The Sunday Briefing: PokerStars Sets Another Guinness World Record

Posted at 20:00 2013-06-18 by Brett Collson

PokerStars one-upped itself again on Sunday. The world's leading online poker site attempted to break its own Guinness World Record for the biggest ever online tournament in poker history, and accomplished just that when 225,000 players participated in a $1 tournament on Sunday afternoon. The buy-ins contributed $225,000 to the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool, with PokerStars putting up the other $75,000. When it was all over, Mr.SlavaPro from Russia turned his single buck into $25,000.

In addition to holding the largest online poker tournament ever, PokerStars ran its usual Sunday Majors schedule. Among the notables who collected big scores were Ole “wizowizo” Schemion, Andrew "Drewfus81" StJean, Alex "dynoalot" Difelice, and Bradley "BaZa88" Bower.

Here's a look at the results from the Sunday Majors at PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker:

PokerStars Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	6,435	$1,287,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	Capote18	$171,839*
2	pumabos	$106,000*
3	JamsLaNoche	$115,000*
4	tgf18tgf	$93,000*
5	MCFelin	$82,500*
6	kdfishunter	$41,184
7	aammpp	$28,314
8	Ruaction	$15,444
9	ASHLEYDAWKO	$9,974

_{*Denotes five-handed deal}

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	2,872	$574,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	sava-lenivec	$73,203*
2	Andr the gun	$66,428
3	LoredanKK	$66,578
4	manio57	$33,028
5	orange6	$24,986
6	K0VAK	$19,242
7	ply10	$13,498
8	shteddy	$7,765
9	matze_widi	$4,882

_{*Denotes three-handed deal}

PokerStars Guinness World Record Attempt ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$1	225,000	$300,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	Mr.SlavaPro	$25,000
2	johnnykara75	$15,000
3	1star09	$10,000
4	jpstef06	$7,500
5	Tormenter85	$5,000
6	KARI#9	$3,500
7	SOY PATO355	$2,500
8	jmmetra	$2,000
9	Ravic77	$1,500

Full Tilt $350K Guarantee ($250K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,276	$255,200

Place	Player	Prize
1	jnack19	$51,040
2	Angell Cloud	$33,992
3	flashdisastr	$24,244
4	azzabentonaces	$18,119
5	ZISIMO7	$13,525
6	T3G3S	$9,925
7	Knossalla88	$7,400
8	SonnyBlack87	$5,359
9	Romeopro33	$3,828

Full Tilt Sunday Brawl ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$240+15	1,011	$202,200

Place	Player	Prize
1	ashmanofdoom	$40,400
2	Antonio "apalma" Palma	$26,933
3	germoneygame	$19,209
4	WtFoMGOAO	$14,356
5	13otur	$10,716
6	Machinguer	$7,885
7	PetjeXL	$5,863
8	IneedMoneyXX	$4,246
9	SoFrischSoGut	$4,246

PokerStars Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+30	694	$347,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	daddikos	$63,674
2	ShagWell	$45,457
3	Lucifer81	$34,353
4	PokerSavage1	$25,851
5	Lena900	$18,044
6	Andrew "Drewfus81" StJean	$14,574
7	KIngAntsi	$11,104
8	carozo1959	$7,634
9	R_Caiaffa	$4,511

PokerStars $109 Sunday Rebuy ($225K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$100+9	842	$262,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	spetsern	$49,125
2	jogk	$35,370
3	Deanuzz	$26,200
4	DMS75	$19,650
5	foldbudiao	$13,755
6	Peanut172	$11,135
7	vinixxx1	$8,515
8	Fofan10	$5,895
9	Yukold	$3,694

PokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,161	$232,200

Place	Player	Prize
1	Striker33333	$41,796
2	Golfdish	$29,791
3	thaleskoppe	$22,291
4	Klebanov999	$16,718
5	TroyJones	$11,610
6	mjw006	$9,288
7	ATLienCP	$6,966
8	Cashcid Linc	$4,644
9	eeee_wl	$2,786.40

PokerStars Sunday Supersonic ($125K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$210.80+4.20	1,163	$245,160

Place	Player	Prize
1	DonkedUNoob	$44,521
2	Sheeeeep	$32,361
3	Ole “wizowizo” Schemion	$24,516
4	Alex "dynoalot" Difelice	$18,387
5	Bradley "BaZa88" Bower	$12,870
6	czlol	$10,419
7	On The Mac	$7,967
8	Map97	$5,516
9	CHAINSAWDONK	$3,432

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