The Sunday Briefing: "makarios007" Wins MicroMillions Main Event for $93,000
There was some added buzz on PokerStars this weekend as the ninth edition of the MicroMillions came to a close with the $22 Main Event. More than 58,000 players participated, creating a massive prize pool of $1,160,000. The eventual winner was Germany's "makarios007" who collected a top prize of $92,899 after a three-handed deal at the final table.
Elsewhere, "PhiRi1" took down the PokerStars Sunday Million after besting a stacked final table that included Jacob "Bazeman11" Bazeley , Luke "LFmagic" Fields and Chris "Run dat Game" Lovett . Other notables who pocketed big paydays on Sunday were Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsky , Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev and Ami "UhhMee" Barer .
Here's a full look at the results from the Sunday Majors on PokerStars , Full Tilt Poker and WSOP.com :
MicroMillions IX Main Event ($1M Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$20+2 58,032 $1,160,640
Place Player Prize
1 makarios007 $92,899*
2 Luckywolk123 $75,384*
3 Fahrenheit88 $75,842*
4 zardy912 $42,340
5 Brachial/SMC $31,035
6 dh7889 $22,760
7 CRONOS95 $16,678
8 costantony $12,233
9 przemz123 $8,960
*Reflects three-handed deal
Notable Finishes: Sebastian "p0cket00" Sikorski (27th - 2,506)
Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$200+15 6,943 $1,388,600
Place Player Prize
1 PhiRi1 $177,217*
2 checkablint $135,836*
3 KingKong0815 $165,461*
4 Jake "Bazeman11" Bazeley $76,373
5 Luke "LFmagic" Fields $58,321
6 NotYetBust $44,435
7 Chris "Run dat Game" Lovett $30,549
8 rickL-UNIT $16,663
9 Robert "Patonius2000" Woodcock $10,761
*Reflects three-handed deal
Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$200+15 3,118 $523,600
Place Player Prize
1 -Plz1Tiiime- $71,949*
2 monzemann $51,208*
3 eiro07 $54,100*
4 Felix "TheDegenFund" Van de Put $52,253*
5 Luciano S.H $55,667*
6 RMarland $20,267
7 Shannon "basebal1b" Shorr $14,031
8 Greg "gregior" Howard $7,795
9 needdollarz $4,988
*Reflects five-handed deal
Notable Finishes: Jonathan "OMGjonyctt" Concepci��n (11th - $3,835), David "Betudontbet" Emmons (15th - $2,988), Sorel "zangbezan" Mizzi (23rd - $1,652)
PokerStars Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$500+30 823 $411,500
Place Player Prize
1 lynskey99 $67,133*
2 Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsky $60,431*
3 Sngwonder $39,915
4 WRUUUUM $29,833
5 robinho $20,739
6 calo88 $16,624
7 Mustapha "lasagnaaammm" Kanit $12,509
8 FROGGERT $8,435
9 VIVILINE1 $5,143
*Reflects heads-up deal
Notable Finishes: Patrick "pmahoney22" Mahoney (11th - $4,320), Alen "lilachaa" Bilic (20th - $1,892), Gleb "Ti0373" Tremzin (25th - $1,892)
$109 Sunday Rebuy ($225K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$100+9 1,017 $298,000
Place Player Prize
1 Kelvin "Kelvin_FP:AR" Kerber $50,784*
2 XingsMaster $44,277*
3 Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev $29,800
4 Guigabraza $22,350
5 OMGACEACEACE $15,645
6 ViziruA $12,665
7 Alex "mistakooll" Keating $9,685
8 Feizal "RedPantRed" Satchu $6,705
9 tiarc $4,172
*Reflects heads-up deal
Notable Finishes: Sebastian "p0cket00" Sikorski (11th - $3,129), Matt "mjw006" Wakeman (12th - $3,129), Stefan "random_chu" Chew (22nd - $1,341), Kyle "KJulius10" Julius (25th - $1,341)
Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$200+15 1,336 $267,200
Place Player Prize
1 KObySOMU $46,118
2 Ami "UhhMee" Barer $33,400
3 Nathan "ragingquads_" Tuthill $25,384
4 baconbits33 $18,597
5 Elio "smokrokflock" Fox $13,226
6 Samuel "�urop�an" Vousden $10,554
7 MuckCallOK $7,882
8 Ben "NeverScaredB" Wilinofsky $5,210
9 Amit "AMAK316" Makhija $2,939
Notable Finishes: Randy "nanonoko" Lew (11th - $2,378), Paul "padjes" Berende (21st - $1,222)
Sunday Supersonic ($125K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$210.80+4.20 1,447 $299,861
Place Player Prize
1 MuckCallOK $51,475
2 Anton "ekziter" Astapau $40,673
3 Andreas "gnetaren" Samuelsson $29,986
4 Andrey "Anjeyyy" Novak $22,489
5 Sr.TiltMonky $15,742
6 Floorkiller $12,744
7 Kabira $9,745
8 xAndorx $6,746
9 belexe88 $4,198
Notable Finishes: Alex "Allingomes" Gomes (12th - $2,848), Lukas "superkid-bam" Berglund (17th - $1,649), Kyle "KJulius10" Julius ( 21st - $1,019)
The Sunday Major ($150K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$200+15 983 $196,600
Place Player Prize
1 zlatanera $39,320
2 MURIBE $26,187
3 Jack2u3 $18,677
4 Kevin "KevBoyStar" Stani $13,958
5 SirBaggio $10,419
6 NotsoHidden $7,667
7 Attek $5,701
8 jellyfish223 $4,128
9 efterlock $2,949
Notable Finishes: Thayer "THAY3R" Rasmussen (13th - $1,494), Bryan "bparis" Paris (15th - $1,494), Fabian Quoss (18th - $1,140)
Full Tilt Sunday Brawl ($100K Guaranteed)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$240+15 624 $124,800
Place Player Prize
1 ftpballerstatus $26,520
2 JediAllStar $18,096
3 Joao Barbosa $13,728
4 CTAPbllJKA3EJI $10,483
5 Bad10boy10 $7,737
6 PrettyFlacko $5491
7 Ondrej "Vinkyy" Vinklarek $3,933
8 gifuhornet $2,995
9 Arise_pt $2,246
Notable Finishes: Ben "SPRAGGS" Spraggons (18th - $873), Charlie "chaz_man_chaz" Combes (19th - $624)
$15,000 Guaranteed Weekly Sunday (Nevada)
Buy-in Entrants Prize Pool
$185+15 85 $15,725
Place Player Prize
1 T54_T97s $4,482
2 strgiostri $2,595
3 Bakan $1,573
4 VPIHokie1970 $1,258
5 BTCBlade $1,085
6 mlawson $928
7 leona $771
8 smrtwntcrzy $535
9 Acquittal $424
*Special thanks to Stanislav Serov
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