Want to roll like a ballah but have a bankroll that more fitting for a used tricycle? PokerStars is here to help in two different ways. One, for the past month we have been running qualifiers (freerolls, $1.10, and $11 buy-ins) for the chance to win a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4. Each week ending with a $100,000 weekly final in which the top 2,000 players get a seat into the grand final to be played on October 3rd where one lucky player will roll away with that fine automobile.

The other way you can get a pimpin' ride? Each month PokerStars and the Team PokerStars pros put up a little piece of themselves for just 3,000 Frequent Players Points (FPPs). The $1,000,000 Turbo Takedown is a freeroll that can only be entered with FPPs as the buy-in and first prize is the sleek Audi TT and $60,000.00 just in case you need to buy gas or some music for the ride. The pros put up a bounty off $100.00 each should someone be lucky enough to knock that Team PokerStars pro patch right off the table.

Alvaro "VARICO" Blanco, Pete De Korver, Noah "Exclusive" Boeken, Christian "el grillo" de Leon, Veronica "Princesa" Dabul , Martha "marene" Herrera, were a few of the PokerStars pros that gave up their bounty before the 5,000 players who got paid this evening. Mathew "chipstar1" Didlick ($78.00, 4701st place), Christophe "chrisdm" De Meulder ($81.15, 4459th place), Thierry van den "BOKPOWER" Berg ($95.00, 3045th place), Joep "Pappe_Ruk" Van Den Bijgaart ($170.00, 877th place), Chrien80 ($180.00, 734th place), Martin "AABenjaminAA" Hrubý ($300.00, 267th place), Alexey "elmagopr" Makarov ($2,000.00, 30th place) all managed to weave through enough of the 13,864 player field to take a little money back from their bounties.

After 13,854 players lost their chips we were five-handed on two tables with blinds at 70K/140K ante 14K as both tables managed to have an all-in at the same time. tuffa1 shoved from UTG for 4.3 million and was called in the big blind by brainwash for 700K less holding [Ks][Ad]. tuffa1 flipped up [Qd][Kd] for the dominated hand and brainwash was looking great for a double-up to 7.6 million. But, a cruel queen was on the door as the board failed to re-suck for brainwash as the spiraled avatar left the tournament in tenth place ($8,000.00). The other all-in had taylor44770 in for less than brainwash, but taylor44770 would survive also holding big slick against a dominated hand and took down the 5.3 million chip pot against vzgo, earning a seat at the final table below:

Seat 1: taylor44770 (5392044 in chips)
Seat 2: LochemLand (2493532 in chips)
Seat 3: Sonderskönig (4865507 in chips)
Seat 4: juandadi (6946484 in chips)
Seat 5: JFKme (4462016 in chips)
Seat 6: DESS66 (4015433 in chips)
Seat 7: tuffa1 (8223369 in chips)
Seat 8: vzgo (1260782 in chips)
Seat 9: BigFlopper01 (3932833 in chips)

Pepto Bismol is needed after the river

No one took leave during the 80K/160K ante 16K chip level but as we moved on to the 90K/180K ante 18K level there was action between vzgo and JFKme. JFKme would start the hand with a raise to 475K as vzgo on the shortstack in the big blind decided to push for 1.3 million. JFKme started out with 4.5 million and made the call holding pocket eights [8h][8c] as vzgo turned over [Qc][As] for the coinflip. A eight would flop [Jh] [Th] [8d] putting JFKme firmly in front only having to dodge a king. Turn card: [Kh] which gave vzgo the broadway straight, as vzgo now had to dodge the board pairing. And vzgo failed to do just that as a second king fell [Kd] giving the table an upset stomach and vzgo ninth place money ($10,000.00).

Back-to-back for JFKme

On the very next hand LochemLand would open shove from UTG for 1.6 million as the table folded around to JFKme who quickly called holding big slick [Kh][As]. This time there was no such excitement as the players did not need to worry about a soul-crushing river as LochemLand's [Qc][Ah] came in dominated and left dominated after two kings hit the [Ts] [6s] [Ks] [Kd] [8c] board and sent LochemLand back home with eighth place money ($12,500.00).

Silence broken by DESS66

While the chat box was only filled with the occasional "nh" and "gg" seven players made it thru the 100K/200K ante 20K and 125K/250K ante 25K levels without a loss, but as they started the 150K/300K ante 30K level we would lose at least one. JFKme would lose some of those chips acquired from knocking out both LochemLand and vzgo. Down to 3.05 million, JFKme shoved over the top of a limping DESS66 holding pocket deuces [2c][2s] as DESS66 would make the call holding six million chips and a suited [Ah][Qh]. The ducks would avoid the flop [6c] [Th] [7s] but not the turned ace [Ad] as DESS66's turned pair would hold thru the [9s] river. The former hunter became the hunted as JFKme finished in seventh place ($15,000.00).

Not king for a day

In some three-way action BigFlopper01, Sonderskönig, and juandadi get mixed up as the blinds stayed at 150K/300K ante 30K and one player would be asked to leave the tournament table. Watch below as the hand plays out:

BigFlopper01 would abandon his preflop min-raise as both Sonderskönig and juandadi both shoved behind with juandadi covering Sonderskönig's bet. juandadi flipped up [Qc][Ah] which was slightly ahead of Sonderskönig's [Kc][Tc] for the 5.4 million chip pot. Sonderskönig would flop a flush draw [9c] [8h] [8c] but failed to find a club, a ten, or a king on the [2h] or [5d] river shipping sixth place money his way ($17,500.00).

Tuff night

tuffa1 would start off with a min raise from the button as the blinds moved up to 200K/400K ante 40K, but BigFlopper1 in the small blind was not giving up easily and shoved for 12.5 million. The bet well-covered tuffa1's 3.8 million stack as tuffa1 thought it through and felt the [7c][Ad] sitting in his hand was superior and made the call. No drama here either as BigFlopper01 turned over [9d][Ah] for two pips higher which was bolstered by the ace and nine on the flop [8d] [Ac] [9c]. After the turned [Kh] failed to produce a straight or flush draw the 9.8 million chips were post marked for BigFlopper01 sending tuffa1 home in fifth place ($20,000.00).

Big Flopper continues to live up to the name

taylor44770 got blinded down to just 1.1 million as juandadi and BigFlopper01 took the majority of the four handed hands with preflop raises. The blinds still at 200K/400K ante 40K BigFlopper01 opened for 1.6 million in the small blind forcing taylor44770 to call in the big blind for 720,423. Holding pocket fives [5s][5c] had a fighting chance to double-up against BigFlopper01's [Qd][Jd]. But, as the name implies, BigFlopper01 would hit another flop connecting with a pair of jacks and turning two pair [Jh] [2h] [As] [Qc] [4d] to knock out taylor44770 in fourth place ($25,000.00).

Chop talks end quickly

The players had the moderator stop the tournament clocks for what was a quick discussion of supply and demand. BigFlopper01 had the biggest supply, but juandadi demanded too much for his much smaller chip supply as BigFlopper01 scoffed at the idea of giving up several thousand dollars as the cards were back in the air.

You are not my dadi

As three handed play lasted several orbits, as the blinds moved up to 225K/450K ante 45K juandadi was knocked down to 4.7 million chips and was facing a shove by BigFlopper01 while in the big blind holding [7h][Kh]. Electing to gamble, juandadi made the call as BigFlopper01 did have a better hand [Th][Ah] and despite having live cards, any heart draw was taken away. No matter since the cold, heartless [2s] [8c] [Ac] [Ts] [2c] came out as BigFlopper01 once again flopped a pair and it held to ship third place money ($30,000.00) but no car to juandadi.

Only Canadians allowed

Quebec's DESS66 would start out holding 8.1 million chips far behind Vancouver's BigFlopper01's 33.4 million chips. But, certainly was not about to lay down as four hands into heads-up play DESS66 would sneak pocket eights [8c][8s] past the [4d][Ah] of BigFlopper01 after an ace flopped but and eight turned to give DESS66 a 16.7 million chip pot.

Shortly after DESS66 went on a little run, winning five hands in a row and took the chip lead up to 28.7 million against 12.8 million for BigFlopper01. DESS66 would continue to pull away from BigFlopper01 getting the lead up to 31.8 million to 9.7 million as the lead crumbled quickly. First, BigFlopper01 got pocket eights to hold up versus [As][7d] for a 19.4 million chip pot. Then after taking down the blinds, the hand of the tournament happened, watch it play out below:

After a min-raise and call preflop with the blinds capped at 250K/500K ante 50K both players saw the [Qh] [Th] [8s] flop as DESS66 led out for 1.44 million. BigFlopper01 came back with a lot of sixes, raising to 6,666,666. But, DESS66 was not done three-betting all-in as BigFlopper01 snap called with pocket aces [Ad][As]. DESS66 was behind but not by much holding straight and flush draws [Jh][7h]. The [5c] was not red nor a nine, neither was the [Ts] river which gave BigFlopper the 39.4 million chip pot leaving DESS66 with just 2.1 million. The very next hand those 2.1 million chps went in as DESS66 held [Td][7s] and BigFlopper01 made the call with [Jc][Th]. A seven would flop, but a straight would turn for BigFlopper01 to take down the final 4.3 million chip pot and this month's $1 million Turbo Takedown!

