Sunday Briefing: Super Whale Surpasses Guarantee
This weekend 888poker ran a special edition of its Whale tournament, increasing its guarantee to a massive $500,000. By the time late registration closed, 1,188 entries were processed and a guarantee-busting $515,700 prize pool was created.
A total of 153 places were paid with a first-place prize in excess of $89,000, however, the final two players in the tournament chopped up the remaining prize pool, which lowered the actual payouts. ��ZDamian�� finished in second place and collected $74,090.25 with the champion being ��Slaaasch,�� an accolade that came with an impressive $79,382.07 score.
Staying at 888poker, Canada��s ��LCfish�� won the $120,000 Mega Deep, turning $215 into $24,900, while ��drapsmann�� and ��fienw�� chopped the $40,000 Turbo Mega Deep and walked away with $9,057.85 and $8,383.55.
The winner of this week��s $50,000 Crocodile was ��concrete1990�� who secured a cool $12,369 for their $160 investment. The United Kingdom��s ��badmodfoka1�� winning the $80,000 Sunday Challenge for $16,217.25.
As usual, PokerStars tournaments had the largest prize pools to offer. This week��s $215 Sunday Million attracted 5,537 players to the PokerStars virtual felt and they were all outlasted by ��AAadrift�� who won a massive $157,465.27.
Some of the other huge PokerStars tournament wins included:
- ��plspaythxbye�� �C winner of the $109 Sunday Starter for $6,825.93
- Andrey ��ThePateychuk�� Pateychuk �C winner of the Big $162 for $5,963.55
- ��Zorkss�� �C winner of the $109 Sunday Cooldown for $17,080.63
- ��OpenOren�� �C winner of the Hot $162 for $6,533.14
- ��ImLuckNuts�� �C winner of the $215 Bounty Builder for $17,108.94
- ��acemaKerface�� �C winner of the $215 Sunday Warm-Up for $56,509.48
- Steven ��SvZff�� van Zadelhoff �C winner of the $215 Weekender for $10,269.33
- ��Jamaikaner04�� �C winner of the Big $109 for $26,780.21
- ��deivid29�� �C winner of the Hot $162 for $16,075.26
- ��thomber26�� �C winner of the $700 Super-Sized Sunday for $42,076.10
- Ariel ��ArielBahia�� Celestino �C winner of the $109 Bounty Builder for $16,175.36
- ��Gandalf MR�� �C winner of the $109 Bubble Rush for $10,809.77
- Aleks ��grinder1992�� Dimitrov �C winner of the Hot $109 for $19,552.71
- ��$uperday�� �C winner of the $1,050 Sunday Grand NLHE for $56,814.09
- Jens ��Fresh_oO_D�� Lakemeier �C winner of the $1,050 Sunday Grand PLO for $33,037.21
- Roman ��RomeOpro�� Romanovskyi �C winner of the Big $215 for $27,014.23
- ��vladik32�� �C winner of the $109 Sunday Cooldown for $23,112.84
- ��och_jong�� �C winner of the $215 Sunday Supersonic for $23,996.54
Over at partypoker, ��probirs�� walked away with the $47,937.50 first-place prize of the $2,600 Super High Roller, which was a similar-sized score to what Thomas ��Airdraken�� Clack earned taking down the $215 Title Fight this weekend.
The player known as ��jackhammer50�� emerged victorious in the $109 Main Event winning $25,990.48. ��Zyamovishka�� turned $530 into $37,635 by topping a field of 386 in the High Roller event while ��Beeeetelgeuse�� won the $109 Weigh-In and collected $12,903.86.
