Despite the national holiday weekend for the American rounders, 3,780 players were near a computer to put down $215 for the $750,000 guaranteed Sunday Warm-Up thus pumping up the prize pool to $756,000.

Team PokerStars Pro Hevad "RaiNKhaN" Khan was going strong after getting into the money and got his 270,000 worth of tournament chips in the middle with pocket aces against queens, but a lady on the flop ended his day in 130th place ($831.60). Hevad's finish was a far cry from the amounts the final nine played for tonight, including a six-figure payday of $118,692 for the winner.

1$ickDisea$E captured a win in the $215 Mixed Hold Em' two weeks ago and is already assured of eclipsing the $3,700.00 won. teacuppoker walked away with over $80K after making the final table of the SCOOP Main Event Hi buy-in tourney last month (see the live blog here http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/scoop/2009/scoop-event-22-high-10300-nlhe-main-even-038430.html) and was shooting to improve on that score tonight but had to settle for 15th place. BKiCE notched $13,150.80 for fourth place last week in the weekly $320 NLHE tourney but had to settle for being the final table bubble boy tonight when his [Qs][Js] could not out run the huge chip leader BAnAnIEBAnAn's [As][9h] on the [Ks] [2c] [8c] [3c] [7s] board taking home $4,536.00 for tenth and setting up our final table below:

Seat 1: HustlerGrune (5054122 in chips)
Seat 2: gsbets (2410624 in chips)
Seat 3: 1$ickDisea$E (3597611 in chips)
Seat 4: BAnAnIEBAnAn (9926845 in chips)
Seat 5: G8vMyLfeAway (5083188 in chips)
Seat 6: Kaerm (2085901 in chips)
Seat 7: erot1 (4854500 in chips)
Seat 8: megas (2070103 in chips)
Seat 9: Ruguebye (2717106 in chips)

BAnAnIEBAnAn came into the final table with nearly twice as many chips as G8vMyLfeAway and HustlerGrune. megas was the first recipient of a double up, taking most of 1$ickDisea$E's stack when megas' [Ah][As] held up over the big slick [Ks][Ac] of 1$ickDisea$E leaving the Supernova with under four big blinds as they started over at 65,000/130,000 ante 13,000. No worries though for his railbirds, as 1$ickDisea$E would double up three times in the next ten hands to become solvent again.

gsbets was one of the victims of 1$ickDisea$e's comeback, and was blinded down to 1.4 million chips when facing the third consecutive preflop raise by erot1 while holding pocket eights [8d][8h] in the small blind. A choice to shove over the top of the aggressive erot1 seemed like the right play until erot1 snap called with pocket rockets [Ac][Ah]. After erot1 flopped his set and turned a boat on the [As] [Ts] [Jc] [Jd] [Qs] board, it was time to bid gsbets farewell in ninth place ($6,048.00).

With the blinds increasing to 80,000/160,000 ante 16,000 the smaller stacks got an itch to take their battles preflop. Kaerm sitting on two million in chips decided to take pocket ducks [2s][2d] swimming in the deep end of the pool, open shoving all-in from one off the cutoff. Once again, pocket rockets [As][Ad] appeared in the caller's hand. This time HustlerGrune made the easiest call in poker out of the big blind. HustlerGrune would make an unnecessary broadway straight after the [Qd] [Tc] [Kc] [6d] [Jc] board played out awarding 4.3 millon chips to HustlerGrune, and $9,450.00 to Kaerm in eighth place.

At the break, BAnAnIEBAnAn still held a comfortable chip lead as the players returned to 100,000/200,000 ante 20,000 blinds:

Seat 1: HustlerGrune (5477585 in chips)
Seat 3: 1$ickDisea$E (2210183 in chips)
Seat 4: BAnAnIEBAnAn (11036487 in chips)
Seat 5: G8vMyLfeAway (5430413 in chips)
Seat 7: erot1 (5136873 in chips)
Seat 8: megas (4124096 in chips)
Seat 9: Ruguebye (4384363 in chips)

Ten hands after returning from the break 1$ickDisea$E's ticket was punched not by the swine flu, but HustlerGrune. Check out the seventh place ($17,010.00) finisher's wild ride through the [As] [Jd] [8d] [Th] [9s] board:

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With the 4.5 million chip pot, HustlerGrune topped the nine million chip mark nearing the stack of chip leader BAnAnIEBAnAn's total, as the rest of the table hovered around the mid-four million chip mark.

