With the Sunday Million on hiatus because of 8,669 players who're seeking to gain a final minute ticket into this year's World Series of Poker Main Event, the massive tourney of the evening started a couple of hours earlier. The $750,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-up had a robust showing tonight despite the entire players on the lookout for a final minute Father's Day gift, just like a definite writer who picked up a house Depot gift card that allows you to see his dad. 4,129 showed up for with the $215 buy-in and in contrast to last week, crushed the guarantee creating an $825,800.00 prize pool leaving aside $129,553.34 of that for tonight's winner. Perhaps the victor tonight will manifest at his or her father's place with little greater than I did after taking home the six-figure win.

Down to the overall table bubble and a difference of around $1,600 at the line, let alone the six figures awaiting for our winner, short-stacked Mochuelo1 with just over 1,000,000 chips and 80K/160K ante 16K blind tried to enhance with a shove from the cutoff holding K♠Q♥. JoeJ1337 within the big blind looking down at pocket tens T♣T♠ refused to relinquish the blinds and made the decision. In a wierd reverse fade, JoeJ1337 started spamming "Q" within the chat box, and certain enough nary a "Q" found the 7♠ 5♥ 8♠ 7♥ T♥ board and Mochuelo1 was sent home in tenth place ($4,954.80).

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Seat 1: needdollarz (7782684 in chips)Seat 2: Nitrite (3644958 in chips)Seat 3: degiomusic (6655267 in chips)Seat 4: SiiliSuhonen (2076100 in chips)Seat 5: JoeJ1337 (4826878 in chips)Seat 6: raare01 (3537032 in chips)Seat 7: QazMiNowPlz (5872951 in chips)Seat 8: lankeshwar (2080064 in chips)Seat 9: da produca (4814066 in chips)

Blinds would move as much as 100K/200K ante 20K within a couple of minutes of the overall nine being seated as needdollarz came in with probably the most tournament dollars followed closely by degiomusic and QazNiNowPlz who was flying the colours of Denmark.

Hearts Ahoy

After losing an enormous eight million chip pot to SilliSuhonen, lankeshwar was left with only a half million in chips. Three hands later with the blinds at 125K/250K ante 25K, lankeshwar found A♦Q♠ in early position and open shove for 476,916 chips. Folded around to degiomusic within the big blind who only needed to call another 226,916 while holding 3.4 million behind, made the mathematics call with 4♥9♥. 1.3 million chips within the middle with lankeshwar having to vanish a flush draw T♥ 3♥ 3♦ after two hearts hit the flop. J♠ at the turn was fine, the red lady at the river Q♥ completed the flush for degiomusic sending lankeshwar off in ninth place ($6,606.40).

Moving with the chip rhythm

Five hands later da produca would open shove from UTG holding pocket nines 9♠9♦ for 3.3 million. Two spots over degiomusic held pocket kings K♦K♥ and called all-in for just 82,947 chips less because the remainder of the table went back to watching World Cup highlights. Two pair came out at the Q♥ 5♠ T♦ T♠ Q♠ board as degiomusic's kings over queens reigned supreme, taking within the 7.1 million chip pot. The very next hand da produca's 82,947 chips went into the center within the big blind as QazMiNowPlz and degiomusic made the decision. After the K♦7♦6♣ flop, degiomusic led out for the minimum as QazMiNowPlz left the hand and turned up K♣J♠ for prime pair. da produca still had some life with the ragged 5♥9♥ and an inside straight draw. But, the saving eight would avoid the 6♥ turn and 3♣ river sending the da produca back to da studio in eighth place ($10,322.50).

Nitrite blows up

In one of the crucial biggest pots of the tournament to this point, chip leader SilliSuhonen would put needdollarz to the test preflop after needdollarz found his preflop raised by both Nitrite and SilliSuhonen. needdollarz would abandon the 532,123 chips as Nitrite was all-in against SilliSuhonen for the 7.9 million chip pot. Watch the effects below:

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Pocket queens for SilliSuhonen Q♦Q♣ would trample Nitrite's J♦A♣ at the 3♦ 3♥ K♦ 8♦ T♥ board and scoop the 7.9 million chips as Nitrite took in $18,580.50 in seventh place.

