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Sundays are typically leisure days, ones that offer a slower pace than the rest of the week with time to relax. Even with the regular Sunday tournaments on PokerStars, players can ease in to the action with the Sunday Warm-Up and other events. It may be a grind at times, but it's the same leisurely grind to which Sunday online poker players are accustomed.
Today was not leisurely. Fun? Yes. Relaxed? Not exactly.
In addition to the Sunday majors, daily tournaments, and cash game action, there was the fourth day of the Turbo Championship of Online Poker. TCOOP had no less than SIX events on the schedule for today, and the turbo nature of the tournaments forced players to pay attention, get into action, and go go go!
TCOOP Event 18 was one of them. If the turbo part wasn't enough, this was a 2x turbo event, and a Pot Limit Omaha rebuy on top of that. And the turnout was solid for the $150K guarantee and exciting PLO action.
Players: 4,649
Rebuys: 11,568
Add-ons: 1,862
Prize pool: $361,580.00
Paid players: 600
Registration closed after the first hour, and the craziness of the rebuys and add-ons stopped and players exited. More than half of the field was gone, and the second hour looked as if it would take players into the money.
That's exactly what happened, as minutes before the two-hour mark, hand-for-hand play gave way to a quick exit from fengikareh in 601st place, guaranteeing everyone else a minimum of $137.40 for their original investment.
There were several players representing Team PokerStars continuing their efforts in the tournament. The first to cash out was Team Pro Toni Judet of Romania in 511th place, Richard Toth followed less than 10 minutes later in 391st place and George Danzer in 304th. Team Online's Javier "El_Canonero" Dominguez left in 200th place, Team Pro Henrique Pinho in 193rd, Team Online's Diego "vgreen22" Brunelli in 173rd, Team Pro Martin "AABenjaminAA" Hruby in 113th, and Lex Veldhuis in 59th.
That left Jude "j.thaddeus" Ainsworth of Ireland as the last Team Pro standing, but he was ousted from the tournament in 39th place with $994.34.

As the 3.5-hour mark approached, three tables were reduced to two, and eliminations started with with AAprosimAA out in 12th, Aquasces1 in 11th, and djamka in 10th. The quick bustouts of Carteio in ninth and andersmeli in eighth brought hand-for-hand play.
Sasuke234 was the player to risk it all with [Kh][8s][7h][Ad], and entim was along for the ride with [Jh][5c][Qd][7c]. The board came [5d][Tc][Jd][3c][Qc] to give entim the club flush, and Sasuke234 departed in seventh place with $3,977.38.
Arxigos and entim battle for chip lead
With blinds at 375,000/750,000 in Level 38, the final table was set with these starting chip stacks:
Seat 1: batcaveman (2,771,630 in chips)
Seat 2: entim (14,832,002 in chips)
Seat 3: arxigos (15,440,170 in chips)
Seat 4: SuperPoep (1,875,960 in chips)
Seat 5: chipeater102 (11,243,270 in chips)
Seat 6: PS_Almelo (4,890,968 in chips)

Arxigos proceeded to take a 16 million-chip pot almost immediately from entim, though, to secure a solid first place on the leaderboard. Batcaveman doubled through chipeater102 to stay alive.
SuperPoep was short and called all-in from the big blind with [Th][5c][5h][3c], and original raiser entim was there with [5s][9c][Ad][Kh]. SuperPoep never improved as the dealer gave them [2d][Qd][Kd][9s][Jd], while entim came up with two pair. SuperPoep left the table in sixth place with $6,146.86.
On the very next hand, PS_Almelo made a move with [6h][Kc][Ks][3c], and original raiser arxigos called with [As][8s][6s][2h]. That hand improved to a two pair on the [Ah][2d][Th] flop, and the [5s] turn and [9h] river let it be. PS_Almelo exited in fifth place with $10,847.40.