Big Money Sunday – January 24th

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

Dan Shak defeated Phil Ivey in the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge
Photo credit: PokerNews.com

It’s been a very busy week around the poker world and your not-so-humble blogger was in the middle of it a little. Live poker was raging across the planet with the WPT Southern Poker Championship, the Borgata Winter Open, Los Angeles Poker Classic, EPT Deauville, and the Aussie Millions. Online poker was dominated on Full Tilt by the raging success of Rush Poker, Big Money Sunday, and the start of Double Guarantee Week. A lot of money flying around.

The big news for Team Full Tilt occurred down in Australia in the $100,000 Challenge event which naturally drew the biggest names in the poker world. More than a third of the small elite field was composed of major members of Team Full Tilt including Chris Ferguson, Erick Lindgren, John Juanda, Erik Seidel, Gus Hansen, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, and Andrew Feldman. When the final table was assembled it included Phil Ivey and Howard Lederer looking for the $1,200,000 AUD first place money. In the end it was Dan Shak preventing Phil Ivey from adding more hardware to his collection, Ivey took home $600,000 AUD before flying home.

The online world continues to buzz about the introduction of Rush Poker. I am in the process of collecting the thoughts of players, bloggers, and writers on this new innovation but the approvals are shocking even for the jaded world of poker. John from the Collective not withstanding. The first big taste was finding an article from Gary Wise at ESPN.

One player, Michael “BraveJayhawk” Jenson, a non-FTP affiliated professional player, coach and sometimes-backer, declared this “the best software update since Party Poker went up to 100bbs and opened 2/4 NL and higher” on the twoplustwo forums. That was more than half a decade ago.

If you haven’t jumped into these tables, go ahead and give them a try. They are not for every player but you might enjoy it, the regular cash game tables will still be there.

The Big Money Sunday events went off without a hitch including the last “Big Little Tournament” with a turbo $250,000 Guarantee. The bustout rate once again amazed as the field was reduced from +30,000 to a winner in less than 4.5 hours, a fine example of the turbo format. Kevin “Wu_Wizard” MacPhee was probably the most well known online pro to take down a title this week in the Sunday Brawl. Kevin “GetPWN3D” Saul made the final table of the $200,000 Guarantee and Mark “MarkFSU1″ DeMasis has several deep runs. Friend of the blog Brian “ship_the_perc” Lemke went deep in the $750,000 and Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers nearly final tables the Sunday Mulligan.

That tournament provided the most railbird action as Evan “NEONPILS99″ Parkes seemed to have a beef with Sowers. After several mild barbs back and forth Parkes laid a classic internet beauty on the table.

NEONPILS99: god you should jus tbe shot in the face

The internet creates some very tough talkers from 1,000 of miles away. Sowers would get the upper hand on the virtual felt by finishing 13th after Parkes dusted off chips with a weak ace. Never a dull moment in poker.

You can find all the Big Money Sunday final table results after the jump.

The Big Little Tournament
Entrants: 30,653
Prizepool: $250,000
First place: $22,500

1st – Zod42 – $22,000
2nd – rebaserein007 – $16,225
3rd – NOJOKEMAMA – $11,500
4th – luludu07 – $9,000
5th – kanoky – $7,250
6th – Rock6363 – $5,750
7th – one4damuny – $4,500
8th – geniedetergent – $3,250
9th – missung – $2,000

The Sunday Brawl
Entrants: 2,865
Prizepool: $573,000
First place: $116,319

1st through 3rd made a deal:

1st – Kevin “Wu_Wizard” MacPhee – $86,963
2nd – bigslick166 – $80,000
3rd – Mark “MarkFSU1″ DeMasis – $80,000
4th – MrTimCaum – $41,829
5th – 603Lucifer – $29,223
6th – SteveDunkSr – $19,482
7th – bonafidedonkey – $13,179
8th – cityboy8 – $9,168
9th – Black Pete 30 – $6,876

$200,000 Guarantee (Rebuy)
Entrants: 558
Prizepool: $286,050
First place: $71,512.50

1st through 3rd made a deal:

1st – PokerKaiser – $58,277.54
2nd – bv4ever – $46,200.21
3rd – 1needadrink – $43,553.13
4th – Comandr_Cool – $25,029.38
5th – mezvinsm – $18,593.25
6th – Dudeoflife – $13,587.38
7th – Kevin “GetPWN3D” Saul – $8,867.55
8th – pumpkintilt – $7,151.25
9th – psychobenny – $5,577.98

Notables: Jake “psutennis11″ Toole (17th), Tim “BegsClutch” Begley (21st), Ross “zestfulyclean” Myers (26th)

The $200k Double Deuce
Entrants: 10,988
Prizepool: $219,760
First place: $34,062.80

1st through 4th made a deal:

1st – Tha1thereis – $34,568.44
2nd – DeadlyDonkey – $23,593.82
3rd – pasja_013 – $19,426.54
4th – jaykrz – $17,502.27
5th – K1sk4rcs1 – $8,570.64
6th – m_reed05 – $6,153.28
7th – DianaVickers – $4,395.20
8th – iChoke – $3,142.57
9th – Michail Korobov – $2,221.77

$750,000 Guarantee
Entrants: 3,911
Prizepool: $782,200
First Place: $138,488.51

1st – The Great Pike – $138,488.51
2nd – vennerux – $83,695.40
3rd – paulhan85 – $54,754.00
4th – 201241643 – $43,177.44
5th – Shawguysies – $32,383.08
6th – Scarer – $24,013.54
7th – fiepigen – $17,990.60
8th – MS_JUICE26 – $14,079.60
9th – DeMaci – $10,481.48

Notables: Brian “ship_the_perc” Lemke (32nd), Ryan “HITTHEPANDA” Franklin (76th)

The Sunday Mulligan
Entrants: 1,212
Prizepool: $242,400
First place: $53,328

1st – rtkoss – $53,328.00
2nd – greenerbels1 – $33,936.00
3rd – rkruok – $24,967.20
4th – sketchy1 – $19,695.00
5th – hanitz – $15,150.00
6th – Anguz – $10,908.00
7th – BillWillRR9 – $7,272.00
8th – Grippolio – $5,454.00
9th – DYSHANBE – $3,878.40

Notables: Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers (13th), Alex “AJKHoosier1″ Kamberis (14th), Paul “ComeOnPhish1″ Lieu (21st), Evan “NEONPILS99″ Parkes (22nd), Mickey “Mement_mori” Petersen (33rd), Nick “agriffrod” Mitchell (46th), Steven “UFman2″ Burkholder (76th), Lee “acumen53″ Childs (86th)

Tags: AlCantHang, Big Money Sunday, Bloggers on the Rail, Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Rush Poker