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The €2,000 hold'em side event--event #47 in the schedule--is going to play to a winner today. And to glance at the names of the 62 players remaining from the starting 235 suggests that this will be a star-studded affair to its bitter end.

Fedor Holz is at the very summit of the overnight leader board, the brilliant young German whizz demonstrating his abilities extend beyond High Rollers, Super High Rollers, Main Events and WCOOPs. Holz has 178,900 chips with Matias Jansson tailing him, on 162,700. They will restart in Level 10, with blinds at 600-1,200.

First prize in this one, by the way, is €96,410 with a min-cash worth €4,010.

Justin Bonomo (124,200) is third at this stage, with Kevin MacPhee (69,800), newly installed as the WSOPE champion, also in the top ten. Then there's Jason Wheeler (48,800), Dominik Panka (41,500), Kevin Killeen (29,200), ElkY (26,600), Thiago Nishijima (24,800), Dermot Blain (22,300) and Maria Ho (15,100) among those still involved.

There's still a chance that the two Deadmans will end up on the same table too. Both Shola Akindele Deadman (50,100) and Simon Deadman (22,000) are involved.

The tournament pays down to 31 places, which means precisely half the remaining players will depart without cashing. That will ensure some fierce competition down in the same tournament room as the Main Event, which is also approaching its bubble today.

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The $1,050 Super Tuesday was back in action tonight on PokerStars, sporting a fancy new (bigger) $425K guarantee, and once again the turnout was impressive as 493 took part to create a guarantee-exceeding $493,000 prize pool.

It would take the better part of 11 hours for those 493 to play down to just one -- the U.K.'s cmontopdeck who after a three-way deal at the final table earned a first-place prize of $81,204.59. Here's the story of how cmontopdeck came out on top.

After five-and-a-half hours the field had been carved down to 64 players and the money bubble had arrived. Shortly after short stack vilnur 007 fell in 64th in a hand versus chip leader Bart "pablito_2121" Moens, and they were in the money.

That hand pushed Moens up toward the 200,000-chip mark, at the time well ahead of the chase pack hovering around 125,000.

By the seven-hour mark they were down to 18 players, with Bart "pablito_2121" Moens having settled back to the middle of the counts and Doug "WCG|Rider" Polk having ascended to assume frontrunner status with just under 300,000.

Nelisschuif7 (18th), zÿax (17th), and Sebastian "p0cket00" Sikorski (16th) next went out, earning $3,944 each. Then duubadaaba (15th), plokker292 (14th), and Samuel "SamuelBT" Tsehai (13th) were successively eliminated, taking away $4,930 apiece. And Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov (12th), Ken "kenny05" Smaron (11th), and darthVaderNL (10th) were the next three knockouts, each cashing for $5,916.

With WhatA298 the new chip leader after having built a stack of more than 600,000, the final table was underway.

Seat 1: Bart "pablito_2121" Moens (Belgium) -- 373,840
Seat 2: WhatA298 (United Kingdom) -- 603,037
Seat 3: riversouza (Brazil) -- 68,378
Seat 4: FaceStealer (Costa Rica) -- 221,127
Seat 5: flashdisastr (Luxembourg) -- 260,699
Seat 6: Doug "WCG|Rider" Polk (Australia) -- 373,786
Seat 7: Sam "aaajack" Chartier (Canada) -- 142,959
Seat 8: cmontopdeck (United Kingdom) -- 284,730
Seat 9: Johannes "Greenstone25" Korsar (Sweden) -- 136,444

On the fifth hand of the final table, the blinds were 3,600/7,200 when FaceStealer opened from under the gun for 15,145, then Doug "WCG|Rider" Polk called from a couple of seats over. It folded around to riversouza who called as well from the big blind, and the three saw a flop come [3s][3d][Qs]. It checked to Polk who fired 14,500, riversouza then check-raised all in for 48,833, and after FaceStealer folded, Polk made the call.

riversouza showed [4c][4s], but Polk had [As][Ad]. The turn was the [Qh] and river the [7c], and riversouza was done in ninth.

