Sunday Briefing: Sami Kelopuro Bags a $317K partypoker POWERFEST Score
The partypoker POWERFEST ended in strong fashion on Sep. 23 with more than $6.8 million awarded across 35 events. Two $1 million guaranteed Championship Events smashed their guarantee, and it was Finnish superstar Sami Kelopuro who emerged with the biggest score of the night.
partypoker POWERFEST #142-SHR: $1M Gtd Championship Event
| Date | September 23rd |
| Buy-in | $5,200 |
| Guarantee | $1,000,000 |
| Entrants | 327 |
| Prize pool | $1,635,000 |
| ITM | 48 |
A field of 327 players exchanged $5,200 for 100,000 chips, creating a prize pool of $1,635,000. This massive sum was shared among the top 48 finishers with a min-cash being worth $10,627 and a final table appearance boosting this sum to $30,411.
��Sheparentao�� was the first player at the final table to bust and they were followed to the sidelines by ��ubicaprofi��, ��PickYouOFF��, and Oliver ��sk2ll_m0dR�� Weis, the latter falling in fifth-place and becoming the last player not to secure a six-figure score.
Weis was joined on the rail by ��BuyThaPot�� who netted $113,632 before ��NoLoitering�� busted in third-place for $158,595, leaving ��A3PTEH�� and Sami ��LarsLuzak1�� Kelopuro to lock horns heads-up for the title.
No deal was struck despite there being a near $100,000 pay jump. This meant when A3PTEH fell in second-place, they netted $228,900 and Kelopuro walked away with a massive $317,190 addition to his bankroll.
| Place | Player | Prize | Total prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sami ��LarsLuzak1�� Kelopuro | $317,190 | |
| 2 | A3PTEH | $228,900 | |
| 3 | NoLoitering | $158,595 | |
| 4 | BuyThaPot | $113,632 | |
| 5 | Oliver ��sk2ll_m0dR�� Weis | $80,932 | |
| 6 | PickYouOFF | $60,004 | |
| 7 | ubicaprofi | $41,692 | |
| 8 | Sheparentao | $30,411 |
partypoker POWERFEST #144-HR: $1M Gtd Championship Event PKO
| Date | September 23rd |
| Buy-in | $1,050 |
| Guarantee | $1,000,000 |
| Entrants | 1,138 |
| Prize pool | $1,160,760 |
| ITM | 152 |
Another massive tournament was the POWERFEST #144-HR: $1M Gtd Championship Event PKO that saw a $1,160,760 prize pool created.
The player known as ��nipa3p3�� walked away with the lion��s share of this huge sum, namely a combined $171,143, made up of a $97,014 score from the main prize pool and an additional $74,129 worth of bounties.
��YmbertoZhukov�� was the runner-up, a finish worth a combined $75,186 while ��imPlayCash��, the third-place finisher, won $74,263 for their third-place finish. The reason they scooped almost the same as second-place was the fact they eliminated 20 opponents on their way to their third-place finish.
Nipa3p3 has now won more than $4 million from online poker tournaments, with more than $1.3 million of this stemming from his play at partypoker. It was only a couple of days ago that nipa3p3 finished seventh in the $25,500 Super High Roller for a $147,420 score; what a week!
| Place | Player | Prize | Bounty payment | Total prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nipa3p3 | $97,014 | $74,129 | $171,143 |
| 2 | YmbertoZhukov | $69,418 | $5,768 | $75,186 |
| 3 | imPlayCash | $45,576 | $28,687 | $74,263 |
| 4 | pazkoo | $30,498 | $13,462 | $43,690 |
| 5 | Maestro_Bolt | $21,622 | $9,926 | $34,261 |
| 6 | zillisander88 | $15,249 | $7,085 | $22,334 |
| 7 | imfromwinland | $10,697 | $2,210 | $12,907 |
| 8 | Adrovan ��JoaoMenthias�� Rodrigues | $7,169 | $2,437 | $9,606 |
PokerStars Sunday Million
| Date | September 23rd |
| Buy-in | $215 |
| Guarantee | $1,000,000 |
| Entrants | 6,103 |
| Prize pool | $1,220,6000 |
| ITM | 1,106 |
American pro Mike ��munchenHB�� Telker, playing from Cyprus, took his lifetime winnings ever closer to $10 million in online poker tournament winnings by taking down the PokerStars Sunday Million on Sep. 23 for a massive $164,789 score.
