The last episode of Seinfeld, the last hand of the World Series of Poker pitched to Team PokerStars pro Joe Hachem in Benny's Bullpen at Binions, and now the final hand of the Turbo Takedown here at PokerStars. All great things must come to a close and tonight's $750,000 Turbo Takedown will leave with a bang as someone will be walking away tonight with $45,000.00 and a brand new Audi TT. For over three years PokerStars has given players a shot at a huge payday for simply cashing in 3,000 Frequent Player Points (FPPs) along with the fact that nearly half the field takes home at least some cash, the Turbo Takedown will be missed.

But, we are not writing an eulogy tonight, rather going out in style as players will be able to use their proceeds from the final table tonight and potentially kick it up to a bigger score when the Spring Championship of Online Poker starts up in two weeks. 11,215 came to say goodbye tonight, and a few Team PokerStars players dropped by to donate their $100 bounties, but also to take away a few dollars from the prize pool. Henriqu Pinho 548th place ($165.00), Liv Boeree 1119th place ($105.00), Martin "AABenjamin" Hruby and Humberto Brenes 1856th place ($82.50) all took away cash tonight.

Also taking away cash and possibly a car were our final ten players of the Final Turbo Takedown. Guaranteed $6,000.00 with a possible $45,000.00 plus the last Audi TT to be awarded at this tournament, the bubble boy would have no chance at redemption next month. As the blinds moved up to 90K/180K ante 18K, ProdigyXII would run into two coolers at exactly the wrong time. First, pushing over the top of Ka4n's UTG raise with pocket nines, only to have Ka4n snap call with aces, and after the board ran dry, ProdigyXII was left with just 559,941 chips. After nonentitly took the blinds, ProdigyXII would open-shove on the next hand for 523,941 total holding [Kc][Jd]. LaoZZZZ however had no reservations about calling with pocket aces [As][Ah]. Headfirst into aces twice in three hands but the flop [7s] [5d] [Ks] offered a ray of light as a king peeled off. Unfortunately, the light was shut-out just as quickly as [Ts] [Qh] completed the board ending ProdigyXII's head shaking finish in tenth place ($6,000.00).

Seat 1: turu90 (4676172 in chips)
Seat 2: Ka4n (5676278 in chips)
Seat 3: LaoZZZZ (2975029 in chips)
Seat 4: pes4fans (3111100 in chips)
Seat 5: nonentitly (1998140 in chips)
Seat 6: Gandalf739 (5467735 in chips)
Seat 7: latiad (2703076 in chips)
Seat 8: reno8 (3539372 in chips)
Seat 9: Dj Rödel (3498098 in chips)

It's the final countdooooooooooooown!

After eliminating 11,206 players our remaining nine will be the last nine of this promotional tournament. latiad barely got to soak in the festivities and just seven minutes after the start of the tournament the British rounder was all-in for 2.8 million chips holding pocket nines [9h][9s] against the pocket tens [Ts][Td] of LaoZZZZ. A very unnecessary ten on the river [3c] [As] [6s] [3h] [Th] sealed up the 6.3 million chip pot for LaoZZZZ as latiad retired without thoughts of that Audi TT, earning $7,499.05 in ninth place.

Waking up the competition

LaoZZZZ may have a lazy sounding name but there's nothing sleepy about taking out the first two players on a major final table. Blinds moving up to 100K/200K ante 20K LaoZZZZ raised from UTG to 600,000 as pes4fans on his immediate left shoved for 2.2 million. Folded back around to LaoZZZZ making the call while holding [Qs][Ks] and plenty of chips behind. pes4fans turned up pocket jacks [Js][Jc] to start the race. But, a queen on the [2s] [3h] [Qd] flop and an unremarkable turn and river [Tc] [6s] sent pes4fans into the stands in eighth place ($9,375.00).

Magic backfires

Gandalf739 cooked up some bad potions for the final table. He would have a huge lead in a 9.7 million chip pot against turu90 holding pocket kings to turu90's big slick. The case king would hit the flop, but so would an ace. Ace on the river and you have a laptop throwing bad beat. Gandalf739 however shrugged it off and worked the stack back to 1.74 million when the hand below against nonentitly went down:

Dominated again with pocket tens [Ts][Td] versus nonentitly's pocket fours [4s][4d] this should have been Gandalf739's step back into the tournament. Instead, a four hit the flop and just in case that didn't hurt enough, the case four landed on the turn [Jd] [8d] [4c] [4h] [9s] giving nonentitly quads from behind and sending Gandalf739 back to the shire in seventh place ($11,250.00).

"Just type I agree lads"

Awesome. Best advice ever given to a final table by reno8. Six players left and all agree quickly to the money but as always, someone tried to chop up the car and sent the deal making into a momentary tailspin. But, Maverick found a way to pull out of the jet wash and here's how the money was divided WITHOUT the car which will remain whole for our champion to enjoy.

LaoZZZZ $39,102.91
nonentitly $23,773.39
reno8 $21,202.80
Ka4n $20,927.59
turu90 $20,260.90
Dj Rödel $19,107.41

Plenty of play

The blinds would move up to 175K/350K ante 35K before losing a player after the six-way split. turu90 started the action with a raise to 750,000 from the button as Ka4n made a stand from the small blind for a little more, 1.1 million to be exact. turu90 turned up pocket tens [Tc][Th] as Ka4n showed a fairly weak [2c][Kh]. Two on the flop showed some promise but the ten on the turn [2d] [Qd] [7s] [Ts] [8c] sent Ka4n home with the chopped amount in sixth place ($20,927.59).

Buzzing the Dj

Maybe LaoZZZZ did not like the sounds Dj Rödel was spinning but when the blinds moved up to 200K/400K ante 40K LaoZZZZ went over the top of Dj Rödel's 2.9 million chip shove to make sure no one else wanted to play as nonentitly folded. Dj Rödel showed [Ks][Tc] as LaoZZZZ turned over the monster pocket kings [Kd][Kh]. Case king on the flop [Qh] [4h] [Kc] [6c] [Qc], good game Dj Rödel by the turn earning $19,107.41 from the chop in fourth place.

LaoZZZZ REALLY wants this car

Eliminated Dj Rödel, pes4fans, and latiad with four left facing a 2.9 million chip shove from nonentitly in the big blind holding pocket threes [3c][3s] and would still have eight million behind. LaoZZZZ would make the call and race against the middle ace [Ah][8d] of nonentitly for the 7.1million chip pot. Neither player could connect with the [2h] [5h] [Tc] [Qs] [4h] board and nonentitly would not win the final Audi TT, finishing in fourth place ($23,773.39).

Audi TT will not be visiting Reno

Watch below as turu90 and reno8 get their chips in preflop for a 14.2 million chip pot:

With the blinds now capped at 250K/500K ante 50K LaoZZZZ took seat from domination as reno8 put out 1.5 million from the small blind. turu90 did not tinker with the slider bar and shoved for 15.1 million. Back to reno8 holding [Tc][Ac] and 5.5 million more chips he would make the call and racing against turu90's pocket nines [9s][9d]. Despite an ace on the flop, reno8 could do nothing about the nine that accompanied it [9h] [2c] [Ad]. After the [3s] turn, reno8 from the UK not Nevada, was out in third place earning $21,202.80 from the chop.

LaoZZZZ vs. turu90

LaoZZZZ would start with a 22.3 million to 11.3 million disadvantage going into heads-up play. However, after just six minutes of play it was nearly even as LaoZZZZ chopped the lead down to 17.6 million to 16 million. Two minutes later LaoZZZZ opened up a 20.4 million to 13.2 million chip lead when turu90 found himself pondering a call for all his chips with the board reading [3c] [Qd] [Qc] [4c]. Holding big slick [Ks][Ac] turu90 made the call, quickly finding out he was one card away from elimination as LaoZZZZ turned the flush [8c][6c]. Only a rivered club would stop LaoZZZZ from claiming the Audi TT.

River [5c] and after collecting the 25 million chip pot, LaoZZZZ did not just roll over, doubling up six hands later to even the chip stacks once again.

But the decisive hand would come near 20 minutes after the ninth hour of play, watch below as both players hit the flop and throw their chips in the middle:

With 3.15 million in the middle, the flop comes out [9c][Kd][10c] as LaoZZZZ checks from the big blind. turu90 bet 1.8 million and covers LaoZZZZ's stack. LaoZZZZ check-raised to 4.2 million as turu90 wasted no time shoving all-in. LaoZZZZ holding [Td][4d] made the call to see he was drawing near dead or potential runner-runner for a chop as turu90 showed the flopped two pair [Ts][9d]. A cruel [4h] hit the turn making giving a sweat for two out.

River [Th].

Game over, thanks for coming, hit the lights on your way out. turu90 we hope you enjoy the new set of wheels as the Final Turbo Takedown champion and thank to all the players who made this tournament enjoyable to watch each month even if you tried chopping up that defenseless car.

$750,000 Final Turbo Takedown results (04-24-11)
(* denotes part of six-way deal, leaving the Audi TT for the winner)
1. turu90 (Spain) *$20,260.90 + Audi TT
2. LaoZZZZ (Russia) *$39,102.91
3. reno8 (United Kingdom) *$21,202.80
4. nonentitly (Russia) *$23,773.39
5. Dj Rödel (Germany) *$19,107.41
6. Ka4n (Ukraine) *$20,927.59
7. Gandalf739 (Germany) $11,250.00
8. pes4fans (Germany) $9,375.00
9. latiad (United Kingdom) $7,499.05

Today could become YOUR bankroll independence day. Yes, Sundays are always something different at PokerStars but as Brad "Otis" Willis pointed out things got cranked to 11 this weekend. 60 Billion hands promotion, $1 million Sunday Storm gathering 113,770 players to push its prize pool past that guaranteed mark. Viktor "Isildur1" Blom vs. Daniel Negreanu rematch tonight required no cash to watch. Also requiring no cash, was tonight's $1 million Turbo Takedown for the "price" of just 3,000 Frequent Players Points (FPPs) got you a seat where nearly half the field walks away with real cash and an Audi TT (neatly shown below before settling in some lucky player's garage) for near nothing!

Team PokerStars showed up in full force despite 16,008 total players and the many distractions that would take up a 27" monitor. No Team PokerStars players at the final table but the following did manage to turn their points into cash: Dag Palovic $300.00 302nd place, Charlotte "Sjlot" Van Brabander $180.00 742nd place, Christian "el grillo" de Leon $170.00 793rd place, Richard "Tzen1" Veenman $110.00 1826th place, Greg DeBora $110.00 1860th place, Juan Maceiras $100.00 2407th place, Joep "Pappe_Ruk" Van Den Bijgaart $95.00 3013rd place, Henrique Pinho $90.00 3098th place, Clayton "cnew27" Newman $90.00 3506th place, Martin "AABenjaminAA" Hruby $78.00 4536th place, Bryan Huang $78.00 4926th place.