Just seven minutes later Sam "aaajack" Chartier opened for 15,400 from middle position, cmontopdeck three-bet to 41,600 from a seat over, then it folded back around to Chartier who shoved for 193,259 total and cmontopdeck called.

cmontopdeck had the edge with [Ac][Kh] versus Chartier's [Ah][Jh], and five cards later -- [2s][9c][Ts][Qc][7d] -- cmontopdeck's Big Slick was still best and Chartier was eliminated in eighth.

Two hands after that, Bart "pablito_2121" Moens raised to 15,400 from MP, then FaceStealer shoved from the button for 164,482 and Moens called. It was a similar scenario as had just occurred, with Moens holding [Ah][Jh] and FaceStealer [As][Kd]. But this time the board ran out [Jd][Ac][8h][9d][Js] which meant ace-jack was best, and FaceStealer was knocked out in seventh.

A short while later, flashdisastr open-raised all in for 92,327 (about 11.5 big blinds) from the cutoff and got one caller in Doug "WCG|Rider" Polk sitting on the button. flashdisastr had [Ts][9c] while Polk had picked up [Ad][As] once again, and for the second time at the final table Polk's aces meant the end of an opponent's run as the board came [4d][8d][3h][Qd][6c] to stop flashdisastr in sixth.

Alas for Polk, things went differently soon thereafter in a hand that began with Polk raising just over 2x to 20,250 from the button, then cmontopdeck three-bet to 52,900 from the small blind. Polk responded by shoving all in for 241,216 and cmontopdeck called, showing [As][Kd] to Polk's [Ad][Qs]. The community cards came [9c][3c][Jh], then [5d], then [Jc], and Polk was finished in fifth.

The final four battled onward, then with the blinds up to 5,000/10,000 it was Bart "pablito_2121" Moens open-raising all in for 136,519 from the button with [Ad][5d] and getting called by cmontopdeck in the big blind with [Kd][Ts]. The [9s][9c][7c] flop and [8c] turn were okay for Moens, but the river [Tc] paired cmontopdeck and Moens was knocked out in fourth.

The remaining players made past the tournament's 10-hour mark, then collectively decided to pause proceedings to discuss a possible deal. By then cmontopdeck was on top with 1,149,994, Johannes "Greenstone25" Korsar next with 682,560, and WhatA298 third with 632,446. "ICM"-based figures were soon produced (leaving $8,000 for which to play), and all three players quickly agreed.

About 10 minutes later leader cmontopdeck min-raised to 28,000 from the button, Johannes "Greenstone" Korsar three-bet to 88,000 from the small blind, cmontopdeck made it 184,000 to go, Korsar shoved for 826,760 total, and cmontopdeck called.

Korsar had [Ah][Kh] while cmontopdeck showed [8d][8c], then the board came six-high -- [6h][2h][6d][2c][3c] -- leaving cmontopdeck with the best hand and Korsar with a third-place finish.

The two Brits who had made the final table were all that remained. Winning that pot versus Korsar gave cmontopdeck nearly a 3-to-1 chip lead to start heads-up play with 1,835,734 to WhatA298's 629,266.

WhatA298 battled gamely but after a short while had been whittled down to less than 265,000. That's when cmontopdeck opened with a 2x raise to 32,000 from the button, WhatA298 shoved, and cmontopdeck called.

WhatA298: [3s][3d]
cmontopdeck: [As][Qc]

The [5h][Qh][8c] flop quickly swung the advantage over to cmontopdeck, and the [4s] turn left WhatA298 looking for one of the two remaining treys. But the river brought the [8h] and it was over -- cmontopdeck had won.

Congratulations to cmontopdeck for outlasting nearly 500 players to win this week's Super Tuesday, and kudos also to WhatA298 and Johannes "Greenstone25" Korsar for making it to the three-way deal and ensuring nice paydays for themselves as well.

