The Sunday Briefing: Melanie Weisner and Bryn Kenney Close 2012 with Final Tables
The 2012 season for Sunday Majors ended yesterday with four players earning six-figure paydays to close out the year. Pocketing the biggest score, "ante_geia_AA" , who won the PokerStars Sunday Million for $243,955. Also winning tournaments on Sunday, Jono "Spyver" Beck , Damian "pampa27" Salas and Zsolt "Vzsolt800" Vasvenszki. Notables who made final tables and won five figures included Ben "ShankingYou" Palmer (on both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker), Melanie "Callisto 5" Weisner , Rupert "ElRupert" Elder and Bryn "BrynKenney" Kenney .
PokerStars Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$15 8,292 $1,658,400
Place Player Prize 1 ante_geia_AA $243,955 2 Yukon2000 $178,278 3 Flavio "flavioreis88" Reis $124,380 4 aakiss1990 $82,920 5 Afterpub $66,336 6 Mr_Bean122 $49,752 7 Rumtschech $33,168 8 obina9 $18,242 9 22tinga $12,853
Notable Finishes: Jason "jadedjason" James (29th - $3,316.80), Michael "PapaGreggio" Hawkins (31st - $3,316.80), Steve "BetrThanPhil" Tripp (50th - $2,819.28)
To read about this week's Sunday Million, head to PokerStarsBlog.com .
PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$15 3,446 $689,200
Place Player Prize 1 inwooke $108,205 2 DEXX_RJ $80,636 3 Ozgur "phaplap" Arda $56,859 4 stiene222 $39,629 5 Ben "ShankingYou" Palmer $29,291 6 Veritas0086 $22,399 7 grussiova $15,507 8 LUNARI29 $8,615 9 Truthislie $5,514
Notable Finishes: Jesse "On the Mac" McKenzie (21st - $1,757.46), Billy "b8chatz" Chattaway (40th - $1,412.86), Ben "bennybunny18" Richardson (42nd - $1,412.86), Toby "810ofclubs" Lewis (46th - $1,309.48)
To read about this week's Sunday Warm-Up, check out PokerStarsBlog.com .
Full Tilt $500K Guarantee ($500K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$16 2,533 $506,600
Place Player Prize 1 nebo_blizko $96,254 2 FActorCubE $66,719 3 ggera555 $47,114 4 DonSeppone1 $35,462 5 FETTSTUHL $26,343 6 Manuel "young_diamond18" Blaschke $19,251 7 Ben "bonafidedonkey" Palmer $13,678 8 Jakub "Olorion" Michalik $9,625 9 Mario_Basler $6,586
Notable Finishes: Dani "Ansky451" Stern (10th - $4,559.40), Jaroslaw "YanniYankievich" Jaskiewicz (12th - $4,559.40), Thiago "DecanoBR" Nishjima (20th - $1,671.78), Peter "breeth" Turmezey (23rd - $1,671.78), Zach "CrazyZachary" Clark (26th - $1,671.78)
Full Tilt Sunday Brawl ($200K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $240+$16 863 $200,000
Place Player Prize 1 Jono "Spyver" Beck $40,000 2 Mat "checktrap11" Cuthbertson $26,640 3 fokker44 $19,000 4 bond25459 $14,200 5 darek1987pl $10,600 6 JoHNChY $7,800 7 Jim "Mr_BigQueso" Collopy $5,800 8 John00Flemming $4,200 9 MakeYouDumber $3,000
Notable Finishes: Ryan "ryanghall" Hall (15th - $1,520), Russell "rdcrsn" Carson (22nd - $860), Ashley "AshTheDonkey" Mason (23rd - $860), Rayan "rkruok" Nathan (25th - $860)
PokerStars Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $500+$30 772 $386,000
