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Tuesday, December 29, 2015
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A brief look at all the major stories from this past Christmas weekend on PokerStars.
The weekend highlight
-- Internett93o from Brazil wins the $5 million guaranteed Sunday Million for a first prize of 354,187.
Round up of latest results
It was a season to be jolly for this weekend's Christmas crackers. While over-indulgence and the holidays were on most people's minds, Brazilian player Internett93o was winning the Christmas Sunday Million with a $5 million guarantee. Meanwhile planty07/08 was doing the same in the Sunday Warm-Up.
As Martin Harris reported, it was a long final, befitting one with so much at stake, and certainly one to remember. Click through the links to read the full story. Consume with egg nog or your chosen spirit of the season.
Here are those results in full:
Sunday Million ($5M Gtd) results
Entrants: 31,335
Prize pool: $6,267,000.000
Places paid: 4,671
1. Internett93o (Brazil) $354,187.08*
2. tutinho (Brazil) $316,380.88*
3. MrIonV (United Kingdom) $271,266.00*
4. tweeprise (Ecuador) $249,072.80*
5. terabyte11 (India) $300,069.51*
6. Dylan "WhiteRabbito" Honeyman (Australia) $225,350.09*
7. Inmate10981 (Canada) $256,839.57*
8. Nik "Reraiseallin" Persaud (United Kingdom) $71,459.46
9. haris_at (Austria) $52,952.38
* = denotes a seven-way deal leaving $50,000 for the winner
PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up
Entrants: 3,105
Prize pool: $634,000.00
Places paid: 495
1. planty07/08 (United Kingdom) $75,195.58*
2. Dirty Timm (Germany) $81,033.42*
3. tdr01 (Romania) $69,792.00*
4. Curioso24 (Peru) $36,455.00
5. barnaby10921 (United Kingdom) $26,945.00
6. plspaythxbye (Ukraine) $20,605.00
7. Hoegh93 (Denmark) $14,265.00
8. carryhero (Canada) $7,925.00
9. boiereasa777 (Romania) $5,072.00
* denotes part of three-way chop
The weekend's top tournament winners
| Event | Winner | Country | Prize money |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday Million | Internett93o | Brazil | $354,187.08 |
| Sunday 500 | noirduck | Hungary | $78,210.00 |
| Sunday Warm-Up | planty07/08 | United Kingdom | $75,195.58 |
| Sunday Supersonic [6-Max] | pokerkluka | Netherlands | $62,195.66 |
| Sunday 2nd Chance | Mad_Dog_Er1c | Canada | $49,962.44 |
| Sunday Rebuy: | Virgilik | Romania | $47,812.50 |
| Sunday Storm | adamka88 | Hungary | $31,537.99 |
| Sunday Kickoff | Olli444 | Czech Republic | $31,328.00 |
| Sunday 6-Max | GeoManousos | Austria | $26,801.52 |
| NL Hold'em [Turbo] | kylef89 | Canada | $26,587.50 |
Click here for a complete list of major results on PokerStars for the weekend of December 26-27, 2015.
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That's all from the Christmas weekend on PokerStars. As always send your questions and comments to us on Twitter: @PokerStarsBlog.
Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.
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You've heard of the name Daniel Negreanu, right? Of course you have. In fact, you can probably hear him from wherever you are in the world right now. He's that outspoken! The Team PokerStars Pro is recognised as being of the best players in the world, you need only look at his $18,539,856 in live winnings, five WSOP and two WPT titles to attest to that. Negreanu came painfully close to winning his Triple Crown earlier this year at the EPT9 Grand Final but finished 4th (€321,000) in arguably one of the toughest final tables of all time. Read about that here. Right now, his focus is elsewhere: another WSOP bracelet and the chance to seal the number one spot on the WSOP Player of the Year leader board.
End day with 13 players left I have 411k avg is 461k playing for the POY and bracelet tomorrow
— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) October 24, 2013
Negreanu has won the Player of the Year title once before (in 2004) and is painfully close to making it his again . UK mixed game specialist Matt Ashton is currently leading the race, no little thanks to his $1.77m Players' Championship win over Jonathan Duhamel and George Danzer, but can't score any further points. Negreanu can and has.
In fact, the POY is currently Negreanu's to win. "Kid Poker" is average-stacked with 13 players left in the WSOPE High Roller event and should he finish strongly then the Player of the Year title is almost certainly his.* The story is not finished yet though. Just behind him in chips in France is Marc-Etienne McLaughlin who is also among the final 13 and is also among the nine remaining players in the WSOP Main Event. Should McLaughlin fall...
*Of course, the €725,000 first prize is an incentive, too.
WSOP Player of the Year race
1. Matthew Ashton 649.75
2. Daniel Negreanu 598.34
3. Loni Harwood 487.20
4. David (Bakes) Baker 475.35
5. Donald Nguyen 466.13
6. Marco Johnson 439.38
7. Tom Schneider 438.51
8. Chris Klodnicki 400.80
9. Jared Hamby 395.73
10. Anthony Gregg 390.00
It might all be over today, but with echoes of last year's tussle between Greg Merson and Phil Hellmuth, Negreanu fans may have another reason to watch the November Niners play down to the win. We'll keep you up-to-date with the situation. Good luck today, Daniel!
Rick Dacey is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.
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