As the blinds rose to 125,000/250,000 ante 25,000 blind steals were often met with all-in three bets as six pots in a row were worth over one million chips, and the aggressive erot1 making off with three of those six pots.

Eventually, one of those three-bet all-in plays was going to get called, and Ruguebye was the victim. megas cut out a 588,555 chip raise from the button and Ruguebye decide to opt for the popular three-bet all-in with [8s] [7c]. The middling cards were well behind the [Ac][Qc] that HustlerGrune called with in and covered from the big blind as megas meekly made for the exit door. This one was over by the turn as HustlerGrune would fill up by the river [Qd] [Ks] [9d] [9c] [Qh] and send home Ruguebye in sixth place ($24,570.00).

Maybe because the $5.50 Omaha H/L Ante Up tourney was starting or pizza was at the door that caused the remaining five to finish in a shade under ten minutes, but the action was just that quick.

First erot1 knocked out most of BAnAnIEBAnAn's chip stack when erot1's pocket jacks [Jd] [Jh] held up against BAnAnIEBAnAn's [As][Qc] for a 14 million chip pot. Then on the very next hand another all-in preflop confrontation took place. This time megas with just 2.6 million left shoved with pocket fours [4c][4d] in the small blind over the top of G8vMyLfeAway's opening 585,000 chip raise. No pocket aces this time as G8vMyLfeAway flipped up [Ad][8c] for the coin flip that ended quickly on the [Qs] [Ah] [9d] [2c] [Th] board. megas added a very large haul of $32,130.00 for the fifth place finish.

Three hands later it was G8vMyLfeAway's tournament life on the line against HustlerGrune. Watch the action play out below:

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The two outer nine on the river was worth 15 million chips for HustlerGrune and $43,470.00 in fourth place for G8vMyLfeAway.

No time to discuss a chop? Not when you finish places four through first in back-to-back-to-back hands.

Even Team PokerStars Pro Chad Brown who was filling in as the MC this evening quipped how quickly we finished up.

With just 2.8 million chips left, facing an all-in raise from mega-stacked HustlerGrune, and paying the 250K big blind, BAnAnIEBAnAn decided the dealt pocket threes [3c] [3s] were worth a gamble. The gamble looked great as HustlerGrune flipped up [2c][Kd], but HustlerGrune would flop a second king and turn two pair on the [6h] [8s] [Ks] [2d] [4s] board as the final table beginning chip leader would post a strong third place finish tonight earning $62,370.00

No time to catch your breath around here as all the money went in AGAIN pre-flop for the third hand in a row. Watch as HustlerGrune's preflop advantage over erot1 hold for the win:

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The ladies held up for HustlerGrune claiming this week's Sunday Warm-up Champion title and $118,692.00 for the win, as erot1's strong aggressive play earned $88,452.00 tonight as the runner-up.

It is our hope the players took a couple of seconds to admire their new found wealth before hopping perhaps into some WSOP sats as the race for seats to the WSOP Main Event heat up.

Congratulations to all our final table participants tonight and check back tomorrow on PokerStars.TV for the Sunday Warm-up wrap show to take you behind the cards to some of the steals and re-steal we were not privy to tonight.

$750,000 Guarantee Sunday Warm-up (05-24-09)

1. HustlerGrune (Boalsburg) $118,692.00
2. erot1 (Fjellhamar) $88,452.00
3. BAnAnIEBAnAn (Mönchengladbach) $62,370.00
4. G8vMyLfeAway (TSweden) $43,470.00
5. megas (Viseu) $32,130.00
6. Ruguebye (MARSEILLE) $24,570.00
7. 1$ickDisea$E (Boston) $17,010.00
8. Kaerm (Königswartha) $9,450.00
9. gsbets (Patra) $6,048.00

We're sure the final nine people playing the Sunday Warm-up tonight got their good luck kisses from mom before sitting down for over eight hours to get to the big money. With first prize sitting at $117,750.00 it would a long way towards giving mom a Mother's Day present aside from the usual potted plant from the local grocery store.

