Sunday Briefing: WATnlos Adds High Roller Title to Sunday Million Win
��WATnlos�� of Austria added the PokerStars Sunday High Roller title to their long list of online poker accomplishments, which include winning the Sunday Million.
PokerStars Sunday High Roller
| Date | April 8 |
| Buy-in | $2,100 |
| Guarantee | $200,000 |
| Entrants | 98 |
| Prize pool | $200,000 |
| ITM | 13 |
WATnlos was one of a 73 unique entrants field, with an additional 25 re-entries between them, in the Apr. 8 edition of the PokerStars Sunday High Roller. Only 13 of these 98 entrants were paid, so spare a thought for ��TonyYayo5�� who busted in 14th place to burst the bubble and did so after firing two $2,100 bullets.
Places 10 through 13 collected $5,000 for their efforts, with the least amount of money awarded at the final table being $5,819, the sum given to Japan��s ��masatotan,�� the ninth-place finisher.
The rest of the final table read like a who��s who of online poker, with a couple of former Sunday Million champions, SCOOP Super High Roller winners, and elite grinders.
Artem ��veeea�� Vezhenkov of Russia fell in eighth-place and was followed to the rail by Germany��s Christopher ��lissi stinkt�� Frank. Sixth-place, and the first five-figure score of the tournament, went to ��bencb789�� and he was joined on the sidelines by a brace of talented Swedish players in Nikas ��Lena900�� Astedt and ��anteen.��
Latvia��s ��APonakov,�� a former Sunday Million winner, busted in third-place to guarantee an Austrian one-two finish. "WATnlos" and ��sk2ll_m0dR�� locked horns heads up but it was the former who emerged victoriously and got their hands on $47,398.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WATnlos | Austria | $47,398 |
| 2 | sk2ll_m0dR | Austria | $35,895 |
| 3 | APonakov | Latvia | $27,184 |
| 4 | anteen | Sweden | $20,587 |
| 5 | Niklas ��Lena900�� Astedt | Sweden | $15,591 |
| 6 | bencb789 | Austria | $11,807 |
| 7 | Christopher ��lissi stinkt�� Frank | Germany | $8,942 |
| 8 | Artem ��veeea�� Vezhenkov | Russia | $6,772 |
| 9 | masatotan | Japan | $5,819 |
PokerStars Sunday Million
| Date | April 8 |
| Buy-in | $215 |
| Guarantee | $1,000,000 |
| Entrants | 5,455 |
| Prize pool | $1,091,000 |
| ITM | 998 |
This weekend��s PokerStars Sunday Million ended in a heads-up chop after a long, drawn-out heads-up battle. The tournament spanned more than 14 hours and ended with Germany��s ��Kenu V�� walking away with $136,284 and a $30,000 Platinum Pass for the upcoming PokerStars Players Championship.
Kenu V��s heads-up opponent was ��peterwhooo�� who won $114,464 as part of the deal. The Brazilian led for much of the final one-on-one clash, but it was the German opponents who came out trumps.
Four of the final table��s players took advantage of the re-entry system and navigated their way to the final nine after firing two bullets. ��SU1990��, ��master beto��, ��54kgPozitiva�� and "peterwhooo" all fired a second $215 bullet, and it reaped in the rewards with those players winning between $8,667 and $114,464.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenu V | Germany | $136,284* |
| 2 | peterwhooo | Brazil | $114,464* |
| 3 | 54kgPoztiva | Russia | $72,563 |
| 4 | Nebelwald | Germany | $50,922 |
| 5 | Onew4214 | Russia | $35,736 |
| 6 | Cechi86 | Czech Republic | $25,078 |
| 7 | UKPokerNinja | United Kingdom | $17,599 |
| 8 | master beto | Costa Rica | $12,350 |
| 9 | SU1990 | Germany | $8,667 |
*reflects a heads-up deal
partypoker Super Sunday Championship Event
| Date | April 8 |
| Buy-in | $215 |
| Guarantee | $500,000 |
| Entrants | 2,178 |
| Prize pool | $500,000 |
| ITM | 280 |
Hungary��s Balazs ��zhuex�� Ujvari secured the largest cash prize of his online poker tournament career when he came out on top in the partypoker Super Sunday Championship Event, a $215 buy-in tournament with a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Ujvari��s previous largest cash weighed in at $31,418, the prize for finishing third in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up in Jan. 2017. Now he can brag of a cash haul more than 2.5 times that size thanks to being awarded a cool $83,500 for this victory, which also happened to be the biggest prize won at partypoker this weekend.
