SUNDAY MAJORS: Sam ‘TheSquid’ Grafton Wins PokerStars Sunday Grand
SUNDAY MAJORS: Sam ‘TheSquid’ Grafton Wins PokerStars Sunday Grand


MedStudent91‘ captured an outright victory in the PokerStars Sunday Million and took home $152,455 to lead the way in major online poker events over the weekend. The #2-ranked in Uruguay, ‘kofi89‘ finished runner-up in that tournament and collected $106,985 while ‘Rhayadder‘ was awarded $75,078 for third place and ‘Kheragon‘ walked away with $52,688 upon finishing fourth.

The United Kingdom’s Sam ‘TheSquid’ Grafton (ranked #188) has moved closer to $5 million career online poker tournament cashes with his victory in the $1,050 buy-in Sunday Grand event for $52,633. Vietnam’s ‘sangnv‘ picked up $39,144 for second place while 55th-ranked Chris ‘Big Huni’ Hunichen of Costa Rica received $29,113 for third along with another $14,152 for his final table effort in the Warm-Up, which was won by ‘darius8989‘ who picked up the win and $52,953 with ‘sct29‘ taking home $38,074 for second.

Colombia’s Mayu ‘marroca5’ Roca Uribe (ranked #116) earned $28,757 for his win in the Pot Limit Omaha version of the Sunday Grand. ‘LosJanosTata‘ won the Hyper Turbo Sunday Supersonic for just under $35,000 and ‘sharkf1n‘ outlasted a field of more than 30,000 opponents to take down the Sunday Storm for $26,068 upon negotiating a three-way final table deal.

The $2,600 buy-in Super High Roller on partypoker was won by ‘PhileasFogg‘ for a cash reward of $52,604. ‘karma4dollar‘ was the runner-up in that tournament and collected $32,873. In the $530 buy-in version of that partypoker event, ‘gregOorOowicz‘ took home $35,754 for first place.

888 Poker player ‘B_thebenlar‘ won the Mega Deep event for a payday of $25,013 while the Baby Whale event was won by ‘MisterN411‘ for $19,853.

PokerStars Sunday Million ($200+$15 NLHE) *$1M Guaranteed
5,082 entrants – $1,016,400 paid out to 845 spots

  1. MedStudent91 – $152,454.83
  2. kofi89 – $106,984.63
  3. Rhayadder – $75,078.41
  4. Kheragon – $52,687.63
  5. Bruno ‘bubbleboybr’ de Oliveira – $36,974.39
  6. guiq – $25,947.47
  7. rounder3989 – $18,209.00
  8. jf slim777 – $12,778.58
  9. CHRISCCC – $8,967.59

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($200+$15 NLHE) *$350K Guaranteed
1,748 entrants – $350,000 paid out to 287 spots

  1. darius8989 – $52,953.47
  2. sct29 – $38,073.52
  3. Dennis ‘DBerglin’ Berglin – $27,375.18
  4. wilmy_x – $19,683.02
  5. Chris ‘Big Huni’ Hunichen – $14,152.28
  6. WadeShaq03 – $10,175.62 (Christopher ‘heatfan03’ Day)
  7. andr31123 – $7,316.36
  8. dadowiec – $5,260.57
  9. aula1 – $3,782.38

PokerStars Sunday Grand ($1,000+$50 NLHE) *$225K Guaranteed
276 entrants – $276,000 paid out to 39 spots

  1. SamSquid – $52,633.32 (Sam ‘TheSquid’ Grafton)
  2. sangnv – $39,144.41
  3. Chris ‘Big Huni’ Hunichen – $29,112.53
  4. SpaceyFCB – $21,651.59
  5. Ruslancheeck – $16,102.75
  6. aaronbeen – $11,975.94
  7. baelong80 – $8,906.76
  8. IgorKurganov – $6,624.16
  9. European – $4,926.51

PokerStars Sunday Grand PLO ($1,000+$50 PLO Six-Max) *$100K Guaranteed
137 entrants – $137,000 paid out to 19 spots

  1. Mayu ‘marroca5’ Roca Uribe – $28,756.63
  2. robinho – $21,588.32 (inhoo)
  3. EspenasApart – $16,206.92
  4. Ami ‘UhhMee’ Barer – $12,166.97
  5. Adrijan ‘Adrijan_s’ Sinishtaj – $9,134.06
  6. jcada99 – $6,857.17

PokerStars Sunday Supersonic ($215 NLHE Six Max Hyper Turbo) *$175K Guaranteed
1,046 entrants – $214,179 paid out to 143 spots

  1. LosJanosTata – $34,998.94
  2. XD89lol<3 - $22,877.29 (sape89)
  3. bossamtisch – $14,954.25
  4. FrederickH. – $9,775.19
  5. Muskan ‘musku89’ Sethi – $6,389.77
  6. Pascal ‘Pass_72’ Lefrancois – $4,176.81

PokerStars Sunday Storm ($10+$1 NLHE) *$275k Guaranteed
30,338 entrants – $303,380 paid out to 5,309 spots

  1. sharkf1n – $26,068.47
  2. Juan P F – $19,662.56 (juankp)
  3. rodriguesmai – $21,267.88 *3-way deal
  4. Slaassh – $10,921.13
  5. Kurama09 – $7,784.97
  6. niels90 – $5,549.42
  7. nikli7 – $3,955.83
  8. danskemann – $2,819.85
  9. Micky 4T – $2,010.10

partypoker Super High Roller ($2,600 NLHE) *$100K Guaranteed
59 entrants – $147,500 paid out to 9 spots

  1. PhileasFogg – $52,604
  2. karma4dollar – $32,873
  3. Hahaha_Owned – $20,543
  4. frippu – $12,837
  5. WannaBeBird – $8,022
  6. onehundredeyes – $5,811
  7. Whoozz77 – $5,266 (lena900)

partypoker High Roller ($530 NLHE) *$150K Guaranteed
386 entrants – $193,000 paid out to 63 spots

  1. gregOorOowicz – $35,754
  2. Hahaha_Owned – $25,590
  3. ownjin – $18,571
  4. firgli – $13,477
  5. suk12cz – $9,781 (suk)
  6. funnyhahalol – $7,097
  7. GriffsT1ts – $5,151 (Griffin ‘Flush Entity’ Benger)
  8. MyronFlagburn – $3,738
  9. onehundredeyes – $3,738

888 Poker Baby WHALE ($320 NLHE) *$100K Guaranteed
342 entrants – $102,600 paid out to 45 spots

  1. MisterN411 – $19,853
  2. doorscentral – $14,877
  3. amaze1 – $11,286
  4. xcrash154 – $8,465
  5. justgamblin – $5,848
  6. ballage87 – $4,514
  7. romeopro33 – $3,488
  8. jizz3r – $2,462
  9. badmodafoka1 – $1,796

888 Poker Mega Deep ($200+15 NLHE) *$120K Guaranteed
667 entrants – $133,400 paid out to 90 spots

  1. B_thebenlar – $25,013
  2. Thulio ‘thulinho’ Colle – $18,009
  3. OO6007 – $13,340
  4. altavistt – $10,005
  5. wayne_G99 – $7,004
  6. DoubleNature – $5,670 (TomSoder)
  7. Gr33nApples – $4,336 (xmmukesh)
  8. Ronaldo4112 – $3,002
  9. p1uzera – $1,881