August $1,000,000 Turbo Takedown Results (08-29-10)
1. BigFlopper01 (vancouver) $60,000.00 plus Audi TT
2. DESS66 (Québec) $40,000.00
3. juandadi (arlington) $30,000.00
4. taylor44770 (pensacola) $25,000.00
5. tuffa1 (Helsinki) $20,000.00
6. Sonderskönig (Las Vegas / Wörthsee) $17,500.00
7. JFKme (Dubai) $15,000.00
8. LochemLand (Enschede) $12,500.00
9. vzgo (Springfield) $10,000.00

Several Team PokerStars pros tried their hand tonight at breaking thru the 17,281 player field of the $1 Million Turbo Takedown but only a handful would break into the top 5,000 to claim a little money. Anders "Donald" Berg (382nd Place - $260.00), Christophe "chrisdm" de Meulder (216th place - $350.00), and Julian Thew (212th place - $350.00) would all reach the final 500 but were unable to get within sniffing that great new car smell of the Audi TT and dropped off their $100 bounties before leaving.

Task cracked

Taska85 was sitting on the bubble with a comfortable 2.7 million in chips and facing a 345,000 raise from muezzo with the blinds at 80K/160K ante 16K. Looking down at ace-jack [Jh][Ac] and figuring muezzo for a button steal Taska85 would go all-in as muezzo had slightly less chips but a higher kicker [Qh][As] and made the call. An all low board drizzled out [5s] [6s] [7h] [2c] [8d] and Taska85 was chopped down to 111,122 chips. Those scraps were eaten up by APZ19 who's [8s][9d] would beat out the [Kh][6h] leaving Taska85 off the final table in tenth place ($8,000.00)

Seat 1: muezzo (5345152 in chips)
Seat 2: coNNBoyle (13838222 in chips)
Seat 3: knif1807 (6463144 in chips)
Seat 4: APZ19 (5896874 in chips)
Seat 5: growby (10284413 in chips)
Seat 6: sgc0458 (796679 in chips)
Seat 7: naka34 (1937084 in chips)
Seat 8: pain-bg (3366390 in chips)
Seat 9: mossified84 (5535042 in chips)

mossifed84 got the race for the AudiTT going in a hurry by doubling-up off growby in the final table's very first hand for an 11.2 million chip pot with blinds starting off at 80K/160K ante 16K.

Feeling the pain

It would take two full levels (100K/200K ante 20K) before our first elimination which seemed to open the gates of several others wanting to leave quickly tonight. sgc0458 had only 706,716 chips in early position, made the most of them by open shoving with pocket eights [8c][8h]. pain-bg two seats over would re-shove and covered holding big slick [Kh][Ac]. A king on the door [Kc] [5h] [Qh] [6c] [7d] on sgc0458's night was over in ninth place ($10,000.00).

And they all come tumbling down

Four hands later muezzo was sitting UTG with just 1.1 million in chips holding a medium suited ace [Ah][8h] and shoved. Chip leader coNNBoyle was not make a big stack call here after matching the bet and turning over pocket rockets [Ad][Ac]. Slight scare on the [6h] [Ts] [Qh] flop gave muezzo some breath of life for the nut flush, [9s] on the turn opened up some straight outs. But the [5c] river was not the right five and muezzo buzzed off in eighth place ($12,500.00).

You been... MOSS-IF-IED

As a Minnesota Viking's fan my heart broke a little bit seeing number 84 get shuffled off to the New England Patriots but much like the talented wide receiver mossifed84 showed he can race with anyone. The very next hand after muezzo left, mossified84 re-shoved on the all-in bet of naka34 holding pocket jacks [Js][Jd]. naka34 could only turn up an over card [Kd][Ts] and was unable to connect at all with the [2c] [9h] [3d] [2s] [6d] board ending his night in seventh place ($15,000.00).

Done with the all-in's? I think not

Just another three hands later, and one hand after APZ19 doubled up off mossified84, knif1807 and pain-bg went toe-to-toe preflop for a 7.4 million chip pot. Watch the results below:

Big slick [Ad][Kd] for knif1807 and pocket tens [Tc][Ts] for pain-bg. King on the flop and an unnecessary ace on the river [8h] [Jd] [Kc] [3d] [As] directed those 7.4 million chips to knif1807 as pain-bg limped from the final table with an extra $17,500.00 finishing in sixth place.

Jackedy Jack Don't Talk Back

On the very next hand, the biggest pot of the tournament played out with coNNBoyle and knif1807 both holding over 14 million in chips with blinds at 100K/200K ante 20K. Both would be all-in preflop with coNNBoyle just holding 300K more in chips. Watch the 29 million chip pot play out below:

coNNBoyle: [Jd][Jc]
knif1807:[Qc][Qs]

In one of those jaw-dropping flops BOTH coNNBoyle's outs would hit [Jh] [Js] [2s] [7d] [3s] giving him quad jacks as knif1807's 989:1 shot did not come with running queens and thus a very expensive bad beat story in fifth place ($20,000.00).

A moment to exhale

After that block of all-ins and eliminations, the final four would actually part thru three levels reaching the 175K/350K ante 35K before asking another person to leave the table. mossified84 would lose some steam four-handed and was down to 6.4 million chips while trying to make something happen with a three-bet shove in the big blind over growby's small blind raise to 1.05 million. growby with nine million chips called the massive raise with [Jd][8d] as mossified84 was slightly ahead holding [Ks][Tc], live cards for all until two jacks fell on the flop for growby [Jc] [Jh] [2s]. mossified84 could not find running cards on the [4s] turn and [Ac] river to catch up and the Randy Moss fan was out in fourth place ($25,000.00).

Straight outta here

We would move our three-handed table into the ninth hour of play and blinds at 200K/400K ante 40K with the chip stacks fairly even (coNNBoyle - 20.6 million, growby - 18.9 million, and APZ19 - 13.8 million). Chop talks started and stopped several times but never got enough legs to stop the tournament. growby would led out for a three time the BB raise from the button as APZ19 would call from the big blind. [Jh] [5h] [6s] flop and both players checked. APZ19 would check the turned [7s] as growby bet two million and was called. On the rivered [4s] completing a flush draw, APZ19 would shove for 10.6 million. After turning the nut straight [9c][8c] growby had a decision for a big chunk of his stack and made the right call as APZ19 turned up the [As] but the second card was a club [5c] finishing APZ19's day in third place ($30,000.00) as heads-up play would commence for the Audi TT.

Host YbrahimC here but not needed yet

Heads-up play would start with connBoyle slightly down 20.4 million to growby's 33 million and blinds at 200K/400K ante 40K. The players would summon Host YbrahimC to the tables but were unable to get enough traction to stop the clocks for a deal. As the players moved through that level and the 225K/450K ante 45K level without a winner but the chip stacks becoming dead even for nearly the entire level.

A new host, but old rules

As the players tried to chop up the beautiful car you see above in to smaller pieces, Host Tanner came on to explain that the car cannot be a part of the chop talks and only the $100,000.00 left in the prize pool was open for discussion. They both agreed to a five-minute break as the cards went back into the air without a deal in place.

Looked up and it was over

growby was looking to take over the race to the Audi TT holding a sizable lead of 36.2 million to 17.2 million and the nug nuts holding the tires in place fell off. First, growby would raise to two million as the blinds were capped at 250K/500K ante 50K and coNNBoyle wasted no time in shoving for 17.1 million holding big slick [Ad][Kd]. growby thought for a few moments and made the call with a dominated [Kc][Qs]. They would both pair their king but the ace kicker played on the [2s] [2d] [Ks] [7c] [Tc] board and 34.4 million chips slid to coNNBoyle. Two hands later growby again led out for two million as coNNBoyle again shoved as growby made the call holding [Qh][8h]. Pocket tens for coNNBoyle was out in front and made a big leap when a third ten appeared on the flop [7c] [Td] [Kh]. No heart or potential straight card on the turn [8c] meant the Audi TT was going to be shipped to coNNBoyle along with the $60,000.00 first prize!

Congrats to all of our 5,000 cashers this evening and hope you will be back next month the next $1 Million Turbo Takedown.

$1 Million Turbo Takedown Results (07-25-10)
1. coNNBoyle (Williamsburg) $60,000.00 + Audi TT
2. growby (Burgas) $40,000.00
3. APZ19 (Grimsby, UK) $30,000.00
4. mossified84 (las vegas) $25,000.00
5. knif1807 (Offenburg) $20,000.00
6. pain-bg (Plovdiv) $17,500.00
7. naka34 (spain) $15,000.00
8. muezzo (Cumbria) $12,500.00
9. sgc0458 (stoney creek) $10,000.00

The monthly $1 Million Turbo Takedown is a very simple concept. Enter with 3,000 frequent players points earned through the various qualifiers or rack them up through SnG, MTT, and cash game play and just take down 15,402 players to drive away with $60,000 and a brand new Audi TT. Simple concept, plus added bonuses of cashing in consecutive months and busting our own Team PokerStars pros like Thierry van den "BOKPOWER" Berg, Andres "lobojiji" Alisievicz, Andre "aakkari" Akkari, Alvaro "VARICO" Blanco, Raymond Wu, Joep can den "Pappe_Ruk" Bijgaart all managed to drop off their bounties without cracking the top 5,000 places which took home at least $78.00 this evening.

Team PokerStars Pros Anders "Donald" Berg, André Coimbra, Victor Ramdin, Tae Joon Noh, Boumaaza "Chiren80" Bachir, Martha "marene" Herrera, Randy "nanonoko" Lew, and Nuno Coelho did manage to slide past enough players to get into the money before dropping off their $100.00 pro bounties.

