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September 21: Doyle Brunson Invites Players to His Ranch
Winners of a special $55 MTT at Doyle’s Room held on October 29 will receive a
$5000 trip to Big Fork, MT (near Doyle’s ranch) to take part in the first-ever
“System Poker Camp.” The May 2007 poker school will feature Super/System 2
as its main textbook. Contributors Mike Caro, Jennifer Harman, Daniel
Nigerian, and Todd Brunson will join Doyle Brunson as instructors.
Over $100,000 in prizes will be awarded to winners in cash games and
tournaments. Cocktails, swimming, and fishing are among the non-poker
diversions. Interested players not winning the Doyle’s Room tournament can buy
in directly for $4000 and arrange their own travel. Daily sub-qualifiers on
the Doyle’s Room website start at $11. Details are online at
supersystempokercamp.com.
September 22: WCOOP Event 7
The 1872 participants in the $200+15 fixed-limit holdem Event Seven meant the
prize pool’s $200,000 guarantee was completely unnecessary. That amount was
almost doubled and first prize would exceed $70,000.
Canadian yaaaflow did in the only American at the final table, UH Big Tex,
when a rivered straight left the Texan very short stacked. A few hands later,
UH Big Tex’s KT wasn’t enough against A5.
September 23: WCOOP Event 8
The eighth event of the fifth annual WCOOP was the first ever HORSE tournament
in this annual series. The $200+15 buy-in attracted 1798 entrants, almost
quadrupling the $100,000 guarantee. First place alone would pay out almost
$80,000. Pro Gary Jones “p10ker” finished third for $30,566. F.Briatore took
first when two pair, kings over queens, topped fat&50’s jacks over fours in
the seven-card stud rotation.
September 23: WCOOP Event 9
The second WCOOP event on Saturday saw 1095 players pony up buy-ins of $500+30
to play pot-limit holdem. The tournament was one of the shortest of the WCOOP
so far and was completed in just less than 11 hours. One top finisher in this
event, Roothlus, who would place 11th, went on to a third place win in the
UltimateBet $200,000 Sunday tournament (detailed below) to make for a very
nice weekend of poker.
Uncforte doubled up remen (straight vs. set) when the tournament was down to
two players, leaving them with almost identical stacks, but on the next hand,
both players flopped top pair of queens and got all-in. Uncforte’s ace kicker
and slight chip lead gave him the bracelet and the $105,329 win.
September 24: WCOOP Event 10
$1000+50 was the buy-in, and $1 Million was the guarantee. Both of those
numbers didn’t faze Poker Stars players, 2458 of whom played the fourteen-hour
tournament. That drove the first-place prize to the second largest ever
awarded at Poker Stars, $442,000.
Jason Strasser (strassa2) had a big chip lead at the start of the final table,
which included another star name “BarnyBoatman,” although this is believed not
to be the Barney Boatman of Hendon Mob fame.
The event's final table sported some star power with chip leader Jason
"strassa2" Strasser. The table also had a player named BarnyBoatman with the
poker pro's picture as an avatar, although it was pointed out that the player
was likely not actually Boatman.
Ten minutes of heads-up play saw strassa2 put thugmoneymaker all-in on a 988J
board. The thug decided to call with AJ, but strassa’s J9 was ahead and held
up.
September 24: Party Poker Sunday Million Guaranteed
Perhaps the traffic at the Poker Stars stole too much thunder from the other
large Sunday tournaments, but with the Sunday WCOOP buy-in at $1050, it would
seem reasonable that the $200 tournaments at the other sites would draw more
business. Not so. Party Poker fell $11,400 short of its guaranteed
million-dollar prize pool, creating a small overlay.
No player at the final table had a huge chip advantage, so deals were
discussed twice, but rejected. After the main dissenter was eliminated in
ninth place, an eight-way chip count deal was done, and mrcall12 pocketed
$115,294 for the “win.”
September 24: UltimateBet $200,000 Guaranteed
Big tournaments at other sites and the fact that many UB players were in Aruba
for the WPT event sponsored by UB meant that there was a $36,400 overlay as
this tournament fell 182 players short of its goal.
Previously mentioned “Roothlus” took third here for $18,500. DrBluff1 (1st,
$45,000) ended the tournament by knocking out TheMasterJ33 ($27,000) on a bad
beat. TheMasterJ33 went all-in preflop with AA, getting a call from DrBluff1
who had more chips. A four came on the river, ending the tournament.
September 24: Full Tilt Poker $250,000 Guaranteed
This tournament continued the trend of Sunday tournaments having trouble
making their guarantees. Although Full Tilt Poker did not have to contribute
to the prize pool, it was a close call. This tournament played quickly,
finishing in less than eight hours.
Heads-up, stakklr had a 3-1 chip lead over FatalBullet when both got all-in on
a 987 flop (two spades). Stakklr’s J9 was temporarily ahead of Bullet’s 9
6, but
FatalBullet’s flush and open-ended straight draws (and three outs to the six)
made her the favorite. The 5
came on the turn, making the stacks essentially even.
The final hand had both players all-in before the flop. FatalBullet’s 88 was
in trouble when stakklr flopped a jack to his KJ. The board did not help, and
stakklr cashed $56,628 to FatalBullet’s $36,036.
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