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Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
The story of the day and the series so far was the $25,000 Heads Up Championship final match. Neither of Full Tilt’s pro, Gus Hansen and Eric Froehlich, were able to make it out of the semi-finals but it was a spectacle which will make for great TV.
Yevgeniy Timoshenko came into the final match with the longer resume but 22 year old Brit Jake Cody has both a WPT and EPT victory coming into his first WSOP. That experience plus a rail full of supporters who turned a heads up match into something rivaling a World Cup finals. Songs and chants to confuse the rest of the crowd plus trays of shots fueled an atmosphere that will be exciting when it airs on ESPN.
Young Jake Cody is now one of just three players to have what has been dubbed the “Triple Crown” when he added his first WSOP bracelet to his WPT and EPT titles.
The $10,000 Pot Limit Hold’em Championship cut their numbers nearly in half on Day 1 with only 129 of the original 249 surviving. This starting number is down a few from last year but it’s a predictably difficult field. Table 277 looks to be the one to watch at the restart, here’s how they stack up from Seat 1 all the way around:
Annette Obrestad, Jordan “BoostedJ” Smith, Jason Mercier, Chris “MoormanI” Moorman, Paul “paulgees81″ Volpe, Josh Arieh, Sam Stein, James Dempsey, Beth Shak.
The $5,000 No Limit Hold’em event will have some work to do to declare a winner before the mandated 10 level cutoff, 42 still remain in the field and the stacks are deep. Winner of this event in 2009 (and friend of the blog) Brian Lemke hovered around the chip lead most of Day 2 and then tore things up late to begin the day sitting well ahead. Plenty of big names remain including Allen Bari, Sergey Rybachenko, Steven Levy, Jonathan Little, Matt Glantz, JC Tran, Carlos Mortensenm, Tim “Tmay420″ West, Bernard Lee, and Maria Ho. Play restarts at 2:30pm and should end with the winner taking home $874,116.
1 – Brian Lemke – 960,000
2 – Allen Bari – 686,000
3 – Ricky Fohrenbach – 642,000
4 – Sergey Rybachenko – 614,000
5 – Markus Gonsalves – 567,000
6 – Peter Gilmore – 525,000
7 – Michael Hahn – 493,000
8 – Steven Levy – 466,000
9 – Simon Charette – 464,000
10 – Richard Lyndaker – 417,000
Other notables: Jonathan Little (415,000), Matt Glantz (386,000), JC Tran (386,000), Carlos Mortensen (267,000), Tim “Tmay420″ West (157,000), Bernard Lee (122,000), Maria Ho (91,000)
The $1,500 Seven Card Stud event will crown it’s champion later today with plenty of big names in the running. Just 12 players come into the final day with Italian Full Tilt pro Alessio Isaia in the lead. Isaia began the year on the roll with a WPT Venice victory and looks to keep rolling. There are also a pair of November Niners alive on the final day, 2009′s Eric Buchman and 2008′s Ylon Schwartz. Today’s winner will collect $122,909 in addition to the bracelet.
1 – Alessio Isaia – 232,500
2 – Eric Buchman – 220,500
3 – Eugene Katchalov – 212,500
4 – Kai Landry – 200,000
5 – Jonathan Spinks – 133,000
6 – Dennis Parker – 123,500
7 – Vasili Lazarou – 102,500
8 – Andrew Blumen – 98,000
9 – Ali Eslami – 77,000
10 – Arash Ghaneian – 77,000
11 – Ylon Schwartz – 70,000
12 – Jeremy Ausmus – 69,500
Today is the first in a series of huge field, small buyin tournaments when the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em shovefest gets underway at noon. The numbers have always been incredible since the WSOP first introduced the $1,000 “Stimulus Special” during the summer of 2009. It’s a 5-day event with two starting days, time to put on the helmet and watch the massacre from a safe distance.
Remember to keep an eye out on our @FullTiltPoker twitter and Facebook page for updates during the day. The Fantasy WSOP contest is also up and running for non-US players, get in the game and challenge your favorite pros.
Tags: 2011 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Andy Bloch, Bloggers on the Rail, James Dempsey, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
With the 2011 WSOP on the horizon, Jennifer Harman invited a bunch of her friends to the Peppermill Resort and Casino in Reno for her annual Poker Throwdown to benefit the NSPCA. I was honored to be on the invite list where I was able to play a few fun hands with Robert Williamson III, talk with Annie Duke about her upcoming FS+G project (more on that later), and help raising money for a great charity.
