The New Year Series' three high-stakes tournaments took place on January 8 and 9. They included the $1,050 No-Limit Hold'em PKO, the $5,200 Titans Events, and the special edition $109 Sunday Million PKO. The three events paid their winners $318,130 in total.
Aliaksei Boika Bags the $1,050 NLHE PKO's Top Prize
The tournament attracted 626 entrants who formed a $626,000 prize pool. Only two of the nine final table qualifiers made a four-figure score.
The Final Table's Results
- Aliaksei "ale6ka" Boika from Slovenia- a $104,202 total prize; $56,666 bounties and a $47,536 prize
- jpsalgadocr0 from Brazil- a $61,870 total prize; $14,334 bounties and a $47,536 prize
- Manni1822 from Austria- a $40,713 total prize; $11,679 bounties and a $29,034 prize
- HardiZ1 from Germany- a $27,961 total prize; $6,882 bounties and a $21,079 prize
- xnrobix from Hungary-a $17,882 total prize; $2,578 bounties and a $15,304 prize
- Diego "Die Ventura" Ventura from Peru- a $18,314 total prize; $7,203 bounties and a $11,111 prize
- Viktor "gimley14" Mechev from Bulgaria-a $16,299 total prize; $8,232 bounties and a $8,067 prize
- BetForNympho from the United Kingdom-a $8,888 total prize; $3,031 bounties and a $5,857 prize
- Manuel "BigFudge95" Fritz from Austria- a $9,657 total prize; $4,828 bounties and a $4,829 prize
Manuel Fritz got busted in ninth place and BetForNympho followed him in the eighth position. Viktor Mechev left the table in seventh place and Diego Ventura finished sixth.
xnrobix finished fifth and HardiZ1 followed him in fourth place. Manni1822's elimination in third place set up heads-up action between Boika and jpsalgadocr0. Yet, Boika beat his opponent and sent him packing with $61,870.
CPUrul0r Wins the $5,200 Titans Event
The Titans Event attracted 95 players. CPUrul0r beat all his opponents and won $119,483. Other skilled players who won money included Dominykas "Mikensonas" Mikolaitis, Pedro "pvigar" Garagnani, "aminolast", and Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph.
The Final Table's Results
- CPUrul0r from Austria-$119,483
- looserGir27 from Germany-$92,337
- Roman "RomeOpro" Romanovsyky from Ukraine-$71,359
- roo_400 from Canada-$55,147
- Dimitar "KuuL" Danchev from Bulgaria-$42,618
- Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph from Austria-$32,936
- Pedro "pvigar" Garagnani from Brazil-$25,453
- aminolast from Canada-$19,670
- Dominykas "Mikensonas" Mikolaitis from Lithuania-$15,755
Dimitar Danchev left the table in the fifth position. roo_400 and Roman Romanovskyi followed him in fourth and third place respectively. Their exit at the tournament set up a heads-up match between looserGirl27 and CPUrul0r. But, the latter got an upper hand and sent the former home with $92,337.
KNtheKid Wins the New Year Series Sunday Million
The Sunday Million featured 11,882 players who competed for the $94,445 top prize. The final table qualifiers won from $6,650 to $94,445.
The Final Table's Results
- KNtheKid from Canada-a $94,445 total prize; $28,117 bounties and a $66,328 prize
- bigi87220 from Kazakhstan-a $79,911 total prize; $13,593 bounties and a $66,318 prize
- Marc "Rowniwn" Radgen from Malta- a $44,047 total prize; $4,699 bounties and a $39,348 prize
- Vinicius "viniperri" Perri from Brazil-a $34,428 total prize; $6,379 bounties and a $28,049 prize
- xsimeonidis from Uruguay- a $21,107 total prize; $1,113 bounties and a $19,994 prize
- Alex "AlexGelinski" Gelinski from Brazil- a $19,921 total prize; $5,669 bounties and a $14,252 prize
- billionaire from Brazil-a $14,830 total prize; $4,671 bounties and a $10,159 prize
- ImNotYoBro from Ukraine- a $13,737 total prize; $6,495 bounties and a $7,242 prize
- Shawn "buck21" Buchanan from Canada- a $6,650 total prize; $1,488 bounties and a $5,162 prize
Shawn Buchanan was the first player to leave the final table. bigi87220 lost a heads-up battle to KNtheKid after each of them had a guarantee to win $66,318 or more.
