SUNDAY MAJORS: Rocco ‘RoccoGe’ Palumbo Chops PokerStars Sunday Million
SUNDAY MAJORS: Rocco ‘RoccoGe’ Palumbo Chops PokerStars Sunday Million


There were quite a few large cashes over the weekend in major online poker tournaments as January winds to a close. 888poker held the $1,050 buy-in Main Event of its Super XL Series which boasted a $1.5 million guarantee. The tournament was won by ‘Enigmasility‘ for $262,200 followed by Top 500-ranked ‘Sphinx87‘ of Poland, who collected $190,500 for second place. 888 player ‘gusfraba99‘ came in third for a payday of $142,500 while ‘spider4444‘ finished fourth for $106,500.

There was a five-way final table deal in the PokerStars Sunday Million that involved three P5ers. 85th-ranked Rocco ‘RoccoGe’ Palumbo of Italy walked away with the largest cash of $95,068 for third place. Thomas ‘Airdraken’ Clack and Igor ‘igorcampanha’ Ferreira also got in on the action and took home $87,206 and $80,745 respectively.

Veteran PocketFives member Jon ‘apestyles’ van Fleet (ranked #162 worldwide) captured an outright victory in the partypoker $2,600 buy-in Super High Roller event for $71,875. The win places Jon very close to $8 million in career online poker tournament cashes. Paul ‘Sentapied99’ Senter finished first in the Powerfest #155 and received $50,341. He chopped the final table with two other P5s members — TJ ‘1bigacehole’ Ulmer and joaomathias, who both took home more than $42k after a three-way deal was finalized.

The PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up was won by ‘m.a-0000‘ for $61,497. ‘NLZWERVERNL‘ got the win in the $1,050 NLHE Sunday Grand for $58,319. In the PLO version of the Sunday Grand, ‘Syous‘ was awarded $42,778.

PokerStars Sunday Million ($200+15 NLHE) *$1M Guaranteed
5,236 entrants – $1,047,200 paid out to 728 spots

  1. stragerpoker – $86,733.04 *
  2. Igor ‘igorcampanha’ Ferreira – $80,745.30 *
  3. Sephirot88 – $95,068.31 (Rocco ‘RoccoGe’ Palumbo) *
  4. quasselinho – $64,714.08 *
  5. Thomas ‘Airdraken’ Clack – $87,206.02 *
  6. marakana1965 – $25,353.65
  7. InduceM3 – $17,792.34
  8. smir9david – $12,486.07
  9. mionir – $8,762.44

Denotes *five-way deal

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($200+15 NLHE) *$350K Guaranteed
2,059 entrants – $411,800 paid out to 296 spots

  1. m.a-0000 – $61,496.92
  2. bagoch – $44,215.91
  3. schmette – $31,791.61
  4. nofingclue11 – $22,858.40 (CrazyZachary)
  5. joeeey99 – $16,435.39
  6. APD0290 – $11,817.17 (APD)
  7. misi814 – $8,496.62
  8. sslazio904 – $6,109.13
  9. HhCMotU – $4,392.50

PokerStars Sunday Grand ($1,000+50 NLHE) *$250K Guaranteed
310 entrants – $310,000 paid out to 39 spots

  1. NLZWERVERNL – $58,319.09
  2. ShippityShip – $43,632.31
  3. veeea – $32,644.27
  4. Cejakas14 – $24,423.38
  5. LeoFernandez – $18,272.76
  6. Parker ‘tonkaaaa’ Talbot – $13,671.09
  7. hellzito – $10,228.26
  8. ollie_p – $7,652.44 (3BunPass)
  9. bombuslol – $5,725.29

PokerStars Sunday Grand PLO ($1,000+50 PLO 6-Max) *$125K Guaranteed
218 entrants – $218,000 paid out to 24 spots

  1. Syous – $42,777.76
  2. jbrown8777 – $31,794.47
  3. Conor ‘blanconegro’ Drinan – $23,631.24
  4. Isildur1 – $17,563.95
  5. Ahhh ls lt? – $13,054.42
  6. KissMyAcePlz – $9,702.70

PokerStars Sunday Supersonic ($215 NLHE 6-Max Hyper Turbo) *$175K Guaranteed
1,129 entrants – $184,000 paid out to 155 spots

  1. johnm1916 – $37,215.82
  2. LosVangelos – $24,326.21
  3. OLD TIME GIN – $15,901.35 (GINS FINEST)
  4. _Saout_01 – $10,394.25
  5. untitled2jc – $6,794.43
  6. Muringa.SP – $4,441.31

PokerStars Sunday Storm ($10+$1 NLHE) *$300k Guaranteed
30,375 entrants – $303,750 paid out to 4,886 spots

  1. Ekmalian – $30,402.17
  2. Cardio_Crazy – $21,648.53
  3. LucasPaoEpa – $15,431.77
  4. andos1 – $11,000.27
  5. RobMoneyQc – $7,841.33
  6. Bertram69 – $5,589.54
  7. Marrakesz – $3,984.37
  8. catukinho – $2,840.15
  9. hegermati – $2,024.52

partypoker Powerfest #157 Super High Roller ($2,600 NLHE) *$200k Guaranteed
115 entrants – $287,000 paid out to 15 spots

  1. sordykrd – $71,875 (Jon ‘apestyles’ van Fleet)
  2. PartyRainer – $48,875
  3. MechaCorta – $37,375
  4. nipa3p3 – $26,594
  5. onehundredeyes – $18,688
  6. TDurdenWAR – $15,094 (joaomathias)
  7. barrm111 – $12,219
  8. Lefiscal – $10,063 (pascal)
  9. omaha4rollz – $7,906

partypoker Powerfest #155 ($215 NLHE) *$300k Guaranteed
1,880 entrants – $376,000 paid out to 216 spots

  1. Paul ‘Sentapied99’ Senter – $50,341*
  2. RandyB0bandy – $43,975 * (TJ ‘1bigacehole’ Ulmer)
  3. TDurdenWAR – $42,977 * (joaomathias)
  4. bigboss3OO – $23,768
  5. TheWelshWizard – $16,920
  6. x_Perfect1239 – $13,160
  7. DrMiKee – $9,400 (Fabrizio ‘SixthSenSe19’ Gonzalez)
  8. WHYdoittoMYSELF – $6,580
  9. Dietrichjolman – $3,760

Denotes *three-way deal

888 Poker Super XL MAIN EVENT ($1,050 NLHE) *$1.5M Guaranteed
1,096 entrants – $1,500,000 paid out to 144 spots

  1. Enigmasility – $262,200
  2. GoMore21 – $190,500 (Sphinx87)
  3. gusfraba99 – $142,500
  4. spider4444 – $106,500
  5. MechaREcorta – $75,000
  6. ROLDY18 – $60,000
  7. casinopro888 – $45,000 (Dennis ‘DBerglin’ Berglin)
  8. Tomas ‘poohmanCZ’ Petru – $30,000
  9. ADRI_ATM – $17,250

888 Poker Super XL Mega Deep($215 NLHE) *$150k Guaranteed
1,080 entrants – $216,000 paid out to 135 spots

  1. HappyHour4U – $38,880
  2. 88tiger889 – $27,713
  3. Fitip4ldi – $20,736
  4. REFp*ssy – $15,552
  5. Renato ‘curioso24’ Lezama – $10,800
  6. pvss10 – $8,640
  7. Pedro ‘PaDiLhA SP’ Padilha – $6,480
  8. lanfear9 – $4,320
  9. lrdvoldemort – $2,592 (jAkDAriPAA)