680 players registered for the tournament with more than $115,000 raised on the day and it was a fun time. There were plenty of great players, celebrities, and friends in attendance. While sitting around the poker room I asked Full Tilt Academy producer Lizzy Harrison if she would like to write up a trip report and she obliged.
2011 Jennifer Harman Poker Throwdown
by Lizzy Harrison
Years ago, when Jen Harman ended a long-term relationship, she retained a high-profile attorney. She didn’t want the house and couldn’t care less about most of the stuff in it. What she wanted was custody of the four pups they’d adopted as a couple. Jen ended up with three of them.
I’ve heard Jen say, on numerous occasions, that rescue dogs are the only way to go. Jen is one to put her money where her mouth is and, for the past five years, she has hosted a charity poker tournament to raise money for the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA).
This year the tournament was held at the Peppermill in Reno, Nevada. I was invited to attend as a “celebrity” which made me feel pretty damn cool. My responsibilities included having my picture taken with an adorable 2-year pit mix, a 10-month old lab mix born with only 3 legs and a couple of pygmy goats. I was scared to hold the rabbit and I’m not sure why.
A whopping 680 players turned out for the $330 buy-in tournament and many of them were quite high profile. Of course Jen and her husband Marco were there, as were other top poker players like Andy Bloch, Daniel Negreanu, Annie Duke, and Robert Williamson III. Real celebrity guests included Lou Diamond Phillips of “La Bamba” fame, Mekhi Phifer, and lots of Olympic snowboarders. World Series of Poker main event champions Jamie Gold and Jerry Yang were also in attendance.
At $50/rebuy almost everyone could afford to get back in when they lost their stack. Those would couldn’t were bought back in by other players that wanted to donate more to the NSPCA. Alex Outhred was on the mic and with his encouragement no respectable tournament participant could sneak out before the rebuy period ended. Over $110,000 was raised for the NSPCA.
With a Ketel OJ in hand I sat down to play. I’d just finished breakfast with my hubby, AlCantHang, and Kevmath and I was ready. The breakfast special that day was prime rib and eggs, and if I’d known I was going to be drinking all day I would have ordered that. Alas, I am a girl, and as one I ordered a chocolate croissant. Note to all readers: a chocolate croissant is not enough food to eat before playing poker and drinking for hours.
The actual tournament went pretty quickly. Within a few hours there were less than 100 players left and I had my game face on. By then I had moved to a new table and Jamie Gold was to my left. Luckily, I watched his Main Event win years back, so I knew exactly how he plays. I was carefully getting ready to trap the main event champion in a huge pot to propel me to the final table. Then JJ Liu hit a gutshot on me and I was out in 69th place.
Andy Bloch and 2007 WSOP Main Event winner Jerry Yang came to Reno to support the cause
Yang went on to final table the tournament
Actor Lou Diamond Phillips shows the camera exactly how many chips he has remaining
Daniel Negreanu shows actress Julie Benz some of the finer points of the game
Tags: AlCantHang, Andy Bloch, Annie Duke, Bloggers on the Rail, Daniel Negreanu, Guest Posts, Jennifer Harman, Jerry Yang, Lizzie Harrison
Posted by Dave McCarthy | Filed under Bloggers Corner, WSOP
Congratulations to our caption contest winners! There were a lot of good submissions; it was tough to pick just one for each.
Stay tuned for another caption contest this week…
Photo A:
While the dealer is looking away, Schoenberg uses her secret Jedi-Forces to switch cards.
– H311f14m3
Photo B:
“Hey Phil, go ahead and bust out so we can hit the Waffle House.”
– rgreen5150
Photo C:
Andy Bloch plays a peaceful game of Scrabble, most likely for a $100k prop bet.
– Ezyrider77
Tags: Andy Bloch, caption contest, Erica Schoenberg, Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Welcome to my least favorite day of the entire WSOP where we kicked off Event #22: $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship. This event draws more and more criticism as the years go by no matter your opinion on the event. Some feel it is sexist, some feel it’s separatist. Some vocally boycott the tournament while we also have some “men” who will dress up as a joke to enter the event. Everyone seems to have a strong opinion on the subject.
Which is why I will be spending the day camped out in the pressbox gathering updates and avoiding the subject. Last year a colleague at a competing site put his opinions down in print and was immediately blasted by one of their top pros. I will not be making that mistake. Today we look forward to crowning two new champions with two members of Team Full Tilt looking for a big payday and pretty jewelry. I will still be keeping an eye on the Ladies Event as it features one of your newest pro, Full Tilt announced earlier today the signing of Lacey Jones (that is her on the right, for the 1% of the reading audience who doesn’t know).
