There were 612 runners for this week's Super Tuesday, the weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em that consistently draws huge fields. That marked the 10th time in 2013 the Super Tuesday has exceeded 600 players, with this week's tourney ranking because the 7th largest of the year (and within the Super Tuesday's history). The end up meant a $612,000 prize pool -- greater than twice the tourney's $300K guarantee -- with Juan "paulwiter" Garcia of Uruguay ultimately earning the largest chunk of it by capturing the $115,668 first prize.
They were way past the five-hour mark when the money bubble burst and just 72 remained. At that time one red spade sporter, Mickey "mement mori" Petersen of Team Online, had just been eliminated a few spots shy of the money in 74th. Meanwhile Petersen's Team Online teammate, Caio "Pessagno" Pessagno, had survived the bubble's bursting albeit with a brief stack that put him right on the bottom of the counts.
Pessagno would hang on, however, doubling once or twice and persisting with below average chips because the field shrunk to fewer than 40 players. Then finally a hand arose that saw Pessagno commit his stack of just over 12,000 (six big blinds) with K♥J♣ but run into kntna waiting within the blinds with A♥J♦. The board brought a jack but no king, and Pessagno finished in 37th for a $2,754 cash.
With 36 players left Juan "paulwiter" Garcia had already charged to front with about 275,000 at a time when nobody else had cracked the 200,000-chip mark. Garcia hoped so as to add another big score to his résumé after winning $143,397.49 for taking down WCOOP Event #19 ($109 NLHE) a few months ago.
An hour or so later just 18 were left with chipdonky247 having assumed the highest spot with greater than 430,000, about 100,000 away from the closest challenger.
It took another hour more for nine more to fall, in which time paulwiter reclaimed the highest spot while pushing up over 700,000 while chipdonky247 slipped to bubble the general table.
David Buetta (18th), Spowi07 (17th), and pablotenisis (16th) each earned $4,896 for his or her finishes. Sobizzle21 (15th), Aditya "intervntion" Agarwal (14th), and Sifosis (13th) took away $6,120 apiece. And claffit01 (12th), Nik "Reraiseallin" Persaud (11th), and at last chipdonky247 (10th) made $7,344 each for not quite making the overall table.
Just nine remained, with plenty of familiar names among them.
Seat 1: Kevin "iacog4" Iacofano (UK) -- 279,953
Seat 2: MrKloutt (UK) -- 207,159
Seat 3: Jonkgbg (Sweden) -- 486,172
Seat 4: Yukold (Brazil) -- 400,567
Seat 5: Douglas "Dowgh-Santos" Souza (Brazil) -- 201,702
Seat 6: texaszanardi (Chile) -- 160,624
Seat 7: geoas2003 (Romania) -- 174,954
Seat 8: Juan "paulwiter" Garcia (Uruguay) -- 744,651
Seat 9: Dylan "WhiteRabbito" Honeyman (Australia) -- 404,218
Not long after the general table began, the blinds were 3,200/6,400 when Kevin "iacog4" Iacofano min-raised to 12,800 from middle position, then Jonkgbg reraised to 25,600 from the cutoff seat. It folded to texaszanardi within the big blind who four-bet to 59,876, forcing a fold from Iacofano. Jonkgbg responded with another reraise to 140,800, and when texaszanardi shoved all in for 262,665 total, Jonkgbg called.
texaszanardi had K♥K♠ but had run into Jonkgbg's A♠A♣. The flop then made matters worse for texaszanardi, coming A♦4♥7♦ to enhance Jonkgbg to a collection of aces. The turn was the J♦, making the T♣ river regardless of and knocking texaszanardi out in ninth.
The remaining eight made it to the nine-hour break, and all eight continued to battle for an additional half-hour. Then came two knockouts in consecutive hands.
The blinds had risen to 4,500/9,000 when Juan "paulwiter" Garcia -- still leading -- raised to 18.881 from the cutoff and Dylan "WhiteRabbito" Honeyman called from the button. It folded to MrKloutt within the big blind who reraised all in for 118,530, and while Garcia folded, Honeyman made the call.
MrKloutt had A♦J♥ and kicker trouble against Honeyman's A♠Q♦, and after the board came 9♥K♠3♠5♣8♠, MrKloutt was finished in eighth.