Fastest final table ever?

The bubble was made of bulletproof alloy tonight as we would play with two tables for over 90 minutes as the blinds moved up to 200K/400K ante 40K and the average chip stack holding just over ten big blinds. But, first we needed to bid farewell to gregior. Holding just 1.1 million chips in the big blind, gregior was nearly forced to call jchnnn's raise to push him all-in. Unfortunately, [8d][7d] was only live for the diamond draw as jchnnn turned over [Ts][8h] for the dominating hand. Two pair on the board [3h] [6s] [3d] [Js] [Jd] meant the ten kicker played and gregior would miss out the race for the Audi TT in tenth place ($8,000.00).

Seat 1: swisstard (5069431 in chips)
Seat 2: BUYAKASHA808 (5186795 in chips)
Seat 3: !mpudicus (3855336 in chips)
Seat 4: LetmeRyde (6665168 in chips)
Seat 5: talasam1 (3262640 in chips)
Seat 6: GEGENTOP (3528456 in chips)
Seat 7: g3r4rd0x (8119854 in chips)
Seat 8: zugzwang16 (6352136 in chips)
Seat 9: jchnnn (5984184 in chips)

Let the pushing begin!

Even the chip leading g3r4rd0x has only 20 big blind to start off this final table so player were lined up to gamble preflop as the road to starting the final table hit a snag when short stacks kept doubling up like talasam1 who was down to just 4K in chips after paying the big blind but managed to make it here. Just five hands in, GEGENTOP would shove for 2.6 million as it folded to jchnnn in the small blind holding [Jh][As] who would make the call. GEGENTOP could only muster [2c][Ac] but caught a favorable flop [4c] [Qh] [Tc]. Nut flush draw, and added a gutterball straight draw on the turn [5h] but missed everything on the river [9h] to ship the 6.1 million chip pot to jchnnn and finish in ninth place ($10,000.00).

Letting it ride

Immediately people wanted (rightfully) to see the chop numbers as the blinds moved up again to 225K/450K ante 45K and only one more blind change due for the night.

jchnnn $34,383.16
!mpudicus $31,253.96
LetmeRyde $30,316.23
g3r4rd0x $27,310.91
talasam1 $26,218.84
zugzwang $26,186.00
swisstard $22,980.84
BBUYAKASHA808 $21,350.06

Neat numbers eh? Well, LetmeRyde asked for $5K on top of his stack. Everyone laughed and the dealer started dealing after no deal.

Too much wang

zugzwang16 let his 5.2 million chips fly from UTG and was called for less by swisstard as the rest of the table folded. [Jh][Ks] for zugzwang16 and [Qc][Ad] for swisstard as the flop and turn nailed swisstard with top two pair [8h] [7s] [As] [Qs]. But, with three spades on the board all eyes looked to see who had one and it was zugzwang16 and as the fourth spade hit the river [4s], 11.1 million chips went to zugzwang16's stack ending swisstard's night in eighth place ($12,500.00).

More wang then you'd ever want to see

The very next hand saw zugzwang16 back at it again in a blind versus blind battle against g3r4rd0x. Watch the results below:

The deuce-four is a powerful hand in some cases but not this one as g3r4rd0x exposed [2c][4h] up against zugzwang16's pocket eights [8h][8s] , riding those eights to victory on the [Qh] [Qs] [Td] [5s] [Js] and collecting another monster pot of 10.8 million. g3r4rd0x would have to settle for less than the proposed chop numbers in seventh place ($15,000.00).

Three times the recommended daily allowance of wang

Steamroller! zugzwang16 seemed determined to take out the entire final table. Open raising to 9,999,999 zugzwang16 found a caller in !mpudicus for a little less forming a 14.8 million chip pot. The bully wasn't raising with air flipping up pocket aces [As][Ah] which had !mpudicus in a very sore spot. This one was over by the turn [5c] [8h] [3s] [7c] [6h] and zugzwang16 picked up another eight figure pot (14,830,672) as !mpudicus picked up a sixth place check $17,500.00

Running out of things to say about wang

Four in row?!?!!? Yes sir. With the blinds now at the capped 250K/500K ante 50K level zugzwang16 made a smaller raise from UTG to 1.1 million as BUYAKASHA808 on the button shoved for 2.2 million. Holding [Js][8c] and a mountain of chips, zugzwang16 made the call to see he was actually behind for once. BUYAKASHA808 showed [Jc][Ac] and looking to claim the 5.5 million chip pot. This is zugzwang16's night, the Audi TT seems to have a vanity plate ready for him as evident by the all club flop [4s] [7s] [3s]. [6c] on the turn officially closed the books on BUYAKASHA808's night in fifth place ($20,000.00).

Wanted $35K, gets $25K

The man who stopped the chop would almost get to the point where he would have made more money but watch the video as LetmeRyde claims fourth place cash ($25,000.00):

No exciting exit, just domination as talasam1's huge comeback from next to no chips with two tables left turned up [9h][As] dominating LetmeRyde's [7s][Ad]. The nine kicker would play on the [4s] [6d] [Ac] [Ts] [5s] board and LetmeRyde gambled for more and got less in fourth place ($25,000.00)

Taking one to the chin

Nearing the ten hour mark jchnnn open shoved from the button holding "just" 6.4 million chips as talasam1 in the small blind made the call. [2c][Ks] for jchnnn was at least live against the [Ah][7d] of talasam1. Live cards don't equal winning cards however as [3d] [9s] [Qd] [Jd] [Qc] fell on the board missing both players and moving us heads-up play after jchnnn was knocked out in third place ($30,000.00).

And now we have a deal

With capped blinds and both sitting more comfortable with near 40 big blinds a piece (19 million for talasam1 and 28.9 million chip for zugzwang16), our final two made the deal below (without questioning about chopping the car I may add):

zugzwang16: $52,065.20
talasam1: $47,934.80

Vanity plates need to be ordered for zugzwang16

After the deal was made zugzwang16 continued the dominance shown tonight by winning nine of 11 hands including this Audi TT winning hand below:

It would take race this time as both players got it in preflop. zugzwang16 with [Ac][Ts] and talasam1 with pocket fours [4d][4h] both for vying for the 22.7 million chip pot. zugzwang16's grip on the final table would not loosen to let talasam1 back in to complete the huge comeback as an ace on the door [As] [8c] [9c] [2h] [Jc] sealed talasam1's fade as the runner-up, and zugzwang16 will be driving an Audi TT very soon as the March $1 million Turbo Takedown champion!

March $1 Million Turbo Takedown results (03-27-11)
(* denotes two-way chop)
1. zugzwang16 (Uruguay) *$52,065.20 + Audi TT
2. talasam1 (Bulgaria) *$47,934.80
3. jchnnn (Germany) $30,000.00
4. LetmeRyde (United States) $25,000.00
5. BUYAKASHA808 (United States) $20,000.00
6. !mpudicus (Germany) $17,500.00
7. g3r4rd0x (Peru) $15,000.00
8. swisstard (Switzerland) $12,500.00
9. GEGENTOP (Germany) $10,000.00

Think of the $1,000,000 Turbo Takedown as part of your benefits package here at PokerStars. You get your usual wage taking pots off the other players or perhaps taking down a SnG or two. Then after checking your paystub (the cashier's window), there's a listing for "Frequent Players Points" which can be used for buying anything from hats and t-shirts up to a brand new MacBook Air. For 3,000 of those points you could buy six black star stress balls to throw after that one outer hits, or you could take a shot at winning $60,000.00 and a brand new Audi TT in tonight's Turbo Takedown. While stress relief is essential to profitable poker, cruising around in a brand new Audi might lower the blood pressure more than a stress ball. 18,211 players took their FPPs for a nearly one in three shot of cashing tonight as 5,000 walked away with at least $78.00 and everyone at the final table would receive at least five figures.

A handful of Team PokerStars members would find some cash back in their pockets after players relieved them of the $100.00 bounties on their heads. Juan Pastor 4028th place ($81.15), Javier "El_Cañonero" Dominguez 3873rd place ($85.00), Sebastian Ruthenburg 2157th place ($105.00), Henrique Pinho 1932nd place ($110.00), and Pat Pezzin 1747th place ($115.00) would take home last longer honors for those Team PokerStars players that cashed tonight.

After nearly exactly eight hours of play we would reach the final table. With the blinds at 80K/160K ante 16K Arvaj23 would make a 480,000 raise from UTG as it folded to "0PIGGYBANK" in the big blind who shoved over the top for 3.1 million total. Back to Arvaj23 holding big slick [Ks][Ac] and covered, quickly made the call. "0PIGGYBANK" could only produce [Ad][9h] as both players would pair their ace but Arvaj23's king kicker ruled the day on the [Jh] [3c] [As] [Qs] [6h] board dropping $8,000.00 in "0PIGGYBANK"'s coin slot for tenth place and setting up our final table below:

Seat 1: LAPINKY (8596298 in chips)
Seat 2: DEEPSEA2608 (4367986 in chips)
Seat 3: patrice023 (3402347 in chips)
Seat 4: Netstorm (8128602 in chips)
Seat 5: DaveGoodman7 (9025301 in chips)
Seat 6: P-Tius (3294482 in chips)
Seat 7: lermonad (2364441 in chips)
Seat 8: Wivawat04 (4860627 in chips)
Seat 9: Arvaj23 (10592916 in chips)

Making lemonade out of nothing

With the blinds starting at 80K/160K ante 16K there was plenty of action early on the final table as eleven hands into the final table we would have our first elimination. lermonad would try to make a move from middle position open shoving all-in for 1.9 million as two seats over Arvaj23 made the call holding [As][Qh]. lermonad tried squeezing something out of [6s][Ks] but neither player could connect with the [Jc] [8d] [8s] [2d] [3s] board sending lermonad off in ninth place ($10,000.00).

You want action, we got ACTION

The very next hand would see another all-in preflop as 9.4 million was put in the middle by LAPINKY and P-Tius. Watch the results below:

Ladies for LAPINKY [Qd][Qs] ruling over the jacks [Js][Jh] P-Tius and they would hold on the [9h] [6c] [7c] [6h] [Kh] board shipping the huge pot to LAPINKY as P-Tius would not win the Audi TT but $12,500.00 will go a long way towards buying one in eighth place.

Blinds go up, number of players go down

Moving up to the 90K/180K ante 18K blind level a massive 18 million chip pot would leave one player ahead of the pack and the other in seventh place. Wivawat04 who topped the leaderboard for much of the two hours leading up to the final table but slipped to under five million chip made a min-raise for early position as Arvaj23 doubled that bet to 720,000 on the immediate left. Folded around to Netstorm in the big blind who would four-bet to 1.4 million. Wivawat04 gave up his chips but Arvaj23 did not and shoved all-in for 11.7 million. Back to Netstorm holding a little over seven million chips and two black queens [Qc][Qs] in front made the call only to be shown the cooler as Arvaj23 flipped up pocket aces [Ac][Ad]. Zero broadway cards on the [5c] [3c] [8h] [9d] [9s] board shipped the big 18.2 million chip pot to Arvaj23 and Netstorm was left in the cold earning $15,000.00 in seventh place.

