Sunday Majors: Ariel ‘Vilactes’ Vila Takes Down Sunday Million
Sunday Majors: Ariel ‘Vilactes’ Vila Takes Down Sunday Million


Major online poker tournament action over the weekend saw a number of well-known players compete for large cash prizes. The PokerStars Sunday Million was won by player Ariel ‘Vilactes’ Vila who received $131,000 as a result of a three-way final table deal. PocketFives member Fabiano ‘kdrAS’ Teixeira of Chile finished second for $110,000 and will likely move back into the Top 1,000 Worldwide while ‘$trateGema‘ was awarded $93,071 for third place in that event.

Ariel ‘Vilactes’ Vila won the PokerStars Sunday Million this week (CodigoPoker/Lucas Buffa photo)

‘JacobLarsson‘ took down the Sunday Warm-Up for $53,180 while Vicente ‘vincefish’ Delgado Zamorano of the United Kingdom, ranked #105 worldwide, earned $38,236 for his runner-up performance.

Jon ‘apestyles’ van Fleet of Canada, ranked #136 worldwide, captured an outright victory in the PokerStars Sunday Grand for $57,943. van Fleet had to overcome extremely tough competition in outlasting #6-ranked Jonatan ‘Pot4teUS’ Hellman (second place for $43,351) and #4-ranked ‘lena900‘ (third place for $32,434) — both from Sweden.

Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier received the highest payout in the Sunday Supersonic — taking home $26,075 for his official third place effort as ‘pokerjoe485‘ won $25,443 in first place.

The $2,600 buy-in partypoker Super High Roller was won by Sam ‘Pudge714’ Greenwood‘ of Canada, who will move up into the top 200 Rankings while savoring a $51,188 payday. ‘Gagurgel‘ was victorious in the partypoker $530 buy-in version of the High Roller for $35,588.

‘TomYamiKai‘ came out on top in the $600 buy-in WHALE tournament on 888 Poker and took home $32,236. ‘Sickmanijfs‘ took first place in the Mega Deep event on 888 for $25,875.

PokerStars Sunday Million ($200+15 NLHE)
5,383 entrants – $1,076,600 paid out to 764 spots

  1. Ariel ‘Vilactes’ Vila – $131,000.00
  2. Fabiano ‘kdrAS’ Teixeira – $110,000.00
  3. $trateGema – $93,070.69 *3-way deal
  4. boahgerding – $51,784.46
  5. scallpell – $36,082.03
  6. Re8uZ – $25,140.97
  7. ekziter – $17,517.68
  8. Joao joaomathias’ Mathias Baumgarten – $12,205.84
  9. kalaloom – $8,504.81

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($200+15 NLHE) *$300K Guaranteed
1,755 entrants – $351,000 paid out to 242 spots

  1. JacobLarsson – $53,179.56
  2. Vicente ‘vincefish’ Delgado Zamorano – $38,235.72
  3. allin0709 – $27,491.82
  4. taartjekomt – $19,766.88
  5. MrBittar – $14,212.55
  6. clancywigam – $10,218.94
  7. Big Popp4 – $7,347.51
  8. Basilaz – $5,282.90
  9. naskeladden – $3,798.45

PokerStars Sunday Grand ($1,000+50 NLHE) *$250K Guaranteed
308 entrants – $308,000 paid out to 39 spots

  1. Jon ‘apestyles’ van Fleet – $57,942.80
  2. TanTanSWE – $43,350.81 (Pot4teUS)
  3. lena900 – $32,433.66
  4. maggess88 – $24,265.81
  5. kaju85 – $18,154.87
  6. Turko_man – $13,582.89
  7. wozzle9 – $10,162.27
  8. JWPRODIGY – $7,603.07
  9. DeosOner – $5,688.35 (RoryYoung)

PokerStars Sunday Supersonic ($215 NLHE Six Max Hyper) *$175K Guaranteed
1,113 entrants – $227,898 paid out to 155 spots

  1. pokerjoe485 – $25,442.72
  2. Tomatee – $24,827.27
  3. Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier – $26,075.35 *3-way deal
  4. nailuj90 – $10,246.94
  5. thehushpuppy – $6,698.14
  6. nicosty21 – $4,378.37

PokerStars Sunday Storm ($10+$1 NLHE)
24,525 entrants – $250,000 paid out to 4,031 spots

  1. Freakstah – $19,837.75
  2. +KO2B+ – $17,935.54
  3. Become_No1p – $19,207.63 *3-way deal
  4. henkewhafan – $9,469.70
  5. jeanfranco07 – $6,808.80
  6. boboo343 – $4,895.60
  7. vitel1818 – $3,519.97
  8. Samuel13korn – $2,530.90
  9. sandybell13 – $1,819.75

partypoker Super High Roller ($2,600 NLHE) *$100k Guaranteed
63 entrants – $157,500 paid out to 8 spots

  1. DeanMalenko – $51,188 (Pudge714)
  2. luckytedbear – $33,075
  3. Ilove2fish – $23,625
  4. gotunagi19 – $15,750
  5. Plazya7 – $11,813 (Banicivan)
  6. tiote22 – $8,663
  7. broooooooooooo – $7,088
  8. JeanClaude1970 – $6,300

partypoker High Roller ($530 NLHE) *$150K Guaranteed
365 entrants – $182,500 paid out to 45 spots

  1. Gagurgel – $35,588
  2. eardleym – $26,919
  3. Ilove2fish – $20,075
  4. AAassasin007 – $15,330
  5. calum27 – $10,494
  6. OwnYrSoul – $8,213
  7. flsh2013 – $6,388
  8. Therealmoorm – $4,563 (moorman1)
  9. TragEV – $3,194

iPoker Sunday Masters (€150 NLHE)
121 entrants – $18,873 paid out to 18 spots

  1. NicholasHalden – $4,340.83
  2. AGoodSport – $3,019.71
  3. RistoRap3Ass – $2,293.09
  4. gt1128 – $1,698.59
  5. karldaly – $1,132.39
  6. 4timesBet – $943.66
  7. GGBG1 – $754.93
  8. solvay516 – $566.20
  9. RuningLikeAGod – $471.83

888 Poker WHALE ($600 NLHE) *$120k Guaranteed
279 entrants – $157,635 paid out to 36 spots

  1. TomYamiKai – $32,236
  2. cswami – $23,645
  3. BadModafoka1 – $17,813
  4. krokopp – $13,399
  5. ekziter1 – $9,143
  6. dccnesquick – $7,094
  7. grisildur – $5,517
  8. Deeepz – $3,941
  9. urshitstorm – $2,995

888 Poker Mega Deep ($215 NLHE) *$100k Guaranteed
690 entrants – $138,000 paid out to 90 spots

  1. Sickmanijfs – $25,875
  2. 33ReNate – $18,630
  3. maketoney – $13,800 (Tiny_molester)
  4. icallyamet – $10,350 (dean23price)
  5. 974kWRT – $7,245
  6. trino11 – $5,865 (bipbippp)
  7. PKaiser – $4,485
  8. Runnerboy23 – $3,105
  9. Xorkoth – $1,946