Down to ten players and one more elimination from the final table, Klimbo would try to slide a small stack shove of 698,944 chips past the well, mountainous stack of MountainRo$e holding [Ts][Ks]. Pocket aces [Ac][Ah] held by the big stack were more than enough on the [5c] [8h] [2h] [Td] [8s] board as Klimbo would be left off the final table as tonight's bubble boy ($8,000.00) setting up the remaining nine below:

Seat 1: Johan 80 (1147996 in chips)
Seat 2: MountainRo$e (8695816 in chips)
Seat 3: wcsquad3 (10374473 in chips)
Seat 4: julik36 (2441088 in chips)
Seat 5: Bjorn-Erik "Hikkespett" Glenne (7624117 in chips)
Seat 6: Cornelius110 (4556667 in chips)
Seat 7: byoon (3938304 in chips)
Seat 8: orgi3000 (2504270 in chips)
Seat 9: Snow in June (4923269 in chips)

No boom for byoon

Right out of the gate Johan 80 would try to improve on a fairly short stack with just 1.1 million in chips and blinds at 70K/140K ante 14K by push preflop on the first hand of the final table. Luckily or unluckily Johan 80 would split the pot after being called by Hikkespett and both turning up Ace-Ten for a split pot. One orbit later Johan 80 would take the back seat and watch a painful cooler come down. byoon would start the hand with a raise to 308,880 UTG as julik36 pumped it up to 1.26 million on the button. Folded back to byoon who shoved for 3.5 million holding big slick [Ks][As] which paled to the mighty aces held by julik36 [Ac][Ad] who covered and made the call. No kings nor straights or flushes came down the [3h] [7h] [8d] [Qd] [9c] board and byoon was booted in ninth place ($10,000.00).

Two smalls do not equal a medium

Most the time at a carnival if you're lucky enough to win two small prizes they will "upgrade" your win to a medium. Two small stacks tried combining their stacks together with hopes to improve their chances on winning. orgi3000 with just 539,771 chips would shove over the top of Hikkespett raise, but instead caught the interest of Johan 80 who was only sitting on 1.4 million and also shoved causing Hikkespett to abandon ship. Pocket jacks [Js][Jh] for Johan 30 and a naked suited ace for orgi3000 [As][3s]. The board stayed ace-free [5d] [Kc] [3h] [9c] [5s] and Johan 30 took the 1.6 million chip pot as orgi3000 folded in eighth place ($12,500.00).

Let it snow let it snow let it snow

Johan 30's run as the final table short stack would finally come to an end but not after moving a few ticks up the pay scale. Watch Johan 30's final hand against Snow in June play out below:

Bit of a cooler for Johan 30 after making this far on fumes, his pocket tens [Tc][Td] could not overcome the pocket jacks [Jd][Jh] of Snow in June on the [2s] [Qc] [8d] [9s] [3c] board and Johan 30 would take home $15,000.00 in seventh place as Snow in June found 6.3 million tournament chips heading into his stack.

Blizzard of chips

Shortly after knocking out Johan 30 and the blinds moving up to 90K/180K ante 18K, Snow in June was at it again making a min-raise preflop into julik36's big blind who would make the call. [Qd] [5d] [4c] flop came down as julik36 checked and Snow in June followed-through with a 540,000 bet that was called. [7d] got julik36's attention as he pushed for 1.7 million holding [6c][7s] and Snow in June made the call with pocket jacks [Jd][Jc]. An unnecessary diamond would hit the river [2d] as the jacks were enough to eliminate julik36 in sixth place ($17,500.00).

Mountainous bluff for mountainous pot

Five handed play lasted all the way to the 125K/250K ante 25K blind level when MountainRo$e and wcsquad3 got tangled in a hand with betting on every street. Watch the huge bluff by MountainRo$e on the river below:

With the board reading [Jd] [5h] [Jh] [Qs] [3c] and 5.7 million already in the pot, MountainRo$e tried to lead out by shoving for almost 4.7 million with just ace high [Ad][2d]. Unfortunately, wcsquad3 covered and flopped trips [Kc][Jc] and was going nowhere except to claim the 15.1 million chip pot thus reducing the field to four as MountainRo$e was done in fifth place ($20,000.00).

$1,000 = Table for four

After a very lengthy conversation and $1,000 being sent from the chip leading Cornelius110 to wcsquad3 our final four had the deal listed below:

Cornelius110: $45,624.18
Hikkespett: $41,351.59
wcsquad3: $34,777.19
Snow in June: $33,247.04

Snow melts in June

Shortly after the poker host restarted the tournament the final four got down to the winner fairly quickly. First, it was Snow in June who got into preflop betting war with Hikkespett and got his remaining 3.6 million chips into the middle holding [Ks][Jh] as Hikkespett would turn over the dominating big slick [Ad][Kh]. No frozen suckout cards would find their way onto the [2c] [2h] [8c] [6h] [8s] board and Snow in June's chips evaporated into Hikkespett's stack finishing in fourth place ($33,247.04).

Up against the firing squad

Just five hands later with blinds moving up to 150K/300K ante 30K wcsquad3 would find two raises ahead of him and pocket jacks [Jd][Jh] sitting by his stack. The answer was to shove for 6.4 million as Hikkespett gave up the initial raise and Cornelius110 snap called with pocket kings [Ks][Kc]. Again, the board [4s] [6s] [2d] [5s] [2c] complied with a non-stressful run for the preflop leader as Cornelius110 raked in the 13.5 million chips to set up heads-up play. wcsquad3 took down the $34,777.19 received from the chop as the race for the car was starting up.

This is his car you are playing for

While the players had fairly deep stacks 29.3 million for Hikkespett and 16.8 million for Cornelius110 and blinds at 175K/300K ante 30K, the heads-up play for the AudiTT would only last 17 hands. Hand number 12 was a big blow to Cornelius110's stack after catching trips on the river [Ac] [9d] [Tc] [Qs] [Ts] holding [Td][7h] and making a value raise to 9.45 million, Hikkespett would just call and flip over the turned broadway straight [Jd][Ks] good for the 25.2 million chip pot. And true on his prediction that the others were playing for his car, Hikkespett made good on that foresight five hands later. The gap was now 41.4 million to 4.7 million and after a min-raise from Cornelius110 with a call by Hikkespett watch the final hand plays out below:

Top pair [9c][Qh] was good for Hikkespett as he faded the second pair of Cornelius110 holding [5d][7s] on the final [7d] [Qs] [3s] [3d] [4c] board sending Cornelius110 home with $45,624.18 from the chop and Bjorn-Erik "Hikkespett" Glenne has one Audi TT coming his way after winning this month's $1 Million Turbo Takedown!

June $1 Million Turbo Takedown Results (06-27-10)
(* denotes part of four-way deal which left the Audi TT to play for)
1. Hikkespett (Oppegard) *$41,351.59 + Audi TT
2. Cornelius110 (Desert Hot Springs) *$45,624.18
3. wcsquad3 (sQuAd CitY) *$34,777.19
4. Snow in June (Moscow) *$33,247.04
5. MountainRo$e (Beer Sheva) $20,000.00
6. julik36 (Kursk) $17,500.00
7. Johan 80 (Osby) $15,000.00
8. orgi3000 (Hannover) $12,500.00
9. byoon (Torrance) $10,000.00

While the just completed Sunday Warm-up may have shown a decrease in attendance, tonight's $1 Million Turbo Takedown continued to welcome huge crowds to its tables. 18,655 players gathered tonight throwing down nothing for something as the buy-in for a shot at a brand new Audi TT remains at 3,000 Frequent Players Points and not a cent more. Turbo is in the name and we managed to eliminate all but nine players out of decent sized crowd for a major league baseball game in just after the eight hour mark.

Elimination #18,645 happen over on table 773 where shortstacked kunghagi would raise to 480K with blinds at 80K/160K ante 16K and glfrgmblr holding just a million more chips than kunghagi would shove to force kunghagi in a decision for his tournament life. kunghagi with just 743K behind made the call holding pocket jacks [Jc][Js]. Good hand, but not as great as the pocket aces [Ah][As] for glfrgmblr. Jacks would be left off the [7s] [Qd] [9h] [4d] [2d] board and kunghagi was left off the final table in tenth place ($10,000.00).

Seat 1: Leon2708 (7741912 in chips)
Seat 2: g00000se (2545051 in chips)
Seat 3: Dubaipoker80 (10039528 in chips)
Seat 4: glfrgmblr (3816903 in chips)
Seat 5: flynny1111 (8686580 in chips)
Seat 6: Mikey0690 (13374270 in chips)
Seat 7: Dre 91 (1762692 in chips)
Seat 8: pokerdog1000 (5010064 in chips)
Seat 9: slimshaggy (2988000 in chips)

Not Dre's day

Dre 91 with just 1.2 million chips and blinds at 100K/200K ante 20K would shove from UTG+1 holding [Ks][Qd] but fellow lesser known rapper slimshaggy would re-raise all-in holding big slick [Kh][Ac] shutting out the rest of the table. An all low [2c] [7s] [4h] [4c] [8s] board did not help either player as Dre 91 headed back to Compton (or Fort Collins) with $10,000.00 earned in ninth place.

Dog's day night

After losing an all-in to g00000se, pokerdog1000 went right back out and tried again to shove on the very next hand after the blinds moved up to 125K/250K ante 25K. With just 754,013 in chips, folding equity was a tad low but pokerdog1000 open shoved from the button holding [Kc][Qh] as Leon2708 with 4.4 million and a third of pokerdog1000's bet already in the pot made the call holding just [4d][2d]. The two live cards got a big jolt from the [6s] [5d] [3s] as Leon2708 flopped a straight. [3c] on the turn made the [Jd] river moot as pokerdog1000 was regulated to the doghouse in eighth place ($12,500.00).

