The Sunday Briefing: "Halfrek" and "bmky88" Score Sunday Victories
Well, we know that Americans weren't spending the July 4 weekend winning seven figures online, but that didn't stop others from doing so. The PokerStars Sunday Million was won by "bmky88" for $161,000 after defeating Pavel "besar_cz" Lipa heads up. Also notching a victory on Sunday was Danish online phenom "Halfrek" , who won the $109 Sunday Rebuy for $44,175.
PokerStars Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$15 5,718 $1,143,600
Place Player Prize *1 bmky88 $161,000 *2 Pavel "besar_cz" Lipa $147,774.79 3 Cuzco $92,631.60 4 Crusher Jun $64,213.14 5 iso dj $48,031.20 6 R.J_Legit $36,595.20 7 Francix $25,159.20 8 WhiteRabbito $14,295 9 uarts2 $8,920.08
*denotes heads-up deal
Notable Finishes: Derek "derek8" Lerner (33rd - $2,402)
PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$15 2,917 $583,400
Place Player Prize 1 maicon178 $91,594.42 2 micado74 $68,257.80 3 moderman22 $48,433.86 4 The_swan06 $33,545.50 5 abeainy $25,086.20 6 guillet76 $19,252.20 7 SafinRadik $13,418.20 8 Emaa $7,584.20 9 progre69 $4,667.20
Notable Finishes: Tim "weygang" English (30th - $1,342), Greg "gregior" Howard (31st - $1,342)
PokerStars Sunday 500 ($250K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $500+$30 511 $255,500
Place Player Prize *1 Milana Jones $40,546 *2 pAtcAsh83 $34,615 *3 WhatIsICM $33,683 4 rouliroul $19,418 5 BabbieNuk $13,644 6 moneyMiker11 $10,859 7 Sherrii $8,304 8 mjw006 $5,749 9 Ben "bazooka87" Gilholme $3,833
*denotes three-handed deal
Notable Finishes: Phidias "ael1979" Georgiou (25th - $1,418)
PokerStars $109 Sunday Rebuy ($200K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $100+$9 752 $235,600
Place Player Prize 1 Halfrek $44,175 2 Tomascibak $31,806 3 Mzzzzzzzzzzz $23,560 4 redlun $17,670 5 lukro8 $12,369 6 marcosretard $10,013 7 papion19 $7,657 8 A.Brandon $5,301 9 vrest $3,322
Notable Finishes: Alex "skalexjung" Jung (17th - $1,649)
PokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance ($125K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$15 895 $179,000
Place Player Prize 1 PetjeXL $32,399 2 GetItQuietly $23,270 3 esposado $17,453 4 Milana Jones $13,067 5 Spaniskiller $9,219 6 Louxo $7,429 7 DESS66 $5,639 8 Negriin $3,956 9 philcaALLins $2,291
*PokerStars data obtained from PokerStarsBlog.com and officialpokerrankings.com
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