The luck of the Irish held over a few days for TheConcept79 as he battled back to take down $147,310.32 with no deals in the post-St. Patrick's Day edition of the Sunday Warm-Up. The field of 4,695 players built up a whopping $939,000 prize pool, with the top 675 players picking up cash. After nearly ten hours of wall-to-wall poker, the final nine players … [Read more...]
Mr. Shanish knocks out four in a row to capture Sunday Warm-Up Title!
November 29, 2009 By
The Sunday Warm-Up continued to blaze hotter and hotter as the weather got colder this November weekend, with a whopping $925,600 in the prize pool. 4,628 players bellied up to the virtual felt to take their shot at the massive payout, and the top 675 finishers got paid for their efforts. Of course, the big money was concentrated at the final table, … [Read more...]
Egor2077 gets hot at the right time to claim Sunday Warm-Up Win!
November 15, 2009 By
This week's edition of the Sunday Warm-Up drew a whopping 4,763 entrants to build a prize pool of a massive $952,600, more than $200,000 over the guarantee! By the time the final table was set, it was fully dark on the east coast, and the late NFL game was almost to halftime. Final table host PokerStars Team Pro Ivan Demidov came on to welcome the players … [Read more...]
Aguskb takes down deal-free $135K in Sunday Warm-Up!
July 26, 2009 By
4,303 players ponied up the $215 entry fee into this week's Sunday Warm-Up, blowing through the guarantee and building a prize pool of $860,600. Even with such a large field, it only took a little over eight hours to reach the final table, and only 90 minutes for Aguskb to pull down the top prize of $135,010.00, with no deal cut. Aguskb bested Daddddymufff … [Read more...]
Bumper payouts live and online
March 16, 2009 By
German ShootingStar Sandra Naujoks showed just how much you can win with PokerStars when she took down EPT Dortmund last week - her home event - for €917,000. This week, hundreds more players will gather to chase another big prize, this time across the globe at the PokerStars LAPT event in Punta del Este, Uruguay (you can catch all the action … [Read more...]
icallseat3 calls for a win in the Sunday Warm-Up!
March 16, 2009 By
<img class="noborder" src="http://www.pokerstars.com/images/sunday-warmup- promo.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> The Daylight Savings Time edition of the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up drew an impressive 4,312 entrants, once again blowing through the $750K guarantee to build a prize pool of $862,400. Add that to the $1.6 million prize pool for the Sunday … [Read more...]
PokerStars Sunday tournament results 3-8-09
March 9, 2009 By
This was one of those weekends that we needed a 24-hour cable news network instead of just a blog. Between the performances of Team PokerStars Pro and and the huge Sunday winners, there was more news than we even knew what to do with. First off, huge congratulations to Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso for her runner-up finish at the NBC Heads Up … [Read more...]
PokerStars Sunday tournament results (3-1-09)
March 2, 2009 By
Ylon Schwartz may not say a lot, but when he does, it's best to listen. On Sunday, one of the newest Team PokerStars Pros made three final tables in the PokerStars Sunday majors. Schwartz placed eighth in the $215 Mixed Hold'em event and $215 HORSE event. Schwartz then picked up a ninth place finish in the PokerStars Sunday Second Chance event. As … [Read more...]
frtk Goes Wire-to-Wire at Sunday Warm-Up Final Table
March 1, 2009 By
It's become almost routine for the Sunday Warm-Up to blow through the guaranteed $750,000 prize pool, but the $894,600.00 prize pool this week's 4,473 entrants created was definitely worth remarking on. Also worth mention is that this was one of the shortest final tables I've seen at the Sunday Warm-Up, as eventual champ frtk took control from the opening … [Read more...]
frtk destroys Sunday Warm-Up final table
March 1, 2009 By
It's become almost routine for the Sunday Warm-Up to blow through the guaranteed $750,000 prize pool, but the $894,600.00 prize pool this week's 4,473 entrants created was definitely worth remarking on. Also worth mention is that this was one of the shortest final tables I've seen at the Sunday Warm-Up, as eventual champ frtk took control from the opening … [Read more...]