Flying away in seventh place

Two of the larger stacks left at the table decided to meet up preflop for a 13 million chip pot. Watch which way the stack slides in the video below:

Pocket tens [Tc][Th] for flynny111 who was hoping for the cards to come out low against the [Jc][Ac] of Leon2708. This race ended in a crash landing before getting off the tarmac for flynny111 as the ace would hit the flop [5c] [Ad] [3d] [6d] [8s] and take down the 13 million chip pot sending flynny111 home in seventh place $15,000.00

Maverick not around to save him

Extremely shortstacked g00000se with just 1.09 million chips left and blinds moving up to 175K/350K ante 35K would open shove from the button as glfrgmblr would make the call from the big blind holding pocket treys [3h][3d]. A flip again, as g00000se held [Ah][4s] but a three on the flop [2s] [Qh] [3s] left g00000se looking for a wheel. Instead g00000se would get an egg in the form of the turned full house for glfrgmblr [2c] ending his night in sixth place ($17,500.00).

Five alive

We would play five handed for a few levels as the players slowed the rate of busting out to a crawl. Below is the chip count after Mikey0690 and Dubaipoker80 doubled up off the once might stack of Leon2708 and the blinds are now capped moving up to 250K/500K ante 50K:

Seat 1: Leon2708 (4,927,595 in chips)
Seat 3: Dubaipoker80 (20,344,138 in chips)
Seat 4: glfrgmblr (3,606,727 in chips)
Seat 6: Mikey0690 (22,671,540 in chips)
Seat 9: slimshaggy (4,415,000 in chips)

Two smalls make a medium

glfrgmblr and slimshaggy decided to try to make a medium stack by shoving their small stacks into the middle preflop. [Ks][9d] for slimshaggy and pocket threes [3d][3c] for glfrgmblr. Despite picking a gutshot straight draw on the flop, slimshaggy would whiff on the [Js] [Qh] [4c] [7h] [6h] board sending the 5.5 million chips to glfrgmblr as slimshaggy was out in fifth place ($20,000.00).

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Not much else to say after Leon2708 got the money in good and caught bad. Hand would start out with a raise from glfrgmblr to 1.5 million and a call from Leon2708 in the small blind. Both would see a flop of [Qh] [9d] [6h] and Leon2708 wasted no time in shoving for 7.7 million holding top pair [Qd][Jh]. glfrgmblr would take some time in making the call with second pair [9c][Ks] creating a 19.1 million chip pot. [Kh] on the turn flipped the advantage back to glfgmblr holding two pair as the [7c] river ended Leon2708's night in fourth place ($25,000.00).

Can I get a niner?

Mikey0690 and Dubaipoker80 decided to flip their nearly even 12 million chip stacks preflop. [9s][9d] for Dubaipoker80 who covered and [Kh][Qd] for Mikey0690 as the race went down [2s] [8h] [2c] [Jc] [9h] giving Dubaipoker80 insult to injury with a rivered boat knocking out Mikey0690 ($30,000.00) in third place starting up heads-up play.

$50,000 richer

Both players agreed to evenly chop the cash remaining in the prize pool and play for the Audi TT based on fairly even stacks Dubaipoker80 (26,069,286) to glfrgmblr (29,895,714). $50,000.00 a piece for our final two and as glfgmblr mentioned his car getting totaled in a hail storm recently, a new set of wheels for winning this tournament would certainly clear up that problem.

Replacement car on the way

The swings were big for our final two as both would have equal chances at driving off with that Audi TT. Watch the final hand play out below:

Would it get there? The answer was yes. glfrgmblr held pocket tens [Ts][Tc] to Dubaipoker80's [9h][As] as glfrgmblr would call the shove of Dubaipoker80 to create a 44.7 million chip pot. There would be no reversals in this hand as the board came out [2s] [3d] [Kd] [Qc] [8h] shipping the Audi TT to glfrgmblr as this month's $1 Million Turbo Takedown champion!

$1Million Turbo Takedown Results (05-29-10)
(*denotes part of two-way deal)
1. glfrgmblr (Oklahoma City) *$50,000.00 + Audi TT
2. Dubaipoker80 (Rüti) *$50,000.00
3. Mikey0690 (Groton) $30,000.00
4. Leon2708 (Oslo) $25,000.00
5. slimshaggy (hutchinson) $20,000.00
6. g00000se (Tallinn) $17,500.00
7. flynny1111 (london) $15,000.00
8. pokerdog1000 (Debary) $12,500.00
9. Dre 91 (Fort Collins) $10,000.00

It's not often (or ever) that the $1 Million Turbo Takedown's field fails to eclipse that of the previous Sunday Million field. One part is the Turbo Takedown low cost of admission being just 3,000 Frequent Players Points to grab a seat with 3,000 chips in front of your name as opposed to the $215 buy-in to the Million. Another part may be all the great extras you receive at the Turbo Takedown, like the $100 bounties on the heads of all Team PokerStars Pros and the escalating bonuses for each month a player cashes in this event.

Oh, and the sleek looking Audi TT with $60,000.00 going to the champion gave 19,379 players a third reason to flock to today's promotion. Sure, it wasn't the 36,139 that showed up for the $4 Million special edition of the Sunday Million last week, but that was about 17 thousand less players to defeat for a seat behind the wheel of the winner's car.

After a long eight hour tournament, it was a big difference between bubble boy and the sought after final nine spot with a shot at the car and $60,000 in cash. In the decisive hand rfptie1 led out for 900K with blinds at 90K/180K ante 18K from UTG and was re-raised by Emaa in the big blind enough to put rfptie1 all-in. rfptie1 would make the call holding pocket sevens [7c][7s] against the pocket queens [Qh][Qc] of Emaa for the 2.3 million chip pot. Top set on the set for Emaa left rfptie1 looking a 989:1 shot to win. It didn't come in on the [Jc] [6h] [Qs] [Ah] [6c] board and rfptie1 would have to "settle" for the $8,000.00 earned in tenth place.

rfptie1's elimination meant the race for the Audi was down to one table shown below:

Seat 1: whity77 (658104 in chips)
Seat 2: Cyberisda (2500960 in chips)
Seat 3: mikeirvin47 (725494 in chips)
Seat 4: siola (17190105 in chips)
Seat 5: Super1337 (9091987 in chips)
Seat 6: it`s owned (11192931 in chips)
Seat 7: Emaa (8072897 in chips)
Seat 8: 3K 4ePTeu! (3817127 in chips)
Seat 9: Bonsy (4887395 in chips)

Just four hands into the final table the big stacks went at each other. First, siola put in a raise to 445K, the it's owned bumped it to 1.26 million. Four bet? Four bet. siola put in 2.22 milion and it's owned was not close to done with a five bet to 4.32 million and that was enough to get siola to concede the pot to it's owned as the expensive game of chicken was done for now.

Two hands after mikeirvin74 doubled up he was all-in again in this three-way shove fest below that included massively stacked siola and whity77:

mikeirvin47's pocket kings [Kc][Ks] found a way to win while dodging the [Kd][4h] of whity77 and [Th][Qd] of siola on the [Ah] [2s] [Js] [5s] [8h] board to claim the whole 1.9 million pot and knock out whity77 in ninth place ($10,000.00).

Three hands later with blinds at 100K/200K ante 20K Cyberisda tried to improve a smallish stack with a shove from middle position for 2.03 million chips. Folded around to big stacked it's owned who would make the call in the small blind holding pocket jacks [Js][Jc]. The pocket kings of Cyberisda were looking great for the 4.4 million chip pot until a third jack hit the [8s] [Jh] [3c] flop. No re-suck happened thru the [6s] turn and rivered full house [3s] as Cyberisda was sent back into cyberspace $12,500.00 richer in eighth place.

mikeirvin47 would manage several double-ups only to return to a shortstack. With the shortstack comes decreased fold equity as seen with mikeirvin47's elimination. After open shoving 1.1 million chips from the button with [Ah][7d], mikeirvin47 would get called by Super1337 holding just [3s][Js] in the big blind. mikeirvin47 was looking good once again after the ace of clubs hit the [Ac] [4s] [9s] flop, the however [8s] turn ruined the former Dallas Cowboys wide-out fan with the spade flush for Super1337. The [5c] river was there for show as mikeirvin47 took down seventh place ($15,000.00).

After starting with a McMansion worth of chips, siola would end up on the outside looking in at chop talks. After several tangles with nemesis it's owned, siola was knocked down to 5.3 million chips and blinds of 175K/350K ante 35K trying desperately to return to the chip lead. A push came from siola sitting on the button with [9h][Kh] and it's owned calming hit the call button from the big blind with a better nine [9d][As]. The ace-high would hold up on the [5h] [Jc] [2d] [7h] [4d] board and it's owned no doubt owned siola this evening sending the final table chip leader out in sixth place ($17,500.00).

Two hands later while whispers of chop talks took place, Bonsy with five million chips was looking to improve the stack against 3K 4ePTeu! with some post-flop action that is rare this deep into the tournament. Check out the hand results below:

Trip queens of Bonsy were looking good against the pair and a flush draw of 3K 4ePTeu! and when the flush draw got there on the [Qs] [Tc] [Ah] [Qh] [4h] board, Bonsy couldn't find a fold to 3K 4ePTeu!'s shove. 10.4 million chips shipped to 3K 4ePTeu!'s heart flush, and $25,000.00 going out to Bonsy for the nasty river in fifth place.

Players then gathered up their chips to present to the PokerStars Host for the chip chop count. After a slight language barrier and some questions about where the winner would park the Audi TT, we had the deal set below:

$51,278.26 it's owned
$37,432.01 3K 4ePTeu!
$33,415,71 Emaa
$32,874.02 Super1337

Guaranteed money got the final table natives restless as they start pushing left and right. Starting with Emaa with the blinds still at 175K/350K ante 35K staring down at a flop reading [Js] [As] [Jh] and facing a bet from Super1337 that would put his tournament life at risk. Emaa would make the call holding [7c][Ac] as Super1337 turned over [6c][Ad] for what was likely a split pot. The [4s] helped Emaa to possibly capture the whole pot, but the [6h] on the river gave it all the Super1337 who reaped in the 17 million chip pot. Emaa locked up $33,415.71 in the chop for the fourth place.

