Jonah “RaiseUpBlind” Silverstein Bags Two PokerStars Titles

Jonah “RaiseUpBlind” Silverstein helped himself to not one but two major tournament titles at PokerStars on June 27. Winning two events in a single day is a fantastic achievement at the best of times, but Silverstein’s double haul was made all the more impressive due to the quality of the fields he navigated through.

Victory number one came in the $1,050 Sunday Cooldown, an 8-Max PKO tournament that attracted a compact yet talented field of 72 entrants. Half of the $72,000 prize pool went on the heads of each entrant with the remaining 50% being shared among the top nine finishers.

“Oneway1988” fell one place short of the final table, before Jonathan “Proudflop” Proudfoot crashed out in eighth place. Former partypoker MILLIONS Online champion Benjamin “BC1989RF” Chalot finished in seventh with “Aalexxs” of the Netherlands crashing out in sixth.

Fifth-place and a combined $6,239 went to “Grozzorg”, which was more than the $4,077 collected by fourth-place finisher “Darwinfish” because the latter failed to claim a single bounty before they busted.

South Korea’s Sung Joo “Koreanmonkey” Hyun bowed out in third, which left Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson and Silverstein heads-up for the title. Both the heads-up player locked in $8,495 in prize money from the main prize pool but the final bounty payment was massive because the champion also scoops their own bounty.

This meant Silverstein’s prize was bolstered by $17,062 when he defeated his talented Swedish opponent, taking his total haul to $25,557. Mattsson walked away with a total prize weighing in at $9,745.

$1,050 Sunday Cooldown Final Table Results

Silverstein Secures Sunday Warm-Up Victory

The $1,050 Sunday Warm-Up was another tournament that drew in a small crowd, 32 entrants to be exact. This meant only four players were paid out.

Proudfoot, the first player to bust from the final table of the $1,050 Sunday Cooldown, was the unfortunate soul who burst the bubble in this event. Proudfoot’s exit resulted in a prize of least $3,618 for the four surviving players. Ukraine’s “Remi Lebo_10” banked that sum.

Patrick “pads1161” Leonard ran out of steam in third-place, a finish worth $5,661, which left Pedro “pvigar” Garagnani and Silverstein heads-up in a battle for the tournament’s five-figure top prize.

Silverstein continued his hot run and sent his Brazilian opponent to the rail in second place. Garagnani padded his bankroll with $8,858, leaving Silverstein to book his second victory of the night, which came with a $13,861 financial reward.

$1,050 Sunday Warm-Up Final Table Results

Other Highlights From PokerStars Tournaments on June 27

Patrick Leonard made up for not winning the $1,050 Sunday Warm-Up by triumphing in the $1,050 Sunday High Roller for a cool $31,485.

Enrico “WhaTisL0v3” Camosci and Christian "WATnlos" Rudolph were just two other stars who won PokerStars titles on June 27.