This week's Super Tuesday -- the weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em tournament on PokerStars -- drew a large field as usual with 539 players participating. But inspite of the massive turnout it played out just a little more quickly than usual, with Russia's NEWFlat needing just 10 hours and 11 minutes to outlast everyone to earn the victory and a large $102,410 first prize.

The big field meant a prize pool of $539,000, well above the event's $425K guarantee. It took about five hours and 20 minutes for the starting field to be whittled all the way down to 63 players, at which point former Sunday Million winner gringenkov held the chip lead with ceremore and bossamtisch not too far behind.

Just about two hours later they were all the way down to 18, with gringenkov and ceremore still above the typical while bossamtisch had slipped down within the counts to fall in 30th ($2,964.50). Meanwhile baeks22 had risen to take over the chip lead because the only player then with greater than 350,000.

Bonglim (18th), Iliodoros "ILIOS72" Kamatakis (17th), and Emil "Emilohlsson" Ohlsson (16th) were the following players eliminated, each earning $4,312. Benjamin "SPEKTAH" Leblond (15th), elhilario (14th), and lulDocuments (13th) followed them to the virtual rail, picking up $5,390 apiece. Then NEED100KFAST (12th), OverTheTop43 (11th), and Sebastian "Bassysaffari" Saffari (10th) went out, taking out $6,468 each from the prize pool.

With gringenkov back within the chip lead with somewhat over 600,000, the overall table was underway.

Seat 1: Geokarak (UK) -- 296,806Seat 2: Larry "BBOY3110" Sharp (Costa Rica) -- 153,747Seat 3: baeks22 (Germany) -- 526,622Seat 4: ceremore (Switzerland) -- 315,382Seat 5: HYZENBURG (Canada) -- 62,822Seat 6: NEWFlat (Russia) -- 364,292Seat 7: Aaralynn (Mexico) -- 123,939Seat 8: Daniel "Oxota" Dvoress (Canada) -- 242,580Seat 9: gringenkov (Brazil) -- 608,810

It was an excited final nine, as evidenced by the chat box because the final table began.

NEWFlat: gl guys!Oxota: You toogringenkov: gl allbaeks22: glglceremore: gl !

On the third hand of the general table, the blinds were 2,800/5,600 when NEWFlat opened for 12,600 from the button, then Aaralynn shoved for 116,239 from the small blind. It folded back to NEWFlat who called, turning over K♣J♠ while Aaralynn had A♦Q♠. The board then came J♥4♥5♦T♦8♠, the jack within the window hitting NEWFlat's hand and knocking Aaralynn out in ninth.

A short-stacked HYZENBURG managed to hold on another 25 minutes after that, but finally open-shoved from the cutoff for 40,022 (about 5.5 big blinds) with K♦T♥ and got looked up by NEWFlat at the button with A♠8♠. The Q♥4♦J♦6♦7♥ board hit neither player, and HYZENBERG was done in eighth.

About a half-hour after that it was Geokarak open-shoving from under the gun for 103,026 (about 11.5 big blinds) and getting one caller in gringenkov from the massive blind. Geokarak had A♠2♠ while gringenkov had woken up with Q♣Q♠, and five cards later -- T♥5♣K♣Q♥6♥ -- gringenkov had a collection of queens and Geokarak was at the rail in seventh.

Not longer after that it was NEWflat opening for just over 2x with a raise to 21,200 from the button, then Daniel "Oxota" Dvoress reraised all-in for 107,938 from the small blind and NEWflat called the frenzy. Dvoress had K♦T♠ and a pair of live cards versus NEWflat's A♥Q♦, however the board came low -- 3♠3♦7♥8♠4♣ -- and Dvoress' run led to sixth.

Daniel "Oxota" Dvoress

"u guys wanna see numbers?" asked NEWflat following Dvoress' knockout, but ceremore responded "bit early for me" while gringenkov added "let's play for 102k :) gl" and the general five continued on throughout the tournament's 10th hour.

A short while later NEWFlat made another just-over-the-minimum raise to 25,440 from early position and baeks22 defended from the large blind with a choice. The flop came 5♦J♥6♣, and after baeks22 checked NEWFlat continued for 19,314. At that baeks22 check-raised all-in for 98,832 and NEWFlat called.

baeks22 turned over 9♦8♠ for a gutshot draw while NEWFlat had a couple of jacks with J♠8♣. The turn was the A♦ and river the 9♥, and baeks22 was eliminated in fifth.

A little later within the last hand before the 10-hour break, Larry "BBOY3110" Sharp opened for 26,400 from early position, then NEWFlat three-bet to 66,000 from the massive blind. Sharp reraised all-in for 264,768 and NEWFlat called, turning over A♠Q♦ while Sharp had A♣2♦. The 9♦Q♥T♣T♥4♥ runout gave NEWFlat two pair and sent Sharp out to gather fourth-place money.

The remaining trio took their break, with NEWFlat way out in front with greater than 1.8 million while gringenkov was in second with just over 671,000 and ceremore was third with about 216,000.

Soon gringenkov raised 3x from the small ignorant of 42,000, ceremore three-bet to 116,889 from the big, gringenkov pushed all-in for 459,879 total, and ceremore called.

gringenkov had K♦Q♠ but needed a whole lot of help versus ceremore's A♦A♠. The 2♣Q♥T♦ flop did bring one pair for gringenkov, but neither the 6♣ turn nor 4♠ river helped to any extent further and gringenkov was reduce in third.

With that pot ceremore was as much as 993,284 to start out heads-up play versus NEWFlat who still led with 1,701,716. NEWFlat would then win the primary hand between the pair to snatch almost 130,000 off ceremore's stack, then suddenly the tournament came to an abrupt conclusion after heads-up hand number two.

It began with NEWFlat creating a 2.5x raise to 35,000 from the button and ceremore calling, and the 2 of them saw a flop come 3♠T♥K♠. ceremore checked, NEWFlat bet 35,000, then ceremore raised to 99,778. NEWFlat responded with a reraise to 236,306, ceremore pushed all-in for 828,462 total, and NEWFlat called.

ceremore: K♦6♠NEWFlat: A♥A♦

ceremore had flopped top pair of kings but this time NEWFlat had the aces within the hole. The turn was the J♥ and river the J♦, giving NEWFlat the simpler two pair and the win.

Congratulations to NEWFlat for racing through this week's Super Tuesday in precisely over 10 hours to win the entire chips and a pleasing six-figure score.

4/5/16 Super Tuesday ($1,050 No-Limit Hold'em) resultsEntrants: 539Prize pool: $539,000.00Places paid: 63

1. NEWFlat (Russia) $102,410.002. ceremore (Switzerland) $75,460.003. gringenkov (Brazil) $55,247.504. Larry "BBOY3110" Sharp (Costa Rica) $42,042.005. baeks22 (Germany) $29,645.006. Daniel "Oxota" Dvoress (Canada) $22,907.507. Geokarak (UK) $17,517.508. HYZENBURG (Canada) $12,127.509. Aaralynn (Mexico) $8,947.40

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