The Sunday Briefing: Melanie Weisner and Bryn Kenney Close 2012 with Final Tables
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The 2012 season for Sunday Majors ended yesterday with four players earning six-figure paydays to close out the year. Pocketing the biggest score, "ante_geia_AA", who won the PokerStars Sunday Million for $243,955. Also winning tournaments on Sunday, Jono "Spyver" Beck, Damian "pampa27" Salas and Zsolt "Vzsolt800" Vasvenszki. Notables who made final tables and won five figures included Ben "ShankingYou" Palmer (on both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker), Melanie "Callisto 5" Weisner, Rupert "ElRupert" Elder and Bryn "BrynKenney" Kenney.
PokerStars Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)
Buy-in
Entrants
Prize Pool
$200+$15
8,292
$1,658,400
Place
Player
Prize
1
ante_geia_AA
$243,955
2
Yukon2000
$178,278
3
Flavio "flavioreis88" Reis
$124,380
4
aakiss1990
$82,920
5
Afterpub
$66,336
6
Mr_Bean122
$49,752
7
Rumtschech
$33,168
8
obina9
$18,242
9
22tinga
$12,853
Notable Finishes: Jason "jadedjason" James (29th - $3,316.80), Michael "PapaGreggio" Hawkins (31st - $3,316.80), Steve "BetrThanPhil" Tripp (50th - $2,819.28)
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PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)
Buy-in
Entrants
Prize Pool
$200+$15
3,446
$689,200
Place
Player
Prize
1
inwooke
$108,205
2
DEXX_RJ
$80,636
3
Ozgur "phaplap" Arda
$56,859
4
stiene222
$39,629
5
Ben "ShankingYou" Palmer
$29,291
6
Veritas0086
$22,399
7
grussiova
$15,507
8
LUNARI29
$8,615
9
Truthislie
$5,514
Notable Finishes: Jesse "On the Mac" McKenzie (21st - $1,757.46), Billy "b8chatz" Chattaway (40th - $1,412.86), Ben "bennybunny18" Richardson (42nd - $1,412.86), Toby "810ofclubs" Lewis (46th - $1,309.48)
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