Welcome to poker's version of Davy Jones' Locker

10 hands later the blinds would push up to 100K/200K ante 20K as DaveGoodman7 would lead out for 440,000 from UTG+1 as Wivawat04 shoved for 3.7 million and folded to shortstacked DEEPSEA2608 in the big blind who made the call for 1.7 million. DaveGoodman7 saw High Stakes Poker playing on GSN and folded as Wivwat04 turned over pocket fives [5h][5d] and was flipping against the big slick [Kh][Ac] of DEEPSEA2608. One crab and zero aces or kings on the [3c] [6h] [Qd] [8s] [7d] shipped the 4.5 million chip pot to Wivwat04 and DEEPSEA2608 was sent to the abyss in sixth place ($17,500.00).

Why must you do this???

Nearly each month the final five or six players try to chop up the remaining cash as it happens in thousands of tournaments held here at PokerStars. The Turbo Takedown however adds the mentioned Audi TT to the prize pool, and without fail someone at the table wants to chop up the car five or six ways. As HostSusan as well as some other players explained, breaking up the car five ways would leave five people with assorted car parts that are better left together. No deal, as we play on.

Good day sir

DaveGoodman7 was looking to make a deal but the chip leading Arvaj23 would not budge on distributing a few bucks around the table. Fast forward to the blinds going up to 125K/250K ante 25K and DaveGoodman7 holding just 3.1 million chips, those chips would head into the middle holding [6c][Ah]. Wivawat04 sitting on pocket aces [Ad][As] quickly made the call. A six on the [Tc] [5s] [6s] flop had DaveGoodman7 spamming the chat box for a six. But, the six pips never found their way to the board as the [8h] and [Ks] joined the flop and sent 6.6 million chips to Wivawat04, and bid good day to DaveGoodman7 in fifth place ($20,000.00).

Nearly a half-hour later, Wivawat04's insisting on no deal since he would not agree to giving Arvaj23 nearly first place money (chip chop numbers would have given Arvaj23 over $52K) Wivawat04 would be a part of the largest pot to this point in the tournament. 28.5 million in the middle and Wivawat04 holding pocket tens [Tc][Th] to Arvaj23's [Qs][Ac]. Ace would hit the flop along with three hearts [9h] [8h] [Ah] giving Arvaj23 the advantage until the [Ts] spiked on the turn leaving three jacks to turn the tide again. Instead the [8c] dropped and the shift of power moved briefly to Wivwat04's stack. Arvaj23 would win a few of those chips back shortly before the players went to their ninth hourly break with the chips counts below and blinds at 225K/450K ante 45K:

Wivawat04: 23,954,686
Arvaj23: 19,675,350
LAPINKY: 5,969,830
patrice023: 5,033,134

Packing it in for the night

patrice023 sat on the short stack four-handed for nearly an hour and made just enough doubles up to stay in the game. Right before the blinds were to move to the last blind level at 250K/500K ante 50K patrice023 would be all-in against LAPINKY. Watch the hand play out below:

Pocket tens [Ts][Tc] were good against patrice023's [5d][Ad] on the [5s] [7c] [3h] [9h] [Kd] board shipping 8.4 million chips to LAPINKY and ending patrice023's night in fourth place ($25,000.00).

Short end of the hand

Four hands later Arvaj23 would double up off Wivawat04 for a 30 million chip pot and despite the stagnant blinds, another four hands after that Wivawat04 would double up off LAPINKY sending him back to the short stack with just 4.7 million chips. There would be no come back after that for the 7th place finisher in the Sunday Million back in November 2009 when LAPINKY banked $36K as Arvaj23 put the pressure on from the small blind betting enough so LAPINKY would be all-in from the big blind. With five million chips and [Th][Ad] LAPINKY made the call and was ahead of Arvaj23's [Ks][3c]. Both players pair the flop [Kc] [Ts] [Jd] but Arvaj23 took the lead with the kings. [3h] made two pair for Arvaj as LAPINKY still needed an ace or ten, but the [6h] was not it and LAPINKY would grab another big cash, earning $30,000.00 in third place.

Slovenia vs. USA

Arvaj23 representing Slovenia would start out heads-up play with a 35.8 million to 18.8 million lead over Wivawat04 from the US. Both these players continually played back at each other despite being the two biggest stacks for the majority of the tournament.

Flip for the car

Sure enough, just seven hands into heads-up play Arvaj23 and Wivawat04 decided to settle things preflop, watch below for the result:

39.8 million chips in the middle and a potential car as Wivawat04 turned over [Ah][Jd] hoping to catch against Arvaj23's pocket tens [Tc][Ts]. The Ace-Jack never threatened on the [3d] [4s] [Kd] [9s] [4c] shipping the remaining tournament chips to Arvaj23 along with the $60,000.00 first place prize AND a brand new Audi TT for being this month's $1 Million Turbo Takedown champion!

February $1 Million Turbo Takedown results (02-27-11)
1. Arvaj23 (Slovenia) $60,000.00 + Audi TT
2. Wivawat04 (United States) $40,000.00
3. LAPINKY (United States) $30,000.00
4. patrice023 (Canada) $25,000.00
5. DaveGoodman7 (United Kingdom) $20,000.00
6. DEEPSEA2608 (United Kingdom) $17,500.00
7. Netstorm (Netherlands) $15,000.00
8. P-Tius (Germany) $12,500.00
9. lermonad (Russia) $10,000.00

It is a heady task to follow 17,743 players that signed up for tonight's $1,000,000.00 Turbo Takedown. If you would like a visual of such a crowd, imagine being the cameraperson at an NBA game trying to find Brad Pitt and Mr. Pitt could not find one of those $2,000 courtside seats. The capacity-sized crowd at an NBA game is around 18,500 people, figure 800 or so are getting a beer and you have a life-sized "Where's Waldo (or in this case Brad)" game all searching for the right cards to win the $60,000.00 first prize plus an AudiTT automobile.

A few names stood out in the crowd with little red spades next to them. Team PokerStars players were valiantly trying to protect the $100.00 bounties on their heads but all of them would pass along the hundo after being knocked out. Joep van den "Pappe_Ruk" Bijgaart who enjoyed a deep run in the Sunday Warm-up as well tonight was the last Team PokerStars player standing in 422nd place ($260.00). Much further down the pay scale found Julian Thew at 1987th place ($110.00), Nuno Coelho 3130th place ($90.00), Dennis Phillips 3855th place ($85.00), Alex Kravchenko 4173rd place ($81.15), Celina Lin 4553rd place ($78.00), Javier "El_Cañonero" Dominguez 4979th place ($78.00), and Steven Paul eeking into the money at 4990th place ($78.00).

On to the places that would be paid out quite bit more money tonight on the final table bubble after eliminating 17,733 players in eight hours found blinds of 100K/200K ante 20K and triger02 shoving from the button for 2.5 million with [Qd][Kh]. Free blinds? Not so fast says DerNautz who covered and made the call from the big blind holding pocket sevens [7c][7d] for the coin flip. This flip was over by the turn after DerNatuz found a third seven on the flop [8c] [7h] [5d] and a rib-tickling [Kd] on the turn closed the doors on triger02's night in tenth place ($8,000.00) setting up the final table below:

Seat 1: Karel373 (3852459 in chips)
Seat 2: Serpy25 (2170826 in chips)
Seat 3: MEGAPROFY (2130426 in chips)
Seat 4: NESTEN (7826974 in chips)
Seat 5: DrunkLV (3245360 in chips)
Seat 6: WildZealot (12475411 in chips)
Seat 7: Gsweetshot1 (1973482 in chips)
Seat 8: DerNautz (9055706 in chips)
Seat 9: BLOODP (10498356 in chips)

Three and out

If you are watching American football the term "three and out" means the team took the minimum amount of offensive plays to kick the ball back to the other team. MEGAPROFY only got to see three hands at this final table after open shoving for 1.7 million with blinds at 100K/200K ante 20K and waking up DrunkLV for a call from the small blind. DrunkLV showed pocket jacks [Jh][Js] and looking to avoid the ace of MEGAPROFY'S [Ac][3d]. Mission accomplish as the [Qs] [5c] [8s] [6c] [Qc] board remained ace-less and MEGAPROFY was punted in ninth place ($10,000.00).

Blinds goes, number of players go down

As the blinds moved up to 125K/250K ante 25K, BLOODP made a standard 750,000 chip raise as Karel373 shoved a small stack of 2.1 million from the cutoff. NESTEN in the small blind covered and made the call as BLOODP looked for a band-aid and folded. Good fold by BLOODP as NESTEN turned up aces [As][Ac] as Karel373 would need a lot of help with [Qh][Ks]. Five cards under ten later [4d] [5d] [3h] [9h] [8s] and the aces hold with no sweat as Karel373 left $12,500.00 richer in eighth place.

Drunk in Las Vegas? Standard.

Many people enjoy a drink or twelve in Las Vegas but few get to see a shot at one of those cars sitting above the slot machines. DrunkLV had a one in seven shot of being the proud owner of an AudiTT until his shove of 2.1 million chips was called by Gsweetshot1 that is. The short stacked DrunkLV tried to take the blinds holding [3h][Kd] but instead were looking up at the [Ad][Jc] of Gsweetshot1. And after the [6s] [8s] [Ah] [Th] [4d] board came out, DrunkLV was looking at the $15,000.00 added to his bankroll in seventh place.

Seeing Red

Watch BLOODP and Gsweetshot1 take the action preflop with the blinds at 200K/400K ante 40K:

Pocket eights [8d][8s] for Gsweetshot1 stood ahead of the [Ah][4h] of BLOODP until the flop came all low with two hearts that is [6s] [3h] [7h]. With an inside straight and flush draw, Gsweetshot1 had to dodge a lot of more than just ace now. The dodging would stop at the [5d] turn making the straight for BLOODP as Gsweetshot1 clung to the three fours left in the deck for a higher straight. [7c] came instead and Gsweetshot1 took a seat on the rail in sixth place ($17,500.00).

Racing for the exit

The very next hand DerNautz tried chipping up without a flop in a blind versus blind battle. After WildZealot raised from the small blind to 1.045 million with blinds still at 200K/400K ante 40K, DerNautz shoved all-in to 5.6 million total. Snap call by WildZealot holding big slick [Ah][Kh] as DerNautz turned up the dominated [Ad][4c]. A king on the flop [Ks] [2s] [9h] all but ended DerNatuz's night and the [2c] did as top pair top kicker for WildZealot was enough to take down the 11.4 million chip pot and boot DerNautz in fifth place ($20,000.00).

