The Sunday Briefing: Sunday Million Attendance Grows, "kevsteele" Wins $128,792

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Another Sunday down, another round of PokerStars Sunday tournaments in the books. Attendance numbers for the PokerStars Sunday Million were up again and three players added six-figures to their bankrolls. The PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up also saw a massive field, bringing first-place prize money near the $100,000-mark, but the winner had to settle for $99,000 instead.

PokerStars Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+$156,182$1,236,000

With attendance numbers up from last week, the Sunday Million ended up offering three six-figure pay days to those who battled it out over 11 hours on the virtual felt. "Aricontre" may have taken the largest chunk of prize money after a deal was struck five ways, but "kevsteele", who began the final table as one of the shorter stacks, battled back and won the title. For that, he earned $20,000 more than was guaranteed when the chop was made. On the final hand of the night, "manuelmendes" found himself in a dominating spot, holding pocket kings over "kevsteele's" pocket nines. Sometimes it's just not your night, however, and his kings were cracked when the board rolled out 10?5?2?9?5?.

To read more about this week's Sunday Million head over to PokerStarsBlog.com

PlacePlayerPrize
*1kevsteele$128,792.58
*2manuelmendes$109,523.92
*3aricontre$165,227.63
*4pyszalek$77,936.40
*5hvete$64,517.58
6Renatoart$39,564.80
7DavoDam$27,200.80
8r0xer88$14,836.80
9Drawzee$9,582.10

*denotes five-handed deal

Notable Finishes: Dan "javahound" Tarnopol (34th - $2,584)

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+$153,175$635,000

There may have been $500,000 guaranteed for the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up, but with 3,175 entrants, the prize pool shot up to $635,000. First place was guaranteed just short of $100,000. Team PokerStars Pro Jan Heitmann played his way to the final table and finished fourth after holding the chip lead for a bit. In his final hand, Heitmann min-raised from the cutoff and called a 7.8 million chip shove from "detee" in the big blind. Heitman showed tens and was ahead of his opponent's ace-ten. The board rolled out 2?3?4?Q?5? giving "detee" a straight on the river, eliminating Heitmann. Heads-up play was between "detee" and "jc_bluej". After two big pots and about half an hour, "jc_bluej" was staring at all the chips in his corner, taking the title, and $99,695 first-place prize money.

If you want an even more in-depth recap of the action of the PokerStars Warm-Up, head on over to PokerStarsBlog.com.

PlacePlayerPrize
1jc_bluej$99,695
2detee$74,295
3JcostUmoney$52,387.50
4Jan Heitmann$36,512.50
5POED1$26,987.50
6Ronzie99$20,637.50
7utvekklo2$14,287.50
8777RENGEN777$7,937.50
9Lionel466$5,080

Notable Finishes: Georgios "gkap13" Kapalas (17th - $1,905)

PokerStars Sunday 500 ($250K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$500+$30613$306,500
PlacePlayerPrize
1limbolambon$57,469
2bigoots$41,378
3Biffmeister$30,650
4Roma-Tilt$22,988
5NaskoXX$16,091
6antonionel$13,026
7filthyfish$9,961
8huiiiiiiiiiiii$6,896
9bEatNick"OG"$4,322

Notable Finishes: Felipe "Improved" Montenegro (12th - $3,372)

PokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance ($125K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$200+$151,024$204,800
PlacePlayerPrize
*1hayekizate$30,500
*2bigpeaj$16,995
*3Lokkem$19,639
*4Kiirovits$11,946
*5Pocket55ives$21,959
*6dal_elama$15,579
7MDGR$6,226
8blablonae$4,198
9bassiejj$2,560

Notable Finishes: David "dave798111" Allan (23rd - $942)

*denotes six-handed deal

PokerStars $109 Sunday Rebuy ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$100+$9784$252,400
PlacePlayerPrize
1George "timoros" Vasilakis$44,470
2kbp00$36,929
3NANORM1963$25,240
4fviana$18,930
5GS_LT$13,251
6Exan13$10,727
7pawnUz$8,203
8pablox55$5,679
9glissario$3,559

Notable Finishes: Rayan "rkruok" Nathan (15th - $2,272), Jay "shaihulud" Kinkade (24th - $1,262)

PokerStars Sunday Storm

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$10+$129,553$295,530
PlacePlayerPrize
*1corgex$26,660
*2ALEX.NAUMOV$21,240
3DECOPEL798$13,151
4niet2maar3$10,196
5longgiatoc$7,240
6araber1011$4,433
7spyrosR21$3,103
8Lowkey01$2,069
9batoon635$1,463

*denotes heads-up deal

PokerStars Sunday Kickoff ($75K Guaranteed)

Buy-inEntrantsPrize Pool
$100+$91,438$143,800
PlacePlayerPrize
1extasyman$24,022
2Magic Masi$17,544
3Astor626$13,230
4Skipper-dawn$9,778
5super_taste$7,046
6soandre$5,608
7Dollmio$4,170
8mike beast78$2,732
9s miah$1,496

*PokerStars data obtained from PokerStarsBlog.com and officialpokerrankings.com

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