Telker navigated his way through a field of 6,102 opponents, including a star-studded final table that housed the likes of Dimitros ��JIM_BALLAS�� Ballas (seventh for $19,682), Chance ��ChanceCU�� Kornuth (fifth for $39,996), and the United Kingdom��s ��david owie�� (third for $81,153).
Brazil��s Joao ��djjazz222�� Perez was Telker��s final opponent and he was brushed aside to lock up the $164,789 score for Telker with Perez netting the $115,641 consolation prize.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mike ��munchenHB�� Telker | Cyprus | $164,789 |
| 2 | Joao ��djjazz222�� Perez | Brazil | $115,641 |
| 3 | david owie | United Kingdom | $81,153 |
| 4 | pokerturo | Austria | $56,950 |
| 5 | Chance ��ChanceCU�� Kornuth | Canada | $39,966 |
| 6 | jaworlegia | Poland | $28,047 |
| 7 | Dimitrios ��JIM_BALLAS�� Ballas | Luxembourg | $19,682 |
| 8 | vasilikos | United Kingdom | $13,812 |
| 9 | sjaak2afhaak | Netherlands | $9,693 |
PokerStars $2,100 Sunday High Roller
| Date | September 23rd |
| Buy-in | $2,100 |
| Guarantee | $100,000 |
| Entrants | 116 |
| Prize pool | $232,000 |
| ITM | 17 |
Niklas ��Lena900�� Astedt, the number one ranked online poker tournament player according to PocketFives, continued to impress when he came out on top of a stacked final table in the $2,100 Sunday High Roller.
The nine-handed final table saw some of the biggest names in poker seated at it; any one of them would have been a worthy champion.
Conor ��blanconegro�� Drinnan busted in eighth-place for $7,494 with Sam ��Str8$$$Homey�� Greenwood busting one place deeper for a $9,852 payday.
Netherlands-based Joao ��Naza114�� Vieira fell in fourth-place for $22,382 with Nick ��caecilius�� Petrangelo falling short of the victory, exiting in third-place to turn $2,100 into $29,424.
Petrangelo��s elimination left Canada��s Alex ��bigfox86�� Foxen and Astedt to battle one-on-one for the title. Astedt claimed the victory for Sweden, getting his hands on $50,851 and resigning Foxen to the $38,681 consolation prize.
Astedt now only trails the legendary Chris ��Moorman1�� Moorman in terms of money won from online poker tournaments. Moorman currently boasts of $15.34 million worth of cashes with Astedt on $12.22 million.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Niklas ��Lena900�� Astedt | Sweden | $50,851 |
| 2 | Alex ��bigfox86�� Foxen | Canada | $38,681 |
| 3 | Nick ��caecilius�� Petrangelo | Canada | $29,424 |
| 4 | Joao ��Naza114�� Vieira | Netherlands | $22,382 |
| 5 | OempaLoempah | Belgium | $17,026 |
| 6 | riversouza | Brazil | $12,951 |
| 7 | Sam ��Str8$$$Homey�� Greenwood | Canada | $9,852 |
| 8 | Connor ��blanconegro�� Drinan | Mexico | $7,494 |
| 9 | Sasuke234 | Sweden | $5,700 |
You can check out the biggest results from the 888poker XL Eclipse series in our dedicated daily recap here at PokerNews.com. Roman ��Romeopro33�� Romanovskyi won the XL Eclipse Main Event for almost $190,000!
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