4,353 players took to the felt for the $215 Sunday Warm Up at Poker Stars on March 22, 2009. They shattered the $750,000 Guarantee and gave the first place finisher more than $112,000 with five-figure payouts going to eight players.
Noah “Exclusive” Boeken made bank in the event, taking 199th place and $957.66. The player who took him out of the event, lara15fiona used his chips to get all the way to 23rd place ($1,828.26). At this point, the story of the tournament became James “mig.com” Mackey, the 2007 WCOOP Main Event third place finisher, knocked out the 11th and 10th place finishers to enter the final table in great shape.
He rode the wave of success all the way to heads-up play against chip leader Buton77. Buton had 23,569,374 chips to Mackey’s 19,960,626. On the final hand Buton77 made a full house, tens full of sixes, ending the match.
Here are the final results:
1) Buton77 - $112,307.40
2) mig.com - $78,354.00
3) Quagmire - $52,236.00
4) dj_ponytale - $43,530.00
5) grebnrets86 - $34,824.00
6) DeacNutt - $26,118.00
7) Ar Schaflme - $17,412.00
8) p5an - $10,882.50
9) don_beppe - $7,051.86
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