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Bounties, Cash, and Trips, Oh My: the September Bounty - By Seth Shafer

Sep 17, 2008 The Bounty was back on Sunday, September 14th, with plenty of prizes up for grabs for the 1,172 players that turned out. With an entry fee of just $100, the Bounty packs quite a wallop, as in addition to some big cash prizes the top finisher also would receive a $15,500 trip package to the WPT Canada live event, with 2nd and 3rd place each receiving a $7,000 package to the PokerNews Cup tournament in Melbourne.

Early leaders included Raquel4, Mendus1_x, and savvas71. At the five hour mark, sytumo was sitting atop the field, with just 21 players still alive and slinging chips.

sytumo held onto the lead all the way down to just five players remaining:

Seat 2: Wolle2209 ($195,128 in chips)
Seat 3: sytumo ($785,228 in chips)
Seat 7: Pech gehabt ($393,308 in chips)
Seat 8: pauly_walnut ($293,048 in chips)
Seat 10: scrforrever ($91,288 in chips)

scrforrever would bow out in 5th ($5,145) when he was forced to shove his short stack in pre-flop with Kc Jd but ran into Wolle2209’s dominating Ah Ks.

sytumo’s run would end in 4th ($6,431), just shy of the trip packages, as is stack dwindled down over a series of hands until he had just a handful of chips, which went pauly_walnut’s way when his Ah 2s held up against sytumo’s Ks 7c.

While the final three were all guaranteed a trip, there was still plenty of extra cash up for grabs, as well as the extra value in the top trip package to the WPT Canada event.

Seat 2: Wolle2209 ($255,368 in chips)
Seat 7: Pech gehabt ($835,308 in chips)
Seat 8: pauly_walnut ($667,324 in chips)

Wolle2209’s day ended in 3rd ($7,000 PokerNews Cup package + $1,286) when he lost a battle of kickers to Pech gehabt; each flopped top pair on a flop of 9d 5s Jh but Pech gehabt’s Qh Jc outkicked Wolle2209’s 8d Js.

Pech gehabt began heads-up play with a 2-1 chip advantage over pauly_walnut, but the battled back and forth in a see-saw battle that saw each on the brink of elimination at various points.

In the end, Pech gehabt proved triumphant, taking down 1st place and the $15,500 WPT Canada trip package, as well as $5,145 in extra spending money. pauly_walnut finished runner-up, collecting a $7,000 PokerNews Cup package as well as $2,572 in cash.

Stonedancer Waltzes to the Aussie Millions by Seth Shafer

Nov 6, 2008 As has been the case with all of the Aussie Millions finals on PokerRoom of late, last Sunday’s finals were yet another sold out affair, with 45 runners battling it out to see who’d end the day on top and sitting on an $18,000 trip package to the 2009... More

Ronzie99 Rolls to Victory in the Big Deal by Seth Shafer

Nov 6, 2008 The Big Deal may not get the headlines that the Grand or ChampionChip or some of the big online finals do, but the weekly tournament held on Sundays definitely packs a punch, with more than $150,000 up for grabs in prize money. November 2nd’s Big... More

Mobilfe Madness - Win a Black Nokia N82

Nov 4, 2008 Hey there poker fans. In great new promotion to celebrate PokerRoom.com's fantastic Mobile Poker Game , PokerRoom.com is giving you the chance to win a brand new black Nokia N82 . Over the next five weekends we will be running Moblife Weekly... More

Anna K. Living the High Life After November’s ChampionChip by Seth Shafer

Nov 4, 2008 The beginning of the month is always an exciting time at PokerRoom, as that means it’s time for one of PokerRoom’s biggest tournaments to kick off: the ChampionChip. With 1,500 runners and a prize pool of $525,000 up for grabs, the November edition of... More

AKauffeldt73 Takes Down an Aussie Millions Victory by Seth Shafer

Nov 4, 2008 The Team roster for the 2009 Aussie Millions keeps growing and growing, and last weekend was no different, with two more players taking down their $18,000 trip packages to the Aussie Millions on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday’s online finals... More