The Sunday Briefing: Griffin Benger Continues his Heater

Another Sunday Funday has passed and that means another #EhGame edition of the Sunday Briefing. This week, yet again, the spotlight was directed up north when Canadians all over the map logged in and dominated the Sunday major line-up.

“blue1084” had Canada’s largest cash of the day, receiving the biggest chunk of a seven-player (yes seven ...) chop of the PokerStars Sunday Million. “blue1084 walked away with $143,384 after finishing runner-up. The second-place finish brought blue1084’s career PokerStars winnings up to $220,000, multiplying his best previous cash by almost 20 times!

Griffin “Flush_Entity” Benger continued to live up to his "super-sized" reputation Sunday after becoming the #1 ranked PokerStars player in the world on officialpokerrankings.com earlier last week. Benger took down the $635 Full Tilt Super Sized Sunday beating Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad heads-up, adding $36,400 to his already fantastic 2014 resume.

The Team IveyPoker pro has earned on the positive side of $683,000 in these three and a half months of 2014 and has brought his career earnings up to $6.4 million.

Benger’s newest title came about 12 hours after he busted the EPT Sanremo High Roller in 6th, piling on another $92,400. Max Greenwood finished runner-up in the High Roller event for ~$277,000 and Jason Lavallee busted just outside the final table in 11th.

Newfoundland’s Danny “DannyN13” Noseworthy shipped Full Tilt’s The T-Rex for $25,340 after a three-way chop with fellow Maritimer Russell “rdcrsn” Carson, who busted in third earning $19,200. Mike McDonald also made the final table finishing in 9th for $2,200.

Noseworthy, a Tournament Poker Edge team pro and instructor, now has over $110,000 in online earnings so far in 2014 and over $1.5 million lifetime!

Here's a full look at the results from the Sunday Majors on PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker:

Sunday Million

Place	Player	Prize
1	pececada	*$105,017
2	blue1084	*$143,384
3	p0kermannet1	*$95,632
4	CosmoE10-4	*$102,981
5	superfolde	*$78,262
6	Abbe77	*$107,110
7	Whitfield74	*$111,045
8	DixyDix	$17,983
9	okman_321	$12,119

_{*Reflects seven-way deal}

Canadian notables: “pickledoe” 20th for $3,440, “foundinflood” 25th for $3,440, “BIGBADBRAD58” 31st for $3,127, and “VinnyL15” 33rd for $3,127.

Sunday Warm-Up

Place	Player	Prize
1	1banditpanda	*$73,926
2	veyrassois	*$74,678
3	TGSM89	*$70,880
4	chrismarion	$35,351
5	globallud	$26,319
6	AceHighTwice	$19,981
7	Indianeren05	$13,833
8	n3xD	$7.685
9	SwalzB	$4,918

_{*Reflects three-way deal}

Canadian notables: “birdyy420” 13th for $2,858, “nutzho” 17th for $1,936, “Frank9288” 20th for $1,629, and “slinker91” 21st for $1,629.

Sunday 500

Place	Player	Prize
1	Mike “Sowerss” Sowers	*$61,204
2	Nice2GrindeU	*$54,804
3	sergito80	*$47,401
4	Nba-Slam	$29,108
5	Dominik “Bounatirou” Nitshe	$20,235
6	Chaz D 87	$16,220
7	anteen	$12,205
8	1stalenuts1	$8,230
9	NormyDozer	$5,018

_{*Reflects three-way deal}

Canadian notables: Carter “cswilder” Swidler 14th for $3,412, “TheRiverHawk” 17th for $2,609, “takechip” 22nd for $1,846, and “chefka” 26th for $1,846.

Sunday 2nd Chance

Canadian notables: “PJPK68” 12th for $2,481, “WhatArunAA” 13th for $1,917, Yann “yadio” Dion 14th for $1,917, “sohoskiracer” 16th for $1,353, and “wywrot” 21st for $1,128.

Canadian Live Major Qualifier

PokerStars Canada Cup Main Event package winners ($3,300)
- youaremelon
- Carster
- fishy316

EPT Grand Final package winners (€14,000)
- Shyram "G's zee" Srinivasan
- Earl Hindman
- jeff710

$250,000 Guarantee

Place	Player	Prize
1	JohnnyNawalony	*$46,500
2	Padilha10	*$40,065
3	risk2Dupside	$24,681
4	game153	$18,445
5	Gooner_For_ARS	$13,769
6	Frysboxen	$10,132
7	KOMIJENDO	$7,534
8	Phemo	$5,455
9	UHBigTex	$3,897

_{*Reflects heads-up deal}

Canadian notables: “Humbadee” 19th for $1,117.

The Sunday Brawl

Place	Player	Prize
1	dhutt24	$40,000
2	ale6ka	$26,640
3	Buckguy2200	$19,000
4	benzidebuc	$14,200
5	Phil Ivey 18	$10,600
6	shebliak87	$7,800
7	BruceWayneRises	$5,800
8	phounder	$4,200
9	Padhilha10	$3,000

Canadian notables: “Francix” 16th for $1,160 and “HardcoreParkour” 19th for $860.

Super Sized Sunday

Place	Player	Prize
1	Griffin “Flush_Entity” Benger	$33,072
2	Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad	$20,988
3	swish3113	$15,900
4	SheMustSayYes	$12,402
5	RdyStdyFold	$9,222
6	CSWAMI	$6,678
7	Adebisi69	$4,452
8	negroblanco	$3,498
9	ALL_THE_F_TIME	$2,671

Canadian notables: “quantum leaper1” 11th for $1,590, “cswilder” 12th for $1,590, and “hustla16” 19th for $763.

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