On the following hand Douglas "Dowgh-Santos" Souza opened for 18,493 from under the gun, then paulwiter reraised to 39,993 from a few seats over. It folded back around to Souza who pushed for 202,685, and Garcia called.
Dowgh-Santos showed A♥Q♥ and desired to see an ace come to assist him beat Garcia's Q♣Q♦. An ace did come at the flop, but so did the case queen because it landed Q♠A♠5♦. The turn was the 4♠ and river the 5♣, and Dowgh-Santos's tourney run led to seventh place.
About QUARTER-HOUR after that hand it was Yukold raising 2x to 20,000 from middle position, then geoas2003 reraising all in for 138,108 from the following seat. It folded to Kevin "iacog4" Iacofano within the big blind who called all in for only a little not up to what geoas2003 had pushed for, and Yukold folded.
geoas2003 had A♣K♦ and needed help against Iacofano's K♥K♣. The board came jack-high, though, rolling out 4♥9♠6♠T♠J♥, and geoas2003 was knocked all the way down to just 4,352 -- not even a small blind. All in at the next hand with J♦7♣ against Yukold's A♠Q♥, geoas2003 got no help from the 8♥8♠K♦A♥Q♣ board and was eliminated in sixth.
Just a few minutes later it folded to Juan "paulwiter" Garcia who raised big from the small blind with 9♠7♥ and Dylan "WhiteRabbito" Honeyman called all in for 120,368 (about 10 BBs) from the massive blind with A♦3♠ The 3♥4♠9♣ flop paired both, but put Garcia in front, and after the 5♦ turn and K♣ river they were all the way down to four.
Play continued during the tourney's 10-hour mark, then a couple of minutes later the blinds were 6,000/12,000 when paulwiter was at it again with a raise to 27,772 from the small blind. This time Kevin "iacog4" Iacofano reraised all in for 261,542 from the massive blind and Garcia called without hesitation.
paulwiter: A♦Q♣
iacog4: Q♣4♦
The flop came 7♦K♦Q♥ to pair both players but Garcia's kicker kept him in front. The turn was the K♠ and river the 2♦, and Iacofano was done in fourth.
A twinkling of an eye after that Yukold raised 2x to 32,000 from the button, then Jonkgbg reraised all in from the large ignorant of 210,788 and Yukold called. Jonkgbg had A♣6♠ and hoped the hand would hold against Yukold's K♣T♣, and after the 8♥5♥J♣ flop and 8♣ turn, Jonkgbg was still ahead. However the river brought the T♠ to pair Yukold, and Jonkgbg was done in third.
Heads-up play began with Juan "paulwiter" Garcia enjoying almost a 2-to-1 chip lead over his fellow South American with the Uruguayan player's 1,991,727 chips well prior to the Brazilian Yukold's 1,068,727.
Yukold battled gamely over the following half-hour, although the stacks were still roughly the similar on the tourney's 11-hour mark. Then a couple of minutes after that paulwiter won a large pot after flopping top pair of kings then turning trips, and getting Yukold to name bets on all three post-flop streets.
That one left Yukold with just below 330,000 with the blinds as much as 10,000/20,000, and only a few hands later Yukold shoved all in from the button and got a decision from paulwiter.
It was A♠2♠ for Garcia and Q♣4♥ for Yukold. The flop came A♣3♣6♣ to pair paulwiter's ace but in addition give Yukold flush outs. The turn then brought the 9♠ and the river the 6♥, and paulwiter had won.
Congratulations to Juan "paulwiter" Garcia who had the lead for far of the overall hours of play on this week's Super Tuesday, including inside the final table to remove a pleasant $115K-plus first prize -- a second six-figure score in three months for the Uruguayan!
11/26/13 Super Tuesday ($1,050 No-Limit Hold'em) results
Players: 612
Prize pool: $612,000
Places paid: 72
1. Juan "paulwiter" Garcia (Uruguay) -- $115,668.00
2. Yukold (Brazil) -- $84,762.00
3. Jonkgbg (Sweden) -- $62,424.00
4. Kevin "iacog4" Iacofano (UK) -- $47,124.00
5. Dylan "WhiteRabbito" Honeyman (Australia) -- $33,048.00
6. geoas2003 (Romania) -- $26,010.00
7. Douglas "Dowgh-Santos" Souza (Brazil) -- $19,890.00
8. MrKloutt (UK) -- $13,770.00
9. texaszanardi (Chile) -- $9,363.60
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