It was yet one more big one this week on the Super Tuesday, PokerStars' weekly $1,050 buy-in no-limit hold'em tournament with the $300K guarantee. A field of 602 meant a large $602,000 prize pool -- another instance of the tourney's guarantee being greater than doubled -- with Palau777 of Germany getting back from being the fast stack to start out the general table to take the highest spot and $113,778 first prize.
It took over five hours for the sector to shrink to 72 players and the cash bubble to burst. Another hour after that they were right down to 25 with Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody still within the mix with a brief stack.
That's when a hand arose that saw Cody open from middle position and it fold around to Maxxx72alba who reraise-pushed from the massive blind. Cody called to place his stack of just over 48,000 -- around 17 big blinds -- in danger.
Cody had A♠Q♦ and Maxxx72alba A♥9♥, and after the 7♦T♦Q♠ flop Cody had a couple of queens and a larger edge within the hand. However the turn was the 8♥ and river the J♦, adding as much as a runner-runner straight for Maxxx72alba and a 25th-place finish for Cody, good for a $3,612 cash.
It would take until the seven-and-a-half-hour mark for the sphere to be carved all the way down to just 18 players, with Brian "brianm15" England and Nick "FU 15" Maimone leading all with stacks nearing the 400,000-chip mark.
Almost two more hours would pass before the following nine players had fallen. 3P3NIPA (18th), pyszalek (17th), and p0cket00 (16th) each earned $4,816 for his or her finishes. 11Barney (15th), krokynacio (14th), and PhantomLiu (13th) took away $6,020 apiece. And Maxxx72alba (12th), Joao "joaoMathias" Mathias Baumgarten (11th), and robinho (10th) each saw $7,224 added to their PokerStars accounts.
About nine-and-a-half hours after the tourney had begun, just nine remained.
Seat 1: Nick "FU 15" Maimone (Honduras) -- 186,347
Seat 2: neckbr4ke (Germany) -- 548,716
Seat 3: Palau777 (Germany) -- 64,746
Seat 4: Brian "brianm15" England (Costa Rica) -- 1,008,269
Seat 5: Kenny "LoneHixx" Hicks (Canada) -- 140,774
Seat 6: Stefan "IceStream" Ivanov (Bulgaria) -- 228,953
Seat 7: el n0i (Portugal) -- 213,629
Seat 8: GoodStoryBro (Israel) -- 443,241
Seat 9: NutsErryTime (Costa Rica) -- 175,325
Brian "brianm15" England had extended his chip lead, earning much of his more-than-a-million chip stack throughout the lengthy 10-handed period. And Stefan "IceStream" Ivanov had made the Super Tuesday final table for the second one straight week and hoped to duplicate last week's victory, good for a fab $120,204.
Meanwhile, Palau777 was sitting with lower than 65,000, not even eight big blinds, and after a few orbits would bleed right down to almost half that before doubling once, then winning a couple of pots to climb out of the chance zone and finally back into contention.
It would take greater than half an hour for the primary final table elimination to occur, in which stretch the blinds increased to 6,000/12,000 while Nick "FU 15" Maimone's stack slipped to 97,438. Then came a hand during which Maimone open-pushed from early position with A♣J♦ and it folded around to el n0i who reraise-shoved excessive from the small blind with K♣K♠. The large blind folded, the board rolled out 6♦T♠Q♠7♦4♣, and Maimone was out in ninth.
A while later the blinds were 7,000/14,000 when NutsErryTime open-raised all in for 99,325 from late position. This time it was Palau777 reraising all in from the small unaware of isolate, showing Q♥Q♦ to NutsErryTime's K♥8♣. The flop came Q♠6♦9♦ to provide Palau777 a set, however the 7♦ turn provided straight hopes to NutsErryTime. The A♠ fell on fifth street, however, and NutsErryTime's Super Tuesday run was over in eighth.
Play continued seven-handed, with el n0i moving up into first position sooner than brianm15. Then came another knockout as Stefan "IceStream" Ivanov pushed for 117,906 (slightly over six big blinds) with K♥J♦ and watched neckbr4ke call all in from the large blind for just 46,451 with K♣9♥. The community cards came 3♥Q♦A♠, then 7♠, then A♥, and neckbr4ke was done in seventh.
Not too long after that came a large lead-changing hand when Palau777 and el n0i raised from side to side following a 6♠2♠K♠ flop to position the previous all in with K♥K♣ (a collection of kings) versus el n0i's A♦Q♠ (a flush draw). The turn and river came 8♣3♣ and after having been the table's short stack Palau777 was the only carrying the chip lead into the tournament's 12th hour.
It was shortly after that hourly break that the blinds were 10,000/20,000 when Stefan "IceStream" Ivanov raised all in to 208,607 from early position, GoodStoryBro reraised all in for almost 315,000 from the button, and the blinds folded.