Place Player Prize 1 Damian "pampa27" Salas $69,480 2 D.Donnini $50,180 3 Matthias "blueskyyM" Tikerpe $37,442 4 Rhys "floppinhel" Jones $27,985 5 young_diam18 $19,454 6 yarik1903 $15,594 7 b00ster7777 $11,734 8 freshleo111 $7,913 9 Seppula18 $4,825
Notable Finishes: Michael "moneyinbag" Aron (10th - $4,053), David "dpeters17" Peters (12th - $4,053), Faraz "The-Toilet 0" Jaka (13th - $3,281), Andrew "achen" Chen (14th - $3,218)
PokerStars $109 Sunday Rebuy ($225K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $100+$9 934 $291,900
Place Player Prize 1 Zsolt "Vzsolt800" Vasvenszki $54,731 2 bossamtisch $39,406 3 megafish_rus $29,190 4 Melanie "Callisto 5" Weisner $21,893 5 Phantomes124 $15,325 6 pistecaloze $12,406 7 iwonthurtyou $9,487 8 ManiacRazor $6,568 9 GeoManousos $4,116
Notable Finishes: Steve "HR_Dub" Williams (10th - $3,063.95), Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger (13th - $2,481.15), Marty "TheLipoFund" Mathis (18th - $1,897.35), Russell "rdcrsn" Carson (21st - $1,313.55)
PokerStars Bigger $109 ($160K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $100+$9 2,990 $299,000
Place Player Prize *1 mexican222 $42,524 *2 Rupert "ElRupert" Elder $40,000 3 Flush098765 $25,116 4 5typesofmeat $17,489 5 R.J_Legit $13,007 6 Colombian80% $10,017 7 mrcl921 $7,027 8 Jon "LUFCBas" Spinks $4,336 9 GeoManousos $2,542
*denotes heads-up deal
Notable Finishes: David "Mrdawwe" Sonelin (21st - $897), Rasmus "bigoots" Sibast (26th - $897)
PokerStars Bigger $162 ($150K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $150+$12 1,618 $242,700
Place Player Prize 1 Zihuatanejo3 $39,815 2 yeres $29,124 3 Carteio $21,843 4 NestaRasta $16,261 5 Elbeto87 $11,529 6 CSWAMI $9,102 7 TheMatadorCC $6,675 8 mmoreno9 $4,247 9 psjebemvas $2,427
Notable Finishes: Russell "rdcrsn" Carson (10th - $1,917.33), Dan "danloulou" Smyth (12th - $1,917.33)
PokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $200+$15 1,351 $270,200
Place Player Prize 1 Konandoel23 $46,637 2 Javier "MuckeDBoY" Tazon $33,775 3 sk2ll_m0dR $25,669 4 wozzle9 $18,806 5 Bryn "BrynKenney" Kenney $13,375 6 alienface#9 $10,673 7 Cory "UGOTPZD" Carroll $7,971 8 SsicK_OnE $5,269 9 MrBigfishAA $2,972
Notable Finishes: Matt "mjw006" Wakeman (10th - $2,404.78), Peter "twirlpro" Turmezey (14th - $1,864.38), Ryan "ryanghall" Hall (23rd - $1,134.84)
PokerStars Sunday Storm ($300K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $10+$1 38,560 $385,600
Place Player Prize *1 Mojje87 $35,635 *2 xArcibaldsx $14,575 *3 Faranius $14,575 *4 DaniaMania $10,298 *5 Arty_the_Cat $10,000 6 egon1971 $4,685 7 Ruopolo1982 $3,2778 8 PiggoBank $2,236 9 fkdl $1,639
*denotes five-handed deal
PokerStars Sunday Kickoff ($100K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool $100+$9 1,656 $165,600
Place Player Prize 1 bosmaniak $27,167 2 Meth0d Max $19,872 3 chrisnjenny $14,904 4 schweinix $11,095 5 AsjBaaaf $7,866 6 Yattago $6,210 7 CrazyLissy $4,554 8 Michael "WatchOutFish" Benvenuti $2,898 9 oradeanul $1,656
Notable Finishes: Orjan "Aftret" Skommo (12th - 1,308.24), Caio "Pessagno" Pessagno (24th - $645.84)
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