Lex wins the Warm-Up for $34K

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Lex Veldhuis took down the $215 Sunday Warm-Up on PokerStars last night for a $34,690 score with more than 15,000 people tuning in, the culmination of an epic 16+ hour stream.

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The Sunday Warm-Up begins at 5pm CET, a perfectly reasonable time for weekend warriors to kick off their Sunday grind. Lex Veldhuis, on the other hand, had already been up and at it for six hours by that point, in front of a live audience no less.

Yesterday saw the $215 Warm-Up get 1,069 runners, creating a $213,800 prize pool. The bubble burst at 179, and when it got down to the final 30 or so players, Lex shot up the chip counts thanks to this huge pot.

From there Lex never slipped from the top three spots. Like any tournament, to win you have to find some help along the way, and this next hand certainly did that:

He further distanced himself on the final table bubble when a blind vs blind spot saw Lex eliminate the player who sat third in chips.

"I mean...he has two pair, right? He has to."

That hand took them down to the FT and meant that Lex had almost double the amount of chips of his closest competitor, Jonathan "Proudflop" Proudfoot.

There were a handful of super short stacks,...

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