The dog days of summer wear on and on, and the prize pool for the Sunday Warm-Up goes up and up. This week another guarantee-busting field turned out, with 3,911 players building a monstrous $782,200 prize pool. After a marathon Sunday performance calvo1989 came out on top in an enormous come-from behind victory, knocking off perpetual big stack Payacan heads up and claiming the highest prize of $106,970.47 after a heads up chop.

After a temporary hand-for-hand period, the general table kicked off with Payacan and Blue Knight1 holding the most important stacks. Szusza84 was the general table bubble boy, busting with top pair against a flush to say $4,693.21 for 10th place. Prezidento barely lasted long enough to listen to Greg "Fossilman" Raymer's welcoming remarks before he busted in 9th place ($6,257.61) in an enormous hand against Dsavo. Getting into the general table the quickest of the short stacks, Prezidento open-shoved from early position with A♦-Q♣. Dsavo awoke within the big blind with A♣-A♥, and snap-called. Prezidento was behind and stayed that way because the final board ran out A♠-5♦-8♠-2♣-J♦. Dsavo's top set was good, after which there have been eight.

Columbian80% found himself running on fumes with barely 2 big blinds left, so when the action folded around to his button, he shipped it in with K♦-2♥. El Tiltor decided it was his turn to get up with a monster within the big blind, and called with A♠-K♥. The flop of 7♣-7♠-5♣ helped neither player, and the T♦ at the turn left Columbian80% drawing for 3 outs. The A♦ was the furthest thing from help he may have found, and his tournament was over in 8th place ($9777.51).

Faster than you'll say "wait a minute, I'm still typing over here!" the sphere lost another competitor as kiehndk went to the rail in 7th place ($17,599.51). The entire money went in preflop, as kiehndk open-shoved from the button with K♣-9♦. Big stack Payacan thought for a moment before making the decision with A♦-T♠, but if the flop came down T♦-3♦-6♥, it was a really perfect move. The 6♦ at the turn gave Payacan the nut flush draw to compliment top pair, however the river was an irrelevant Q♣ as Payacan sent kiehndk packing.

The pace of play slowed not a bit of as players came back from break to peer the following elimination at the first actual hand. Blue Knight1 raised from the small blind with A♠-T♠, and saufar moved all in excessive. Blue Knight1 thought for a moment before making the call, and located out he was in great shape when saufar tabled K♠-9♠. The flop hit both players because it came down 9♦-T♣-3♥, but Blue Knight1 had top pair, top kicker and an enormous lead within the hand. Top pair held up because the turn and river came down 8♥-6♥, and saufar fell in 6th place for $25,421.51.

El Tiltor was the following to fall when he moved all in preflop with Q♦-J♠ and got one caller in Blue Knight1 with K♣-Q♠. The board ran out a singularly unhelpful 2♦-5♦-T♠-9♥-T♥, and El Tiltor was El-iminated in 5th place ($33,243.51). After dropping most of his stack to calvo1989 when he ran A♦-9♥ into calvo1989's A♥-Q♠, Blue Knight1 was running on fumes when he put the last of his chips in the course of the table preflop. In his final hand, Blue Knight1 found all his cookies in the course of the table after calvo1989 raised preflop, Payacan called from the small blind, and Blue Knight1 moved in for the last of his stack from the large blind. Both opponents called, and the live players checked down the 4♠-Q♠-J♣-6♣-7♥ board. Payacan showed A♣-7♦, and Blue Knight1 mucked, picking up $44,976.51 for 4th place.

Just as talks of a deal were starting, an enormous hand broke out between the 2 big stacks. When the dust settled, there has been one less big stack after this monster hand.

Dsavo earned an overly respectable $64,531,51 for his 3rd-place finish, and the 2 survivors took a moment to return to a deal. After taking a look at the numbers, the 2 remaining players agreed on a chop which gave Payacan $107,352.35 and calvo1989 $96,970.47, with $10,000 left within the middle for the eventual champion. With the main points taken care of, the players returned to their corners and came out swinging for the last $10K.

Payacan took a 3:1 chip lead into heads up play, and it wasn't long before the general outcome was decided. Payacan lost the chip lead in huge hand early in heads up play, and the entire confrontation lasted lower than fifteen minutes. Finally, all of it came right down to a coin flip and the river card, because the final hand unfolded like this -

Calvo1989 came from behind in dramatic fashion on the final table to take down the entire enchilada, including the $96,970 from the chop and the additional $10K left for the winner, making his total take $106,970.47. Congratulations to calvo1989 on a spectacular final table performance and a perfect come-from-behind victory!

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