Another Sunday, another gigantic field for the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up. In this edition, 4,180 players ponied up their $215 for a shot at a six-figure payday. After some eight hours of play, the final nine players settled in around the final table. The final table bubble was brief but brutal as SpaceyFCB made a full house on the river to crack 5thHeartAce's … [Read more...]
aligator67 Eats Em’ Up During Sunday Warm-Up Win
January 11, 2009 By
As the excitement of the recently completed 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (see Poorya Nazari's winner's interview here) is packed back up until next year, it's back to the virtual tables for the big weekend tournaments. The $750,000 Guarantee Sunday Warm-up opened its doors for over 4,032 players this evening, some who may still be lapping up … [Read more...]
Buller00 comes from behind in amazing Sunday Warm-Up Victory!
January 4, 2009 By
PokerStars ended the holiday season on a high note with another massive crowd lining up for the Sunday Warm-Up. The first Sunday Warm-Up of 2009 blew through the guarantee, with 4103 players building a massive $829,600 prize pool. Anybody who thought that registration would be slow with so many players headed down to Atlantis for the PokerStars Caribbean … [Read more...]
Hr_Herman Knocks One Out of the Park in Sunday Warm-up Win
December 29, 2008 By
As part of World Record Week here at PokerStars, several tournaments received a money injection into their guarantees. Tonight's Sunday Warm-up normally a guaranteed $750,000 became a $1 million guarantee, and just so people would not confuse this tournament with the "Sunday Million" the marquee weekly PokerStars tournament's guarantee was bumped up … [Read more...]
Snowking_85 wins a slugfest in the Sunday Warm-Up
December 22, 2008 By
A whopping 3,837 players took to the field for the last Sunday Warm-up before Christmas in 2008, and 585 of those players found at least $383.70 in their stocking by the end of the day. As the stores began to close on the east coast for shoppers, the final nine players gathered for their shot at the big money, including an impressive $99,762.00 for … [Read more...]
Sunday Warm-Up Mmm Mmm Good for mmmbillski
December 15, 2008 By
This week's Sunday Warm-Up saw 3,899 runners log on, thereby ensuring the $750,000 guarantee would be safely met. A total of 585 places paid for today's event, with the prize pool ultimately topping off at $779,900. Leaving aside any final table deal-making, the player finishing in first place stood to earn a handsome $101,374 for his or her efforts. Player … [Read more...]
Shotgun78111 blows away competition in Sunday Warm-Up!
December 7, 2008 By
3,751 players signed up for one of the richest guarantees in online poker this week - the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up. After 8 ½ hours of No Limit tournament play, the final nine players gathered round one table for their piece of the big money. Sbj1000 took the chip lead into a fairly even final table, without the huge leaders or micro-stacks we sometimes … [Read more...]
The Babe Approves, Yankees31 Wins Sunday Warm-Up
December 1, 2008 By
The Sunday Warm-up keeps getting bigger and bigger as we welcomed 4,066 to this $750,000 guarantee prize pool tournament tonight. With a player funded $813,200.00, the champion will be walking away with six figures again tonight as 585 players took home at least $406.60. Soren "Kongsgaard" Kongsgaard made yet another deep run in a big Sunday tournament. … [Read more...]
Taking Everyone to School: Cobus83 Takes Down the Sunday Warm-Up
November 24, 2008 By
Just two months ago PokerStars was filling the prize pool with the $750,000 guaranteed money. Now, it has become commonplace to see yet another smashed guarantee as it was tonight with 3,899 making the final money tally a whopping $779,800 to be broken up into smaller pieces for the 585 players that cashed tonight. Among those cashing were Team PokerStars … [Read more...]
Slyfox151 jumps over the final table competition in Sunday Warm-Up!
November 16, 2008 By
The turnout for the Sunday Warm-Up continues to swell, with 3,896 players turning out this week to take their shot at a piece of the $750,000 guaranteed prize pool. As usual, the huge field blew through the guarantee, with a total prize pool of $779,200 and a whopping $101,296 for first place! It took a little over eight hours for our competitors to … [Read more...]