624)
$15,000 Guaranteed Weekly Sunday (Nevada)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $185+15 77 $15,000
Place Player Prize 1 fishn.chips $4,275 2 jchak $2,475 3 dudasdb $1,500 4 jonmon101 $1,200 5 aggie69 $1,035 6 unlvrebel74 $885 7 fabiohelcia $735 8 BSHriever5 $510 9 supermnsdead $405
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