Striking a vein

Moving up to the 225K/450K ante 45K BLOODP was continuing to collect scalps sitting on a final table leading 22.5 million chips when this hand went down against an all-in Serpy25:

7.9 million chips in the middle and Serpy25 hoping [Jd][Kd] would hold up versus the [Qh][9s] of BLOODP. It would not get past the first three cards as a nine flopped [4h] [9c] [2h] [3c] [2s] and held to ship another big pot to BLOODP and leave Serpy25 out in fourth place ($25,000.00).

Break time for three? Not so fast

Just prior the trio of players taking five minute break at hour nine of the tournament, still fighting for the AudiTT and $60,000.00 first prize, NESTEN decided to try to double up. After the blinds moved up again to last level of the tournament 250K/500K ante 50K, NESTEN would shove 3.1 million over the top of BLOODP's 1.5 million chip raise from the button. BLOODP with plenty of chips made the easy call with [Js][Qc]. Not easily won however as NESTEN found himself in a dominating position holding [Kc][Qs]. This was BLOODP's night however and a jack was found on the door [Jc] [3s] [2h] [2c] [6s] and also found at the door was NESTEN taking $30,000.00 home in third place.

Chips speak for themselves

As we moved to heads-up play BLOODP enjoyed a starting 31.7 million to 21.4 chip lead as the two entertain a chop of the money remaining ($100,000.00) but not the beautiful AudiTT but BLOODP did not speak English. Enter HostTannerS who asked BLOODP in Spanish to type "pause" if he still wanted to make a deal. After no response the two went back to playing with no deal in place.

Quarter after and all is well (for one player)

After another 15 minutes of heads-up play BLOODP started to pull away grinding up to a 35.3 million to 17.8 million chip lead when both players decided to flip preflop for the car. Suited big slick [Kd][Ad] for BLOODP and pocket treys [3d][3s] for WildZealot. One person would get $40,000.00 towards the purchase of a car, the other one an extra $20,000.00 to hang an air fresher in their new AudiTT. King on the flop [8c] [Kc] [Tc] [8s] [2d] was all BLOODP needed to put away the final opposite claiming the title of January Turbo Takedown champion and proud owner of the AudiTT!

January $1,000,000 Turbo Takedown results (01-30-11)
1. BLOODP (GUADALAJARA) $60,000.00 + Audi TT
2. WildZealot (Winnipeg) $40,000.00
3. NESTEN (fredrikstad) $30,000.00
4. Serpy25 (den haag) $25,000.00
5. DerNautz (FFM) $20,000.00
6. Gsweetshot1 (Houston) $17,500.00
7. DrunkLV (Riga) $15,000.00
8. Karel373 (Petrozavodsk) $12,500.00
9. MEGAPROFY (Tolyatti) $10,000.00

Raise your hand if some of your hard earned poker bankroll found its way into local retailers over the past weekend. Black Friday and soon-to-hit Cyber Monday has holiday shoppers across the globe looking for bargains, and if you are one of the 18,394 who signed up for the tonight's $1 million Turbo Takedown, PokerStars was giving away one of the biggest bargains on the internet. For the low low "price" of just 3,000 frequent players points (FPPs) the players received 3,000 chips and chair with a shot at $60,000.00 and of course the Audi TT which you could impress your loved one with as a gift. Giving a car might have a better response than that Wal-Mart gift card or tin of peanut brittle you were thinking about handing over next month.

First there were 18,393 players who would not be traveling home for the holidays in that Audi TT but 5,000 players would at least take away $78.00 for defeating over 2/3rds of the field. Players like Team PokerStars Tae Joon Noh (3987th place, $85.00), Ruben "rubenrtv" Visser (3391st place, $90.00), Andres "lobojiji" Alisievicz (2569th place, $100.00), Julian Thew (2291st place, $105.00), Joao "jomane" Nunes (1960th place, $110.00), Pat Pezzin (1377th place, $120.00), Kristian 'CharismA3' Martin (890th place, $160.00), Juan Manuel Pastor (880th place, $170.00), but we would have to climb up the pay scale a ways to find Veronica "Princesa" Dabul as the last of Team PokerStars to bust, she finished in 84th place tonight earning $600.00 before handing off her $100.00 pro bounty.

Two tables and 12 players remaining, a story developed with maxde88 beginning with a bit of a comeback after taking a nasty bad beat. Holding aces versus yakuza63's pocket nines all-in preflop for a four million chip pot and the blinds at 60K/120K ante 12K, the board read [Jh] [Kh] [Js] [Qd] and yes, the [9s] hit the river leaving maxde88 with just 265,559 chips and in the small blind. The rail got behind maxde88 with every double up that followed, as the microstack managed to chip up to a million, then double up again versus Luigis.den to over two million, but would the resurrection make it to the final table? Sadly, no. maxde88 was doing much better getting it in behind than ahead as Zarmil tried to shove [Ad][3c] from the small blind when maxde88 held [Qd][Ah] in the big blind and made the call for a 4.4 million chip pot. Unfortunately, the board ran out four clubs [Tc][4s][6c][9c][Jc] to match Zarmil's trey knocking the comeback story out in 12th place.

yakuza63 couldn't hold on to those chips acquired from maxde88 and lost a big coin flip against Luigis.den to finish in 11th place as the tables slowed down for hand-for-hand play and the $2K difference between 9th and 10th. Uncle Vlad would be the one to find a drained vein as he tried to push a short stack of 976,650 with the blinds at 80K/160K ante 16K from the small blind and DHUSTLER15 woke up with pocket queens [Qs][Qd] in the big blind and snap called. Uncle Vlad's rags never threatened on the [8s] [5d] [2h] [8c] [6d] board and was sent back to Transylvania with $8,000.00 in tenth place.

Seat 1: twenty305 (3388094 in chips)
Seat 2: Ruxandescu (3780858 in chips)
Seat 3: trumoan (6377798 in chips)
Seat 4: Zarmil (6258917 in chips)
Seat 5: shiptosails (10839274 in chips)
Seat 6: Luigis.den (8263198 in chips)
Seat 7: DHUSTLER15 (3239565 in chips)
Seat 8: QuasiFiction (7949606 in chips)
Seat 9: fundog90 (5084690 in chips)

The race for the Audi TT reached its final nine players and they would not take long to start the action with blinds at 80K/160K ante 16K and several stacks still holding at least 30 big blinds.

You keep betting, I'll keep calling

Just the fourth hand into the final table our first big pot would not take place preflop as with most final tables. fundog90 would raise UTG to 344,440 chips as twenty305 on the immediate left would call as would QuasiFiction out of the big blind. All three were shown a wheel flop of [5s] [Ac] [4d] as fundog90 followed up with a 449,990 chip bet and twenty305 made the call as QuasiFiction dropped out. [6h] turn and fundog90 checked as twenty305 shoved all-in for 2.5 million and fundog90 snap-called with a set of fours [4h][4c]. twenty305 turned up the now drawing dead [Ad][Qd] as the [5d] gave fundog90 the boat and 7.2 million in chips as twenty305 became the first causality in ninth place ($10,000.00). Add this five figure score to the one that earned him a WCOOP bracelet last year while taking down Event #35 for $59,352.91.

Can't leave each other alone

With two tables left DHUSTLER15 and Ruxandescu seemingly played a game of chicken with constant three and four-bets preflop as they sat directly next to each other. The blinds moving up to 90K/180K ante 18K, this hand would take a little different route. DHUSTLER15 would raise UTG to 399,999 and Ruxandescu was the only customer in middle position as he flat called. Flop of [9c] [5s] [Kc] and DHUSTLER15 bet 522,552 and on cue Ruxandescu shoved to 4.1 million, holding big slick [Ac][Kd] DHUSTLER15 made the call for less and was far behind the pocket aces [Ah][As] of Ruxandescu. A little sweat came from a third club hitting [Jc] but a fourth one missed on the [Qh] to ship the six million chip pot to Ruxandescu and knocking out DHUSTLER15 in eighth place ($12,500.00). Another WCOOP success story, DHUSTLER15 was at the final table during Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier's Event #42 victory and nearly pulled off an epic comeback finishing in fourth place for $179,515.00

Luigi loses to Bowser again

This time Mario wasn't around to help his famous brother as playing traveled thru a few blind levels before Luigis.den found himself all-in against the chip leader fundog90. With the blinds at 150K/300K ante 30K, Luigis.den tried to snag the blinds by pushing for a little under three million UTG holding pocket eights [8d][8c] and got a call from fundog90 with [9d][Ac]. A flip was the best outcome of the shove but the nine on the flop would say otherwise for Luigis.den as the board came out [Ts] [9s] [Qh] [6s] [5h] and Luigis.den would have to save Princess Peach in something besides an Audi TT after finishing in seventh place ($15,000.00).

Big stack, big spade

Watch below as QuasiFiction gets to write a non-fiction story about a bad beat:

All the chips in preflop nine hands after fundog90 eliminated Luigis.den, QuasiFiction was very much ahead holding big slick [Kc][Ad] to fundog90's [6h][As]. But, the spades wouldn't stop hitting on the [5s] [4s] [Qs] [4d] [2s] board as fundog90 finished with the ace-high flush collecting a 9.2 million chip pot and sending QuasiFiction off in sixth place ($17,500.00) to pen this hand and hopefully the cash will help ease the pain.

Warning: turbulence ahead

Watching Ruxandescu's stack bounce from highs of seven million to lows of around a million for the past two blind levels makes an observer want to reach for some Dramamine. But, the roller-coaster ride would come to an end during the 200K/400K ante 40K blind level when Ruxandescu tried to open shove from the hijack for 5.5 million holding [9s][Ks] and Zarmil woke up on the button with pocket jacks [Jd][Jc] to make the call. No need to dance around a flush draw when you flop a boat, [7h] [Js] [7d] [5s] [8d] no turn or river excitement as Zarmil collected the 11.9 million chip pot and Ruxandescu was out in fifth place ($20,000.00). Did everyone at this table final table a WCOOP event? Ruxandescu also had a 6-figure payday in the 2010 WCOOP, taking third place in Event #28 for $135,991.70

Many level thinking or gambling going on

Wow. Speechless. Watch the video for this 22.3 million chip game-changing hand:

Blinds at 225K/450K ante 45K and shiptosails calls the three-bet shove of Zarmil holding [Ks][Qd]. Zarmil did not show much better but was slightly in the lead flipping up [Ac][9h]. Zarmil's hand vastly improved with the addition of two nines on the [5d] [9d] [9c]. But the diamonds would not stop hitting, first the [4d] on the turn and finally the [Kd] river giving shiptosails the win and sending Zarmil home in fourth place ($25,000.00).

Only gambling allowed here

Four hands later as the blinds stayed the same, trumoan, who stayed relatively quiet during the final table, made a play for the blinds while shoving from the cutoff for 4.2 million holding [Kh][4h]. But, shiptosails was on the button with [Ac][Td] and move than enough chips to make the call. This time there was a flush draw to sweat as [7h] [Th] [2c] hit the flop. shiptosails had top pair and it held as the hearts stopped beating with the [Jd] turn and [7d] river to eliminate trumoan in third place ($30,000.00) and start up a brief heads-up match with fundog90.