The $10,000 NL Deuce to Seven final ten players will return this afternoon to determine this year’s champion. We have to Full Tilt pros at opposite ends of the bracelet spectrum, both with a good shot at the title. Erik Seidel will be trying to tie Johnny Moss with his 9th career WSOP win while Andy Bloch once again hopes to capture his elusive first. A victory today will give John Juanda his 5th bracelet and nearly $300,000. Day 3 starting chip counts below.
1 – David “Bakes” Baker – 526,000
2 – George Danzer – 425,000
3 – Eric Cloutier – 366,000
4 – Doug Booth – 359,000
5 – Erik Seidel – 280,000
6 – Eric Kesselman – 247,000
7 – John Monnette – 238,000
8 – John Juanda – 225,000
9 – Daniel Negreanu – 223,000
10 – Andy Bloch – 146,000
We will return later in the day with updates, a Lacey Jones profile, and our pictures of the week.
Tags: 2010 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Andy Bloch, Bloggers on the Rail, Erik Seidel, John Juanda, Lacey Jones, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Every year at the World Series of Poker you constantly hear stories about bizarre prop bets and the insane money changing hands. Weight loss bets, bracelet bets, last longer bets, you name it and these guys will bet on it. Word started popping up in the Pavilion Room and twitter about an offer made from Howard Lederer to Andy Bloch on the day of his 41st birthday. The details were tough to track down via the 140 character updates so we headed there to see for ourselves. Here’s what we found out.
We already knew it was Bloch’s birthday courtesy of the signs hanging in the lounge with baked goods from end to end. At some point during the $5,000 Shootout Event #6 Lederer approached Bloch with a generous offer. It wasn’t even a prop bet, just a nice freeroll. Lederer offered Bloch $25,000 if he could manage to choke down 24 cupcakes from that point until he either busted or won his Shootout table.
Bloch told the other players at the table, “Well, if I’m low on chips and you see me stuff the last cupcake in my mouth, you know I’m about to go all-in.” Bloch soon stalled at 6, prompting Lederer to extend the freeroll for the duration of Bloch’s stay at his table, offering $5k for 15 cupcakes, and another $5k for 20.
“At that point, you’d have to eat the last four,” a player at Bloch’s table said.
“Yeah, it’s almost $4k a cupcake at that point” Bloch replied.
A few tables away, we caught up with Lederer, who confirmed the rules for us, adding: “It’s the icing that gets you. That’s the key to the bet: that thick, gooey stuff…”
On our way out of the Pavilion, we stopped to wish Andy luck. He had just learned that there was a 90 minute dinner break after level 6. “I don’t think I’m going to eat any until then,” he said.
Update: At the end of it all, Bloch only downed 7 1/2 cupcakes before getting knocked out of the $5,000 Shootout.
Tags: 2010 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Andy Bloch, Bloggers on the Rail, Howard Lederer, Prop Bets, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
It’s one of the standard conversations which always come up during the World Series of Poker. Who’s the best player to not have captured their first bracelet? Mr. McCarthy and myself were just sitting on media row yesterday bouncing names back and forth with the usual suspect always in the mix, Team Full Tilt member Andy Bloch. He is one of the most successful tournament players in the world but has yet to find himself as the last player standing at the end of a WSOP event. His efforts include two high profile second place finishes where he was the favorite going into heads up play.
Regular guest blogger “Tuscaloosa” Johnny sent along his thoughts on ten high-profile players coming into the summer still aiming for their first title. Interesting that he lists Michael Mizrachi in his post as “The Grinder” will sit at the $50,000 Player’s Championshp final table later today.
Best players without a WSOP bracelet
By “Tuscaloosa” Johnny Kampis
Erick Lindgren, Kenny Tran, Nenad Medic, Dario Minieri, John Phan. Know what all of these players have in common? They all won their first World Series of Poker bracelets in recent years. These players were lucky enough to achieve their first victories in the Rio, but there are plenty of deserving pros who haven’t tasted WSOP glory yet. Here are ten pros that are due:
Tags: 2010 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Andy Bloch, Bloggers on the Rail, Gavin Smith, Guest Posts, Gus Hansen, Michael Mizrachi, Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan, Tuscaloosa Johnny, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
Day 3 is upon us and it will look much like yesterday. The second flight of the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em Event #3 starts at noon and it will be interesting to see the size of the field. Guesses, estimates, and bets have Day 2a being slightly larger than Day 1a but it does not look that way in the early going. The big guns return for Day 3 of the $50,000 Player’s Championship after things began heating up towards the late hours of Day 2. We have one new event starting today at 17:00PT with Event #5 $1,500 Limit Omaha/8.