Seven hands later Super1337 would raise from the button to 1.05 million with blinds still at 175K/350K ante 35K and get called by 3K 4ePTeu! in the big blind to see the [Jd] [9d] [4c] flop. 3K 4ePTeu! would check as Super1337 followed-through with a 17 million chip bet. Call all-in or fold were the options as 3K 4ePTeu! made the right decision calling with [9s][8c] good for second pair. The pair of nines were ahead of Super1337's flush draw with an overcard...

... until the [As] hit the turn and for good measure because misery loves company the [3d] hit, completing the flush on the river to eliminate 3K 4ePTeu! in third place ($37,432.01).

With blinds at 175K/350K ante 35K the big heads-up showdown for the Audi TT was set to be a long one especially with the even stacks and picture of the car they are playing for shown below:

Seat 5: Super1337 (28154926 in chips)
Seat 6: it`s owned (29982074 in chips)

Sure enough the two players would play through the rest of the 175K/350K ante 35K level and the 225K/450K ante 45K level without determining a winner.

It wasn't until the 250K/500K ante 50K blind level that Super1337 started to pull away after winning 9 of the last thirteen hands forcing it's owned into making this final play at a pot:

[9s][7d] for it's owned and [Ks][Ts] for Super1337 getting it in the middle preflop for a 10.8 million chip pot. it's owned could catch many breaks while heads-up and couldn't find one on the final [Jc] [Js] [Qd] [Qh] [6c] board either. Super1337 cashed in 58,137,000 tournament chips to become the new proud owner of an Audi TT as this month's $1 Million Turbo Takedown champion! it's owned got the most cash however, as the runner-up took the biggest share of the chop talks with $51,278.26 but will have to buy his own car with that money.

February 2010 $1 Million Turbo Takedown
(* denotes part of four way deal)
1. Super1337 (Lipetsk) *$32,874.02 + Audi TT
2. it`s owned (Novosibirsk City) *$51,278.26
3. 3K 4ePTeu! (St - Peterburg) *$37,432.01
4. Emaa (Renningen) *$33,425.71
5. Bonsy (Marquette) $20,000.00
6. siola (Redlands) $17,500.00
7. mikeirvin47 (modesto) $15,000.00
8. Cyberisda (||||||||||) $12,500.00
9. whity77 (hamburg) $10,000.00

For the fans of the National Football League, it's Pro Bowl night where the best players in football (American not "proper" football of course) come out to show their talents. Basically they show up to put up huge numbers on the scoreboard and give fans one more taste of the sport before the Super Bowl. While the $1 Million Turbo Takedown may not be the Pro Bowl of poker, there are huge numbers on the scoreboard being put up by PokerStars such as $60,000.00 and an Audi TT to drive away in for tonight's winner. On top of the $100 for knocking out any Team PokerStars Pro such as Joep van den "Pappe_Ruk" Bijgaart who finished in 198th place ($400.00) or the Flying Dutchman Marcel Luske (231st place for $350.00), there's no better value for the 3,000 FPPs buy-in to this tournament, sitting in your PokerStars account.

21,652 players did take the advice and paid with the FPPs up front or won their way in via satellite and 5,000 of those players were rewarded with at least $78.00 for the effort.

But, as mentioned only one person while be driving away in that Audi TT after tonight and that started with our final table bubble boy. Lokfable ran big slick into the pocket aces of KieFer 427 just seven hands prior and was now facing a button raise that would the rest of the chips into the middle holding the mighty [6h][8s]. With the blinds at 100K/200K ante 20K and only 381,200 chips there wasn't much choice. But, KieFeR 427 wasn't just playing chip bully, rolling over pocket kings [Ks][Kc] which hit a boat on by the river [4d] [4h] [9s] [9d] [Kh] to put an exclamation point on the win. Lokfable missed out on the five figures at the final table but still earned $8,000.00 for the tenth place finish.

Seat 1: Laurens123 (9361085 in chips)
Seat 2: Platon79 (2178581 in chips)
Seat 3: nambsher (2579231 in chips)
Seat 4: ALBANIANCHIP (7901139 in chips)
Seat 5: crownrsv (9043336 in chips)
Seat 6: KieFeR 427 (7841274 in chips)
Seat 7: dimast1 (15128492 in chips)
Seat 8: NTHEBASEMENT (4450510 in chips)
Seat 9: SixthSenSe19 (6472352 in chips)

This final table started out with action very quickly as Platon79 would grab a double up from crownrsv after getting [Ah][Td] to hold over the [Ad][8c] of crownrsv for 4.3 million chips as kicked off the final table with 100K/200K ante 20K blinds. Two hands later Team PokerStars Pro Steve Paul-Ambrose exclaimed "Crazy Hand!" and we agree. It started with NTHBASEMENT raising in middle position to 485,000 as nambsher shoved from the small blind for 2.2 million. The big blind ALBANIANCHIP would make the call but NTHBASEMENT decide to throw even more chips on the fire and shoved for 6.4 million as ALBANIANCHIP covered and again made the call.

ALBANIACHIP: [Kh][Ks]
NTHBASEMENT: [Qh][Qc]
nambsher: [9c][9h]

Pairs for everyone! The [9s] [Kd] [Ts] flop would hit both nambsher and ALBANIACHIP but hitting the set for nambsher actually decreased the chances from two outs to just one as ALBANIACHIP's outs went from two to four. And of course one of those four would hit the [Js] turn filling NTHBASEMENT's inside straight draw. To top off the roller-coaster hand the [5s] hit the river with a thud for NTHBASEMENT's chance to suckout for the 15.2 million chip pot as it gave ALBANIACHIP the king high four flush and knocked out nambsher in 9th place ($10,000.00) and NTHBASEMENT in 8th place ($12,500.00).

As the blinds rolled to 150K/300K ante 30K play settled down for the most part after that massive three-way all-in with no eliminations for most of the blind level as the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker's main event final table was going on at the same time and down to five players vying for a $3,100 SCOOP ticket. But just as the blinds were about to be raised to 175K/350K ante 35K Platon79 and SixthSenSe19 decided to rumble preflop. SixthSenSe19 started the betting from UTG+1 with a raise to 688,888 and folded to Platon79 two chairs over who would shove for 6.1 million chips. SixthSenSe19 took some time before deciding on a call with pocket tens [Ts][Td]. The call set up the coin flip with Platon79's [Ah][Qc] for the 12.9 million chip pot. The flop [8s] [8h] [7d] didn't change anything but the [Th] did as it rendered the river meaningless giving SixthSenSe19 the full house and sent Platon79 home in seventh place ($15,000.00).

The 175K/350K ante 35K blind level went without kicking anyone off the final table island but KieFeR 427 had just eight big blinds to start the 200K/400K ante 40K level as shown below:

Seat 1: Laurens123 (8039422 in chips)
Seat 4: ALBANIANCHIP (12055880 in chips)
Seat 5: crownrsv (9644753 in chips)
Seat 6: KieFeR 427 (3246274 in chips)
Seat 7: dimast1 (18541389 in chips)
Seat 9: SixthSenSe19 (13428282 in chips)

KieFeR 427 managed to stay ahead of the blinds with timely preflop steals but someone eventually was going to call and that person was big stack dimast1. dimast1 would raise from UTG to 800,000 as KieFeR 427 moved all-in from the big blind by shoving for 3.2 million with [Kh][Qc]. dimast1 would make the call with [Ah][6s] and the ace would pair on the turn and managed to fade an inside straight draw on the river [Tc] [8s] [4d] [Ac] [2s] to win the 6.8 million chip pot and knock out KieFeR 427 in sixth place ($17,500.00).

Four hands later dimast1 got involved in another huge pot, this time it was against Laurens123 who shoved over the top of dimast1's preflop raise for 8.1 million. With big slick [Kd][Ah] dimast1 would eventually make the call and the coin flip against Laurens123's pocket sixes [6c][6s] was on. The flop came down a monotone [Qd] [6d] [Ad] at first glance I thought this was the perfect flop for dimast1 hitting a pair of aces and the nut flush draw but then I realized that Laurens123 also hit with a set of sixes. The [As] on the turn paired the board giving Laurens123 a boat and now had to fade high full house outs versus flush outs. But the king or queen did not hit the river and 17 million chips headed Laurens123's way.

Five hands later Laurens123 would use the newly acquired big stack to maximize getting a little lucky. With the blinds still at 200K/400K ante 40K SixthSenSe19 led the betting off with a raise to 888,888 total as Laurens123 called from the button. But ALBANIACHIP wasn't folding [Ad][Qs] from the small blind and shoved for 9.8 million. SixthSenSe19 use the oft neglected common sense to fold but Laurens123 made the call with [Jc][As] for the dominated hand. Despite SixthSenSe19 claiming to fold AJo as well, a jack still appeared on the flop and would hold thru the [Jh] [4c] [Kh] [9c] [3d] board for the 21.1 million chip pot sending ALBANIACHIP home in fifth place ($20,000.00).

No further carnage occurred in the blind level except for SixthSenSe19 picking up a huge 19 million chip double up at the expense of dimast1 who couldn't find a fold with [Ah][4d] after being 4-bet all-in by SixthSenSe19's pocket tens [Tc][Td]. The tens would hold as the blinds moved up to the final level 250K/500K ante 50K.