Sent to the pound

Another four hands later and shiptosails enjoying a nearly four to one chip lead (41.6 million to 13.5 million) the crazy betting would start and end preflop. fundog90 would lead out on the button to 978,550 chips and shiptosails came back with a three-bet to 2.3 million. Looking to close the betting, fundog90 shoved for his remaining 13.5 million as shiptosails made the call. It was lucky the last hand versus trumoan and shiptosails would try to take ace-ten [As][Td] to victory against a suited king again, this time [Kh][7h]. This time however there would be no flush threat as the board played out [3s] [8c] [Jc] [9s] [Qc] giving shiptosails a straight and the outright win taking home $60,000.00 and the Audi TT!

November $1 Million Turbo Takedown results (11-28-10)

1. shiptosails (Los Altos) $60,000.00 + Audi TT
2. fundog90 (Minsk) $40,000.00
3. trumoan (miranda de ebro) $30,000.00
4. Zarmil (Wien) $25,000.00
5. Ruxandescu (buzau) $20,000.00
6. QuasiFiction (Tempe) $17,500.00
7. Luigis.den (voorhout) $15,000.00
8. DHUSTLER15 (Tulsa) $12,500.00
9. twenty305 (coral gables) $10,000.00

It's Halloween and you are walking down the block with a jack o'lantern stuffed to the brim full of candy and there's one more house to show off your Flo from Progressive Insurance costume. But there's a line at the door seems never-ending as you stare down half-lit street. You ask someone in line what's the big deal at this place and they reply "the last person standing in this line tonight gets an Audi TT". After taking your place behind 20,813 players and paying the door man 3,000 FPPs the wait begins as tonight's $1,000,000 Turbo Takedown returned on Halloween after a one month hiatus due to the WCOOP.

5,000 players would trade in those FPPs for hard cash, and others would slay a Team PokerStars player for a $100.00 bounty. Dennis Phillips, Tae Joon Noh, Maxim Lykov, Juan Maceiras, Victor Ramdin, Greg DeBora, Anders "Donald" Berg, Chad Brown, Greg Raymer, Andres 'lobojiji' Alisievicz, Julian Thew, Steven Paul, JP Kelly, Pat Pezzin, George "Jorj95" Lind, Matthias De Meulder, Maridu Mayrinck, are just a few that failed to grab some cash before handing over their $100.00 bounty.

But a couple Team PokerStars players did manage to sneak past 3/4th of the field to get into the money: Richard Toth (4,848th place $78.00), Martha Herrera (4,523rd place $78.00), Toni Judet (2,809th place $95.00), Ruben "rubenrtv" Visser (2,632nd place $100.00), Nuno Coelho (2,494th place $100.00), Barry Greenstein (1,254th place $130.00), Liv Boeree who was on Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/liv_boeree reminding players about this tourney and playing her first Turbo Takedown as a member of Team PokerStars hit the cash in 917th place ($160.00), Pete De Korver (448th place $240.00), and Mathew 'chipstar1' Didlick (412th place $260.00).

While no Team PokerStars players will be seen behind the wheel of that Audi TT, there were ten players still in after nearly nine hours where we stalled for nearly 20 minutes in hand-for-hand play as no one seemed to want to let go of the chance of winning that car. But the blinds stop for no one as the space between the average chip stack and the blinds at 125K/250K ante 25K decreased with every ten minutes from the tournament clock. fishsalad with a little under two million in chips tried shoving from the button to grab the blinds holding just [6c][Kd]. Instead he was looked up by JudeCW in the small blind with pocket tens [Ts][Tc]. fishsalad would find a six on the turn but no king [Qd] [2d] [2s] [6d] [Jc] swimming away in tenth place ($8,000.00) to set up our final table below:

Seat 1: FlagLessPro (8408991 in chips)
Seat 2: 24coach24 (1876041 in chips)
Seat 3: bostanu24 (6437512 in chips)
Seat 4: xalkidas (15848280 in chips)
Seat 5: Kortataika (5344592 in chips)
Seat 6: Raoeoiku (7518974 in chips)
Seat 7: NtFlshNeuman (3020017 in chips)
Seat 8: Zockerdima (6838855 in chips)
Seat 9: JudeCW (7148738 in chips)

Three kings and one ace equal no car for Raoeoiku

We would start the final table at 175K/350K ante 35K blinds as FlagLessPro started off the betting by raising to 723,331 chips. bostanu24 wasted no time two doors down shoving over the top for 8.3 million. But, the betting was not finished as Raoeoiku wanted in on this big hand and called all-in holding big slick [Ah][Kd] for 6.1 million. FlagLessPro had seen enough and folded quickly as bostanu24 flipped up pocket kings [Kh][Ks]. The last three aces in the deck did not find their way to the [5s] [3h] [6c] [2h] [Tc] board as Raoeoiku took leave in ninth place ($10,000.00).

Can I get a niner please? PLEASE?

As the blinds grew to 200K/400K ante 40K Kortataika tried to shove a four million chip stack into the middle holding pocket nines [9s][9c]. Resistance came quickly on the immediate left from NtFlshNeuman would shoved over the top with aces [As][Ah]. Searching vainly for a nine, Kortataika would come up short on the [Jh] [Qh] [5d] [Jd] [8c] board taking eighth place ($12,500.00).

Three enter, two walk away

The blinds moved up again to 225K/450K ante 45K as bostanu24 started off the betting by raising to 955,119 as JudeCW called all-in for 681,726 from the small blind and FlagLessPro called as well from the big blind. Watch below who walks away with the 3.1 million chip pot:

After FlagLessPro and bostanu24 both checked down the [2s] [Js] [Td] [6d] [5c] board, FlagLessPro showed [As][9s] which was trumped by bostanu24's [Tc][Ac] which hit a pair of tens and was enough to knockout JudeCW's hand that was mucked and earned him seventh place ($15,000.00).

Battle of 24

Blinds held at 225K/450K ante 45K as 24coach24 shoved from the cutoff for 1.6 million and was called by bostanu24 on the button and NtFlshNeuman in the big blind. Both would check the flop but bostanu24 liked the [Tc] [9h] [Qh] [4c] turn enough to bet 3.1 million. That bet scared off NtFlshNeuman as 24coach24 flipped up [Ah][8d] which was drawing slim to bostanu24's turned set of fours [4h][4d]. Nary a jack on the river [Kc] and bostanu24 was the stronger, eliminating 24coach24 in sixth place ($17,500.00).

Everyone wants a deal, no one wants to wait

As the hour nine break hit, all five of the players were chatting about a potential deal and eventually after getting an email to the right place the Host arrived to the table just in time to see the below all-in hand between Zockerdima and NtFlshNeuman:

NtFlshNeuman would start the betting by raising to two million and was re-bumped by Zockerdima to eight million just as xalkidas was asking for the tournament to be paused (which it cannot mid-hand of course). NtFlshNeuman shoved for his remaining 8.1 million as Zockerdima called the extra 140,622 turning over [As][9c] and NtFlshNeuman sitting pretty with pocket jacks for the 17 million chip pot. Until the ace flopped of course [4d] [4c] [Ah] and no redeeming jack on the turn [6s] nor river [3d] sent NtFlshNeuman out of the tourney before the chop in fifth place ($20,000.00).

PokerStars is not a car chop shop

As seen nearly every month when we get down to three or four players and the talks of chopping up the money comes about, the players nearly always tried to chop up that beautiful Audi TT.

For shame.

After the PokerStars Host calmly explained that only the winner gets the car the players managed to chop up the remaining cash to each other's content leaving the car alone to be cherished by the winner:

$44,500.00 Zockerdima
$44,500.00 bostanu24
$34,000.00 xalkidas
$32,000.00 FlagLessPro

No time for waiting for aces

Immediate after the tournament clock was turned back on and we reached the blinds cap at 250K/500K ante 50K, FlagLessPro and xalkidas got their chips into the middle preflop for a race between the two smaller stacks. Pocket sixes [6s][6h] for FlagLessPro and [Td][Ks] for xalkidas. xalkidas lept out to a lead by hitting a king on the [2s] [7h] [Kh] flop. But, just as quickly the [6c] fell to give FlagLessPro an unbeatable set of sixes and the 14.6 million chip pot. xalkidas' scraps would also go to FlagLessPro on the next hand ending his night in fourth place ($34,000.00).

Squeezed out of the tournament

FlagLessPro gets a video reminder below on what happens when squeeze plays go wrong:

After shoving over the top of a raise and call, FlagLessPro was forced to turn up [Kc][8s] when bostanu24 made the call holding pocket tens [Th][Ts] to create a 32.6 million chip pot. A ten on the flop left FlagLessPro looking for running clubs but the clubs got stage fright and failed to make an appearance on the [3s] [5c] [Tc] [Jd] [Ks] board sending FlagLessPro home in third place ($32,000.00).

Audi TT in one piece for the winner

Despite the capped blinds, both players did not give up their aggressive play as bostanu24 started out heads-up play with a 43.2 million to 19.1 million chip advantage. Zockerdima would make a brief run at tying up the contest by winning six of seven hands at one point but never got within striking distance of the chip leader. And on hand 22 Zockerdima found himself all-in and not feeling good about it. After a min-raise from the button by bostanu24, Zockerdima re-raised to four million, bostanu24 was not backing down and put Zockerdima all-in with a three-bet shove. Still holding 8.7 million behind, Zockerdima made the decision to call and hope for live cards holding [3s][Qh]. He got his wish as bostanu24 turned up [Ad][Ts]. The smile was short-lived as bostanu24 would flop top two [Ac] [4h] [Th] [5s] [8d] and survive an inside straight draw on the river to win October's $1,000,000 Turbo Takedown and the Audi TT!

October $1,000,000 Turbo Takedown results (10-31-10)
(* denotes part of four-way deal)

1. bostanu24 (Cluj-Napoca) $44,500.00* plus Audi TT
2. Zockerdima (Lübeck) $44,500.00*
3. FlagLessPro (Budapest) $32,000.00*
4. xalkidas (Golden Cave) $34,000.00*
5. NtFlshNeuman (Piedmont) $20,000.00
6. 24coach24 (St. Thomas) $17,500.00
7. JudeCW (Sheffield) $15,000.00
8. Kortataika (Уфа) $12,500.00
9. Raoeoiku (Schomberg) $10,000.00

Want to roll like a ballah but have a bankroll that more fitting for a used tricycle? PokerStars is here to help in two different ways. One, for the past month we have been running qualifiers (freerolls, $1.10, and $11 buy-ins) for the chance to win a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4. Each week ending with a $100,000 weekly final in which the top 2,000 players get a seat into the grand final to be played on October 3rd where one lucky player will roll away with that fine automobile.