3,447 runners tonight meant PokerStars was footing the bill to attain the $750,000 guaranteed prize pool and assure the field at least one six-figure winner (unless of course they chop it up...). If you have not checked out the Sunday Warm-up Online Poker Show here at PokerStarsBlog, here's last week's edition:

Watch Online Poker Show P2: Sunday WarmUp - May 3, 2009 on PokerStars.tv

Be sure to check back for this week's break down of the final table big hands complete with commentary and all of the hole cards turned up for your viewing pleasure at PokerStars.tv or the PokerStarsBlog media section.

Tonight's final table action started after 7722ds failed to slide pocket queens [Qh][Qd] past final table chip leader Iftarii's [2s] [Ah] when a tournament crushing ace hit the river on this board [Jd] [Kh] [9d] [Js] [Ac] to start up the final nine shown below:

Seat 1: Iftarii (11507963 in chips)
Seat 2: Jan2000 (3281704 in chips)
Seat 3: gettn deep (2500220 in chips)
Seat 4: JBlaze20 (2115762 in chips)
Seat 5: FrandsenDK (4613818 in chips)
Seat 6: ggdj (1218168 in chips)
Seat 7: Dutchvinny (3490258 in chips)
Seat 8: rd4aces (4597771 in chips)
Seat 9: wastar$ (1144336 in chips)

gettn deep got a little deeper tonight after calling ggdj's 913,168 chip shove from middle position in the big blind. Big slick [Ks][As] for gettn deep and ggdj was looking for a jack holding [Js] [Ad]. ggdj would find a jack on the flop, but sadly a king was nestled right next to it as the board ran out [Jd] [Kh] [8h] [9d] [5c] in favor of gettn deep for the two million chip pot. Ninth place and a straight six thousand dollars were shipped for ggdj's effort tonight.

Shortly after ggdj's departure, JBlaze20 and wastar$ would enjoy double-ups. Then gettn deep knocked down a few towers of Iftarii's chips when pocket tens [Td] [Ts] were no match for gettn deep's pocket kings [Ks] [Kc], and after the board showed kings full of nines nearly seven million chips went in the direction of gettn deep's pretty puppy avatar.

With blinds at 80,000/160,000 ante 16,000 the action folded around to wastar$ in the cutoff sitting on 1.6 million chips and holding pocket eights [8s] [8d]. A shove was the play, and might have worked for the blinds, but Jan2000 was going nowhere with pocket jacks [Jh] [Jc]. After the [5c] [4c] [Tc] flop wastar$ outs went from slim to slimmer, and the [Kc] on the turn sealed the eighth place finisher's fate when Jan2000 hit a four card flush earning $9,375.00 tonight.

Chop talks started up over the break after the latest bust out but FrandsenDK squashed the talks and paid the price to the chop karma gods as shown in the hand below against JBlaze20:

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After losing the coin flip FrandsenDK got the stated seventh place of $16,875.00 that was requested.

JBlaze20 was not done there as a five million chip pot went in the same direction five hands later trimming even more chips off the chip leader Iftarii. Then, while the six players were ready to discuss chip chop numbers, JBlaze20 and rd4aces got their chip stacks into the middle preflop after trading preflop raises back and forth with blinds at 100,000/200,000 ante 20,000:

JBlaze20: [Qs] [As]
rd4aces: [Ad] [Kd]

Both players held sparkly suited cards but big slick was well ahead until the [Qh] hit the all-heart flop and the rest of the [Qh] [2h] [5h] [5s] [9c] board played out without reversal. rd4aces didn't get the king, but did receive $24,375.00 to pick up mom that Honda Prelude with Bose sound system and running neon lights she always wanted.

The players decided to take a look at the chop numbers but quickly went back to work now that JBlaze20's stack doubled the rest of the table and JBlaze20's slice of the pie was too much for them to eat. Dutchvinny got to work right away after the game resumed and doubled up off Jan2000 when the flop granted a straight to Dutchvinny's [9c][Qc] and overcame Jan2000's [Kh] [Ad] for the third consecutive five million plus chip pot.