A brief check about a deal being cut but no reply from dimast1 meant play rolled on. crownrsv would manage a double up at the expense of SixthSenSe19 but 11 hands later was all-in again, this time against the massive stack of Laurens123. After Laurens123 raised to 1.2 million from the button, crownrsv shoved over the top for 7.5 million holding [Jd][Ac]. With plenty of chips to spare and a more than decent holding [Ad][Qd] Laurens123 would make the call. The flop [Ah] [Qc] [2c] was a pretty one for Laurens123 but the [4c] gave crownrsv a chance to stay alive with a club on the river. Instead the [4s] dropped and crownrsv was given a $25,000 real money chip in third place.

SixthSenSe19 was able to smooth out Laurens123's huge stack a bit by doubling up off the chip leader five hands later when pocket jacks [Jh][Jc] held up over the suited [Ad][7d] of the chip leader. Laurens123 retained the chip lead until the largest hand of the tourney up to this point went down as dimast1 led out on the button with a min-raise to one million. SixthSenSe19 folded as Lauren123 three bet to three million, then dimast1 answered back with another raise to eight million. And we couldn't just stop at that as Laurens123 five bet to 13 million and dimast1 finally put in the last raise with a push to 16.9 million total. Laurens123 of course made the call with big slick [Ad][Ks] as dimast1 rolled over [8h][8c]. The flop [4s] [9c] [6d] was safe for dimast1 but the [Kd] turn card was not. Needing an eight on the river, dimast1 got a [3c] instead as the 34.2 million chip pot went to Laurens123.

And now the battle for the car and the $60,000.00 first prize had Laurens123 holding a sizable lead over SixthSenSe19 but with the blinds capped, there would be no rush to resort to pushing preflop.

Seat 1: Laurens123 (47648228 in chips)
Seat 9: SixthSenSe19 (17307772 in chips)

After a dozen hands SixthSenSe19 got the break to take over the lead. With the board showing [Qs] [Kd] [3c] [Jd] [5d] and active betting on each street, Laurens123 shoved on the river holding a turned two pair [Qh][Jc] but was snapped called by SixthSenSe19 who was holding the nut flush [Qd][Ad] and was awarded the massive 38.5 million chip pot.

Heads-up play was a long one as the tournament stretched to the ten hour mark and seemed that without a cooler and both players retaining over 60 big blind stacks it could go all night, especially with that Audi TT sitting in the PokerStars garage waiting to be claimed by the winner. After ten and a half hours here's how they stacked up after a five minute break:

Seat 1: Laurens123 (31983354 in chips)
Seat 9: SixthSenSe19 (32972646 in chips)

Yes, a near dead heat and since they can't split the car down the middle (what a horrible thought to such a beautiful piece of machinery!) we shall continue to roll on.

That wasn't the ending we were expecting.

Our thoughts were more towards an AA vs. KK type cooler. Instead this is what happened. The hand started innocently enough with SixthSenSe19 min raising to one million as Laurens123 made the call. After a flop of [Ad] [Js] [Qd] Laurens123 checked as SixthSenSe19 put out another million as Laurens123 called. On the turned [7c] Laurens123 again checked as SixthSenSe19 again bet, this time 2.4 million, but Laurens123 decided to check-raise to five million and SixthSenSe19 ended the betting with a flat call. River [4s] and this time Laurens123 leads the betting with a shove all-in for 17.8 million. SixthSenSe19 went deep into the tank and decided to call with the flopped top two pair [Qc][Ac] as Laurens123 showed [Ts][8h] for the missed double-belly buster straight draw. Laurens123 wasn't counting on SixthSenSe19 being that strong but a great fight earned $40,000.00 as the runner-up.

As for the January Turbo Takedown champion, SixthSenSe19 will ride off with $60,000.00 and a brand new Audi TT RS!

$1 Million Turbo Takedown Results (01-31-10)
1. SixthSenSe19 (uruguayo) $60,000.00 + Audi TT RS
2. Laurens123 (Lummen) $40,000.00
3. dimast1 (Minsk) $30,000.00
4. crownrsv (Aiea) $25,000.00
5. ALBANIANCHIP (st hgts) $20,000.00
6. KieFeR 427 (Kennedale) $17,500.00
7. Platon79 (Sannois) $15,000.00
8. NTHEBASEMENT (Tualatin) $12,500.00
9. nambsher (nambsheim) $10,000.00

The $1 Million Turbo Takedown went out of 2009 with a bang and some vrooom this evening. The field was relatively small having just 17,755 entries as compared to the 149,196 players in the just finished Guinness Book of World Records $1 tourney. But the good part was the buy-in was less than those record breakers had to pay! Just 3,000 FPPs attained thru the many satellites or earned via play got you a chance at the $60,000.00 first prize and the lovely Audi TT RS shown below. Even if you did not negotiate the minefield like the final nine shown in a few paragraphs, 5,000 players would take home at least $78.00 for their FPPs tonight.

The newest class of the Team PokerStars pros won the unofficial last longer tonight. As Team PokerStars Pro Online Martha "marene" Gonzalez finished in 197th place good for $400.00 as the final table crept within reaching distance.

Down to two tables with blinds at 80K/160K ante 16K airdale05 ran into a big cooler one off the bubble after four-bet shoving magicmeni for for 4.1 million chips holding [Kd][Ah] figuring to be ahead it was very far from the truth as magicmeni snap called the push with pocket aces [As][Ad]. Aside from a small scare as a king hit the flop, the board ran out [6s] [Js] [Kc] [7c] [5s] to ship the 8.8 million chip pot to magicmeni's pocket aces and eliminate airedale05 in 11th place.

Only two hands after the warnings of hand-for-hand play in effect came through the chat boxes the bubble was burst in quick fashion on the adjacent table where chip leader ImDaNuts reigned. With the same blinds as airedale05's elimination, Dolerho would lead out UTG for 345K and folded around two places over to ImDaNuts who would three-bet to 802,955. Dolerho made it known that he wasn't scared of the chip leader's bullying by pushing 4.2 million with [Kh][9s]. ImDaNuts simply let the pocket aces [Ad][As] do the talking after snap calling for the 8.8 million chip pot. K9o never barked loudly at the [Tc] [3s] [2s] [2d] [Qh] board as Dolerho went down meekly as the bubble boy in tenth place ($8,000.00) setting up the final table below:

Seat 1: Uzinio (2609983 in chips)
Seat 2: crueleagle (4287269 in chips)
Seat 3: NeNe_MaD (1980433 in chips)
Seat 4: ImDaNuts (14849841 in chips)
Seat 5: happypick (2789491 in chips)
Seat 6: magicmeni (9031275 in chips)
Seat 7: Simonator (10782473 in chips)
Seat 8: magoo25at (4431180 in chips)
Seat 9: NRG52 (2503055 in chips)

ImDaNuts and Simonator started off with the big stacks this evening as the race for that Audi TT RS draws to its final nine players who are assured five figures this evening. A rocky start for the chip leader as the blinds led off at 90K/180K ante 18K as ImDaNuts would double up Uzinio and Crueleagle within two hands of each other but still retain nearly nine million in chips.

Eight hands after the crueleagle double up, the rich got richer as Simonator and magoo25at traded preflop raises until magoo25at's stack of 5.5 million reached the middle. Pocket queens for magoo25at looked good compared to the [Js][Ad] of Simonator even after the [5c] [3s] [6c] flop. But the [As] hit the turn as magoo25at was down to two queens on the river to survive; instead the [2d] dropped from the virtual sky and Simonator raked in the 11.4 million chip pot. magoo25at couldn't adjust his glasses enough for the turned ace but will clearly see the $10,000.00 in ninth place.

In the reversal of fortune category we find ImDaNuts who seemed little down on luck after giving two players double ups in the early going of the final table. But, times changed as ImDaNuts called a small push from NeNe_MaD who was down to 1.7 million chips and made a move from UTG. ImDaNuts would turn over [Ah][Qd] as NeNe_MaD was rooting for little cards to supplement pocket treys [3c][3d]. The little cards hit the flop but there was also an ace which would hold up for ImDaNuts on the [2s] [4h] [Ad] [Qs] [Js] board eliminating NeNe_MaD in eighth place ($12,500.00).

As the blinds rose to 125K/250K ante 25K the two chips leaders butted heads preflop for a massive 17.1 million chip pot. After the two traded two preflop raises, ImDaNuts' tournament was on the line holding pocket jacks [Js][Jd] versus the pocket fours [4s][4h] of Simonator. Both players would play two pair but only ImDaNuts' hand would count on the [As] [5h] [7s] [7d] [5s] board as the power would shift across the felt to ImDaNuts.

With deep stacks the blinds would reach 150K/300K ante 30K until we would see our next elimination. Simonator who was reeling after giving up all those chips to ImDaNuts gained a few back at the expense of NRG52 who just couldn't find a hand to go with at the final table. After Simonator open raised enough from the button to put the blinds all-in holding just [Jc][7c], it would be the short stacked NRG52 who would call with clubs as well. [Ac][6c] looked to be good for a badly needed double up but the board said otherwise as the other three jacks in the deck made their presence known on the [6s] [Js] [Jd] [Qc] [Jh] board giving Simonator quads and $15,000.00 to NRG52 for the seventh place finish.

Simonator would double up shortstacked happypick just two later in a race between the pocket nines of happypick and [Ac][Jc] of Simonator. happypick would haul down 5.6 million chips after the [2h] [Qh] [4c] [9s] [5d] board came out as six handed play continued on to the 175K/350K ante 35K level.

