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

  1. tolstiykry – $178,747.90
  2. bob43155 – $122,915.10
  3. wonderboy_pl – $84,523.27
  4. geo4ever89 – $58,123.06
  5. ACNRULES – $39,968.73
  6. Aftret – $27,484.81 (athilla)
  7. artdav2010 – $18,900.20
  8. mahmuttt88 – $12,996.84
  9. Similarities – $8,937.42

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($200+15 NLHE) *$250K Guaranteed
1,543 entrants – $308,600 paid out to 224 spots

  1. jimbojiff – $46,996.77
  2. xKoSSSx – $34,105.17
  3. vinizuxo – $24,750.12
  4. mattidm_uk – $17,961.13
  5. rportaleoni – $13,034.39 (rodrigo garrido portaleoni)
  6. !Weak4Ever! – $9,459.05
  7. bbebe02 – $6,864.43 (4betovic)
  8. Rusty Punchy – $4,981.51
  9. Runkitroll – $3,615.06

PokerStars Sunday Grand ($1,000+50 NLHE) *$175K Guaranteed
250 entrants – $250,000 paid out to 31 spots

  1. readas_reada – $48,071.86
  2. Smasken – $36,102.37
  3. sousinha23 – $27,113.20
  4. Turtza – $20,362.25
  5. Dominik ‘bounatirouIMO’ Nitsche – $15,292.22
  6. mrAndreeew – $11,484.60 (Andreas ‘r4ndomr4gs’ Berggren)
  7. wwwBTHEREcom – $8,625.05 (TonyG_)
  8. imluckbox – $6,477.47
  9. 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

  1. omaha4rollz – $29,000.58
  2. EvnomiYa – $21,721.12 (NoPlanB)
  3. IAmSoSo – $16,268.91
  4. Turtza – $12,185.26
  5. ShipitFTW911 – $9,126.64 (Discoovery)
  6. tatianita032 – $6,835.77

PokerStars Sunday Supersonic ($215 NLHE Six Max Hyper) *$125k Guaranteed
923 entrants – $188,993 paid out to 131 spots

  1. Tomas ‘p1relli’ Tamasauskas – $31,133.81
  2. smir9david – $20,350.78
  3. WushuTM – $13,302.72
  4. 1mDonuts – $8,695.60
  5. macboyilija – $5,684.07
  6. Keisuke-ace – $3,715.53

PokerStars Sunday Storm ($10+$1 NLHE) *$250k Guaranteed
25,095 entrants – $250,950 paid out to 4,121 spots

  1. fragilro – $25,536.39
  2. dreamland23 – $18,350.46
  3. effuno99 – $13,194.12
  4. 1Nospin – $9,486.66
  5. giomlion – $6,820.97
  6. hawk21722 – $4,904.31
  7. P_Westwood – $3,526.22
  8. schnoidamr – $2,535.37
  9. ART9320 – $1,822.92

partypoker Super High Roller ($2,600 NLHE) *$100k Guaranteed
49 entrants – $122,500 paid out to 7 spots

  1. Scouts326 – $42,875
  2. D0nKanaille_ – $27,563
  3. AccessDenied – $18,375
  4. onehundredeyes – $12,250
  5. EvnomiYa – $9,188 (NoPlanB)
  6. SLARVBOGMAJS – $6,738 (Johannes ‘Greenstone25’ Korsar)
  7. 3BunPass – $5,513

partypoker High Roller ($530 NLHE) *$150k Guaranteed
314 entrants – $157,000 paid out to 45 spots

  1. Leonardo ‘leitalopez’ Bustillo – $30,380
  2. joaotreta – $22,146 (hneves182)
  3. uzbekpro – $16,485
  4. Ciao_Polacco – $12,066
  5. SentimenTODO23 – $8,949
  6. Paul ‘Senterpied’ Senter – $6,908
  7. BuyThaPot – $5,338
  8. BR0SSTAR – $3,768
  9. ZlblDeNb_PrO – $2,748

888 Poker Baby WHALE ($320 NLHE) *$50k Guaranteed
266 entrants – $79,800 paid out to 36 spots

  1. ROLDY18 – $16,319
  2. SalsaFiesta – $11,970
  3. Andreas ‘r4ndomr4gs’ Berggren – $9,017
  4. dudupa1986 – $6,783 (Zackattak13)
  5. niftinger – $4,628
  6. TomYamKai – $3,591
  7. tomekatos – $2,793
  8. dioszilla – $1,995
  9. helloimelmo – $1,516

888 Poker Mega Deep($215 NLHE) *$80k Guaranteed
495 entrants – $80,000 paid out to 63 spots

  1. imjustagirl – $18,810 (hookedgottago)
  2. weneedit – $13,860
  3. penfolds6 – $10,148
  4. inho – $7,722
  5. easylimp888 – $5,445
  6. Grekzorba – $4,208
  7. kamexxx – $3,218
  8. sk2ll_m0dR – $2,228
  9. lucinka123 – $1,643 (czlol)