PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up kicked off the day as 4,557 players hit the felt creating a first place prize valued at $142,982. Alan ‘smacl02’ Lake made his way through the massive field to claim his six figure payday. The PokerStars Sunday Million kept the day going as a ridiculous 8,341 entrants showed up to play. A chop was made on the final table as ‘Blompf’ took the top prize of $227,757 and ‘oldrich88’ took home second place which was worth $196,971. PokerStars also held the ‘PokerStars F40’ which created a ‘small’ field of 40,864. Four players decide to take the chop and the player to walk away with the lion’s share was ‘anybodybut17’ who took home $95,816.

The most prestigious heads up tournament in poker today is heading in to its 6th season. NBC’s National Heads Up Poker Championship will begin March 4th, and this year the tournament is headed back to Caesars Palace. Last years runner up Vanessa Rousso will be participating as well as last year’s heads up champion Huck Seed. Other poker pros expected to play will be Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, and Daniel Negreanu just to name a few. The Heads Up event is a unique poker tournament that puts the best of the best against one another.

The Party Poker Premier League IV rolls into Day 4 as the final table is coming to a close. With four players eliminated from the final table four remain to make their claim for the top prize. As the action continues to unfold David Benyamine is currently sitting in first place as he has 1,004,000 in chips. The other players joining Benyamine at the final table is Luke Schwartz (686,000), Phil Laak (469,000), and Giovanni Safina rounds out the table with 226,000 in chips. Stay with Poker777 as the PartyPoker Premier League comes to a close and a champion is crowned.

Di ‘Urindanger’ Dang sat down to play some $200/$400 Cap Pot-Limit Omaha, but ended up walking away with a very disappointing showing. Since the game was a ‘capped’ game Dang was only able to lose $16K each hand. Dang clocked in 4,500 hands during the session, but his losses totaled up to be a whopping $495,000. Dang went up against players that consisted of Gus Hansen, Tom Dwan, and David Benefield. It won’t be long until we see Dang at the poker tables as he can easily come back to win it all back in his next session.

2010 has been underway for a month and half now as new player of the year talks are beginning. Casey ‘bigdogpckt5s’ Jarzabek is currently the early leader for the Online Player of the Year, but it’s too soon into the new year to think this won’t change. Jarzabek has to look in the rear view mirror as 2008 runner up and 2009 winner of the award just cracked the top ten. Steve ‘gboro780’ Gross is now in 8th place as he plans on making a run for back to back titles. If past years are any indication then we should be seeing Gross near the top of the list come December.