Iftarii fell into hard times starting with picking off a blind versus blind bluff from Dutchvinny. Holding [Kh][Td] Iftarii would make the call of Dutchvinny's small blind shove covering by 1.6 million. Dutchvinny exposed [2s][Qc] and Iftarii had sights of the five million chip pot being shipped in a northern direction, but the winds of the board blew to the west when the board [3c] [7d] [7h] [7c] [2h] showed that two on the river. The very next hand Iftarii would attempt to use the power of deuce-queen against Jan2000 but this time the better hand [5s] [Ad] would hold on the [7h] [6s] [5c] [Kc] [6d] board and Iftarii's starting big stack would have to settle for fifth place ($31,875.00).

Dutchvinny would win a race against JBlaze20 and even up the chip counts a bit, but the players did not return to the negotiation tables with the four-handed stacks showing below:

Seat 2: Jan2000 (11338640 in chips)
Seat 3: gettn deep (7110776 in chips)
Seat 4: JBlaze20 (7767448 in chips)
Seat 7: Dutchvinny (8253136 in chips)

But after thirteen more hands of four-handed play, the four horsemen of the final table attempted to ride into a chop agreement again. After Jan2000 agreed to trim a little off the quoted price from StaffMikeJ for JBlaze20 and gettn deep we had a deal!
Jan2000: $84,309.00
Dutchvinny: $72,259.00
JBlaze20: $73,512.00
gettn deep: $70,418.00

No six figure winner tonight, but there would be a small matter of $10,000.00 left aside for this week's Sunday Warm-up champion and maybe a round trip ticket to Maui for mom.

Jan2000's stack would take a decent whack from Dutchvinny after getting tens into the middle against Dutchvinny's pocket jacks. Then, after three consecutive wins by Dutchvinny, Jan2000 would get the 3.7 million leftover chips into the middle preflop once again against Dutchvinny in this hand:

RSS readers click through to see replay The quad aces were a bit of overkill, but effectively ended Jan2000's night in fourth place ($84,309.00).

Call it a streak or being a card rack but Dutchvinny already holding nearly four times the amount of second place gettn deep would knock out JBlaze20 in third place. Raising from the button to 750,000 Dutchvinny faced a 2.1 million chip three-bet from JBlaze20 sitting in the small blind. Holding [Ah] [Ks] and 16 million chips behind made the decision easy to push JBlaze20 all-in. JBlaze20 did not get a race with the [Kh][Qd] in his hand, and after the [Kc] [4h] [5s] [3s] [8c] board ran off, JBlaze20 went down in glory with the chopped third place money ($73,512.00).

To gettn deep's credit heads-up play started with large blinds set at 150,000/300,000 ante 30,000 and Dutchvinny sitting on a sizable chip lead shown below:

Seat 3: gettn deep (5940776 in chips)
Seat 7: Dutchvinny (28529224 in chips)

The battle would last approximately twenty hands before this dirty little river sent a big pile of chips flying in someone's direction:

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Dutchvinny's inside straight and flush draw got there with the rivered [8d], and Dutchvinny got the title of Sunday Warm-up champion and the extra $10,000 set aside from the deal. gettn deep got as deep as one could possible hope for in a MTT field of 3,447 players, and will reap the rewards from the deal as tonight's runner-up ($70,418.00).

Congrats to Dutchvinny on a well-earned victory and to all of our final table players tonight, as stated above please check out the Sunday Warm-up Online Poker Show at PokerStars.TV for the replay.

$750,000 Guarantee Sunday Warm-up Results (05-10-09)
(*based on four-way chop)
1. Dutchvinny (Nieuwegein) *$82,259.00
2. gettn deep (North Palm Beach) *$70,418.00
3. JBlaze20 (New York) *$73,512.00
4. Jan2000 (Hattingen) *$84,309.00
5. Iftarii (Longmeadow) $31,875.00
6. rd4aces (Upurs) $24,375.00
7. FrandsenDK (Aalborg) $16,875.00
8. wastar$ (Bjerringbro) $9,375.00
9. ggdj (Palermo) $6,000.00

With the bright lights of SCOOP behind us, the Sunday Warm-up churned its usual $750,000 guarantee busting crowd this evening. With 4,077 players lined up and 585 of those going home with a little more than their buy-in we would take under ten hours this evening to go from start to finish.