All eight players at the final table were guaranteed $5,375 but like in the majority of tournaments; the big money was up top. Ujvari eventually won the tournament after sending ��CooperKupp�� to the rail in second-place, a finish that netted the runner-up $58,850 for their $215 investment.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balazs ��zhuex�� Ujvari | $83,500 |
| 2 | CooperKupp | $58,850 |
| 3 | Ilove2fish | $38,000 |
| 4 | VengaLerenda | $25,250 |
| 5 | uBetiWin19 | $17,725 |
| 6 | insincere88 | $12,200 |
| 7 | melianthinarum | $8,380 |
| 8 | CiccionaLA | $5,375 |
partypoker Super Sunday Main Event-H
| Date | April 8 |
| Buy-in | $109 |
| Guarantee | $200,000 |
| Entrants | 1,667 |
| Prize pool | $200,000 |
| ITM | 216 |
British grinder Rick ��tHeClaimEr1�� Trigg added $33,740 to his lifetime winnings after winning the partypoker Super Sunday Main Event-H, a $109 buy-in tournament with a $200,000 guarantee. Just 1,667 players turned out for this particular tournament, which meant an overlay of $33,300. Trigg took full advantage of the added cash.
Trigg, who recently became a father, has more than $7.6 million in online winning following a long and illustrious career. This latest win, achieved after eliminating ��Hallgeir72�� in second-place, pushed his winnings at partypoker past the $650,000 mark.
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rick ��tHeClaImEr1�� Trigg | $33,740 |
| 2 | Hallgeir72 | $23,940 |
| 3 | ToniErdmann | $15,560 |
| 4 | crawfaldo | $10,380 |
| 5 | arwis86 | $7,360 |
| 6 | Handsome_Jack | $5,160 |
| 7 | FuzzzyDuck | $3,580 |
| 8 | sluuvtanuuv | $2,360 |
888poker The $100,000 Whale
| Date | April 8 |
| Buy-in | $1,050 |
| Guarantee | $100,000 |
| Entrants | 93 |
| Prize pool | $100,000 |
| ITM | 8 |
Canada��s ��papafritas1�� was the winner of the 888poker $100,000 Whale this weekend. The Canadian topped a field of 93 to secure the $32,500 first-place prize.
The final table was a star-studded affair with the likes of Roman ��romeopro33�� Romanovsky, Kenny ��SpaceyFCB�� Hallaert, Anton ��VnilaVader�� Herrmann and Jon ��chut_up�� Van Fleet all present. That quartet of players fell in places seventh through fourth to leave the waters a little less shark-infested.
Papafritas1 came out on top after a heads-up battle with Finnish player ��wellyxx�� who collected $21,000 for their second-place finish.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | papafritas1 | Canada | $32,500 |
| 2 | wellyxx | Finland | $21,000 |
| 3 | lasochobi | Argentina | $15,000 |
| 4 | Jon ��chut_up�� Van Fleet | Canada | $10,000 |
| 5 | Anton ��VnilaVader�� Herrmann | Sweden | $7,500 |
| 6 | Kenny ��SpaceyFCB�� Hallaert | United Kingdom | $5,500 |
| 7 | Roman ��Romeopro33�� Romanovsky | Ukraine | $4,500 |
| 8 | Kannwas | Austria | $4,000 |
888poker The $50,000 Sunday Challenge
| Date | April 8 |
| Buy-in | $109 |
| Guarantee | $50,000 |
| Entrants | 416 |
| Prize pool | $50,000 |
| ITM | 40 |
Sweden��s ��1LevelAbove�� showed they were one level above the opposition after they triumphed in the 888poker $50,000 Sunday Challenge. The $109 buy-in tournament saw a total field of 416 compete for a slice of the $50,000 guaranteed prize pool, but it was the Swede who won the lion��s share of it, namely $9,750.
1LevelAbove eliminated Russia��s ��M9yM9so�� in second-place, which resigned the Russian to the $7,250 runner-up prize, still a healthy return on a $109 investment.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1LevelAbove | Sweden | $9,750 |
| 2 | M9yM9so | Russia | $7,250 |
| 3 | cube.com11 | Germany | $5,500 |
| 4 | Craig ��craigbor18�� Borrer | United Kingdom | $4,000 |
| 5 | wh4ishat3 | Malta | $2,750 |
| 6 | mne_d0edet1 | Russia | $2,000 |
| 7 | NZhero007 | New Zealand | $1,500 |
| 8 | nortel | Canada | $1,250 |
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