Shortly after another happypick double up (this time against ImDaNuts who could afford the loss while sitting on over 20 million in chips), Simonator was back mixing it up with the shortstacks preflop. This time it was Uzinio who came over the top of Simonator's UTG raise, shoving for 3.2 million. Pocket sixes [6s][6c] for Simonator were plenty to make the call against Uzinio's [Ks][Jh] for a 7.2 million chip pot. Simonator would come out ahead in the race after the [4c] [Tc] [Ah] [9c] [9h] board to connect with Uzinio's hand earning the sixth place finisher $17,500.00

Six hands later, happypicks string of double up against the two chip kings would come to a sudden end. The blinds stayed the same at 175K/350K ante 35K as ImDaNuts would raise to 798,855 from the cutoff as happypicks shoved from the button for 5.1 million holding [Qs][As]. Leaving over 13 million behind, ImDaNuts made the call with pocket treys [3d][3c] and those mighty threes would march right thru the [Kd] [6d] [8d] [Ts] [Th] minefield and come out on the other side with 11 million more chips. happypicks despite the multiple double ups wasn't able to overcome the odds and left tonight with a wide smile hopefully in fifth place ($20,000.00).

Two hands later as the blinds held the same, crueleagle would find a not-so-cruel ending to the tournament. Instead of a massive suckout or some win-lose-win rollercoaster, the pocket fives [5c][5h] of crueleagle just failed to soar past the [As][8c] of magicmeni. With 9.7 million in the middle preflop, the race ended early as magicmeni would flop an ace and have it hold thru the [Ac] [7d] [3c] [6s] [3h] board. crueleagle flew off with an extra $25,000.00 sitting in that PokerStars bankroll all for the low low price of just 3,000 FPPs after finishing in fourth place.

As the blinds rose to 225K/450K ante 45K, ImDaNuts and magicmeni were still very deep while Simonator slipped to only a little over 16 big blinds, there was a lot of button pushing by Simonator to try to stay ahead of the increasing blind pressure. For awhile it worked but as its known in NLHE, it only takes one mistake to be your last. For Simonator that mistake came after shoving [Ks][7d] from the small blind into ImDaNuts in the big blind who couldn't find the call button quickly enough holding pocket rockets [Ac][Ad]. Simonator would pair the seven, but no more on the [8h] [7h] [6s] [2h] [Qh] board and was finished in third place ($30,000.00).

Now on to the main event, the final two battling for the $60,000.00 first prize and that equally shinny Audi TT RS. Here's how our final two started out with blinds at 225K/450K ante 45K (but quickly moving to the final blind level of 250K/500K ante 50K):

Seat 4: ImDaNuts (34994402 in chips)
Seat 6: magicmeni (18270598 in chips)

After ImDaNuts opened up a 40 million to 12 million chip lead, comeback would enter in the form of pocket aces [Ah][As] for magicmeni. After allowing ImDaNuts to catch up on the flop of [9d] [8h] [2s] and check calling a 1.5 million chip bet, the two would get their stacks in the middle on the [2h] turn with ImDaNuts turning over [Tc][9c] for top pair that just lost three outs. The two outer did not hit the [5h] river and 25 million chips were shipped to magicmeni.

ImDaNuts would grind magicmeni down to a 38 million to 14 million deficit again as the two would shove preflop this time for a race. Suited [Jd][Kd] for magicmeni and pocket tens [Td][Th] for ImDaNuts for a 28 million chip pot and again magicmeni would come out the victor snagging trips on the [Kh] [4h] [Ks] [7c] [6h] board and the big pot to take over the chip lead.

But, things would swing ImDaNuts' way in the biggest hand of the tournament. The blinds locked in at 205K/500K ante 50K the players would trade a few preflop bets until there was 9.6 million in the middle to see the coordinated [5h][6h][7c] flop. magicmeni led out for 4.5 million as ImDaNuts came roaring over the top, shoving for 20 million chip total. magicmeni made the call to see [As][6d] ahead of the open ended straight draw of ImDaNuts' [4h][Ac]. But the [3d] filled that draw on the turn as magicmeni was left with hoping for a four to chop it up. Missed by one pip, the [5s] sent the massive 51 million chip pot to ImDaNuts, leaving magicmeni with just under two million chips.

magicmeni would double up on the very next hand but not twice as pocket fours [4c][4h] for ImDaNuts held up over the [Jc][6d] of magicmeni on [Kh] [3c] [Kd] [5s] [Ts] board and ImDaNuts was seen driving away from the virtual felt in the new Audi TT RS with $60,000.00 in the trunk for the last 2009 Turbo Takedown victory!

magicmeni started out third in chips and was just two cards away from making that drive, but will need to settle for the $40,000.00 received as the runner-up.

Congratulations to all 5,000 players who cashed this evening, several of whom will be enjoying the extra bonuses for cashing in consecutive Turbo Takedowns. And to those who were lucky enough to best the Team PokerStars Pros and snag the $100 that was attached to them for relieving them of their chips.

December $1,000,000 Turbo Takedown Results (12-27-09)
1. ImDaNuts (orlando) $60,000.00 + Audi TT RS
2. magicmeni (St. Augustin) $40,000.00
3. Simonator (Lewisville) $30,000.00
4. crueleagle (Szeged) $25,000.00
5. happypick (warburg) $20,000.00
6. Uzinio (Kronach) $17,500.00
7. NRG52 (Sárospatak) $15,000.00
8. NeNe_MaD (madrid) $12,500.00
9. magoo25at (Irving) $10,000.00

After a few months off the $1 million Turbo Takedown is back and bigger than ever. As you may have read earlier in the week from Otis first prize tonight for one of the 21,423 runners is not only $60,000.00 but this shiny brand new Audi TT RS (I'll repost the picture because that's one hot car and like Otis I'll need a ride to the airport as well that same day and hope you don't mind driving in snow).

In addition to the added prize to the pool there are some extra goodies also thrown into the pot. For instance, if you cash in consecutive Turbo Takedowns, the next month you will receive $100 in bonus money (with a set amount of VPPs necessary to clear). Each month you cash, the amount goes up by $100 all the way up to $1,000. Free money on top of free money especially since you cannot buy your way into the Turbo Takedown to begin with. The lowered 3,000 FPPs buy-in can be obtained either by grinding out those SnGs, MTTs, and cash games or with the multitude of satellites being played at all hours.

If that wasn't enough free cash, consider the bounties on the Team PokerStars Pros listed below that paid out $100 a piece for their elimination (shown with place of finish below):

Andre Akkari 19,912nd
Angel Guillen 7,849th
Dennis Phillips 4,376th
Emad Tahtouh 6,159th
George Danzer 1,974th
Marcin "Goral" Horecki 14,199th
Henrique Pinho 7,627th
Jan Heitmann 19,799th
Jason Mercier 14,186th
John Duthie 14,779th
Johnny Lodden 17,139th
Juan Maceiras 16,020th
Katja Thater 19,938th
Alexander Kravchenko 7,472nd
Lee Nelson 15,615th
Leo Fernandez 798th
Luis Medina 15,785th
Marcel Luske 17,739th
Maria "Maridu" Mayrinck 11,136th
Chris "Money800" Moneymaker 11,050th
Jose "nachobarbero" Ignacio 17,881st
Nuno Coelho 12,166th
Pieter De Korver 6,509th
Veronica "princesa" Dabul 15,461st
Hevad "RaiNKhaN" Khan 14,502nd
Steve "stevejpa" Paul-Ambrose 3,345th
Tom McEvoy 9,655th
Vicky Coren 9,112nd
Victor Ramdin 18,594th
Vlad Zguba 6,265th
William Thorson 293rd
Ylon Schwartz 2,826th

Yes, that's a long list of pros that dished out $100 a piece to those skillful/lucky enough to bust them but one Team PokerStars pro still remained in the running with just two tables left. Alexandre "allingomes" Gomes stood in 13th place out of 16 left as the tournament took a break before the eighth hour of play. With blinds sitting at 80K/160K ante 16K immediately after returning, the aggressive Gomes got caught on a steal after open pushing 2.4 million from middle position with [Th][Jc] and UGA_FELON woke up with pocket jacks [Jh][Js] on the button and made the call. By the turn the board read [3s] [Ac] [9d] [8c] giving Gomes an open ended straight draw, but the river [As] failed to fill the straight as the Team PokerStars Pro exited in 16th place ($4,000.00) and UGA_FELON took in the last $100 pro bounty of the tourney.

Dag Martin "dmmikkel" Mikkelsen's stack roller-coaster ride near the bubble came to the end after open-shoving for 3.7 million chips with [5h][Ac] and found a caller in dynoalot who covered and called with pocket nines [9h][9c]. Mikkelsen would turn an inside straight draw but couldn't find a four or an ace on the river [Td] [2c] [6c] [3s] [6h] and barely missed out on the final table but earned $8,000.00 in 11th place.

