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6521 players entered this week’s Sunday Million on PokerStars.  2 big online pros final tabled, with aaaaaaaa finishing in 6th, and DumpingKGB finishing in 9th

There was a 3-way chop before they played the match out to a conclusion

1st - GoMukYaSelf - $135,334.75
2nd - supadphat - $105,334.75
3rd - jalla79 - $105,334.75
4th - central106 - $60,645.30
5th - PokerED - $47,603.30
6th - aaaaaaa - $34,561.00
7th - KtheKing – $23,475.60
8th - Patrolman35 – $15,650.40
9th - “Dumping”KGB - $10,172.76

Full Tilt pro and high stakes cash player David Benyamine picked up the world championship bracelet in Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo.  This is his first WSOP bracelet and very well deserved.

WSOP Event 37 - $10,000 PLO8 - 235 entrants
1 $ 535,687 David Benyamine
2 $ 331,350 Greg Jamison  
3 $ 209,855 Jason Gray
4 $ 171,197 Toto Leonidas  
5 $ 138,062 Mike Matusow  
6 $ 110,450 Eugene Katchalov  
7 $ 88,360 Ram Vaswani  
8 $ 71,792 David Chiu
9 $ 55,225 Hieu ‘Tony’ Ma  
10 $ 38,657 Berry Johnston  
11 $ 38,657 Shun Uchida  
12 $ 38,657 Chau Giang  
13 $ 33,135 Danny Dang  
14 $ 33,135 Pat Pezzin  
15 $ 33,135 Stuart Paterson
16 $ 27,612 Brent Carter  
17 $ 27,612 William McMahon  
18 $ 27,612 Ray Dehkharghani

2447 runners in this one.  Another huge field for these ubiqitous $1500 NLHE events.  Jesper Hourgaard lasted out the field on this occasion.

WSOP Event 36 - $1500 No Limit Holdem

1 $ 610,304 Jesper Hougaard  
2 $ 389,128 Cody Slaubaugh  
3 $ 258,862 Aaron Kanter  
4 $ 217,110 Danny Wong  
5 $ 177,028 Doug Middleton  
6 $ 140,286 Justin Wald  
7 $ 106,884 Rick Solis  
8 $ 81,833 Owen Crowe  
9 $ 56,782 John Shipley  
10 $ 36,741 Jeremy Schofer  
11 $ 36,741 Bryan Paris  
12 $ 36,741 Tom Braband  
13 $ 28,391 Craig Douglas  
14 $ 28,391 Chase Steed  
15 $ 28,391 Bryan Micon  
16 $ 20,040 John MacDonald  
17 $ 20,040 Christopher Goo  
18 $ 20,040 Dan Bowman

WSOP Event 35 - $1500 buyin - Seven-Card Stud - 381 entrants
1 $ 135,753 Mike Rocco  
2 $ 83,210 Al Barbieri  
3 $ 50,186 Levon Torosyan  
4 $ 37,184 Max Troy  
5 $ 28,083 Giacomo D’agostino  
6 $ 21,842 Danny ‘Mr Sharx’ Kalpakis  
7 $ 16,642 Andre Boyer  
8 $ 14,041 Jeffrey Siegal  
9 $ 11,441 Charles Moore  
10 $ 11,441 Roy Rose  
11 $ 8,841 Bryan Devonshire  
12 $ 8,841 Sabyl Landrum  
13 $ 6,240 Greg Pappas  
14 $ 6,240 Chris Tryba  
15 $ 4,680 Chris McIntyre  
16 $ 4,680 Chad Brown

Never short of energy and a smile, good time guy Layne Flack picked up his 6th WSOP Bracelet with a diplay for relentless agression at the final table.  You dont win bracelets by being passive ;)  No-one knows this fact better than Mr Flack himself.

WSOP Event 34 - $1500 PL Omaha w/rebuys - 320 entrants
1 $ 577,725 Layne Flack  
2 $ 355,050 Daniel Makowsky  
3 $ 222,659 Jacobo Fernandez  
4 $ 180,534 Dario Alioto  
5 $ 144,427 Ted Forrest  
6 $ 114,338 Kyle Kloeckner  
7 $ 90,267 Michael Guzzardi
8 $ 72,213 Tim West  
9 $ 54,160 Frank Vizza  
10 $ 36,106 Kevin O’Donnell  
11 $ 36,106 Michael Schwartz  
12 $ 36,106 Nathan Hagens  
13 $ 30,089 Francisco Azares  
14 $ 30,089 Thomas Wahlroos 
15 $ 30,089 Tino Lechich
16 $ 24,071 Nathan Doudney  
17 $ 24,071 Jerrod Ankenman  
18 $ 24,071 Steve Saris

