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August's Champion Chip
Sunday the 3rd of August 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. |
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Highlights
Sunday the 3rd of August 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. But first after a long day of tournament action against all 2,108 players. The player 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. 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 still in the running sitting in 15th place. And finally, eight hours in, the final table was finally reached with the following chip stacks:
With a difference of $100,637 for 1st and $4,414 for 9th, quite a lot was at stake, 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. 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. Shortly after that both pavlik 84 and Idler2 was eliminated in 4th ($21,186) and 5th ($14,124) place to set up the following three-handed action: The Final Three 1. Boro Gon ($3,002,390 in chips) 2. mooloco123 ($2,108,316 in chips) 3. 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: 1. mooloco123 ($3,711,610 in chips) 2. Boro Gon ($2,612,390 in chips) 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. |
