SUNDAY MAJORS: 'tolstiykry' Wins First Sunday Million of 2017
The new year kicked off with a number of big scores in major online poker tournaments over the weekend, led by Russia’s ‘tolstiykry‘ who won the PokerStars Sunday Million outright for $178,748. The second place finisher in that event was ‘bob43155‘ who cashed for $122,915 followed by ‘wonderboy_pl‘ (third place for $84,523). PocketFives member ‘geo4ever89‘ of Romania came in fourth place and cashed for $58,123.
The PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up was won by ‘jimbojiff‘ for $46,997 while ‘readas_reada‘ earned $48,072 upon winning the NLHE “Sunday Grand.” The PLO version of that event saw ‘omaha4rollz‘ come out on top for $29,001 and Tomas ‘p1relli’ Tamasauskas of Lithuania walked away with $31,134 for taking down the Sunday Supersonic.
There were 49 total entrants in the $2,600 buy-in Super High Roller on partypoker, with ‘Scouts326‘ collecting $42,875 for the win. Leonardo ‘leitalopez’ Bustillo of Argentina (ranked #129 worldwide) received $30,380 for his outright win in the $530 buy-in High Roller.
On 888 poker, ‘hookedgottago‘ of Costa Rica cashed for $18,810 for first place in the Mega Deep while ‘ROLDY18‘ won the Baby Whale for $16,319.
PokerStars Sunday Million($200+15 NLHE) *$1M Guaranteed
6,289 entrants – $1,257,800 paid out to 872 spots
- tolstiykry – $178,747.90
- bob43155 – $122,915.10
- wonderboy_pl – $84,523.27
- geo4ever89 – $58,123.06
- ACNRULES – $39,968.73
- Aftret – $27,484.81 (athilla)
- artdav2010 – $18,900.20
- mahmuttt88 – $12,996.84
- Similarities – $8,937.42
PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($200+15 NLHE) *$250K Guaranteed
1,543 entrants – $308,600 paid out to 224 spots
- jimbojiff – $46,996.77
- xKoSSSx – $34,105.17
- vinizuxo – $24,750.12
- mattidm_uk – $17,961.13
- rportaleoni – $13,034.39 (rodrigo garrido portaleoni)
- !Weak4Ever! – $9,459.05
- bbebe02 – $6,864.43 (4betovic)
- Rusty Punchy – $4,981.51
- Runkitroll – $3,615.06
PokerStars Sunday Grand ($1,000+50 NLHE) *$175K Guaranteed
250 entrants – $250,000 paid out to 31 spots
- readas_reada – $48,071.86
- Smasken – $36,102.37
- sousinha23 – $27,113.20
- Turtza – $20,362.25
- Dominik ‘bounatirouIMO’ Nitsche – $15,292.22
- mrAndreeew – $11,484.60 (Andreas ‘r4ndomr4gs’ Berggren)
- wwwBTHEREcom – $8,625.05 (TonyG_)
- imluckbox – $6,477.47
- ImDaNuts – $4,864.65 (Chris ‘Gettin Daize’ Oliver)
PokerStars Sunday Grand PLO ($1,000+50 PLO 6-Max) *$100K Guaranteed
129 entrants – $129,000 paid out to 14 spots
- omaha4rollz – $29,000.58
- EvnomiYa – $21,721.12 (NoPlanB)
- IAmSoSo – $16,268.91
- Turtza – $12,185.26
- ShipitFTW911 – $9,126.64 (Discoovery)
- tatianita032 – $6,835.77
PokerStars Sunday Supersonic ($215 NLHE Six Max Hyper) *$125k Guaranteed
923 entrants – $188,993 paid out to 131 spots
- Tomas ‘p1relli’ Tamasauskas – $31,133.81
- smir9david – $20,350.78
- WushuTM – $13,302.72
- 1mDonuts – $8,695.60
- macboyilija – $5,684.07
- Keisuke-ace – $3,715.53
PokerStars Sunday Storm ($10+$1 NLHE) *$250k Guaranteed
25,095 entrants – $250,950 paid out to 4,121 spots
- fragilro – $25,536.39
- dreamland23 – $18,350.46
- effuno99 – $13,194.12
- 1Nospin – $9,486.66
- giomlion – $6,820.97
- hawk21722 – $4,904.31
- P_Westwood – $3,526.22
- schnoidamr – $2,535.37
- ART9320 – $1,822.92
partypoker Super High Roller ($2,600 NLHE) *$100k Guaranteed
49 entrants – $122,500 paid out to 7 spots
- Scouts326 – $42,875
- D0nKanaille_ – $27,563
- AccessDenied – $18,375
- onehundredeyes – $12,250
- EvnomiYa – $9,188 (NoPlanB)
- SLARVBOGMAJS – $6,738 (Johannes ‘Greenstone25’ Korsar)
- 3BunPass – $5,513
partypoker High Roller ($530 NLHE) *$150k Guaranteed
314 entrants – $157,000 paid out to 45 spots
- Leonardo ‘leitalopez’ Bustillo – $30,380
- joaotreta – $22,146 (hneves182)
- uzbekpro – $16,485
- Ciao_Polacco – $12,066
- SentimenTODO23 – $8,949
- Paul ‘Senterpied’ Senter – $6,908
- BuyThaPot – $5,338
- BR0SSTAR – $3,768
- ZlblDeNb_PrO – $2,748
888 Poker Baby WHALE ($320 NLHE) *$50k Guaranteed
266 entrants – $79,800 paid out to 36 spots
- ROLDY18 – $16,319
- SalsaFiesta – $11,970
- Andreas ‘r4ndomr4gs’ Berggren – $9,017
- dudupa1986 – $6,783 (Zackattak13)
- niftinger – $4,628
- TomYamKai – $3,591
- tomekatos – $2,793
- dioszilla – $1,995
- helloimelmo – $1,516
888 Poker Mega Deep($215 NLHE) *$80k Guaranteed
495 entrants – $80,000 paid out to 63 spots
- imjustagirl – $18,810 (hookedgottago)
- weneedit – $13,860
- penfolds6 – $10,148
- inho – $7,722
- easylimp888 – $5,445
- Grekzorba – $4,208
- kamexxx – $3,218
- sk2ll_m0dR – $2,228
- lucinka123 – $1,643 (czlol)