JACKPOT786 couldn't line up the reels against confused28 as he pushed his remaining 854K in chips from the cutoff with [Ks] [3c]. confused28 was waiting in the big blind with [Kc] [Ad] and after a [Ac] [Tc] [5c] [Js] [7d] board spilled out, the final nine poured in to play for the big $128,017.81 first place prize.

Seat 1: YouSoNaive (3395027 in chips)
Seat 2: GripDsNutz (4628338 in chips)
Seat 3: Gags30 (4642387 in chips)
Seat 4: Pommy Blez (3669470 in chips)
Seat 5: Big Huni (3525778 in chips)
Seat 6: homanga (3353488 in chips)
Seat 7: Artanis11 (3353000 in chips)
Seat 8: confused28 (11832287 in chips)
Seat 9: Tagult (2370225 in chips)

With blinds starting off at 80,000/160,000 ante 16,000 all players were sitting above ten big blinds but the short stacks had some work to do to catch chip leader confused28. YouSoNaive took some early hits and was whittled down to 1.8 million when [Td][Kh] looked good enough to gamble with. An open push from one off the cutoff to win the blinds, but Gags30 was sitting on the button with [Qs][Ad] and made the call. The slight advantage gap for Gags30 turned into a bigger one after an ace fell on the flop, and held up thru the [7h] [Ah] [3c] [Jc] [8d] board. YouSoNaive will have to settle tonight for ninth place ($6,523.21).

Big Huni was looking for a big ten to go into the [Th][Ts] showing in his hand as Huni's stack of 2.4 million was slid into the middle from middle position. GripDsNutz took ahold of his 4.6 million chips and did likewise with [As][Kh] from the small blind as Gags30 gave up his big blind. Once again, the ace flopped, and also turned for trips, but the [7d] [Ah] [2h] [Ad] [6c] board would not produce that big ten for Big Huni and a big $10,192.51 was shipped for the eighth place finish.

Immediately after the break, with the blinds rising to 100,000/200,000 ante 20,000, another players took leave from the table. Gags30 took one look at the pocket nines [9c] [9s] and the 435K chip raise from Tagult and announced all-in. Easy call for Tagult's pocket kings [Ks][Kc] to make a 7.5 million chip pot. No love for Gags30 on the [Qs] [Td] [Ac] [2s] [Ad] board, as the kings held and shipped $18,346.51 in the direction of Gags30 for seventh place.

homanga's stack took a beating when [7d] [Ac] couldn't get past the pocket nines [9s] [9d] of Artanis11. Five hands later with just 848K in chips left facing a raise from GripDsNutz, homanga decided [Th][Kd] was good enough to call. Indeed it was because GripDsNutz was only holding [Tc][Jd]. The flop [8c] [3h] [9c] would provide the underdog with an open-ended straight draw, the turned [8d] was safe, but the [Qd] on the river pushed the 2.4 million chip pot to GripDsNutz and pushed homanga out of the tournament in sixth place.

Just four hands later the biggest pot of the tournament took place with Artanis11 all-in against the chip leader confused28. Watch the 15 million chip pot play out below with the tournament chip lead on the line:

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The nines were lucky against homanga, but not versus the pocket jacks of confused28 as Artanis11 left in fifth place ($34,654.51) and confused28's stack got a very healthy bump up to nearly 24 million chips.

From this point on confused28 would go on a tear looking for that six figure prize. Starting with taking down Tagult in fourth place, confused28 would weld that big stack by starting off with a min raise to 600K, Tagult on the button holding [Ac] [Jh] shoved for 3.1 million. With an extra 15 million behind, confused28 decided to gamble with [Kd][9s]. A good roll of the dice for the befuddled one, as confused28 would catch a nine of the turn as the river produced no ace or jack on the [8c] [Qd] [8d] [9c] [5h] board. Fourth place and $46,885.51 headed Tagult's way after confused28 wouldn't stop here...