The other way you can get a pimpin' ride? Each month PokerStars and the Team PokerStars pros put up a little piece of themselves for just 3,000 Frequent Players Points (FPPs). The $1,000,000 Turbo Takedown is a freeroll that can only be entered with FPPs as the buy-in and first prize is the sleek Audi TT and $60,000.00 just in case you need to buy gas or some music for the ride. The pros put up a bounty off $100.00 each should someone be lucky enough to knock that Team PokerStars pro patch right off the table.

Alvaro "VARICO" Blanco, Pete De Korver, Noah "Exclusive" Boeken, Christian "el grillo" de Leon, Veronica "Princesa" Dabul , Martha "marene" Herrera, were a few of the PokerStars pros that gave up their bounty before the 5,000 players who got paid this evening. Mathew "chipstar1" Didlick ($78.00, 4701st place), Christophe "chrisdm" De Meulder ($81.15, 4459th place), Thierry van den "BOKPOWER" Berg ($95.00, 3045th place), Joep "Pappe_Ruk" Van Den Bijgaart ($170.00, 877th place), Chrien80 ($180.00, 734th place), Martin "AABenjaminAA" Hrubý ($300.00, 267th place), Alexey "elmagopr" Makarov ($2,000.00, 30th place) all managed to weave through enough of the 13,864 player field to take a little money back from their bounties.

After 13,854 players lost their chips we were five-handed on two tables with blinds at 70K/140K ante 14K as both tables managed to have an all-in at the same time. tuffa1 shoved from UTG for 4.3 million and was called in the big blind by brainwash for 700K less holding [Ks][Ad]. tuffa1 flipped up [Qd][Kd] for the dominated hand and brainwash was looking great for a double-up to 7.6 million. But, a cruel queen was on the door as the board failed to re-suck for brainwash as the spiraled avatar left the tournament in tenth place ($8,000.00). The other all-in had taylor44770 in for less than brainwash, but taylor44770 would survive also holding big slick against a dominated hand and took down the 5.3 million chip pot against vzgo, earning a seat at the final table below:

Seat 1: taylor44770 (5392044 in chips)
Seat 2: LochemLand (2493532 in chips)
Seat 3: Sonderskönig (4865507 in chips)
Seat 4: juandadi (6946484 in chips)
Seat 5: JFKme (4462016 in chips)
Seat 6: DESS66 (4015433 in chips)
Seat 7: tuffa1 (8223369 in chips)
Seat 8: vzgo (1260782 in chips)
Seat 9: BigFlopper01 (3932833 in chips)

Pepto Bismol is needed after the river

No one took leave during the 80K/160K ante 16K chip level but as we moved on to the 90K/180K ante 18K level there was action between vzgo and JFKme. JFKme would start the hand with a raise to 475K as vzgo on the shortstack in the big blind decided to push for 1.3 million. JFKme started out with 4.5 million and made the call holding pocket eights [8h][8c] as vzgo turned over [Qc][As] for the coinflip. A eight would flop [Jh] [Th] [8d] putting JFKme firmly in front only having to dodge a king. Turn card: [Kh] which gave vzgo the broadway straight, as vzgo now had to dodge the board pairing. And vzgo failed to do just that as a second king fell [Kd] giving the table an upset stomach and vzgo ninth place money ($10,000.00).

Back-to-back for JFKme

On the very next hand LochemLand would open shove from UTG for 1.6 million as the table folded around to JFKme who quickly called holding big slick [Kh][As]. This time there was no such excitement as the players did not need to worry about a soul-crushing river as LochemLand's [Qc][Ah] came in dominated and left dominated after two kings hit the [Ts] [6s] [Ks] [Kd] [8c] board and sent LochemLand back home with eighth place money ($12,500.00).

Silence broken by DESS66

While the chat box was only filled with the occasional "nh" and "gg" seven players made it thru the 100K/200K ante 20K and 125K/250K ante 25K levels without a loss, but as they started the 150K/300K ante 30K level we would lose at least one. JFKme would lose some of those chips acquired from knocking out both LochemLand and vzgo. Down to 3.05 million, JFKme shoved over the top of a limping DESS66 holding pocket deuces [2c][2s] as DESS66 would make the call holding six million chips and a suited [Ah][Qh]. The ducks would avoid the flop [6c] [Th] [7s] but not the turned ace [Ad] as DESS66's turned pair would hold thru the [9s] river. The former hunter became the hunted as JFKme finished in seventh place ($15,000.00).

Not king for a day

In some three-way action BigFlopper01, Sonderskönig, and juandadi get mixed up as the blinds stayed at 150K/300K ante 30K and one player would be asked to leave the tournament table. Watch below as the hand plays out:

BigFlopper01 would abandon his preflop min-raise as both Sonderskönig and juandadi both shoved behind with juandadi covering Sonderskönig's bet. juandadi flipped up [Qc][Ah] which was slightly ahead of Sonderskönig's [Kc][Tc] for the 5.4 million chip pot. Sonderskönig would flop a flush draw [9c] [8h] [8c] but failed to find a club, a ten, or a king on the [2h] or [5d] river shipping sixth place money his way ($17,500.00).

Tuff night

tuffa1 would start off with a min raise from the button as the blinds moved up to 200K/400K ante 40K, but BigFlopper1 in the small blind was not giving up easily and shoved for 12.5 million. The bet well-covered tuffa1's 3.8 million stack as tuffa1 thought it through and felt the [7c][Ad] sitting in his hand was superior and made the call. No drama here either as BigFlopper01 turned over [9d][Ah] for two pips higher which was bolstered by the ace and nine on the flop [8d] [Ac] [9c]. After the turned [Kh] failed to produce a straight or flush draw the 9.8 million chips were post marked for BigFlopper01 sending tuffa1 home in fifth place ($20,000.00).

Big Flopper continues to live up to the name

taylor44770 got blinded down to just 1.1 million as juandadi and BigFlopper01 took the majority of the four handed hands with preflop raises. The blinds still at 200K/400K ante 40K BigFlopper01 opened for 1.6 million in the small blind forcing taylor44770 to call in the big blind for 720,423. Holding pocket fives [5s][5c] had a fighting chance to double-up against BigFlopper01's [Qd][Jd]. But, as the name implies, BigFlopper01 would hit another flop connecting with a pair of jacks and turning two pair [Jh] [2h] [As] [Qc] [4d] to knock out taylor44770 in fourth place ($25,000.00).

Chop talks end quickly

The players had the moderator stop the tournament clocks for what was a quick discussion of supply and demand. BigFlopper01 had the biggest supply, but juandadi demanded too much for his much smaller chip supply as BigFlopper01 scoffed at the idea of giving up several thousand dollars as the cards were back in the air.

You are not my dadi

As three handed play lasted several orbits, as the blinds moved up to 225K/450K ante 45K juandadi was knocked down to 4.7 million chips and was facing a shove by BigFlopper01 while in the big blind holding [7h][Kh]. Electing to gamble, juandadi made the call as BigFlopper01 did have a better hand [Th][Ah] and despite having live cards, any heart draw was taken away. No matter since the cold, heartless [2s] [8c] [Ac] [Ts] [2c] came out as BigFlopper01 once again flopped a pair and it held to ship third place money ($30,000.00) but no car to juandadi.

Only Canadians allowed

Quebec's DESS66 would start out holding 8.1 million chips far behind Vancouver's BigFlopper01's 33.4 million chips. But, certainly was not about to lay down as four hands into heads-up play DESS66 would sneak pocket eights [8c][8s] past the [4d][Ah] of BigFlopper01 after an ace flopped but and eight turned to give DESS66 a 16.7 million chip pot.

Shortly after DESS66 went on a little run, winning five hands in a row and took the chip lead up to 28.7 million against 12.8 million for BigFlopper01. DESS66 would continue to pull away from BigFlopper01 getting the lead up to 31.8 million to 9.7 million as the lead crumbled quickly. First, BigFlopper01 got pocket eights to hold up versus [As][7d] for a 19.4 million chip pot. Then after taking down the blinds, the hand of the tournament happened, watch it play out below:

After a min-raise and call preflop with the blinds capped at 250K/500K ante 50K both players saw the [Qh] [Th] [8s] flop as DESS66 led out for 1.44 million. BigFlopper01 came back with a lot of sixes, raising to 6,666,666. But, DESS66 was not done three-betting all-in as BigFlopper01 snap called with pocket aces [Ad][As]. DESS66 was behind but not by much holding straight and flush draws [Jh][7h]. The [5c] was not red nor a nine, neither was the [Ts] river which gave BigFlopper the 39.4 million chip pot leaving DESS66 with just 2.1 million. The very next hand those 2.1 million chps went in as DESS66 held [Td][7s] and BigFlopper01 made the call with [Jc][Th]. A seven would flop, but a straight would turn for BigFlopper01 to take down the final 4.3 million chip pot and this month's $1 million Turbo Takedown!

August $1,000,000 Turbo Takedown Results (08-29-10)
1. BigFlopper01 (vancouver) $60,000.00 plus Audi TT
2. DESS66 (Québec) $40,000.00
3. juandadi (arlington) $30,000.00
4. taylor44770 (pensacola) $25,000.00
5. tuffa1 (Helsinki) $20,000.00
6. Sonderskönig (Las Vegas / Wörthsee) $17,500.00
7. JFKme (Dubai) $15,000.00
8. LochemLand (Enschede) $12,500.00
9. vzgo (Springfield) $10,000.00

Several Team PokerStars pros tried their hand tonight at breaking thru the 17,281 player field of the $1 Million Turbo Takedown but only a handful would break into the top 5,000 to claim a little money. Anders "Donald" Berg (382nd Place - $260.00), Christophe "chrisdm" de Meulder (216th place - $350.00), and Julian Thew (212th place - $350.00) would all reach the final 500 but were unable to get within sniffing that great new car smell of the Audi TT and dropped off their $100 bounties before leaving.

Task cracked

Taska85 was sitting on the bubble with a comfortable 2.7 million in chips and facing a 345,000 raise from muezzo with the blinds at 80K/160K ante 16K. Looking down at ace-jack [Jh][Ac] and figuring muezzo for a button steal Taska85 would go all-in as muezzo had slightly less chips but a higher kicker [Qh][As] and made the call. An all low board drizzled out [5s] [6s] [7h] [2c] [8d] and Taska85 was chopped down to 111,122 chips. Those scraps were eaten up by APZ19 who's [8s][9d] would beat out the [Kh][6h] leaving Taska85 off the final table in tenth place ($8,000.00)

Seat 1: muezzo (5345152 in chips)
Seat 2: coNNBoyle (13838222 in chips)
Seat 3: knif1807 (6463144 in chips)
Seat 4: APZ19 (5896874 in chips)
Seat 5: growby (10284413 in chips)
Seat 6: sgc0458 (796679 in chips)
Seat 7: naka34 (1937084 in chips)
Seat 8: pain-bg (3366390 in chips)
Seat 9: mossified84 (5535042 in chips)

mossifed84 got the race for the AudiTT going in a hurry by doubling-up off growby in the final table's very first hand for an 11.2 million chip pot with blinds starting off at 80K/160K ante 16K.