The official bubble was broken at the 150K/300K ante 30K blind level when a short stacked UGA_FELON, fresh off losing a sizable coin flip against crazyace443, was all-in for 287,712 chips in the big blind. superkiki52 called UTG as the table folded, and turned up [9c][Ad] as UGA_FELON had two live cards in [Js][3s]. superkiki52 would hit the nine on the [5c] [Td] [9h] flop and UGA_FELON failed to improve with the [7s] turn and [Kd] river to bust as the bubble boy earning $8,000.00 in tenth place setting up the final table below:

Seat 1: Versace777 (1525051 in chips)
Seat 2: superkiki52 (12322159 in chips)
Seat 3: tiger604 (3344305 in chips)
Seat 4: crazyace443 (4078128 in chips)
Seat 5: dynoalot (18786606 in chips)
Seat 6: viebu (9780721 in chips)
Seat 7: Magic1550 (4202512 in chips)
Seat 8: anti-durrr (7412574 in chips)
Seat 9: kenny05 (2816944 in chips)

Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier and Andre Akkari were there to welcome the players to a final table that was sure to play to its turbo namesake. Starting out with 150K/300K ante 30K blinds several players were near or under ten big blinds and would need plenty of help to catch mega stacked Supernova dynoalot.

kenny05 would kick off the action quickly by shoving all-in from early position for 2.7 million chips with [Qd][Ad] on the final table's third hand. Folded around to dynoalot in the small blind who would call with big slick [Ac][Kh]. A king on the flop and fading an inside straight draw on the river [4h] [Ks] [Jc] [9c] [Ah] added six million chips to the chip leader's stack and sent kenny05 off with an extra $10,000.00 in ninth place. No stranger to big freeroll cashes, Supernova kenny05 has cashed twice in the final table of the Battle of the Planets month end $50,000 triple shootout (3rd place finish and fifth place here).

The very next hand Versace777 would double up off crazyace443 then Versace777 would ride the positive rush for another push. While UTG and blinds still at 150K/300K ante 30K, the second push would be for 3.5 million holding big slick [Ks][Ad] and was called by none other than crazyace443 holding pocket tens [Td][Tc]. This time is was crazyace443's tournament on the line. The king on the [9h] [Kh] [Qd] flop gave Versace777 the lead, and the pair would fade the jacks and tens on the [3d] turn and [Kd] river to ship the 4.7 million chip pot to Versace777 as crazyace443 exited stage left with $12,500.00 in eighth place.

Four hands later the biggest hand of the tourney to this point had zero board cards and only two raises involved. anti-durrr would open for 6.6 million in a slight overbet/major misclick for the 150K/300K ante 30K blind level and chip leader dynoalot would shove over the top putting anti-durrr's tourney at risk with over half his chips in the middle. As stated, no board cards came out when anti-durrr folded and dynoalot's stack bloated to 27 million as anti-durrr moved towards the back of the pack with 4.3 million chips. Six hands later anti-durrr would recover some of those chips from dynoalot by racing with [Qc][Jh] against dynoalot's pocket eights [8d][8c] all-in preflop. A jack on the river [Ah] [2h] [Ts] [5s] [Jd] gave the anti-durrr a 9.5 million chip pot as the blinds bumped up to 175K/350K ante 35K

Ten hands later anti-durrr would take on a resurgent Versace777 preflop. dynoalot would open the betting by min-raising from UTG+2 as it folded around to anti-durrr on the button would would 3-bet to 1.95 million, then Versace777 4-bet all-in for 3.6 million. dynoalot despite the massive stack declined to join the fray as anti-durrr would make the call holding [Ac][3c]. Versace777 was happy to see the pocket tens [Td][Th] were in good shape even after the [6s] [7d] [Kh] flop. The dreaded [As] ace waited till the turn to hit as Versace777 couldn't re-suck on the [2s] river earning $15,000.00 for seventh place.

Blind steals were the norm for a couple of orbits until the blinds moved up to 200K/400K ante 40K and superkiki52 decided to shove pocket eights [8s][8c] from UTG. Right into the pocket tens of Magic1550 in the small blind who's pocket tens [Tc][Th] would hold on the [Ah] [6c] [2c] [4d] [9h] board earning a sizable 9.5 million chip pot.

Three hands later tiger604, who had avoided major confrontations, found big slick [Kh][As] in the small blind and shoved for 4.8 million. dynoalot still holding a massive stack made the easy call with pocket jacks [Jd][Jc]. An ace in the middle of the flop [6d] [Ah] [8h] [Ts] [6c] would hold up to slide the 9.8 million chip pot to tiger604. The feline would roar again the very next hand this time against superkiki52. Watch it play out below:

With just 1.7 million chips left and blinds still at 200K/400K ante 40K superkiki52 would 3-bet anti-durrr's original 925K chip raise, but tiger604 with a new found stack would shove over the top of both of them holding pocket eights [8s][8d]. Hoping for live cards, superkiki52 would only have one holding the dominated [Kh][8c]. The [2d] [6h] [Th] [3d] [As] board would run dry of royalty as superkiki52 would be left out of the chop talks in sixth place ($17,500.00).

Two hands after superkiki52's exit the five remaining players got down to some lengthy chop talks and with the help of Andre, they came to the below figures.

tiger604: $42,036.39
dynoalot: $56,004.01
Magic1550: $34,967.60
anti-durrr: $43,000.95
viebu: $33,991.05

Leaving $5,000 and the lovely Audi (scroll up for the picture again, don't worry we won't judge you) to the winner play resumed with blinds at 225K/450K ante 45K and the following chip stacks with dynoalot still leading with tiger604 and anti-durrr recovering fully from the nasty misclick early-on :

Seat 3: tiger604 (13313257 in chips)
Seat 5: dynoalot (21561671 in chips)
Seat 6: viebu (7080721 in chips)
Seat 7: Magic1550 (8745024 in chips)
Seat 8: anti-durrr (13568327 in chips)

anti-durrr would continue the comeback by snagging the chip lead away from dynoalot after calling the former chip leader's shove with pocket nines [9h][9c]. dynoalot could only muster up pocket fives [5d][5s] as the pot was a massive one worth 22 million chips. No drama came about as there was a nine on the door of the flop and it held on the [4h] [7c] [9d] [3h] [Ks] board. Two hands later viebu scooped up dynoalot's scraps and the former chip leader took home the biggest piece of the chop, but no car in fifth place ($56,004.01) which added to a 4th place for $63K at the Sunday Million last year.

Facing massive blinds which moved up to 250K/500K ante 50K the shoves came often as the first victim was claimed in the four handed chip carnage. anti-durrr's stack roller-coaster job was trying to score a new high by shoving with pocket nines [9h][9d] from the cutoff for 8.8 million. tiger604 and viebu covered but declined to play but Magic1550 in the big blind and 7.9 million chips decided to gamble with [Ah][4h]. The flop was a tempting [5c] [8h] [Jh], the turn [4d] showed a little more leg but the [Kd] ended the night for Magic1550 as he couldn't conjure up a heart for the win earning $34,967.60 in fourth place.

Not sure if it was the aggressive nature of three-handed play or the ever increasing blinds but the final three played with absolutely no fear despite $5,000 and a pricy automobile on the line (scroll up to take another peek). The small stacked viebu acquired several double ups, gave a few away but had the chip advantage going into this 35 million chip pot against tiger604. Watch the results below:

With 5.5 million in the middle and a board reading [7s][8d][9c][8c] viebu continued to fire at the pot with a 4.3 million chip bet, and tiger604 came over the top shoving all-in for 14.7 million while holding [Kh][7c]. viebu held anything but air catching trips on the turn with [Qd][8s] and tiger604 was drawing dead. Third place and $42,036.39 was all for tiger604 as we moved on to heads up play for the Audi and $5,000.

Seat 6: viebu (52440592 in chips)
Seat 8: anti-durrr (11828408 in chips)

A near 5:1 chip lead for viebu but anti-durrr has shown the ability to overcome such chip deficits earlier in the final table. Heads up play was evenly matched as both players took turns picking off the blinds but anti-durrr could not make any headway towards evening up the match. On the tournament's final hand a gutsy call won the champion a brand new car. With blinds still at 250K/500K ante 50K and started the tenth hour of play viebu would limp from the button as anti-durrr checked the option to see a [Kd] [5h] [Js] flop. Check by anti-durrr and a min bet by viebu was called by anti-durrr. [4s] aroused anti-durrr for a 1.5 million chip bet as viebu made the call. [4c] on the river and anti-durrr shoved all-in for 7.9 million leaving viebu to decide if [5c][6c] for a pair of fives was good. After some internal discussion, viebu would make the call and see that the Audi TT RS was being raked along with the 21 million tournament chip into his stack when anti-durrr turned over [Tc][3c] for the stone bluff.

Congratulations to all 5,000 people who cashed tonight and our champion viebu who will be enjoying that sweet ride for years to come.

$1 Million Turbo Takedown Results (11-29-09)
(* denotes part of five-way chop)
1. viebu (Haifa) *$38,991.05 + Audi TT RS
2. anti-durrr (Athens) *$43,000.95
3. tiger604 (surrey,B.C) *$42,036.39
4. Magic1550 (Columbus) *$34,967.60
5. dynoalot (fort collins) *$56,004.01
6. superkiki52 (chaumont) $17,500.00
7. Versace777 (Bremen) $15,000.00
8. crazyace443 (den bosch) $12,500.00
9. kenny05 (Philadelphia) $10,000.00

Have you heard? Have you been living under a rock? Are you ready to win something for nothing this weekend?

After a brief hiatus, the PokerStars Turbo Takedown is returning to its slot on the last Sunday of the month. That gives you and whoever else makes it in a chance to play for a share of a million bucks. If this is your first time hearing about the Turbo Takedown, here's the briefest of explanations:

The Turbo Take is a monthly Frequent Player Points tournament with a $1 million prize pool. It has bounties, bonuses, and offers a free car to the winner every week. You'll find it on the PokerStars tournament schedule on the last Sunday of every month at 15:30 ET. The buy-in is a paltry 3,000 FPPs (and there are satellites out there that let you get your seat for even less). Five thousand of the players will walk away with real cash.

And the car? Yes, it's a nice one. In fact, it's a quite nice Audi TT RS Coupe.

For complete details on how to enter, check out the PokerStars Turbo Takedown page.

One advance request for the winner. I need a ride to the airport on December 9.

You think we can swing that?