... as eight hands later confused28 would benefit from a very naughty river and would spank Pommy Blez out of the tournament. Watch the dirty ace hit the river and crack Pommy Blez's pocket kings [Kc] [Ks] below:

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Third place for Pommy Blez and a $67,270.51 bad beat story, as short but action filled heads-up play contest was about to begin.

confused28 would start heads-up play with a sizable chip lead shown below:

Seat 2: GripDsNutz (7070152 in chips)
Seat 8: confused28 (33699848 in chips)

GripDsNutz would find a little opening while shoving [Js] [9s] about ten hands into heads-up play and out racing confused28's [7c] [Ah] on the [9c] [3s] [2s] [8d] [Kh] board for a 14 million chip pot.

14 million to 26 million after that all-in would be as close as GripDsNutz would get, as confused28's aggression would drill GripDsNutz back down to a 12 million to 28 million chip disadvantage setting up the final hand below:

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This time the ace high would hold up, and confused28's run thru the final table was complete taking the chip lead from wire to wire for the win and $128,017.81 as GripDsNutz gripped his newly found $95,401.81 for the runner-up finish.

Be sure to check out the replay and commentary on PokerStars.TV's replay show which will expose all the hole cards for inquiring minds.

Sunday Warm-up Results (04-26-09)
1. confused28 (savannah) $128,017.81
2. GripDsNutz (Arlington Heights) $95,401.81
3. Pommy Blez (Sartrouville) $67,270.51
4. Tagult (Oyten) $46,885.51
5. Artanis11 (Culemborg) $34,654.51
6. homanga (Auburn) $26,500.51
7. Gags30 (Rockaway) $18,346.51
8. Big Huni (Columbia) $10,192.51
9. YouSoNaive (Saint-Petersburg) $6,523.21

A slightly smaller crowd then the usual guarantee busting stampede showed up this evening at the $750,000 guaranteed Sunday Warm-up. 3,622 players meant PokerStars would be footing the bill to assure a six-figure $101,250.00 first place prize. 540 players walked away with at least $375.00 but the final table would be feasting on the below figures tonight:

1. $101,250.00
2. $71,250.00
3. $48,750.00
4. $38,625.00
5. $30,750.00
6. $23,250.00
7. $15,750.00
8. $9,750.00
9. $6,750.00

cnew27 is coming off a decent SCOOP series final tabling Event #6-High buy-in (winning $28,800) and chopping up the same Low buy-in event for another $28K in the same night. He'll be joined at the final table tonight by the below players:

Seat 1: nolan24 (5906919 in chips)
Seat 2: canny86 (2385567 in chips)
Seat 3: polonezas (10051523 in chips)
Seat 4: Playgirl555 (3636835 in chips)
Seat 5: bonya37 (3284638 in chips)
Seat 6: enjoyin_nyc (1718897 in chips)
Seat 7: cnew27 (1751638 in chips)
Seat 8: Haas (2158874 in chips)
Seat 9: Try__An__Hit (5325109 in chips)

Just four hands into the final table after eight and a half hours of play enjoyin_nyc had reasons to enjoy his [Jd][Ac] as shown by the hand played out below against nolan24's pocket rockets [As][Ah]:

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With that 3.6 million chip pot, enjoyin_nyc got to enjoy a pay jump from being the short stack. The pay jump came at the expense of Haas who open-shoved his 1.8 million chips with blinds at 80,000/160,000 ante 16,000 into the middle nine hands after enjoyin_nyc's double up but was called by nolan24 sitting on the button with [Qh] [Ah]. Haas' [Js] [Ac] was in bad shape and never threatened on the [2s] [Ts] [6d] [Ad] [2h] board making him the first casualty at the final table ($6,750.00).

After several hands of aborted steal attempts and causally mucking preflop, bonya37 was ground down to just 655,638 chips with blinds at 100,000/200,000 ante 20,000 and holding a pair of ducks [2s] [2c] in the cutoff. He would push those chips with the twos and be met with an overshove by cnew27 in the small blind holding fours [4d] [4h]. Neither player improved on the [5s] [5h] [Ah] [Qc] [Tc] board and bonya37 said "see ya" to the table in eighth place ($9,750.00).

polonezas came to the final table as the chip leader and was eerily silent compared to the aggressive cnew27 and Try__An__Hit, but made his presence known to nolan24 when the short stacked nolan24 open-shoved from the cutoff for his remaining 1.4 million chips and polonezas made the call from the small blinds holding pocket nines [9s] [9d]. nolan24's [Js] [Kh] were glad to see a race for the 3.3 million chip pot but were unable to take it down on the [8h] [As] [6h] [Qh] [Qc] board as the Simpson's fan would leave Springfield with an extra $15,750.00 for a seventh place finish.