Feeling the pain

It would take two full levels (100K/200K ante 20K) before our first elimination which seemed to open the gates of several others wanting to leave quickly tonight. sgc0458 had only 706,716 chips in early position, made the most of them by open shoving with pocket eights [8c][8h]. pain-bg two seats over would re-shove and covered holding big slick [Kh][Ac]. A king on the door [Kc] [5h] [Qh] [6c] [7d] on sgc0458's night was over in ninth place ($10,000.00).

And they all come tumbling down

Four hands later muezzo was sitting UTG with just 1.1 million in chips holding a medium suited ace [Ah][8h] and shoved. Chip leader coNNBoyle was not make a big stack call here after matching the bet and turning over pocket rockets [Ad][Ac]. Slight scare on the [6h] [Ts] [Qh] flop gave muezzo some breath of life for the nut flush, [9s] on the turn opened up some straight outs. But the [5c] river was not the right five and muezzo buzzed off in eighth place ($12,500.00).

You been... MOSS-IF-IED

As a Minnesota Viking's fan my heart broke a little bit seeing number 84 get shuffled off to the New England Patriots but much like the talented wide receiver mossifed84 showed he can race with anyone. The very next hand after muezzo left, mossified84 re-shoved on the all-in bet of naka34 holding pocket jacks [Js][Jd]. naka34 could only turn up an over card [Kd][Ts] and was unable to connect at all with the [2c] [9h] [3d] [2s] [6d] board ending his night in seventh place ($15,000.00).

Done with the all-in's? I think not

Just another three hands later, and one hand after APZ19 doubled up off mossified84, knif1807 and pain-bg went toe-to-toe preflop for a 7.4 million chip pot. Watch the results below:

Big slick [Ad][Kd] for knif1807 and pocket tens [Tc][Ts] for pain-bg. King on the flop and an unnecessary ace on the river [8h] [Jd] [Kc] [3d] [As] directed those 7.4 million chips to knif1807 as pain-bg limped from the final table with an extra $17,500.00 finishing in sixth place.

Jackedy Jack Don't Talk Back

On the very next hand, the biggest pot of the tournament played out with coNNBoyle and knif1807 both holding over 14 million in chips with blinds at 100K/200K ante 20K. Both would be all-in preflop with coNNBoyle just holding 300K more in chips. Watch the 29 million chip pot play out below:

coNNBoyle: [Jd][Jc]
knif1807:[Qc][Qs]

In one of those jaw-dropping flops BOTH coNNBoyle's outs would hit [Jh] [Js] [2s] [7d] [3s] giving him quad jacks as knif1807's 989:1 shot did not come with running queens and thus a very expensive bad beat story in fifth place ($20,000.00).

A moment to exhale

After that block of all-ins and eliminations, the final four would actually part thru three levels reaching the 175K/350K ante 35K before asking another person to leave the table. mossified84 would lose some steam four-handed and was down to 6.4 million chips while trying to make something happen with a three-bet shove in the big blind over growby's small blind raise to 1.05 million. growby with nine million chips called the massive raise with [Jd][8d] as mossified84 was slightly ahead holding [Ks][Tc], live cards for all until two jacks fell on the flop for growby [Jc] [Jh] [2s]. mossified84 could not find running cards on the [4s] turn and [Ac] river to catch up and the Randy Moss fan was out in fourth place ($25,000.00).

Straight outta here

We would move our three-handed table into the ninth hour of play and blinds at 200K/400K ante 40K with the chip stacks fairly even (coNNBoyle - 20.6 million, growby - 18.9 million, and APZ19 - 13.8 million). Chop talks started and stopped several times but never got enough legs to stop the tournament. growby would led out for a three time the BB raise from the button as APZ19 would call from the big blind. [Jh] [5h] [6s] flop and both players checked. APZ19 would check the turned [7s] as growby bet two million and was called. On the rivered [4s] completing a flush draw, APZ19 would shove for 10.6 million. After turning the nut straight [9c][8c] growby had a decision for a big chunk of his stack and made the right call as APZ19 turned up the [As] but the second card was a club [5c] finishing APZ19's day in third place ($30,000.00) as heads-up play would commence for the Audi TT.

Host YbrahimC here but not needed yet

Heads-up play would start with connBoyle slightly down 20.4 million to growby's 33 million and blinds at 200K/400K ante 40K. The players would summon Host YbrahimC to the tables but were unable to get enough traction to stop the clocks for a deal. As the players moved through that level and the 225K/450K ante 45K level without a winner but the chip stacks becoming dead even for nearly the entire level.

A new host, but old rules

As the players tried to chop up the beautiful car you see above in to smaller pieces, Host Tanner came on to explain that the car cannot be a part of the chop talks and only the $100,000.00 left in the prize pool was open for discussion. They both agreed to a five-minute break as the cards went back into the air without a deal in place.

Looked up and it was over

growby was looking to take over the race to the Audi TT holding a sizable lead of 36.2 million to 17.2 million and the nug nuts holding the tires in place fell off. First, growby would raise to two million as the blinds were capped at 250K/500K ante 50K and coNNBoyle wasted no time in shoving for 17.1 million holding big slick [Ad][Kd]. growby thought for a few moments and made the call with a dominated [Kc][Qs]. They would both pair their king but the ace kicker played on the [2s] [2d] [Ks] [7c] [Tc] board and 34.4 million chips slid to coNNBoyle. Two hands later growby again led out for two million as coNNBoyle again shoved as growby made the call holding [Qh][8h]. Pocket tens for coNNBoyle was out in front and made a big leap when a third ten appeared on the flop [7c] [Td] [Kh]. No heart or potential straight card on the turn [8c] meant the Audi TT was going to be shipped to coNNBoyle along with the $60,000.00 first prize!

Congrats to all of our 5,000 cashers this evening and hope you will be back next month the next $1 Million Turbo Takedown.

$1 Million Turbo Takedown Results (07-25-10)
1. coNNBoyle (Williamsburg) $60,000.00 + Audi TT
2. growby (Burgas) $40,000.00
3. APZ19 (Grimsby, UK) $30,000.00
4. mossified84 (las vegas) $25,000.00
5. knif1807 (Offenburg) $20,000.00
6. pain-bg (Plovdiv) $17,500.00
7. naka34 (spain) $15,000.00
8. muezzo (Cumbria) $12,500.00
9. sgc0458 (stoney creek) $10,000.00

The monthly $1 Million Turbo Takedown is a very simple concept. Enter with 3,000 frequent players points earned through the various qualifiers or rack them up through SnG, MTT, and cash game play and just take down 15,402 players to drive away with $60,000 and a brand new Audi TT. Simple concept, plus added bonuses of cashing in consecutive months and busting our own Team PokerStars pros like Thierry van den "BOKPOWER" Berg, Andres "lobojiji" Alisievicz, Andre "aakkari" Akkari, Alvaro "VARICO" Blanco, Raymond Wu, Joep can den "Pappe_Ruk" Bijgaart all managed to drop off their bounties without cracking the top 5,000 places which took home at least $78.00 this evening.

Team PokerStars Pros Anders "Donald" Berg, André Coimbra, Victor Ramdin, Tae Joon Noh, Boumaaza "Chiren80" Bachir, Martha "marene" Herrera, Randy "nanonoko" Lew, and Nuno Coelho did manage to slide past enough players to get into the money before dropping off their $100.00 pro bounties.

Down to ten players and one more elimination from the final table, Klimbo would try to slide a small stack shove of 698,944 chips past the well, mountainous stack of MountainRo$e holding [Ts][Ks]. Pocket aces [Ac][Ah] held by the big stack were more than enough on the [5c] [8h] [2h] [Td] [8s] board as Klimbo would be left off the final table as tonight's bubble boy ($8,000.00) setting up the remaining nine below:

Seat 1: Johan 80 (1147996 in chips)
Seat 2: MountainRo$e (8695816 in chips)
Seat 3: wcsquad3 (10374473 in chips)
Seat 4: julik36 (2441088 in chips)
Seat 5: Bjorn-Erik "Hikkespett" Glenne (7624117 in chips)
Seat 6: Cornelius110 (4556667 in chips)
Seat 7: byoon (3938304 in chips)
Seat 8: orgi3000 (2504270 in chips)
Seat 9: Snow in June (4923269 in chips)

No boom for byoon

Right out of the gate Johan 80 would try to improve on a fairly short stack with just 1.1 million in chips and blinds at 70K/140K ante 14K by push preflop on the first hand of the final table. Luckily or unluckily Johan 80 would split the pot after being called by Hikkespett and both turning up Ace-Ten for a split pot. One orbit later Johan 80 would take the back seat and watch a painful cooler come down. byoon would start the hand with a raise to 308,880 UTG as julik36 pumped it up to 1.26 million on the button. Folded back to byoon who shoved for 3.5 million holding big slick [Ks][As] which paled to the mighty aces held by julik36 [Ac][Ad] who covered and made the call. No kings nor straights or flushes came down the [3h] [7h] [8d] [Qd] [9c] board and byoon was booted in ninth place ($10,000.00).

Two smalls do not equal a medium

Most the time at a carnival if you're lucky enough to win two small prizes they will "upgrade" your win to a medium. Two small stacks tried combining their stacks together with hopes to improve their chances on winning. orgi3000 with just 539,771 chips would shove over the top of Hikkespett raise, but instead caught the interest of Johan 80 who was only sitting on 1.4 million and also shoved causing Hikkespett to abandon ship. Pocket jacks [Js][Jh] for Johan 30 and a naked suited ace for orgi3000 [As][3s]. The board stayed ace-free [5d] [Kc] [3h] [9c] [5s] and Johan 30 took the 1.6 million chip pot as orgi3000 folded in eighth place ($12,500.00).

Let it snow let it snow let it snow

Johan 30's run as the final table short stack would finally come to an end but not after moving a few ticks up the pay scale. Watch Johan 30's final hand against Snow in June play out below:

Bit of a cooler for Johan 30 after making this far on fumes, his pocket tens [Tc][Td] could not overcome the pocket jacks [Jd][Jh] of Snow in June on the [2s] [Qc] [8d] [9s] [3c] board and Johan 30 would take home $15,000.00 in seventh place as Snow in June found 6.3 million tournament chips heading into his stack.

Blizzard of chips

Shortly after knocking out Johan 30 and the blinds moving up to 90K/180K ante 18K, Snow in June was at it again making a min-raise preflop into julik36's big blind who would make the call. [Qd] [5d] [4c] flop came down as julik36 checked and Snow in June followed-through with a 540,000 bet that was called. [7d] got julik36's attention as he pushed for 1.7 million holding [6c][7s] and Snow in June made the call with pocket jacks [Jd][Jc]. An unnecessary diamond would hit the river [2d] as the jacks were enough to eliminate julik36 in sixth place ($17,500.00).