Day 1a of the $1,000 NLHE Event #3 drew 2,601 entrants and just 276 players survived. An incredible number of bustouts but nothing we didn’t expect. My fuzzy math tells us that on average we lost a player in the tournament roughly every 15 seconds, that is “online-super-turbo” translated into live tournament reality. There is some concern around the Rio about the possibility of actually making the money during Day 1b if this rate continues, with only 10% of the field remaining from Day 1a it is a valid concern.
Walking around the Pavilion at the start of play we found some interesting table draws in this huge field. Matt “All In At 420″ Stout drew a seat next to Erica Schoenberg while Alex Outhred was a few tables away with Christina Lindley on his left. Gavin Smith spent a few orbits sitting with Kara Scott and Allen Kessler. Fish all around and Jeff Madsen found himself with Ben Lamb.
Some of the notable chipstacks surviving the slaughter belong to Lisa Parsons, Amarillo Slim Preston, Tommy Vedes, “Minneapolis” Jim Meehan, Vanessa Rousso, Luke “IWEARGOGGLES” Staudenmaier, Joe Sebok, and Thayer “THA3YER” Rasmussen. You can find complete chip counts for the end of Event #3 Day 1a here.
54 players return to Day 3 of the $50,000 Player’s Championship with significant action towards the end of Day 2. As the day was winding down, Team Full Tilt member Andy Bloch made a big jump up the leaderboard at the expense of two players. He first put a huge hit on the stack of Phil Hellmuth when his sevens four-flushed Hellmuth’s top pair top kicker Big Slick, he then crushed Robert Williamson III in this tweeted hand.
Shared my sugar snap peas w @rwilliamsoniii, then we got it all in preflop for 580k pot. AcAhKhTh for robert v AdAsJc8c. I won with a flush
Those hands have Bloch sitting in second place to begin Day 3. The restart is once again at 15:00PT and here are your top 10 chipcounts:
1 – Kirk Morrison – 741,000
2 – Andy Bloch – 716,500
3 – Mikael Thuritz – 697,500
4 – Nick Schulman – 683,000
5 – Erik Sagstrom – 656,000
6 – Robert Mizrachi – 625,500
7 – Daniel Alaei – 605,500
8 – Bretty Richey – 578,000
9 – Alexander Kostritsyn – 525,000
10 – Ilya Bulychev – 490,500
Our only new event of the day is the $1,500 Limit Omaha/8 Event #5 starting at 17:00PT. This will be an intersting tournament to follow as we will be on the lookout for Thang Luu in the field for several reasons. Luu comes into the tournament having won this event in 2008 and 2009 after a 2nd place finish in the $2,000 Limit Omaha/8 tournament in 20007. That all assumes Thang Luu even shows up for this tournament. Last year Luu received a temporary ban from the Harrah’s properties after breaking the hand of a dealer. My sources tell me that Thang Luu is eligible to return to the Rio to attempt to claim this title for the third year in a row.
Event #3 Day 1a pictures after the jump:
Tags: 2010 World Series of Poker, AlCantHang, Andy Bloch, Bloggers on the Rail, WSOP
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
It was a busy day yesterday online with the full slate of Big Money Sunday games including the switch from the $750,000 Guarantee to the $1,000,000 big game but everyone kept their bankrolls aimed at “Aid for Haiti” fund raisers. Poker players took to the tables across the internet to do they’re part to help those suffering from the devastating earth quake in Haiti last week. I am still waiting on the official numbers from the tournaments and direct player-to-player donations but Full Tilt players did raise over $65,000 in the “No Play” tournaments alone. Well done.
Team Full Tilt member Andy Bloch was seen leading the way generating participation in the hourly “Aid for Haiti” tournaments. Bloch played throughout the night and into the morning from Las Vegas, entering most of the events and offering up a bounty on his head. Anyone who knocked him out would be shipped an autographed copy of his DVD “Beating Blackjack with Andy Bloch”. That put me in the mood to offer up some of my FTP Points for any book or DVD in the Full Tilt Store to anyone knocking me out, unfortunately no one seemed to understand or want the bounties. Andy suggested I offer to autograph them myself but I did not want to devalue the items. I hope to return later today with the final numbers across the board.
