Customer Service
+44 207 026 4217|
CET 10:19 ET 04:19 AM GMT 08:19 |
You are here: Home / Promos / Right Now / ChampionChip /
| «Previous month | April 2008 | «Next Month |
|
April's Champion Chip
Saturday the 5th of April saw the third installment of the Champion Chip, which guaranteed the winner a cool $111,055 and 2508 players trying to fight and claw their way to the top spot and a huge payday. |
|
|
Highlights
Saturday the 5th of April saw the third installment in PokerRoom.com’s newest addition to its big-time tournament lineup: the Champion Chip (also known as the $500,000 Guaranteed). This tourney guaranteed the winner a cool $111,055, with 2508 players trying to fight and claw their way to the top spot and a huge payday. With fields that large players are in for a long day of poker if they want to make the final table, and this event was no exception, with play eventually lasting well over ten hours. Plenty of players would charge to the lead in early action – including paoloazzano, Sinmaster1, Aon78, and dairrXm – who would be nowhere to be seen when the final table was set, as it takes chips, skill, and a lot of luck to outlast a field that large and make it to the final table. After about 5 hours of play there was only a handful of players left in the tournament, leaving the following lineup and chip stacks for the final table:
With serious money on the line, play tightened up a bit once the final table was set and players fully realized what they were playing for. After the inevitable short-stacks eventually got blinded down and eliminated, and blinds of 50,000/100,000, players couldn’t afford to wait too long to make a move. One by one the players started to fall of and when action was three-handed it was hejpetr_cz who held the lead with cambiaso24 following closely behind: 1. hejpetr_cz ($4,827,400 in chips) 2. cambiaso24 ($2,144,402 in chips) 3. big_A_hole66 ($552,198 in chips) big_A_hole66 finally bowed out in 3rd when he was forced all-in with his short stack holding Ks Jc, and cambiaso24’s pair of tens was way more than enough to eliminate big_A_hole66 in 3rd ($31,172) when he turned a full house on a board of Ac Ah 7d Ts 8h. The Final Two Heads-up action kicked off with a fairly close race: 1. hejpetr_cz ($4,408,608 in chips) 2. cambiaso24 ($3,115,392 in chips) Looking to steal the blinds, cambiaso24 shoved all-in pre-flop with just 8c 5c, and couldn’t have been happy at all to see hejpetr_cz call with Ad Qc. The flop came 3c 9d 7d, helping neither play, and the turn was a blank as well, the Js. hejpetr_cz was one safe card away from taking the top prize when the 8s fell on the river, not only keeping cambiaso24 alive but giving him a sizable chip lead of about 5,400,000 chips to 2,100,000. cambiaso24 didn’t take long to strike again, once again shoving all-in pre-flop with a less than stellar hand – 7d 3d – and facing a call from hejpetr_cz , who held Ad 9c. And, once again, the poker gods smiled on cambiaso24, as the flop came 6s Qs, Js, but the 7s fell on the turn, giving cambiaso24 the lead with a pair of 7s but leaving hejpetr_cz ‘s hopes of a spade for a split pot or an ace or a nine for a bigger pair. Those hopes were dashed by the 8h on the river, which gave cambiaso24 the hand and the victory, taking down 1st place and $111,055 in prize money. While the end was a tough finish for hejpetr_cz , who was one card away from victory, 2nd place prize money of $56,500 was a pretty nice consolation prize. |
Online Casino - BlackJack » - Roulette » - Craps » - Slot Machines » - Video Poker » - Progressive Jackpots »
| © PokerRoom.com Established 1999 | - | Privacy Policy | - | Terms of Service | - | About PokerRoom | - | Site Map |  |