Big Money Sunday – August 2nd | Poker From The Rail

Big Money Sunday – August 2nd

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

Vivek Rajkumar was my pick to be the surprise standout at this year’s World Series of Poker. He was finishing up his best year at the tables which started with a WPT win at the Borgata in September. Unfortunate his heater did not continue as his only cash this year was a 15th place in one of the many $1,500 donkaments.

Yesterday he continued the streak of Full Tilt pros making a run at the online equivalent $200k Double Deuce with an 8th place finish. We had a great shot at two red letter pros at the final table until Scott Fischman imploded coming down the stretch. I often wonder how players with so much behind them take a serious run at a $20 buyin event, but they keep doing it. Second place finished “timmay28″ is my favorite example of the Double Deuce style of play. When in doubt, shove 100 BB’s in the pot and pray nothing bad happens. It worked at the WSOP Main Event so it must be good here.

Newly crowned red letter pro and 2009 November Nine memeber James Akenhead made a fine showing this weekend with a 31st place finish (highest amongst Team Full Tilt) in the $750,000 Guarantee. I hope to have a WSOP profile of our newest UK grinder sometime this month.

While these folks spent their afternoon tearing up the Sunday Majors, I took some time to punish my fragile ego by playing some micro-limit cash games. I’m working on my next Full Tilt Poker Academy Challenge and also trying to work off the newly awarded “Biggest Bonus Ever“. You have picked up your bonus haven’t you?

It was a never ending string of frustration as I ran into bad play after bad play where Mother Variance made it quite clear it would not be my day. I will forgo the tales of running flush cards and disgusting two outers because no one likes a bad beat story. Also, the running position of the bloggers is to charge $1 per bad beat story which could get quite expensive spread of my reading audience.

I’ll continue working off the bonus and trying to earn my first Iron Man badge. I’ll also be praying to the poker god to turn Variance in my direction.

Click the link above to learn about the new $100 bonus available to ANYONE who earned at least 1 FTP point before July 28th. Big Money Sunday numbers after the jump.

The Sunday Brawl
Entrants: 2,567
Prizepool: $513,400
First place: $104,220

Final table number caught after the table was formed, may be off a little

Sabbyhund – 1,849,633
bignate904 – 1,680,813
Newbie_Dog – 1,428,254
jab946649 – 734,749
xBumblex – 539,364
AZlZtahleLOFT – 437,094
nesta123 – 406,698
greenman21 – 341,115
redfishtoo – 283,280

1st – jab946649 – $104,220
2nd – Sabbyhung – $67,255
3rd – Newbie Dog – $49,799
4th – greenman21 – $37,478
5th – AZlZtahleLOFT – $26,183
6th – nesta123 – $17,455
7th – xBumblex – $11,808
8th – redfishtoo – $8,214
9th – bignate904 – $6,160

The $200k Double Deuce
Entrants: 11,184
Prizepool: $223,680
First place: $34,670

Mario081186 – 6,769,807
timmay28 – 5,795,153
colinoscopy – 5,256,171
hofmaker – 4,959,524
greens26 – 3,419,341
Karls_Hungus – 3,384,900
Vivek Rajkumar – 2,580,402
scabbyqueen – 2,190,208
Cato1028 – 1,656,974

1st – greens26 – $34,670
2nd – timmay28 – $23,486
3rd – Mario081186 – $16,552
4th – colinscopy – $11,899
5th – hofmaker – $8,723
6th – Cato1028 – $6,263
7th – Karls_Hungus – $4,473
8th – Vivek Rajkumar – $3,198
9th – scabbyqueen – $2,261

The $750k Guarantee
Entrants: 4,401
Prizepool: $880,200
First Place: $155,434

DOOLfan – 4,286,230
jpapola – 2,234,520
bb_ShiNing – 1,764,942
sedore623 – 1,503,728
chavarie – 831,410
wat-dee – 746,268
njw11 – 673,000
truesyalose – 586,786
leeman26 – 576,116

1st – DOOLfan – $155,434
2nd – truesyalose – $94,093
3rd – jpapola – $61,614
4th – bb_ShiNing – $48,411
5th – sedore623 – $36,352
6th – wat-dee – $26,934
7th – chavarie – $20,244
8th – leeman26 – $15,843
9th – njw11 – $11,794

The Sunday Mulligan
Entrants: 1,326
Prizepool: $265,200
First place: $58,344

HaiducF – 1,022,081
NoBadBeatsPlz – 707,338
croll103 – 631,460
AmkarPerm – 420,084
Kenny Rap – 380,269
foldorbebroke – 355,466
acap11 – 210,683
EASY DZER – 198,751
CzarBushov – 51,868

1st – EASY DYER – $58,344
2nd – AmkarPerm – $37,128
3rd – Kenny Rap – $27,183
4th – NoBadBeatsPlz- $21,547
5th – HaiducF – $16,575
6th – croll103 – $11,934
7th – CzarBushov – $7,690
8th – folderbebroke – $5,569
9th – acap11 – $4,084