This past weekend was one of the busiest on PokerStars for a while. If the headlines weren’t being made at EPT Malta, it was the regular Sunday Majors, or MicroMillions, which came to an end yesterday. So I suppose we ought to start at the beginning.
EPT Malta
EPT Malta came to an end on Saturday night. Actually that’s not true, it was 5.07am on Sunday to be precise after an all-French heads-up duel lasted longer than anyone anticipated. It was a tough one for both players involved, but Jean Montury finally got the better of Valentin Messina. It may have been that everyone was asleep when he did it, but there was something about the image posted on the PokerStars Blog that made it worth it, the picture of winner Montury trying to console the exhausted, and defeated Messina.
Jean Montury consoles Valentin MessinaYou can read all about Montury’s win in Malta on the Blog, and indeed about the entire festival, which was enjoyed by everyone who played there, as well as those behind the scenes, and of course the winners, among them Dzmitry Urbanovich who won the Special €25k High roller event and then three more titles before the festival concluded (he would come second in another). David Peters too left Malta with a smile on his face, having won the €10K High Roller title late on Saturday.
Meanwhile life in the online world continued uninterrupted with both big stakes and small stakes events getting some attention.
Sunday Majors
The Sunday Million was won by Legadzo who managed to make it a memorable win. Having had a big stack at the start of the final table he then lost it, meaning he had to win the hard way. Kristin Bihr has the full story here. Then there was the Sunday Warm-Up, won this week by AnyGameSir for a first prize of $182,214. Read the full report by Jason Kirk here.
PokerStars Sunday Million
Players: 7,000
Prize pool: $1,400,000.00
Places paid: 1,080
1. Legadzo (United Kingdom) $182,214.33*
2. spenny32 (Australia) $151,118.48*
3. DuTTiFruTTi9 (Germany) $143,185.19*
4. Schuffelkus (Germany) $74,200.00
5. Charliegore8 (Hungary) $57,400.00
6. KingAlikMJ23 (Israel) $43,400.00
7. OneH1tWonder (Austria) $30,100.00
8. leoc00 (Canada) $16,800.00
9. adrrian1989 (Poland) $10,850.00
* denotes three-way deal
PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up
Entrants: 2,942
Prize pool: $588,400
Places paid: 432
1. AnyGameSir (Poland) $92,379.42
2. AA DOCTOR (Greece) $68,842.80
3. SlyderS1 (Hungary) $48,848.96
4. Buffett1986 (Australia) $33,833
5. alimounda (Greece) $25,301.20
6. passuare (Brazil) $19,417.20
7. vladxxxro (Romania) $13,533.20
8. JIM_BALLAS (Cyprus) $7,649.20
9. Grzegorz “DaWarsaw” Mikielewicz, Team Online Pro (Poland) $4,707.20
Among the other big events of the weekend there was a win for Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo in the Sunday Supersonic, as well as for Stephen “SvZff” van Zadelhoff who won the weekly turbo.
The top ten winners over the weekend:
$215 Sunday Million, $1M Gtd: Legadzo (United Kingdom) $182,214.33
MicroMillions-098: $22 NL Hold’em Main Event, $1M Gtd, $100K+ to first: BgsaPnaples (Canada) $110,742.52
$215 Sunday Warm-Up, $500K Gtd: AnyGameSir (Poland) $92,379.42
$530 Sunday 500, $300K Gtd: RasA86 (Denmark) $69,840.00
$215 Sunday Supersonic [6-Max], $200K Gtd: ZeeJustin (Canada) $53,461.73
$109+R Sunday Rebuy, $200K Gtd: KumariOy (Russia) $52,443.75
$215 Sunday 2nd Chance, $200K Gtd: madskillz3 (Canada) $46,912.68
MicroMillions-097 $11 NL Hold’em [Sunday Storm Special Edition], $300K Gtd: takin_anton (Russia) $37,275.74
$320 Saturday Super-Knockout, $250K Gtd: minko23 (Canada) $27,790.93
$162 Sunday 6-Max, $125K Gtd: rogue7735 (Australia) $25,935.00
MicroMillions 10
It was also a weekend for MicroMillions, the tenth series of which came to a close yesterday with the $22 buy-in Main Event, won by BgsaPnaples of Canada, who earned a first prize of $110,742. He paid just $22 to play. Anyone else think this is ridiculous?
There were plenty of chips being stacked online this weekendActually on this basis the whole serious was ridiculous, both for its popularity and its capacity to turn a few cents into thousands of dollars. The full details of every MM10 results from over the weekend (Events 81-100) can be found here, with results from the rest of the weekend at the foot of this page.
MicroMillions-098: $22 NL Hold’em Main Event, $1M Gtd, $100K+ to first
Entrants: 59,648
Prize pool: $1,192,960
Places paid: 8,937
1. BgsaPnaples (Canada) $110,742.52
2. cccp11 (Germany) $81,145.13
3. RuiDeck (Germany) $59,480.98
4. FTART (Brazil) $43,602.68
5. nemoestaloco (Argentina) $31,959.39
6. huerthi (Germany) $23,417.80
7. Noisy_pl (Poland) $17,166.69
8. ksieciunio97 (Poland) $12,585.72
9. karelen (Sweden) $9,221.58
Click here to find all the major results on PokerStars for the weekend of March 28-29, 2015
Congratulations to all the winners from this weekend.
Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.
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