Latest Sunday Warm-Up Post

Vamooooooooooooooooooooo! If railbirds and players were feeling any post-WCOOP hangover they certainly didn't show it at tonight's $750,000 Guarantee Sunday Warm-up. With 4,417 players signed up for the $215 buy-in NLHE tourney it smashed the guarantee and created a $883,400.00 prize pool that paid out 630 places with $138,587.80 of...more

With the WCOOP on everyone's mind and players looking to grab some extra bankroll cash for the two and a half week long extravaganza starting September 3rd 4,100 showed up at the cashier's window for tonight's $750,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-up. With a prize pool of $820,000.00 and $128,740.00 of that...more

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 a huge...more

Some nights the $750,000 Guarantee Sunday Warm-up final table is a close battle with extra thin value bets determining the winner. Other nights, like tonight, the players bust out their sledgehammers and go to work on the weak. After starting out with 10,000 chips and 4,075 other players signed up...more

It's getting almost mundane, if by mundane we mean really exciting and super-cool, especially for the folks who make the final table and drag down some serious coin, but the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up blew up the guarantee again this week, with 4,090 players building a humongous $818,000 prize pool....more

The summer is almost over with retailers hawking their Back-to-School wares and getting parents like myself to make a double-take at the calendars wondering where the sunshine and beach trips went. One constant besides death and taxes is the Sunday Warm-up at PokerStars with its $750,000 Guarantee and habit of...more

4,303 players ponied up the $215 entry fee into this week's Sunday Warm-Up, blowing through the guarantee and building a prize pool of $860,600. Even with such a large field, it only took a little over eight hours to reach the final table, and only 90 minutes for Aguskb to...more

With the madness of the World Series of Poker behind us (at least until the November Nine return to the Main Event final table), 4,209 players filled the void this evening by trading $215 for a ticket to the $750,000 Guarantee Sunday Warm-up. Easily breaking the guarantee, 630 players divided...more

It certainly seems like big live tournaments don't do any harm to the turnout in the PokerStars Guaranteed Tournaments. While PokerStars qualifiers made up a significant portion of the field in the World Series of Poker Main Event, going on right now in Las Vegas, there were still plenty...more

With over six thousand poker players currently crushing the World Series of Poker Main Event tonight's $750,000 Guarantee was sure to be a ghost town right? Wrong. 3,884 players found the less expensive $215 buy in for the Sunday Warm-up more to their liking easily going over the $750,000 Guarantee...more

The last Sunday Warm-Up of June saw a huge 4,203-player field build a prize pool of over $840,000. With such huge stakes, the pace of play was steady throughout, and it took just under nine hours to reach the final table. Hobbes200 took a massive chip lead into the final...more

As expected with the crush of PokerStars players sitting in the Amazon Room at the Rio playing the 40th edition of the World Series of Poker, the numbers at today's $750,000 Guarantee Sunday Warm-up were down. But, not by much as 3,690 players ponied up the $215 buy-in leaving the...more

With the monster 200-seat Guarantee WSOP Main Event Qualifier running this week, the Sunday Warm-Up became the biggest prize of the Sunday Night fights. 4,320 players signed up, building a massive $864,000 prize pool. It was still a relatively quick affair, as it only took a little over eight hours...more

Despite the poker madness at the Amazon Room in Las Vegas right now nearly 4,000 players sat down with their $215 buy-in for the $750,000 Guarantee Sunday Warm-up tonight. If you do the hard math, no extra money was needed and a tidy $125,474.41 of the prize pool would go...more

The final Sunday Warm-Up of may drew a whopping 4095 entrants and built a prize pool of $819,000. The action was fast-paced throughout, but the sun had still well set on the east coast when the final nine players settled in after a very brief final table bubble. Hatchi was...more