Not shy of a fair few final tables (to put it midely) Chris “Jesus” Ferguson went close to another bracelet in the $5K Stud Hi-Lo.  In the end he finished a very credible 2nd to Sebastian Ruthenberg

WSOP Event 33 - $5000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo - 261 entrants
1 $ 328,756 Sebastian Ruthenberg  
2 $ 202,406 Chris Ferguson 
3 $ 125,737 Bob Lauria  
4 $ 95,069  Marcel Luske  
5 $ 73,602 Annie Duke  
6 $ 58,268 Alessio Isaia  
7 $ 46,001 Steve Sung  
8 $ 36,801 Robert Beveridge  
9 $ 30,668 Howard Lederer
10 $ 30,668 David Benyamine
11 $ 24,534 Chau Giang  
12 $ 24,534 Farzad Rouhani  
13 $ 18,401 Allen Cunningham
14 $ 18,401 Barry Greenstein
15 $ 12,267 Matt Grapenthien  
16 $ 12,267 Aliaksandr Dzianisau  
17 $ 11,040 Jan Suchanek  
18 $ 11,040 Kirill Gerasimov

A notable family final-nine finish for Howard Lederer and Annie Duke.  I hope they werent soft playing against one another

Also a mention for Marcel Luske, who took down a very nice 4th place

WSOP Event 32 $1500 NL Holdem
1 $ 573,734 Jose Luis Velador  
2 $ 366,387 Anthony G Signore  
3 $ 243,734 Osmin Dardon  
4 $ 204,422 Jae H Chung  
5 $ 166,682 Shane Stacey  
6 $ 132,088 Dean Bui  
7 $ 100,638 Dany Georges  
8 $ 77,051 Utsab Saha  
9 $ 53,464 Justin Hoffman  
10 $ 34,594 Ken Hughes  
11 $ 34,594 Jesse Maupin  
12 $ 34,594 George Lind  
13 $ 26,732 Ray Henson  
14 $ 26,732 Court Harrington  
15 $ 26,732 Scott Kahler  
16 $ 18,869 Joel Nichols  
17 $ 18,869 Zeph Baer  
18 $ 18,869 Donny Carlton

6382 players showed up this week to play the Sunday Million on PokerStars.  It took about 11 hours, but The Real Deal (easier to type ;)) was up to the task.

There was a three-way deal agreed with Bolikk securing $112,000; jlost88 securing $104,940.78 and tEh_R3aLde4L securing $91,688.14.  That left a further $30K to play for.

Result

1. tEh_R3aLde4L $121,688.14
2. Bolikk $112,000.00
3. jlost88 $104,940.78
4. imeasy2read $59,352.60
5. bartasPL $46,588.60
6. jeffbeesdat $33,824.60
7. XCappucinoX1 $22,975,20
8. iso_o $15,316.80
9. luke8 $9,955.92

The ever youthful PokerStars pro Dario Minieri picked up his first bracelet in the shorthanded no limit game he is so good at.  

Event 31 - $2500 NLHE Shorthanded (6 per table) - 1012 entrants
1 $ 528,418 Dario Minieri
2 $ 330,519 Seth Fischer  
3 $ 214,139 Justin Filtz  
4 $ 141,983 Kevin Song  
5 $ 98,923 John O’Shea  
6 $ 73,784 Stuart Marshak  
7 $ 50,508 Scotty Nguyen  
8 $ 50,508 Frank Rusnak  
9 $ 38,870 Todd Terry  
10 $ 38,870 Alon Shahar  
11 $ 27,232 Bruno Fitoussi  
12 $ 27,232 Stephen Pierson  
13 $ 19,086 Leo Fernandez  
14 $ 19,086 Michael Skomac  
15 $ 19,086 Jonathan Honig  
16 $ 19,086 Terry Boyd  
17 $ 19,086 Brendan Keenan  
18 $ 19,086 Cory Albertson

Notable finished for Scotty “That’s No Limit Baby” Nguyen in 7th

WSOP Event 30 - $10,000 Limit Holdem - 218 entrants
1 $ 496,931 Rob Hollink
2 $ 307,380 Jerrod Ankenman  
3 $ 194,674 Tommy Hang  
4 $ 158,813 Aaron Katz  
5 $ 128,075 JC Tran  
6 $ 102,460 Brock Parker  
7 $ 81,968 Andy Bloch 
8 $ 66,599 Cy Jassinowsky  
9 $ 51,230 Chris Vitch  
10 $ 35,861 Eric Buchman  
11 $ 35,861 Richard Chase  
12 $ 35,861 Eric Froehlich
13 $ 30,738 Shun Uchida  
14 $ 30,738 Steve Sung  
15 $ 30,738 Michael Mizrachi  
16 $ 25,615 Matt Woodward  
17 $ 25,615 Tex Barch  
18 $ 25,615 Kieu Duong

First bracelet for a Dutch player, making it a little extra special