For the record, that was one of my more spectacular exits in awhile. All in the money in on the flop, I hate Jacks.
Big Money Sunday was dominated by the over $1,200,000 prizepool and severalpros going deep. Allen Cunningham was the biggest name to go deep in the biggest game, cashing out $17,199 for his final table appearance (9th) in the $1M Guarantee and Jeff Madsen sounding disappointed with his 33rd place finish. He was stacked well but dusted off after a few horrid beats. JAMA1CA2008 was our big winner of the night pocketing $225,368 for his win in the $1M Guarantee after outlasting “4ortik76″ in an long heads up battle. Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy had two big runs and friend of the blog Lee “acumen53″ Childs just missed a final table appearance in the Sunday Brawl. The $200,000 Rebuy continues to attract a pro heavy field and the most rail-worthy final tables, this week with Nick “FU_15″ Maimone, Steve “gboro780″ Gross, and Adam “AKat11″ Katz with “LeoEleven” coming away with the victory.
The monster field of the day was found in the third installment of the “Big Little Tournament” which drew over 33,000 and lasted just around 9 hours. The overlay this week was over $85,000 adding huge value to a tournament already offering a huge guarantee for microscopic price. The play was typical of smaller buyin events and has been run over by a truck in this space. I will offer up a little railbirding advice if you are one of us sick souls still awake at the conclusion of these tournaments or the $200,000 Double Deuce. Just wait for them to “make a deal” and enjoy the unintentional comedy, it’s worth the price of sleep deprivation most weeks.
Next week will bring the final “Big Little Tournament” (as far as this blogger knows) and it will be a fantastic turbo format. Full Tilt has also announce the creation of a new promotion which will double the guarantees of all regular events creating a $25,000,000 prizepool for the week starting January 26th. I will definitely be back to talk about “$25 Million Double Guarantees Week”
Big Money Sunday final table results after the jump.
Tags: AlCantHang, Allen Cunningham, Andy Bloch, Big Money Sunday, Bloggers on the Rail, Jeff Madsen
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
There must have been something twitching in the air this weekend. Maybe it was the newly formed “Big Little Tournament” in addition to the normal $200,000 Double Deuce bringing big money to the low bankrolled players causing a ripple through the system. There were many times this weekend where you could find one of the top names in poker sitting down at the lowest limits on the site including the screen shot above. Andy Bloch took a seat last night in the lowest Limit Hold’em table available and put 1,000,000 big bets in front. The joys on limit poker where there is no max buyin simply because the betting is already limited, you still weren’t going to get a major chunk of that money but it did look damned cool. I was sitting third on the waitlist and never took a seat because no one was willing to leave.
“The Big Little Tournament” this week was in the classic turbo format making for a fantastic run of button-mashing, push-n-pray, shove-monkey poker like I’ve never seen before. There was an overlay of $81,000 to players for just a $5.50 buyin ($250,000 guarantee of course) and it went from 33,000 participants to a winner in just 6 short hours. I am not taking into account the tournament breaks or the endless amount of time spent trying to make a deal once heads up. For the record, that was also the craziest negotiation ever with the final outcome being EXACTLY the same as the advertised payouts. It was just 20 minutes that neither will ever get back.
Jon “Pearljammer” Turner was the best running Full Tilt pro when he ran our first major, The Sunday Brawl, all the way down to a 4th place finish and just under $40,000. Ronald “ronaldgrauer” Grauer looked to be out hottest player of the evening along with a few deep runs by Mark “The Omaholic” Roland and Stian “JohnnyBelow” Stabell. Grauer notched two final table appearance with a 2nd place in the Sunday Brawl and 5th place in the $200,000 Rebuy collecting a combined $87,000. The biggest money winner of the evening was “imahustla1″ who took home over $122,000 for his $750,000 Guarantee victory becoming our 3rd player of the evening to walk away with a six digit day.
It was a great night for poker both in the tournaments and cash games. Next week’s “Big Little Tournament” will return to the standard format but the $250,000 prizepool will still be there waiting for you. Full Tilt has also released the FTOPS XV schedule which I will break down later in the week. You can find all the final table results after the jump.
Tags: AlCantHang, Andy Bloch, Big Money Sunday, Bloggers on the Rail
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
This week’s Big Money Sunday had two added events jamming the site full of famous players and their low-limit companions.
