Sundays are always big at PokerStars, but this week was exceptional as the site also tacked on a few special events that saw it promising more than $4 million in guaranteed tournament prizes in one 24-hour period.

Not only were the usual Sunday events on deck May 25, PokerStars also found a new Battle of the Planets champion and put up $1 million for a Turbo Takedown, and Barry Greenstein hosted a Masterclass.

Sunday Million

The biggest winner of the day wasn’t necessarily the biggest money winner this week at the end of the Sunday Million. The final three players chopped the prize pool, and even though tapatapa from Brazil got the biggest cut, first place actually went to rythman from Sweden.

The results of the final table were:

Place	Name	Country	Prize
1st	rythman	Sweden	$137,253.56
2nd	tapatapa	Brazil	$139,725.80
3rd	KtheKing	Brazil	$90,758.80
4th	Hasuwisp	Canada	$56,658
5th	EvilLondon	Sweden	$43,302.90
6th	jojo1983	United Kingdom	$31,027
7th	deepak1	Denmark	$22,258.50
8th	jorgeezy	United States	$13,490
9th	browsef	United States	$8,363.80

Sunday Warm-Up

The Sunday Warm-Up also finished with a three-way deal this week, but the biggest money in this case did go to the player declared the winner.

Telefonkiosk from Sweden came out on top, although he split the remaining prize pool with WhooooKidd and N1Stunnor, both from the United States, when play got down to three.

The final-table results were:

Place	Name	Country	Prize
1st	Telefonkiosk	Sweden	$82,336.56
2nd	WhooooKidd	United States	$60,222.56
3rd	n1stunnor	United States	$55,336.34
4th	andersbisse	Denmark	$30,530
5th	Exsectum	Germany	$23,935.52
6th	Tonimonntana	Germany	$17,707.40
7th	Skalexjung	Germany	$12,822.60
8th	Legendus	Netherlands	$8,059.92
9th	Vegasking	Sweden	$4,762.68

$1 million Turbo Takedown

Starting this month, PokerStars is adding the $1 million Turbo Takedown to its monthly calendar, offering players a shot at a $1 million prize pool for a buy-in of 5,000 Frequent Player Points.

On Sunday that added up to a $100,000 payday for Schmid189 from Austria. He topped a field of more than 12,000 players who gave up their player points to play, though 4,000 of them also walked away with some cash for their efforts.

The players who made the final table were guaranteed at least $5,500 in cash, getting a return of at least more than the $1 per player point they used to enter.

The final-table results were:

Place	Name	Country	Prize
1st	Schmidl89	Austria	$100,000
2nd	Pokerguden	United States	$60,000
3rd	L_Sprewell	Spain	$40,000
4th	biggboss120	Netherlands	$32,500
5th	nevada_nl	Netherlands	$25,000
6th	LFmagic	United Kingdom	$20,000
7th	jolan	United States	$15,000
8th	Stompato	France	$10,000
9th	stonz0steel	United States	$5,500

Barry Greenstein’s Masterclass

Barry Greenstein hosted his third Masterclass on Sunday, which offers up a single-table H.O.R.S.E. tournament for players who put up 60,000 FPPs.

Not only do participants play for a $7,500 prize pool, they get to play against Greenstein, who answers questions and shows his hole cards at every opportunity to help players learn more about the game. Players also receive an autographed copy of his book, Ace on the River.

When it’s all said and done, PokerStars replays the event with all the hole cards exposed so as many people as possible can see how a master plays as well.

This time around, Greenstein finished in seventh place and it was vectile, a player from the United States, who came out the winner.

“The wife says I’m crazy to waste my FPP vs. you,” vectile told Greenstein when the event began, according to PokerStars.

His wife’s lack of confidence wasn’t enough to keep vectile from a win, though. He takes home $3,750 for first place.

The players who cashed in the event were:

Place	Name	Country	Prize
1st	vectile	United States	$3,750
2nd	HipPocket	United States	$2,250
3rd	betgo	United States	$1,500

Poker fans can watch the replay of the event on PokerStars starting June 1.

Battle of the Planets Triple Shootout

Once a month, PokerStars throws players another big bone – a $50,000 freeroll Triple Shootout for the top 10 players from each of the Battle of the Planets divisions.

The top 81 players get paid in the event and the winner takes in more than $12,000. This month that winner was Gr8DSip from the United States.

The final-table results were:

Place	Name	Country	Prize
1st	Gr8DSip	United States	$12,500
2nd	BIGMICKG	Ireland	$7,000
3rd	Rafael_bahia	Brazil	$4,500
4th	basbo	Netherlands	$3,350
5th	david400	United Kingdom	$2,735
6th	ulmi_diem	Germany	$2,200
7th	jansen222	Netherlands	$1,700
8th	Kevin_2384	United States	$1,200
9th	SnM61185	United States	$775

The usual other events were on hand as well for the PokerStars Sunday lineup. The $5,200 Freezeout went to westmenloAA, from the United States, who pocketed $65,000. The final-table results of the other regular Sunday tournaments were as follows:

Sunday Hundred Grand

Place	Name	Country	Prize
1st	omar miete	Paraguay	$18,343.06
2nd	xLittlemanx	United States	$9,171.53
3rd	JustAplayer2	United States	$6,355.71
4th	Avsaknad	Sweden	$4,545.54
5th	#6JAM	United States	$2,735.37
6th	HIMSA joe	United States	$1,830.29
7th	Fraenulum	United Kingdom	$1,468.25
8th	Jody’stheman	Ireland	$1,186.67
9th	tomivi	Germany	$905.09

Sunday Second Chance

Place	Name	Country	Prize
1st	HouseeLover	Sweden	$41,004
2nd	fratboy247	United States	$29,614
3rd	mcnallyville	United States	$22,780
4th	vishnu24	France	$17,085
5th	JAMES-OO7	Netherlands	$11,959.50
6th	TaTaTunes	United States	$9,681.50
7th	Eddie7481	United States	$7,403.50
8th	rakeboy	Norway	$5,125.50
9th	M.O.P.	Germany	$3,189.20

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Based on finishing order and two-way deal.

Place	Name	Country	Prize
1st	iamhiv	United States	$31,069.50
2nd	MrCasino	United States	$31,069.50
3rd	drews51	United States	$17,754
4th	rdcrsn	Canada	$12,912
5th	floes	United States	$9,684
6th	$kill Game	United States	$8,070
7th	ender555	United States	$6,456
8th	JohnSack	Canada	$4,842
9th	bbbbb33	United States	$3,228

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