We’ve got the details on the Sunday Million, the Warm-Up and the 500 right here on the Sunday Scoop.

Akenhead Crushes Sunday Million

7,125 players found their way into the Sunday Million this week with UK pro James “Asprin1” Akenhead taking the top spot and the $213,750 first-place prize.

In 2008 Akenhead made the final tables of the WSOP main event in Las Vegas and the WSOP Europe main event in London and now he can add a Sunday Major title to his list of accomplishments.

Akenhead defeated pnp23 of Romania who pocketed $157,277 for second.

Finishing third was German pro Giuseppe “Ansgar2000” Pantaleo who is currently ranked 175th on the Global Poker Index thanks to 16 cashes, eight final tables and over $450,000 in results in less than two years.

Pantaleo has also earned more than $1.8 million playing online poker tournaments as Ansgaar2000 on PokerStars and previously as LeChiffre19 on Full Tilt and UB.

In total 1,080 players got paid. Here are the full final table results:

Denmark On Top in Sunday Warm-Up

Danish player RasA86 defeated a field of 3,569 yesterday in the Sunday Warm-Up, winning $112,067.

Pius Heinz cashed in this Sunday on PokerStars.

 

The Warm-Up smashed its guarantee, putting $713,800 in the pot to be divided among the top 540 finishers.

Celina Lin just made it into the money, finishing 537th, while reigning world champion Pius Heinz made it to 367th before going bust.

Here are the full results for the final table of this week’s Sunday Warm-Up:

Pateychuk Comes Close in Sunday 500

Super hot Russian player Andrey Pateychuk, who won EPT San Remo last October and WPT Prague in December, narrowly missed a win in the Sunday 500 this week.

Pateychuk was edged out by Romanian player ALIN76poker who made a deal heads-up with Spanish player Rocks_Strato to take $64,500 and $59,500, respectively.

In total 117 of the 800 who played got paid, sharing the $400,000 prize pool.

Notables to finish in the money include Leo Fernandez (23rd), Pat Pezzin (62nd) and Shane Schleger (69th).

Here are the full final table payouts for this week’s Sunday 500, adjusted to reflect the heads-up deal:

Read on for the highlights in this week’s edition of the Sunday Scoop.

PokerStars Sunday Million ($1M Gtd)

The Sunday Million on PokerStars broke its guarantee again this week with 7,296 players kicking in their $215 buy-in for a shot at the more than $218,000 first-place prize.

In the end the biggest payouts were decided by a deal, whereby the final seven players chopped up the prize money and left $20,000 on the table for the eventual winner.

Well-known online pro and recent addition to Team PokerStars Online Shane “Shaniac” Schleger pocketed $84,000 and finished seventh, while Ifold2ndnuts from the Netherlands went on to win and take home $116,104.

The biggest take went to FMorbiducci of Chile who earned $147,602 and ended up finishing second.

Here are the full final table payouts adjusted to reflect the seven-way deal:

*Numbers based on a seven-way chop agreement

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up ($500k Gtd)

3,100 players were able to rouse themselves early enough to participate in this week’s $215 Warm-Up, building a $620,000 prize pool and putting $97,340 on the table for first .

After roughly ten hours of play the UK’s jenbizzle came out on top, defeating lehai80 from Russia heads-up, who received $72,540 for second.

Making deep runs but falling short of the final table were a few familiar names. Bryn Kenney cruised to 13th before going broke, and Juan Antonio Maceiras “vietcong01” Barros, who won a Sunday Million in 2010, finished 14th.

Bryn Kenney narrowly missed the Warm-Up's final table this week.

 

Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden was eliminated in 23rd when he open-shoved J♥ T♥ and got snapped off by Bryn Kenney who picked up pocket kings.

Here are the full final table results:

PokerStars Sunday 500 ($250k Gtd)

This week’s $530 buy-in Sunday major attracted 712 players and broke its guarantee with a $356,000 prize pool.

dsnka of the Czech Republic emerged victorious, pocketing $51,443 as part of a three-way deal with elitelive who was playing from Barbados, and WushuTM of Austria.

dsnka’s real identity is not known to us but this player has been extremely active on all major sites, also playing under the name LuckyDuy and earning just under $1 million according to PocketFives.

Just a few weeks ago he finished third in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for $60,720.

Just missing out on this final table was Team PokerStars Online pro Mickey “mement_mori” Petersen who finished tenth.

Here are the full final table results adjusted to reflect the three-way deal: