Big Money Sundays

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

Big Money Sunday kicked off with a bang as FTOPS X Main Event winner “Julian Verse” followed up that victory by winning this week’s Sunday Brawl adding nearly $80,000 to his $450,000 from last Sunday. The brand new $100K Double Deuce sold out all 7,000 seats two days before the scheduled start and was one of the craziest games I’ve ever watched. The $750,000 Guarantee sported an overlay and the Sunday Mulligan drew over 1,000 players for the last big game of the evening.

Details after the jump.

There’s no possible way to describe the first run the $100k Double Deuce tournament, the new weekly event with a small buy-in and big guarantee. I knew something was going to be different with this game when I went to register for the tournament and found that all 7000 seats were already sold out and the waiting list was pegged at 250 players. So we knew the prizepool would be locked in at $140,000 when the game started at 16:35 ET.

Instead of playing, I decided to act as the proper representative of “Poker From the Rail” and watch the action. I pulled up tables for several friends as well as some red letter pros like FTP blogger Michael Craig. I was stunned by the action during the first few hours of this tournament and I’m pretty damned hard to stun. At the first break the field was narrowed by over 30%. 2,100+ players threw their chips in the middle and called it a night. By the second break even more players were gone, looking a field where fully 2/3 of the 7,000 players were gone in the two hours. It was only 3.5 hours after the start when the money bubble burst at 720 with hand-for-hand action lasting exactly one hand.

From that description you might think I’m writing about one of the uber-turbo games but that is incorrect. The starting stack was 2,200 with 12 minute blinds, antes not kicking in until after the second break. Consider this a solid recommendation for everyone to play in this game at every opportunity, from first appearances it would seem any solid player would have a great chance to make a deep run for some big cash.

The big story was “Julian Verse” following up his FTOPS X Main Event win by taking down the Sunday Brawl. It was a tough field with many pros and several former FTOPS winners making it deep. He went into the final table with the chip lead and made a great comeback after getting crippled during head’s up play. Second place finisher liverdracon had a great chance to make his second final table of the evening during the Sunday Mulligan, sitting top 5 in chips with 3 tables left.

Below are your Sunday final table results.

The Sunday Brawl Final table chip count and results:

Julian Verse – 1,427,346
jimmyforreal – 1,420,352
liverdracon – 1,042,542
becks911 – 643,509
Half Full – 409,888
chelt1 – 338,131
JCSeelback – 275,120
i_love_Venetian – 125,172
DontTryToBlufMe – 110,940

1st – Julian Verse – $79,557.20
2nd – liverdraco – $52,523.20
3rd – jimmyforreal – $39,006.20
4th – DontTryToBlufMe – $30,509.80
5th – i_love_Venetian – $22.785.80
6th – becks911 – $15,834.20
7th – Half Full – $9,655.00
8th – JCSeelback – $6,565.40
9th – chelt1 – $4,634.40

The $100k Double Deuce final table chip count:

MAY I FEAST – 2,620,128
AllInAt420sGirl – 2,362,915
Cali Roller – 2,298,308
Bogge_1 – 2,090,718
ejkc – 1,389,994
Lock_BOX77 – 1,382,857
Chuoiman – 1,377,930
TomasBachman – 1,354,146
xthegamex56 – 523,004

1st – Bogge_1 – $27,232.80
2nd – MAY I FEAST – $16,660
3rd – Cali Roller – $11,760
4th – ejkc – $8,400
5th – xthegamex56 – $6,020
6th – Lock_BOX77 – $4,060
7th – TomasBachman – $2,800
8th – AllInAt420sGirl – $1,960
9th – Chuoiman – $1,400

$750,000 Guarantee final table chip count:

Wasaki coke – 2,922,488
MicoTX – 2,378,925
Embetant – 1,060,325
spandit – 1,028,310
SPIN101 – 1,028,138
Davidp18 – 960,824
PXFACTOR – 659,391
DNA2RNA – 566,747
PeppermintHippo – 326,852

1st – MicoTX – 132,787.50
2nd – Wasaki coke – $80,250
3rd – spandit – $52,500
4th – SPIN101 – $41,400
5th – Davidp18 – $31,050
6th – Embetant – $23,025
7th – PXFACTOR – $17,250
8th – DNA2RNA – $13,500
9th – PeppermintHippo – $10,050

Sunday Mulligan final table chip count:

badbeatninja – 699,069
Pimpnuho – 520,303
drunk mashimaro – 395,533
bigegypt – 376,621
charder30 – 333,618
thopra – 309,074
highlandfox – 191,225
ELeon222 – 149,025
Jagz7 – 79,532

1st – drunk mashimaro – $45,810
2nd – charder30 – $29,522
3rd – badbeatninja – $21,887
4th – thopra – $16,797
5th – highlandfox – $12,725
6th – Pimpnuho – $9,162
7th – bigegypt – $6,108
8th – ELeon222 – $4,581
9th – Jagz7 – $3,257.60

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