Mountainous bluff for mountainous pot

Five handed play lasted all the way to the 125K/250K ante 25K blind level when MountainRo$e and wcsquad3 got tangled in a hand with betting on every street. Watch the huge bluff by MountainRo$e on the river below:

With the board reading [Jd] [5h] [Jh] [Qs] [3c] and 5.7 million already in the pot, MountainRo$e tried to lead out by shoving for almost 4.7 million with just ace high [Ad][2d]. Unfortunately, wcsquad3 covered and flopped trips [Kc][Jc] and was going nowhere except to claim the 15.1 million chip pot thus reducing the field to four as MountainRo$e was done in fifth place ($20,000.00).

$1,000 = Table for four

After a very lengthy conversation and $1,000 being sent from the chip leading Cornelius110 to wcsquad3 our final four had the deal listed below:

Cornelius110: $45,624.18
Hikkespett: $41,351.59
wcsquad3: $34,777.19
Snow in June: $33,247.04

Snow melts in June

Shortly after the poker host restarted the tournament the final four got down to the winner fairly quickly. First, it was Snow in June who got into preflop betting war with Hikkespett and got his remaining 3.6 million chips into the middle holding [Ks][Jh] as Hikkespett would turn over the dominating big slick [Ad][Kh]. No frozen suckout cards would find their way onto the [2c] [2h] [8c] [6h] [8s] board and Snow in June's chips evaporated into Hikkespett's stack finishing in fourth place ($33,247.04).

Up against the firing squad

Just five hands later with blinds moving up to 150K/300K ante 30K wcsquad3 would find two raises ahead of him and pocket jacks [Jd][Jh] sitting by his stack. The answer was to shove for 6.4 million as Hikkespett gave up the initial raise and Cornelius110 snap called with pocket kings [Ks][Kc]. Again, the board [4s] [6s] [2d] [5s] [2c] complied with a non-stressful run for the preflop leader as Cornelius110 raked in the 13.5 million chips to set up heads-up play. wcsquad3 took down the $34,777.19 received from the chop as the race for the car was starting up.

This is his car you are playing for

While the players had fairly deep stacks 29.3 million for Hikkespett and 16.8 million for Cornelius110 and blinds at 175K/300K ante 30K, the heads-up play for the AudiTT would only last 17 hands. Hand number 12 was a big blow to Cornelius110's stack after catching trips on the river [Ac] [9d] [Tc] [Qs] [Ts] holding [Td][7h] and making a value raise to 9.45 million, Hikkespett would just call and flip over the turned broadway straight [Jd][Ks] good for the 25.2 million chip pot. And true on his prediction that the others were playing for his car, Hikkespett made good on that foresight five hands later. The gap was now 41.4 million to 4.7 million and after a min-raise from Cornelius110 with a call by Hikkespett watch the final hand plays out below:

Top pair [9c][Qh] was good for Hikkespett as he faded the second pair of Cornelius110 holding [5d][7s] on the final [7d] [Qs] [3s] [3d] [4c] board sending Cornelius110 home with $45,624.18 from the chop and Bjorn-Erik "Hikkespett" Glenne has one Audi TT coming his way after winning this month's $1 Million Turbo Takedown!

June $1 Million Turbo Takedown Results (06-27-10)
(* denotes part of four-way deal which left the Audi TT to play for)
1. Hikkespett (Oppegard) *$41,351.59 + Audi TT
2. Cornelius110 (Desert Hot Springs) *$45,624.18
3. wcsquad3 (sQuAd CitY) *$34,777.19
4. Snow in June (Moscow) *$33,247.04
5. MountainRo$e (Beer Sheva) $20,000.00
6. julik36 (Kursk) $17,500.00
7. Johan 80 (Osby) $15,000.00
8. orgi3000 (Hannover) $12,500.00
9. byoon (Torrance) $10,000.00

While the just completed Sunday Warm-up may have shown a decrease in attendance, tonight's $1 Million Turbo Takedown continued to welcome huge crowds to its tables. 18,655 players gathered tonight throwing down nothing for something as the buy-in for a shot at a brand new Audi TT remains at 3,000 Frequent Players Points and not a cent more. Turbo is in the name and we managed to eliminate all but nine players out of decent sized crowd for a major league baseball game in just after the eight hour mark.

Elimination #18,645 happen over on table 773 where shortstacked kunghagi would raise to 480K with blinds at 80K/160K ante 16K and glfrgmblr holding just a million more chips than kunghagi would shove to force kunghagi in a decision for his tournament life. kunghagi with just 743K behind made the call holding pocket jacks [Jc][Js]. Good hand, but not as great as the pocket aces [Ah][As] for glfrgmblr. Jacks would be left off the [7s] [Qd] [9h] [4d] [2d] board and kunghagi was left off the final table in tenth place ($10,000.00).

Seat 1: Leon2708 (7741912 in chips)
Seat 2: g00000se (2545051 in chips)
Seat 3: Dubaipoker80 (10039528 in chips)
Seat 4: glfrgmblr (3816903 in chips)
Seat 5: flynny1111 (8686580 in chips)
Seat 6: Mikey0690 (13374270 in chips)
Seat 7: Dre 91 (1762692 in chips)
Seat 8: pokerdog1000 (5010064 in chips)
Seat 9: slimshaggy (2988000 in chips)

Not Dre's day

Dre 91 with just 1.2 million chips and blinds at 100K/200K ante 20K would shove from UTG+1 holding [Ks][Qd] but fellow lesser known rapper slimshaggy would re-raise all-in holding big slick [Kh][Ac] shutting out the rest of the table. An all low [2c] [7s] [4h] [4c] [8s] board did not help either player as Dre 91 headed back to Compton (or Fort Collins) with $10,000.00 earned in ninth place.

Dog's day night

After losing an all-in to g00000se, pokerdog1000 went right back out and tried again to shove on the very next hand after the blinds moved up to 125K/250K ante 25K. With just 754,013 in chips, folding equity was a tad low but pokerdog1000 open shoved from the button holding [Kc][Qh] as Leon2708 with 4.4 million and a third of pokerdog1000's bet already in the pot made the call holding just [4d][2d]. The two live cards got a big jolt from the [6s] [5d] [3s] as Leon2708 flopped a straight. [3c] on the turn made the [Jd] river moot as pokerdog1000 was regulated to the doghouse in eighth place ($12,500.00).

Flying away in seventh place

Two of the larger stacks left at the table decided to meet up preflop for a 13 million chip pot. Watch which way the stack slides in the video below:

Pocket tens [Tc][Th] for flynny111 who was hoping for the cards to come out low against the [Jc][Ac] of Leon2708. This race ended in a crash landing before getting off the tarmac for flynny111 as the ace would hit the flop [5c] [Ad] [3d] [6d] [8s] and take down the 13 million chip pot sending flynny111 home in seventh place $15,000.00

Maverick not around to save him

Extremely shortstacked g00000se with just 1.09 million chips left and blinds moving up to 175K/350K ante 35K would open shove from the button as glfrgmblr would make the call from the big blind holding pocket treys [3h][3d]. A flip again, as g00000se held [Ah][4s] but a three on the flop [2s] [Qh] [3s] left g00000se looking for a wheel. Instead g00000se would get an egg in the form of the turned full house for glfrgmblr [2c] ending his night in sixth place ($17,500.00).

Five alive

We would play five handed for a few levels as the players slowed the rate of busting out to a crawl. Below is the chip count after Mikey0690 and Dubaipoker80 doubled up off the once might stack of Leon2708 and the blinds are now capped moving up to 250K/500K ante 50K:

Seat 1: Leon2708 (4,927,595 in chips)
Seat 3: Dubaipoker80 (20,344,138 in chips)
Seat 4: glfrgmblr (3,606,727 in chips)
Seat 6: Mikey0690 (22,671,540 in chips)
Seat 9: slimshaggy (4,415,000 in chips)

Two smalls make a medium

glfrgmblr and slimshaggy decided to try to make a medium stack by shoving their small stacks into the middle preflop. [Ks][9d] for slimshaggy and pocket threes [3d][3c] for glfrgmblr. Despite picking a gutshot straight draw on the flop, slimshaggy would whiff on the [Js] [Qh] [4c] [7h] [6h] board sending the 5.5 million chips to glfrgmblr as slimshaggy was out in fifth place ($20,000.00).

"ul" "gg"

Not much else to say after Leon2708 got the money in good and caught bad. Hand would start out with a raise from glfrgmblr to 1.5 million and a call from Leon2708 in the small blind. Both would see a flop of [Qh] [9d] [6h] and Leon2708 wasted no time in shoving for 7.7 million holding top pair [Qd][Jh]. glfrgmblr would take some time in making the call with second pair [9c][Ks] creating a 19.1 million chip pot. [Kh] on the turn flipped the advantage back to glfgmblr holding two pair as the [7c] river ended Leon2708's night in fourth place ($25,000.00).

Can I get a niner?

Mikey0690 and Dubaipoker80 decided to flip their nearly even 12 million chip stacks preflop. [9s][9d] for Dubaipoker80 who covered and [Kh][Qd] for Mikey0690 as the race went down [2s] [8h] [2c] [Jc] [9h] giving Dubaipoker80 insult to injury with a rivered boat knocking out Mikey0690 ($30,000.00) in third place starting up heads-up play.

$50,000 richer

Both players agreed to evenly chop the cash remaining in the prize pool and play for the Audi TT based on fairly even stacks Dubaipoker80 (26,069,286) to glfrgmblr (29,895,714). $50,000.00 a piece for our final two and as glfgmblr mentioned his car getting totaled in a hail storm recently, a new set of wheels for winning this tournament would certainly clear up that problem.

Replacement car on the way

The swings were big for our final two as both would have equal chances at driving off with that Audi TT. Watch the final hand play out below:

Would it get there? The answer was yes. glfrgmblr held pocket tens [Ts][Tc] to Dubaipoker80's [9h][As] as glfrgmblr would call the shove of Dubaipoker80 to create a 44.7 million chip pot. There would be no reversals in this hand as the board came out [2s] [3d] [Kd] [Qc] [8h] shipping the Audi TT to glfrgmblr as this month's $1 Million Turbo Takedown champion!

$1Million Turbo Takedown Results (05-29-10)
(*denotes part of two-way deal)
1. glfrgmblr (Oklahoma City) *$50,000.00 + Audi TT
2. Dubaipoker80 (Rüti) *$50,000.00
3. Mikey0690 (Groton) $30,000.00
4. Leon2708 (Oslo) $25,000.00
5. slimshaggy (hutchinson) $20,000.00
6. g00000se (Tallinn) $17,500.00
7. flynny1111 (london) $15,000.00
8. pokerdog1000 (Debary) $12,500.00
9. Dre 91 (Fort Collins) $10,000.00