The Sunday Briefing: Michael "ShiFtYFiNGeR" Guzzardi Among Sunday's Big Winners
Aug 30, 2010
3 min read
Last updated Aug 31, 2010
All across the virtual felt this weekend, big names were posting big finishes as players gear up for the 2010 World Championship of Online Poker next weekend. The PokerStars Sunday Warm-UpMichael "ShiFtYFiNGeR" Guzzardi , claiming $132,910.50 for his victory. Also emerging victorious on Sunday was none other than 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Joe "jcada99" Cada , winning the PokerStars $215+R NL Hold'em for $38,012. The biggest payday went to "Peetoon" for winning the PokerStars Sunday Million for $232,361.11.
Over on Full Tilt , the lone six-figure score was won by Joe "planetearf" Serock for topping the field in the Full Tilt Sunday Brawl for $105,032.20. Other winners on Sunday include Dylan "Pokerl)evil" Hortin, Leopold "pojai" Chow, Jordan "Jymaster11" Young, and Tyler "TheBrain" Cornell .
PokerStars Sunday Million
Buy-in Entrants Prizepool $200 + $15 8,190 $1,638,000
Place Player Prize *1 Peetoon $232,362.11 *2 FightnIrishh $193,517.89 3 RedIceRap $122,850 4 trionojnika $82,555.20 5 Randy "Randers" Haddox $65,520 6 Bad Habbitz $49,140 7 smsuwrestler $32,760 8 jsonelin $18,837 9 CON28 $12,694
*denotes heads-up deal
Notable Finishes: Luke "LukeFromB13" Staudenmaier (12th - $8,763.30), Aaron "JeanGrae" McCready (13th - $6,552), Leo Fernandez (19th - $3,603.60)
PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up
Buy-in Entrants Prizepool $200 + $15 4,236 $847,200
Place Player Prize 1 Michael "ShiFtYFiNGeR" Guzzardi $132,910.50 2 Don Pedro07 $98,698.80 3 citrusjim $69,894 4 Mexitexi $47,866.80 5 sabbsezero $36,006 6 melous $27,534 7 badgergav $19,062 8 Erasmus Hurt $10,590 9 lausfloh $6,777.60
Notable Finishes: Brett "get crunk" Richey (18th - $2,541.60), Neil ��Visionary129�� McFayden (22nd - $2,118)
PokerStars Sunday 500
Buy-in Entrants Prizepool $500 + $30 991 $500,000
Place Player Prize 1 Dylan "Pokerl)evil" Hortin $87,400 2 degord2 $63,500 3 Brian "brianm15" England $47,500 4 birs320 $35,500 5 Jeff "jeff710" Hakim $25,000 6 David "Cairns1987" Cairns $20,000 7 Matt "VerySexual" Larsh $15,000 8 Faraz "The-Toilet 0" Jaka $10,000 9 magom1968 $5,750
Notable Finishes: Chris "SLOPPYKLOD" Klodnicki (12th - $4,750), Alex "AJKHoosier1" Kamberis (14th - $3,750), Darryll "df1986" Fish (15th - $3,750)
PokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance
Buy-in Entrants Prizepool $200 + $15 1,505 $301,000
Place Player Prize *1 Mateywin $40,537.58 *2 Duffman08 $43,053.12 *3 bluechip2000 $40,090.20 4 N1lmar $22,575 5 jersey716 $15,802.40 6 PokerThun $12,792.50 7 Matt "mlagoo" LaGarde $9,782.50 8 Pyjamarse $6,772.50 9 hg18l7 $4,214
*denotes three-handed deal
Notable Finishes: Chris "Big Huni" Hunichen (25th - $1,113.70), Randall "TwinMSU" Brooks (27th - $1,113.70)
PokerStars $109+R NL Hold'em ($300K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prizepool $100 + $9 1,118 $424,100
