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BORO GON DOESN'T LET A CHAMPIONCHIP MOMENT SLIP AWAY

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^moderator Pokah Guru Posts: 7610		Boro Gon Doesn't Let A ChampionChip Moment Slip Away May 7, 2008 02:27 AM. Post 1
		Sunday saw another running of PokerRoom's latest big tournament offering: the ChampionChip. With a guaranteed prize pool of $500,000, the first place prize winner was destined to end the day a bit over $100,000 richer; quite a nice payoff for a long day at the online poker tables! 2,108 players turned out for May's ChampionChip event, settling in for (hopefully) a long, long day of tournament action. kalifel grabbed the early lead at the second break, trailed by fittetarjei in 2nd and boy1983 x in 3rd. Fast-forward to four hours in and the leaderboard held new faces, with Bumi3 in 1st, GoldFutere in 2nd, and king_bong3 in 3rd. bmc.100. (who represented Team PokerRoom at the 2008 Aussie Millions) made a run in the 5th hour, getting as high as 4th on the leaderboard before slipping back. By the seven hour mark the field had been trimmed down to 34 players, with Boro Gon sitting atop the heap, Bumi3 in 2nd, and Zookeeper2 in 3rd. As far as notable names remaining in the field, sak31 was the only Team PokerRoom.com representative from the last year stil in the running sitting in 15th place. Eight hours in and a final table was finally reached, with the following chip stacks: Seat 2: mooloco123 ($699,579 in chips) Seat 3: kalifel ($592,383 in chips) Seat 4: Boro Gon ($1,258,756 in chips) Seat 5: GoldFutere ($510,207 in chips) Seat 6: quality09 ($201,056 in chips) Seat 7: Eisvogel 26 ($530,795 in chips) Seat 8: Idler2 ($1,565,856 in chips) Seat 9: pavlik 84 ($724,288 in chips) Seat 10: g.ads ($241,080 in chips) With a difference of $100,637 for 1st and $4,414 for 9th, quite a lot was at stack, especially with blinds of 20,000/40,000 waiting to eat away at each player's stack. The short stacks of g.ads and quality09 were quickly eliminated, and Eisvogel lost a big pot and saw his remaining chips slide GoldFutere's way. Seat 2: mooloco123 ($699,579 in chips) Seat 3: kalifel ($394,795 in chips) Seat 4: Boro Gon ($1,339,836 in chips) Seat 5: GoldFutere ($1,219,178 in chips) Seat 8: Idler2 ($1,665,856 in chips) Seat 9: pavlik 84 ($1,004,756 in chips) Continuing the trend of short stack doom, kalifel was the next to exit when his Ac Jd ran into Goldfutere's As Qd. That left mooloco123 in the uncomfortable role of the short stack. Unlike previous short-stack victims, though, he got a big double up when he shoved all-in pre-flop with pocket rockets and Idler2 looked him up with As 4s, and mooloco123 was crazy happy when his AA held up. Idler2 got a double up of his own (cracking pavlik 84's pocket jacks), leaving pavlik 84 short-stacked and forced to shove with Kh Tc. Unfortunately for him, though, it was bad timing as Goldfutere woke up with Qd Qh, with the queens holding up to knock out pavlik 84 in 5th place ($14,124). Idler2 was liberally shoving all-in pe-flop before finally getting caught, eliminated in 4th ($21,186) to set up the following three-handed action: Seat 2: mooloco123 ($2,108,316 in chips) Seat 4: Boro Gon ($3,002,390 in chips) Seat 5: GoldFutere ($1,213,294 in chips) With blinds of 30,000/60,000 and over 9 hours of play under their belts, things got a bit ragged towards the end. Goldfutere called from the SB and mooloco123 shoved all-in for just over 2,000,000 into a pot of 100,000. Goldfutere made the call, turning over Ad 6c and had to be happily surprised to see mooloco123 turn over Ks Js. A flop of 9s 5h 8d had to make Goldfutere even happier, as did the 6d on the turn. The Kc on the river, though, had to be a crushing way to end the day as a huge pot slid mooloco123's way and bounced Goldfutere in 3rd place ($28,249). Heads-up play began with mooloco123 holding a decent lead: Seat 2: mooloco123 ($3,711,610 in chips) Seat 4: Boro Gon ($2,612,390 in chips) That lead, though,, wouldn't last long. With blinds of 40,000/80,000 the players quickly found themselves all-in pre-flop, with mooloco123 open-shoving for 3,671,610 and Boro Gon making the call for all his chips. Boro Gon's pocket tens were way ahead of mooloco123's pocket sevens, and the tens held up to give Boro Gon a huge pot and a big chip lead of about 5,000,000 to 1,300,000. Boro Gon sealed the deal shortly after, calling mooloco123's all-in shove with Ah Js, which was way ahead of mooloco123's Jh Ts. A board of Kh Kc 3h Kd 7d didn't change matters and Boro Gon was the ChampionChip champion, taking down $100,637 for 1st place, with mooloco123 collecting $51,200 for his second place finish. And don’t forget now Pokah is going to the WSOP and they want you to come! Read and get involved with this today!!!
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