IceStream: A♦A♣
GoodStoryBro: K♦K♠
A seemingly dream scenario for IceStream, however the flop fell J♣2♠K♣ to offer GoodStoryBro a collection of kings and the lead. The turn then brought the 7♣ to provide Ivanov a shot at a saving flush (along with his ace outs), and while the 2♣ river did make that flush it also improved GoodStoryBro to a whole house, knocking IceStream out in sixth.
Just a minute later it was Kenny "LoneHixx" Hicks pushing for 278,486 from the button, el n0i reraise-shoving from the small blind, and GoodstoryBro folding the massive blind. LoneHixx had 5♦5♠ and needed help versus el n0i's 7♥7♦, however the board came A♠6♥T♣J♥Q♣ they usually were right down to four.
Another big confrontation followed a couple of minutes later when el n0i and Brian "brianm15" England got the entire latter's chips in on a ten-high flop with el n0i holding Q♦Q♥ and brianm15 A♥A♣. The aces held and suddenly England was back ahead in what had become a topsy-turvy final table.
A chip-depleted el n0i then open-pushed for 154,783 (rather less than eight BBs) with Q♣6♣ from the button and Palau777 called with A♠9♠ from the massive blind. The community cards came 5♦A♦2♠4♥T♦, giving Palau777 aces and knocking out el n0i in fourth.
The blinds moved as much as 12,500/25,000, and shortly Palau777 raised to 50,000 from the button, then GoodStoryBro shoved for 401,125 from the massive blind and Palau777 called. GoodStoryBro was in danger with A♥4♥ against the Q♠Q♣ of Palau777. The board came 5♣5♠J♥6♦3♣ to bring no help for GoodStoryBro who was finished in third.
After that hand the general two players were nearly even in chips, and after playing one hand more they paused the tourney to speak about a potential maintain Brian "brianm15" England sitting with 1,572,543 and Palau777 close behind with 1,437,457.
The original payouts had $113,778 going to the winner and $83,377 to the runner-up. The pair didn't stay up for any figures to be produced, but rather brianm15 offered Palau777 $84,000 with $6,000 left to play for and England taking the remainder. Palau777 appeared for a moment as if potentially interested, but eventually declined the deal that will only have guaranteed Palau777 a couple of hundred dollars greater than second-place money.
Here's how the last a part of that discussion went:
HostFelixC (Administrator): are you able to specify the conditions of the deal in order that I confirm it ?
brianm15: palau 84k me the remainder.. play for 6
HostFelixC (Administrator): ok
brianm15: gg palau
Palau777: wait
HostFelixC (Administrator): Listed below are the numbers, please type 'I agree' in case you accept as true with them
Palau777: come on we play
brianm15: k
HostFelixC (Administrator): brianm15:$107,155.00
HostFelixC (Administrator): Palau777:$84,000.00
HostFelixC (Administrator): Left To Play for place 1: $6,000.00
brianm15: agree
brianm15: ur last chance to make greater than 83377 palau
Palau777: no we play
Palau777: wait
HostFelixC (Administrator): ok, I CAN resume the tournament now
Palau777: play
brianm15: bombs away
Play then resumed and before too long a large pot developed that saw Palau777 check-raising brianm15 at the turn with the board showing J♣K♦5♣8♥, then firing a hefty river bet after the 8♠ fell which England called. Palau777 then showed J♦8♦ for an entire house, and after brianm15 mucked Palau777 was suddenly up over 2.45 million while England were knocked down under 560,000.
The end then came only a few minutes later. With the blinds at 15,000/30,000, Palau777 raised to 60,000 from the button, brianm15 shoved for 743,758, and Palau777 called.
It was A♣6♥ for brianm15 and 5♦4♦ for Palau777. The 5♥8♦6♦ flop paired both, with England's sixes best at that time. However the 4♣ came at the turn to enhance Palau777 to 2 pair, and after the 9♥ river it was in all places -- Palau777 had won.
Congratulations to Palau777 for staging an enormous final table comeback from short-stacked status to earn a large Super Tuesday first prize of $113,778. And kudos to boot to Stefan "IceStream" Ivanov for making back-to-back Super Tuesday final tables!
11/12/13 Super Tuesday ($1,050 No-Limit Hold'em) results
Players: 602
Prize pool: $602,000
Places paid: 72
1. Palau777 (Germany) -- $113,778.00
2. Brian "brianm15" England (Costa Rica) -- $83,377.00
3. GoodStoryBro (Israel) -- $61,404.00
4. el n0i (Portugal) -- $46,354.00
5. Kenny "LoneHixx" Hicks (Canada) -- $32,508.00
6. Stefan "IceStream" Ivanov (Bulgaria) -- $25,585.00
7. neckbr4ke (Germany) -- $19,565.00
8. NutsErryTime (Costa Rica) -- $13,545.00
9. Nick "FU 15" Maimone (Honduras) -- $9,210.60
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Martin Harris is Freelance Contributor to the PokerStars Blog.
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