The Sunday Briefing: Darren Elias Wins Another Major at PokerStars

Brett Collson Chief Editor

Oct 27, 2014 3 min read

Only a month removed from the biggest victory of his career at the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open, Darren Elias picked up another title on Sunday �� this time on the virtual felt. Elias (pictured) won the PokerStars Sunday 2nd Chance tournament outright for $49,062.

The online victory marked the first in nearly six months for the New Jersey native Elias, who finds refuge in Canada to play online. Elias also boasts two World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) titles as well as a Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) triumph, and has career online cashes of more than $3.4 million according to PocketFives.com.

Other notables picking up wins on Sunday were Jonathan "xMONSTERxDONGx" Karamalikis and Simon "pokerbrat13" Charette. The latter took down the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for nearly $100,000 after defeating Nick "PureCash25" Rampone heads-up for the win.

Here's a full look at the results from the Sunday Majors on PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, partypoker and WSOP.com:

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Sunday Million ($1M Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	7,142	$1,428,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	smak777	$137,435*
2	kingplayer19	$128,261*
3	Chew_on_This	$138,632*
4	Thomas198713	$157,564*
5	Adrovan "AadrovanRj21" Rodrigues	$58,564
6	Parker "tonkaaaa" Talbot	$44,280
7	Jochum "groengras" Weenink	$30,170
8	sulopoika	$17,140
9	asdrice2312	$11,070

_{*Reflects four-handed deal}

Notable Finishes: Ivan "vandir4rek" Soshnikov (19th - $3,328)

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Sunday Warm-Up ($500K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	3,037	$607,400

Place	Player	Prize
1	Simon "pokerbrat13" Charette	$95,362
2	Nick "PureCash25" Rampone	$71,065
3	i need sheet	$50,426
4	tormos	$34,925
5	angrymoron	$26,118
6	nherrego	$20,044
7	keramiken	$13,970
8	maxxmeister	$7,896
9	hamanof	$4,859

Notable Finishes: Bernardo "bedias" Dias (14th - $2,885)

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Sunday 500 ($300K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$500+30	852	$426,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	bearsfan775	$50,306*
2	Glyu_M99	$55,357*
3	Re8uZ	$43,597*
4	Harel82	$55,006*
5	adkaf	$21,470
6	Igor_Novg	$17,040
7	Jordan "JWPRODIGY" Westmorland	$12,780
8	skillspug	$8,520
9	vindog03	$5,112

_{*Reflects four-handed deal}

Notable Finishes: Matias "Festivuss" Gabrenja (10th - $4,260), Hiren ��hustla16�� Patel (11th - $4,260), Michiel "utreg" Brummelhuis (14th - $3,408), Yann "yadio" Dion (15th - $3,408), Johnny Lodden (21st - $1,917), Sebastian ��p0cket00�� Sikorski (25th - $1,917)

Get in on the Sunday Majors action yourself by visiting PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and PartyPoker.

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PartyPoker 250K Guaranteed Sunday

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,213	$250,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	poker1177754	$39,125
2	railthe23price	$28,350
3	Palmero93	$20,375
4	remzijAA	$15,500
5	Bu5t1nJ1e8er	$12,725
6	KidVicious18	$10,200
7	MilaKoenis	$7,700
8	LarFag648	$5,200
9	MrsPainba1l	$3,950

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$109 Sunday Rebuy ($225K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$100+9	941	$283,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	j_peso4	$53,062
2	jvieiradias8	$38,205
3	Roman ��Roma-Tilt�� Korenev	$28,300
4	Patrick ��pads1161�� Leonard	$21,225
5	?ssnacke	$14,857
6	Valentino "K0VAK" Konakchiev	$12,027
7	aramesko	$9,197
8	thegr8str8	$6,367
9	Ben "vindog03" Vinson	$ $3,990

Notable Finishes: Joe "ender555" Ebanks (11th - $2,971), Joe "bigegypt" Elpayaa (12th - $2,971), Emil "emilohlsson" Ohlsson (15th - $2,405), David "davidv123" Vamplew (27th - 1,273)

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Sunday 2nd Chance ($175K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,443	$288,600

Place	Player	Prize
1	Darren "darrenelias" Elias	$49,062
2	kavlleas08	$36,075
3	John "bullyon" Buglion	$27,388
4	Poker Own U	$19,624
5	Josh "JBT449" Bergman	$14,285
6	Kamikaze485	$11,399
7	blacka pie	$8,513
8	Pardal77	$5,627
9	Tonzera	$3,116

Notable Finishes: Manig "swordfish007" Loeser (14th - $1,962)

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The Sunday Major ($150K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$200+15	1,010	$202,000

Place	Player	Prize
1	ItalianCrusher	$40,400
2	Dieter1964	$26,906
3	detlefDjoost	$19,190
4	WMACHINE	$14,432
5	Pat023	$10,706
6	Ryan "HITTHEPANDA" Franklin	$7,878
7	tcrames88	$5,858
8	TheF4tDuck	$4,242
9	HUNGLIKE	$2,020

Notable Finishes: [Removed:277] (12th - $2,020), Geoff "GeoffRas22" Rasmussen (16th - $1,171), Garrett Greer (23rd - $868)

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Sunday Brawl ($100K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$240+15	609	$121,800

Place	Player	Prize
1	Jonathan "xMONSTERxDONGx" Karamalikis	$25,882
2	Kask123	$17,661
3	MustacheDude	$13,398
4	Kalinoshki	$10,321
5	MrBigStack	$7,551
6	FarSeerCantDie	$5,359
7	MysterySten	$3,897
8	regal1992	$2,923
9	RuDyBoY X	$2,192