Nov 1 2011

Kipu, Pokerfred99, J.thaddeus Score Big in Sunday Majors

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Another round of guarantee-busting Sunday online poker tournaments went down this past weekend at PokerStars, and several players added six-figure scores to their bankrolls. The biggest winner of the day was Kipu, who earned $190k by placing first in the Sunday Million. The most notable win belonged to Jude “j.thaddeus” Ainsworth of Team PokerStars Pro, who won $46k with a first place finish in the Bigger $55.

The Sunday Million swelled in registration this past weekend, with 7,063 players paying $215 buy-ins to generate a $1.41 million prize pool. The aforementioned Kipu won the final hand with A-10, giving him a superior kicker to vonBaranow’s A-9. A four-handed deal had already been struck, with vonBaranow, EireAbu and Thostyle each winning $150k, $130k and $86k, respectively, for their runner-up finishes.

Pokerfred99 received a six-figure score of his own when he won the Sunday Warm-Up for $103k. He outlasted a field of 3,267 competitors, each of whom paid a $215 buy-in. No deal was struck at the final table. Runner-up akb1 was defeated in heads-up play with Q-6 offsuit and collected a tidy $76k.

The no-deal trend continued in the Sunday 500, in which 837 players paid $530 buy-ins to smash the $250k guarantee with a prize pool of $418.5k. Shuriken555 finished on top of the leaderboard to win $75k, while runners-up d-mon-d and Palau777 each earned $54k and $41k.

At the other end of the buy-in spectrum was the Sunday Storm, in which a typical field of 31,179 players paid $10 buy-ins to create a $312k prize pool. The final table ended up striking a five-handed deal that truly warped the payout schedule. Donno105 won the event to score just under $16k, virtually the same amount awarded to babbelz in 3rd place. Fourth and fifth place finishers A9Hearts and Tschangoasyl earned $12k and $13k, respectively, while second place finisher T0MyK came out with the largest money prize of $27k.

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