The biggest draw in terms of numbers would be the MiniFTOPS Warmup that hit it’s cap of 50,000 players. A $1.10 turbo massacre with a $50,000 prizepool. Unfortunately for me, I overslept the start of the tournament by just an hour and was already blinded off. I still outlasted nearly 12,000 of my opponents and managed to last longer than fellow blogger Michael Craig (38,148th to 49,625!). It took just six hours to eliminate everyone and leave us with a winner. A dollar’s worth of a good time.
The big tournament on my radar was the Justin Shronk Memorial Tournament organized by the crew at PokerRoad.com and the fine folks at Temple University. It was all to benefit the scholarship in Shronk’s name started by his cousin Brian Lemke and it brought out a huge field full of friends, pros, and a few famous faces. 359 players signed up and Full Tilt was represented by pros Andy Bloch, Amanda “Mandy B” Baker, Kristy Gazes, Michael Craig, and Aaron Bartley.
Joe Sebok was the big non-FTP pro getting the most attention and Amanda “777ViXeN777″ Leatherman wasn’t far behind, at least at the beginning. Other big online names to join the event in the middle of their major Sunday tournaments were Matt “All in at 420″ Stout, Brian “badbeatninja” Devonshire, Kevin “GetPWN3D” Saul, Adam “Roothlus” Levy, Austin “The Quietwinner” McCormick, Brent “Bhanks11″ Hanks, and Mark “dipthrong” Herm. 2009 WSOP Event #4 third place finisher Jim “Jmatz910″ Matz made the money and this game brought Matt “MATTKUPE2009″ Kupe out his semi-retirement to support the cause. Brian “ship_the_perc” Lemke registered for the tournament and let himself be blinded off as he was a thousand miles away from home enjoying his hometown Eagles’ Sunday afternoon victory.
Bloggers and poker media were also well represented with DrPauly, “Jedi Master BJ” Nemeth, change100, TheBlogfather “summer_babe”, Kameelah, Kevmath, peacecorn, NightRanger, twoblackaces, ck31, jamyhawk, GScottW, and willythewise.
My tournament went very quickly when I was unable to keep someone from chasing with AQ versus my QQ going out near the bottom of the board along with many of the big names in the field. My brief run in the tournament was at least entertaining as I was lucky enough to draw a table with Joe Sebok, rail birds never cease to amaze me with their inane banter. Sebok wouldn’t last much longer than myself and all the attention turned to WPT Hostess Amanda Leatherman who remained near the top of the leaderboard throughout the event.
She made the final table and there was much rejoicing along the rail. Also in the mix was blogger “willythewise” who couldn’t miss a flop or lose a flip. The very definition of “run good”. His luck ran out in 4th place and Leatherman found herself heads up with RuntCake (who I believe is Matt Waldron). She was unable to complete the task finishing in second but it was a fine run.
The tournament raised $1,795 from the buyins alone plus whatever money is donated from the players in the tournament. It was a great tournament and turnout to remember a great member of the poker community.
The regular Big Money Sunday tournaments had a few players looking for major accomplishments. Dutch “Dutchalicious” Boyd continued his recent hot streak ending the day with a final table in the biggest and smallest tournaments of the day. As the 11,000+ field in the $200k Double Deuce began to whittle itself down to a manageable number, Boyd found himself sitting atop the leaderboard. He crashed out in 7th place for a fine ROI. His big payday came in the $750k Guarantee where he made yet another final table, this time cashing out for over $11,000 but well short of his goal to win the big game.
The Sunday Mulligan continues to sport the most impressive roster of players. Once again we found a stellar cast of poker players with a shot at the smaller but seemingly tougher field. Adam “Roothlus” Levy was the main character as he made his second straight Sunday Mulligan final table. He fell out spot short of last week’s 7th place finish. It will be worth following next week to see if he stays on the heater. Mike “SowersUNCC” Sowers was our 5th place finisher with big names Michael “Pot Odds 3″ McNeil, Mike “GoLeafsGoEh” Leah, David “Doc Sands”, Thayer “THAY3R” Rasmussen, and Garrett “GBecks” Beckman also making deep runs.
By the numbers, it was another successful Sunday for the major events. Over 19,000 players generated $1,900,000+ in prize money not including Sunday Brawl knockout bounties and those 50,000 insane folks who played the mega-turbo MiniFTOPS Warmup. I’ll be working up the numbers over the next week to bring you a Year End post about the Big Money Sunday events.
To see the final table results as well as my SHORT writeup of my Sit & Go Madness experience, click the jump link below.
Tags: AlCantHang, Andy Bloch, Big Money Sunday, Bloggers on the Rail
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