10/27/15 Super Tuesday ($1,050 No-Limit Hold'em) results
Entrants: 493
Prize pool: $493,000.00
Places paid: 63

1. cmontopdeck (United Kingdom) $81,204.59*
2. WhatA298 (United Kingdom) $65,512.27*
3. Johannes "Greenstone25" Korsar (Sweden) $66,505.64*
4. Bart "pablito_2121" Moens (Belgium) $38,454.00
5. Doug "WCG|Rider" Polk (Australia) $27,115.00
6. flashdisastr (Luxembourg) $20,952.50
7. FaceStealer (Costa Rica) $16,022.50
8. Sam "aaajack" Chartier (Canada) $11,092.50
9. riversouza (Brazil) $8,183.80
* = denotes a three-way deal leaving $8,000 for the winner

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Pete Dolloway was supposed to get up at 4:30 Monday morning. He had a job to go on. He's an electrician by trade, something that has paid the bills for the working class guy from Sheldon, Birmingham.

It had been a tough year. Thieves had broken into his van twice. And now he faced the idea of getting up before the sun and trudging into another day of turning on the lights for other people. It might have been enough to remind him of one of his favorite comedian's axioms.

"It's all about money, not freedom, y'all, okay? Nothing to do with (expletive) freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without (expletive) money, okay?"

Bill Hicks, the late American comic, once said that on stage. It's the type of thing that would resonate with a man who was shackled by fuses, wiring, and the ever-present necessity of setting his damned alarm clock for 4:30am.

At 36 years old, married with kids, Dolloway was sitting and watching the London-based NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars. He decided to play a $5 PokerStars Spin & Go. That was when something weird happened.

"I freaked out," he admitted later. "I got the wife to look at it to see if it was real."

It was, by all means, real. Dolloway had just lucked his way into a $1.2 million Spin & Go Jackpot. Just a few days earlier, PokerStars had announced it was going to celebrate the anniversary of Spin & Gos by opening up the jackpot floodgates.

Let's just say it: Dolloway was never a big poker player, and he wasn't one of the lucky ones. He's never played for much money, and he's never cashed for more than £1,000. Poker was a low-stakes hobby he used to distract himself from the days he spent hoping somebody wasn't breaking into his van again.

With his wife and kids standing beside him, Dolloway realized he could bust first and still fill his boots with money. A min-cash was 20,000 times the amount he'd invested.

"It helped knowing that there was $100,000 for second and third," he said.

For most people, it's simply impossible to imagine that feeling. At one moment you're sitting there wondering what bad decision the Buffalo Bills' Rex Ryan will make next, and the next moment it's up to your electrician fingers somehow manage a campaign for a $1 million payday.

"By and large, I was in a state of pure panic," Dolloway said.

How else could a man feel? A million dollars was falling out of the ethereal sky, and it was Dolloway's job to hold his arms just the right way.

"I kept saying to myself 'This is your chance, your time. Take it seriously and play properly,'" he said.

For a man about to play the most serious game of his life, he and his avatar were ready with a proper sense of fatalism. He'd been playing poker for nine years, and when he signed up for PokerStars, he chose the name "prophethicks," an homage to the comedy's Bill Hicks, a stand-up philosopher who once said, "Non-smokers die everyday. Sleep tight!"

"Hicks, the man is a god to me," Dolloway said. "Along with Kurt Cobain and Homer Simpson, I took his teachings way too seriously over the years."

By now, you know what happened. The million dollars landed squarely in Dolloway's lap. When it was over, he thought he won with ace-seven vs king-jack. He was close but wrong, and nevertheless the biggest winner of the day.

Today, Dolloway is still trying to wrap his head around the outcome. Sunday morning, he had nowhere close to a million bucks. Today, he has all of it and then some.

And that 4:30am wake-up call?

"I rang up and told them I was not available," Dolloway admitted.

And, that PokerStars players, is how one Spin & Go millionaire has spent the last 48 hours. Today, as he signed his last email, Pete Dolloway is heretofore known as "retired electrician, aspiring comedian."

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