This week's edition of the Sunday Warm-Up drew a whopping 4,763 entrants to construct a prize pool of an immense $952,600, greater than $200,000 over the guarantee! By the point the general table was set, it was fully dark at the east coast, and the late NFL game was almost to halftime. Final table host PokerStars Team Pro Ivan Demidov came directly to welcome the players to the overall table, and so they had barely enough time to play one hand before happening a snappy break.

With nine hours within the books, it could take the players not up to 90 minutes to declare a winner. When all was said and done it was egor2077 getting hot hands on the right time to decimate his last opposition and claim the $149,017.54 top prize, with out a deals made on the final table this week.

Short stack smerks pushed his stack into the center several times before finding himself in a last coin flip against GoldStar player xQ024. Smerks held a slight edge preflop with 8♥-8♦, but xQ024's K♠-J♦ made top pair at the K♥-T♥-7♠ flop and smerks needed on of the 2 remaining eights or running hearts to stick alive. The turn card was a singularly unhelpful A♦, and when the river brought the 9♠, smerks was headed to the rail in 9th place ($7,620.80). Only a few hands later funnywhiteshss open-shoved with K♥-Q♠, only to run into egor2077's A♥-A♠. The board ran out 4♣-8♥-9♠-7♦-5♠, after which there have been seven. Funnywhiteshss picked up $11,907.50 for 8th place.

The all-ins were flying around like bullets in a Quentin Tarantino movie, but more often than not the quick stacks were dodging elimination. After a gap all in move from egor2077 within the small blind, timdmd defended his big blind with Q♥-9♥. It turned out to be a fair read, as egor2077 was on a steal with A♠-3♣, however the J♣-9♣-A♥ flop put egor2077 firmly into the driver's seat. Timdmd needed a queen or another nine to stick alive, however the turn and river ran out 6♦-3♥, and he was done in 7th place ($21,433.50).

XQ024 came out firing again with a chain of robust preflop raises, and fabregarp moved all in excessive of his button raise with A♠-2♥. This time xQ024 turned over the dominating A♦-K♣, and fabregarp was at risk of elimination. The flop of 3♦-3♥-6♦ was no help to either player, but fabregarp picked up additional outs when the 5♣ hit the turn. No deuce or four landed at the river, however, because the J♣ was the overall card in his final hand. Fabregarp picked up an outstanding $30,959.50 for his 6th-place finish.

If an image is worth one thousand words, this little video shows how a river is worth $40,485.50. That's how much olle101 picked up for his tournament after busting out in 5th place.

Play slowed dramatically with only four players remaining, because the remaining players jockeyed for position and passed the chip lead backward and forward among themselves. Finally, ahead of the general break of the night, egor2077 took out two players briefly order to transport right into a 2:1 chip lead going into heads-up play. First, xQ024 moved all in from the small blind with T♣-T♥, and egor2077 called with A♦-K♦. A flop of 4♠-A♣-3♥ put the coin flip in egor2077's court, and when the turn and river came down J♦-7♣, xQ024 was done in 4th place ($53,821.90).

On the very next hand, egor2077 raised from the button with A♣-9♣, and FUTURE102 moved all in excessive with K♠-K♦. FUTURE102 looked poised to double through egor2077 at the Q♦-8♣-5♦ flop, however the T♣ at the turn gave egor2077 more outs to win. The A♥ at the river was a type of outs, and FUTURE102 was done in 3rd place ($78,589.50) and egor2077 took an important chip lead into heads up play.

No stranger to online final tables, Titantom32 closed the space heads up fairly quickly, refusing to make things easy on egor2077. The players feinted and parried for long minutes before finally the chips went within the middle for the last time.

When the dust settled, egor2077's two pair were better than Titantom32's, and he was eliminated in 2nd place ($110,977.90). With out a deal in place, or ever seriously discussed, egor2077 took out the overall three opponents on the final table to say the $149,017.54 top prize. Congratulations to egor2077 and all our final table players!

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