Playgirl555 would go on a nice heater that started with a double up off polonezas, a blind steal, and then showed canny86 how to race. canny86 re-raised Playgirl555's UTG 550,000 chip raise to 1.25 million and Playgirl555 answered with a shove that would put canny86's tournament life on the line. Holding pocket queens [Qh] [Qc], canny86 made the call to see the race against Playgirl555's [Kd] [As] for the nearly seven million chip pot. The [Tc] [Th] [9s] flop was safe for canny86, but the [Ac] on the turn was not. [5s] on the river did not turn things back around as canny86 was well... 86'd in sixth place ($23,250.00).

Try__An__Hit tried to hit against the wrong player as the heater Playgirl555 was on never died down as shown by this hand below:

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Try__An__Hit did hit the flop hard, but with an extra pip Playgirl555 took down the ten million chip pot as Try__An__Hit was out in fifth place ($30,750.00).

The wavy chip stack of cnew27 finally met its end at the hand of polonezas. With the blinds sitting at 150,000/300,000 ante 30,000 and only 1.6 million in chips left cnew27 would shove from the cutoff holding [Qc] [Jc] but polonezas had pocket tens [Tc] [Td] on the button and overshoved to shut out the blinds. They would fold and cnew27 would watch his tournament end in fourth place ($38,625.00) after the [Ks] [8s] [6c] [4c] [8d] board failed to pair his queen or jack.

With the lone dissenter in chop talks gone, the remaining three made quick work of putting the deal that left $10,000 on the table for the Sunday Warm-up champion:

Playgirl555: $77,387.70
polonezas: $67,087.34
enjoyin_nyc: $66,774.97

polonezas' stack took a couple of hits on the way to his final hand against enjoyin_nyc. After enjoyin_nyc completed the small blind, polonezas check his option to see the [3c] [Kc] [2h] flop. enjoying_nyc would check as polonezas led out for 800,000 and enjoyin_nyc snapped into action with a 9,999,999 chip check-raise. polonezas would pause for a moment before calling off his remaining 4.4 million chips holding [Qs] [3d] good for middle pair, but not as good as enjoying_nyc's [5h] [Kh] top pair. [Ad] on the turn and [Tc] on the river did not help. The beginning final table chip leader polonezas left with $67,087.34 in third place after the chop.

Heads-up play would start as a near dead heat as shown by the chip counts below...

Seat 4: Playgirl555 (18637804 in chips)
Seat 6: enjoyin_nyc (17582196 in chips)

... but enjoyin_nyc would strike on the first hand taking a eight million chip pot, outkicking Playgirl555's [8d] [9d] flopped top pair of nines with [9s] [Ah] on the [2h] [6c] [9c] [4d] [3h] board.

The two would go on for a lengthy heads-up duel, but Playgirl555 would catch fire again, eventually taking a 6:1 chip lead going into the final hand of the tournament shown below:

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Not a pretty win with king high, but Playgirl555's king ruled over the queen high of enjoyin_nyc and Playgirl555 claimed this week's Sunday Warm-up title. Along with the biggest chunk of the chop, Playgirl555 will take the extra $10,000 for winning this evening.

$750,000 Guarantee Sunday Warm-Up Results (04-12-09)
(*figure based on three-way chop)
1. *Playgirl555 $87,387.70
2. *enjoyin_nyc: $66,774.97
3. *polonezas: $67,087.34
4. cnew27 $38,625.00
5. Try__An_Hit $30,750.00
6. canny86 $23,250.00
7. nolan24 $15,750.00
8. bonya37 $9,750.00
9. Haas $6,750.00

As a reminder, here at the PokerStarsBlog you can get all of the final day of SCOOP action, as we will be live-blogging all three levels of the Main Event starting at 4:30pm EST tomorrow.