Tournament Series II Final Table November 20th 2008
36 poker bloggers suited up for tonight's historic Bodog blogger tournament to take a shot at collecting the T$109 bounty on the notorious Sir Waffles. Whoever says playing poker online isn't fun, definitely hasn't played this series!
Blogger MiamiDon wins the main pot of $27, 234 finishing in 1st place.
1. MiamiDon - $144.00 + T$109 + $25 casino credit
2. PokahDave - $86.40 + T$75
3. Newinnov - $57.60 + T$50
4. pokerpeaker - $43.20
5. AskDrL - $28.80
6. FishEater2000 - T$11 (bubble)
7. scottc25- T$11 (bubble)
8. lightning36 - T$11 (bubble)
Congratulations to poker blogger MiamiDon for taking down tonight's tournament. Here is how he claimed his 1st place winnings.
PokahDave had just lost a big pot and looked down at the mighty 10-2o, also known as the "Brunson". He pondered the situation at hand, took a swig of his Sam Adams and shipped all his chips in the middle. MiamiDon was already counting his 1st place winnings when he realized PokahDave's move for what it was, a stupefied donkey shove. MiamiDon was all over it, called him with an A-6o and the tournament was his for the taking. MiamiDon now sits in 5th place with 221 points on the tournament leaderboard.
Blogger PokahDave wins the hand that knocked out our bounty legacy, Sir Waffles.
As for Sir Waffles, here's how the hand at the final table knocked him out.
FishEater2000 gifted a big portion of his stack in a previous hand, looked down at two 4's. Knowing this was his night, he figured he would get all the remaining chips in play starting with this next move. He shoved all in, got called 3 ways and didn't have a prayer. The T$109 bounty to play Bodog's 100K Guaranteed went to poker blogger PokahDave and our break even poker legacy was done for the night.
In his own words, here is how Waffles explains it:
"The final table became a real nit fest. I have not seen that much folding since I visited the Chinese Laundry in Downtown Boston. I saw my chips diminishing so I decided to raise a speculative hand like KQ. Short handed I think this is fine. I could have put it all in the middle but the result would have been the same. Scott25 then decided to re-raise me. I thought about the hand a little bit and determined he had a pair smaller than a Queen. I had seen him do similar moves with smallish pairs and something just felt like medium to small pair. So I decided I needed to gamble and jammed my stack in. He instantly called with his Jacks and we were off to the races. Luckily it was a short race as a king flopped and I doubled up.
I then ran Jacks and AT into Aces as two shorties doubled through me. The bubble had been going on for a while so at the break I announce "I am going in blind". Now you might think someone would limp and try and trap me with a reasonable hand but I got no action with my ducks. The very next hand I jammed the hockey sticks and everyone folded again. I sat back again as everyone folded for that twenty six bucks. Here is my thinking though. As sixth place I get 11T$. As fifth I get $26 and no T$. So the difference is nothing. I was going to play for first.
I get T7 in the small blind and everyone folds around to me. Again I have rarely ever seen this amount of ridiculous non-stealing in any game I have ever played ESPECIALLY with Bloggers. So I jam my hand into PokerDaves big blind and he wakes up with AK. I outflop him with a seven but the river brings his miracle resuck and I am down to 200 chips.
The poker gods decide to mock me and give me AK the very next hand. I of course go all in here and get called five ways. The flop looks good with K45.. but when NewInNov jams I am sure he has a hand. Lucky for me it is just two pair. The river pairs the board and I have 1 blind.
I look down and see another small pocket pair. I get all in but this time it was not to be as PokerDave wins the hand and takes the bounty on my head. All in all I played a good game and enjoyed myself. It just was not to be. I look forward to all of the poker sites offering me professional player contracts in the coming weeks and will be taking my time to decide who gives the best offer. Obviously Bodog has and edge because they were the first to recognize me as a world class player and put a bounty on my head."
Bodog applauds Bodonkey newbie Molokai for coming out each tourney and putting his best effort forward, but somehow still managing to land the title as our 4-time Gigli record holder! GG Everyone!
Next Tournament: Tuesday November 25th! Start Time 9:05 PM ET.
WE WELCOME BACK OUR SPECIAL GUEST BOUNTY PLAYER, THE ONE AND ONLY ERIC "RIZEN" LYNCH!
Register for this tournament at the blogger series sign up page.