Place Player Prize 1 ministerborg $78,034.40 2 Cyriel "Supa4real" Dohmen $56,617.35 3 Bahbak "bigredAK" Oboodi $42,210 4 Athanasios George "Athanasios 9" Polychronopoulos $31,807.50 5 iamgod1234 $22,265.25 6 LeKnave $18,024.25 7 Tim "Tmay420" West $13,783.25 8 Randy "nanonoko" Lew $9,542.25 9 Mexitexi $5,937.40
Notable Finishes: Raj "BadcardsAA" Vohra (10th - $4,241), Kyle "KJulius10" Julius (11th - $4,241), Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy (17th - $2,629.42)
PokerStars $215+R NL Hold'em ($150K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prizepool $200 + $15 236 $176,800
Place Player Prize 1 Joe "jcada99" Cada $38,012 2 Sam "aaajack" Chartier $27,404 3 Paul "paulgees81" Volpe $20,774 4 David "WhooooKidd" Baker $15,470 5 Adam "Roothlus" Levy $10,608 6 ahmadi15 $8,840 7 David "dpeters17" Peters $7,072 8 Calvin "cal42688" Anderson $5,304 9 EZz_GAME $3,536
Notable Finishes: Alvaro "VARICO" Ballesteros (11th - $3,094), Jeff "kobeshomie" Madsen (12th - $3,094), Steven "PiKappRaider" Burkholder (13th - $2,652), Chris "cdbr3799" Dombrowski (14th - $2,652)
Full Tilt $750,000 Guarantee
Buy-in Entrants Prizepool $200 + $16 3,443 $750,000
Place Player Prize *1 Leopold "pojai" Chow $90,811 *2 Steve "McNallyville" McNally $98,471.04 *3 Capped1 $76,255.46 4 RealJobs_LOL $41,400 5 1EyedPegLeg $31,050 6 Shorty81 $23,025 7 AnalFetto $17,250 8 Mawrich $13,500 9 Gbdank $10,050
*denotes three-handed deal
Notable Finishes: JC "PrtyPsux" Alvarado (13th - $5,325), Shawn "phat_cat1" Luman (17th - $3,750)
Full Tilt Sunday Brawl
Buy-in Entrants Prizepool $240 + $16 2,587 $517,400
Place Player Prize 1 Joe "planetearf" Serock $105,032.20 2 psfishfat $67,779.40 3 HighLikeMike $50,187.80 4 matyr3al $37,770.20 5 elitewrestla $26,387.40 6 hunyuk65 $17,591.60 7 Tommy "blanks plz" Wesley $11,900.20 8 Nicky "cod meharly" Evans $8,278.40 9 ash4simone $6,208.80
Notable Finishes: Mike "rusostreet" Caruso (25th - $1,552.20), Ravi "govshark2" Raghavan (27th - $1,552.20)
Full Tilt $200,000 Guarantee (Rebuy)
Buy-in Entrants Prizepool $150 + $13 660 $325,650
Place Player Prize 1 Jordan "Jymaster11" Young $79,784.25 2 ashaman64 $49,661.63 3 Damian Salas $36,635.63 4 DMill90 $28,494.38 5 Peter "Nordberg" Feldman $21,167.25 6 TUTKU_IRMAK $15,468.38 7 swd805 $10,095.15 8 Soepgroente $7,815.60 9 Jonathan Karamalakis $6,187.35
Notable Finishes: Jason "jdpc27" Wheeler (14th - $2,605.20), David "Davidp18" Peters (16th - $1,791.08), Mike "SowersUNCC" Sowers (19th - $1,384.01)
Full Tilt Sunday Mulligan
Buy-in Entrants Prizepool $200 + $16 1,294 $258,800
Place Player Prize 1 Tyler "TheBrain" Cornell $56,936 2 SavePluto9 $36,232 3 ICALL4EVER $26,203.50 4 Anthony "ALEE24" Lee $21,027.50 5 SLYEYES35 $15,864.44 6 AmplifiedSample $11,646 7 ReaverMicro $7,505.20 8 LucyWhyte $5,434.80 9 Endomatic $3,882
Notable Finishes: Larry "PrishChips31" Sharp (10th - $2,199.80), Christian "da_professional" Iacobellis (12th - $2,199.80), Casey "bigdogpckt5s" Jarzabek (13th - $1,604.56)
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