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The blinds moved as much as 150K/300K ante 30K as JoeJ1337 and QazMiNowPlz tried to mix their similar five million chips and alter stacks into one massive stack preflop. JoeJ1337 would cover by 57,705 chips and turned over pocket eights 8♠8♦ to QazMiNowPlz's big slick K♣A♦. Similar to the overall table bubble hand, JoeJ1337 immediately went for the reverse sweat and began spamming "aaaaaaaaaa". Obviously, that worked as no ace hit the board but a king did at the river 3♠ 7♥ 4♣ 4♥ K♠ sending the 11 million chip pot to QazMiNowPlz. The following hand SilliSuhonen would scoop up JoeJ1337's scraps and send the elite one out in sixth place ($26,838.50).

Time to stand the music

Just two hands later degiomusic, who helped carve a couple of players from the overall table would find his own head at the chopping block facing chip leader SilliSuhonen. After raare01 and degiomusic made the decision of SilliSuhonen preflop raise to 700K all three would see the Q♠K♠5♦ flop. From the large blind degiomusic tried to scare off the rest players with a shove for 2.7 million. Instead the response was an equally quick call from SilliSuhonen holding big slick K♠A♠ and quick fold by raare01. degiomusic also held top pair but a lesser kicker 9♥K♦, and didn't make amends for the 8♥ turn and 7♠ river leaving the tournament in fifth place ($35,096.50).

3-2-1 Contact!

Three eliminations in four hands tends to make writer's hands cramp up. With the blinds holding steady at 150K/300K ante 30K raare01 tried to hop into the action by shoving for 2.3 million excessive of a preflop raise by needdollarz. Holding 6.1 million in chips and only having to name 1.7 million more, needdollarz would make the decision holding 7♠A♣. raare01's A♥8♣ looked so much brighter after the 6♦9♠J♣ flop. But, the 7♥ would dim the lights on raare01's tournament because the 3♠ turned those five million chips in needdollarz's direction. raare01 would finish just outside of the proposed deal in fourth place ($46,657.70).

Did I mention a deal?

Immediately the overall three had our PokerStars host pause the time clock for one of the crucial quicker deals I'VE had the pleasure of covering. Details below leaving $10,000.00 for the winner:

needdollarz: $88,320.19QazMiNowPlz: $87,678.76SilliSuhonen: $107,888.59

Eight isn't enough

Watch this huge 17 milllion chip pot between needdollarz and QazMiNowPlz play out below:

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After the 4♥6♥8♠ flop QazMiNowPlz would check as needdollarz would lead out for a million. QazMiNowPlz check-raised all-in and covered as needdollarz couldn't hit the decision button quickly enough with the flopped straight 5♦7♠. QazMiNowPlz's top pair K♥8♦ could be drawing dead by the 3♠ turn as 17 million chips went to needdollarz. QazMiNowPlz's remaining 666,873 chips could be placed within the middle for a snack at the next hand as SilliSuhonen would hit a broadway straight to send off QazMiNowPlz in third place ($87,678.76).

Quick end to an extended tourney

Ten hours after 4,129 players started, heads-up play would begin with needdollarz in a 15.8 million to 25.4 million chip deficit to SilliSuhonen. Three hands in needdollarz would score a needed double-up with another eight high straight, scoring 31.2 million chips. After the reversal in chip counts, needdollarz would apply the pressure in winning six of the overall eight hands including the overall hand where SilliSuhonen decided to check his luck preflop and shoved for 7.5 million chips holding two face cards Q♥J♣. With decent suited ace T♦A♦ needdollarz made the decision. A jack at the flop K♠ 8♠ J♥ had SilliSuhonen looking good to come again into the tournament. 9♦ helped nobody at the turn however the rivered Q♠ improved both hands as needdollarz racked up another straight and the general 15 million tournament chips to become this week's Sunday Warm-up champion and picked up the extra $10,000 bringing the entire winnings to $98,320.19!

$750,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up Results (06-20-10)(*denotes a part of three-way deal)

1. needdollarz (St.Petersbourg) *$98,320.192. SiiliSuhonen (roma) *$107,888.593. QazMiNowPlz (Jyllinge) $87,678.764. raare01 (no chat) $46,657.705. degiomusic (cournonterral) $35,096.506. JoeJ1337 (Livonia) $26,838.507. Nitrite (Stockholm) $18,580.508. da produca (Zurich) $10,322.509. lankeshwar (Northborough) $6,606.40

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