As we’ve mentioned before, it’s easy to lose the significance of tournament results when you’re scrolling down a long list of weekend winners. At first glance they appear only as combinations of random numbers and letters. It’s only after lengthy periods of staring that, like a magic eye picture, a greater significance makes itself known.

In the case of this past weekend it was Sunday Million winner dimjyri.

It’s a well-worn cliché that nobody ever remembers the player who finishes second (with the possible exception of Sami Farha) but it’s is often apt. It most certainly applies to other positions as well, such as fifth place. Whoever remembers the fifth place finisher?

So when dimjyri took honours in the early hours of this morning few would have remembered his previous Sunday Million final, fifth placed finish. It’s a memory which, for dimjyri at least will now be replaced from those enjoyed last night.

As Jason Kirk wrote, dimjyri achieved this no mean feat back in November of last year, in an event won by martyyy. All of that is now figuratively, as well as literally, in the past.

Sunday Million ($215 No-Limit Hold’em) results (11-02-14)
Entrants: 7,104
Prize pool: $1,420,800
Places paid: 1,080

1. dimjyri (Greece) $140,902.39*
2. BigTurtle11 (United Kingdom) $141,836.70*
3. MRCOLLE (Brazil) $133,775.24*
4. 4QuietSTorm4 (Canada) $142,390.68*
5. Faustideo (Portugal) $58,252.80
6. Adamtoots (Australia) $44,044.80
7. NaudLimit (Canada) $30,547.20
8. afroditaluna (Croatia) $17,049.60
9. ImWithSumo (Finland) $11,011.20
* denotes results of a four-way deal

Before that Austrian player flippydippi triumphed in the Sunday Warm-Up, which you can read about here, picking up a sizeable $104,939.70 pay day in the process.

PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up results (11-02-14)
Entrants: 3,342
Place paid: 495
Prize pool: $668,400.00

1. flippydippi (Austria) $104,939.70
2. K!nG.O.O (Germany) $78,202.80
3. gifuhorna (Finland) $55,143.00
4. stknsidewayz (Netherlands) $38,433.00
5. Showtime43 (Canada) $28,407.00
6. panch90 (Ireland) $21,723.00
7. RafaSampaio7 (Brazil) $15,039.00
8. eisenhower1 (Sweden) $8,355.00
9. Ce$ar$pa (United Kingdom) $5,347.20

Back in the real world it is the 2014 Asia Championship of Poker that dominates, with the Super High Roller event reaching a conclusion as I write. As of a few moments ago Pratyush Buddiga held the lead four-handed. The others: Connor Drinan, Steve O’Dwyer and Ryan Fee, were all vying for second place.

You can read live updates from Macau on the Blog through to the end (as well as catching up on what you might have missed). They’ll also be extensive coverage of the ACOP Main Event all this week, more details of which can be found on the APPT website.

Lastly if you ever needed a reminder of why you might like to give Spin and Go a, well, spin, look no further than a story we featured late on Friday.

As we reported, Al “md261” McClenahan found his $30 buy-in Spin and Go turned into a whopper, with $6,000 for first place. Md261 won it, turning a chip and a chair into one heck of a story.

Al “md262” McClenahan spinning and going

‘I’ve been playing poker a long time, but I’ve never been in a game this big,” said McClenahan. “I’ve played a lot of Spin & Gos, what a thrill to get such a big prize pool! What a fantastic game!'”

So there’s plenty to be catching up on, and looking forward to. And don’t forget you can check out that list of weekend winners, which includes familiar names like Team PokerStars Pro George Danzer, who won the weekly fixed-limit Omaha, recent WCOOP winner WhatIfGod, who won the Sunday PLO 6-max progressive super knockout, and Russian player OhRaisyDaisy, who mastered the weekly Badugi, by clicking through the following link.

The full list of weekend results for November 1-2, 2014.

Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.

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