ThePunk75 Wins His 3rd NPP Tourney

ThePunk75 bested fifteen others tonight to capture his 3rd NPP tourney win. He had to climb the mountain as your noble scribe took a big chip lead early.

This puts him in 1st place, not only in the 4th quarter seat race, but also the Total Points seat race. It is looking good for ThePunk to get to the Finals. But it is not over yet.

There were no new players tonight and Faldo is not happy about that. Anyway, excellent poker was played by the regulars.
On to the action:

14 min: Mikeniks-Faldo (JJ) re-raises a LittleRedElf raise (15th) that is called by Tomservo2 (16th) and the Elf. The flop is [Q7J] and they cannot get away from their (KK) and (AA). A rare double knockout of two of NPP’s most dangerous players! PokerStars nub for Faldo.

41 min: No casualties for a while until Douge2’s (14th) pair of Aces loses to Midway2933’s flush.

45 min: A short-stacked (SS) K9isadog (13th) has to go when his (Th 8h) hits a [T] on the flop. But he runs into ThePunk75’s (AA).

51 min: A SS Duder1123 (12th) pushes with (65) and a flop of [Qs4c6s] but Midway2933 (Ks 2s) hits his flush - again.

56 min: T3chlady (11th) goes AIPF with (55) but ThePunk75 calls with (AQ) and hits a [Q] on the flop. Ouster #2 by ThePunk.

1st Break:

Mikeniks-Faldo 6131
Midway2933 5280
ThePunk75 4972
Theedouble*d 2015
Budda627 1820
Rennzzo 1582
Tigercub8189 1120
Derf-63 580
Funtoon 485
Absea98 15

63 min: A SS Funtoon (10th) sees his (AK) lose to the SS (A2) of Derf-63 with (Kd 2d) and a [2] on the river.

64 min: Majorly SS Absea98 (9th) run into Mikeniks-Faldo’s (AK).
67 min: Derf-63 (8th) loses as his (Ah Th) cannot catch ThePunk75’s (KK). Ouster #3.
72 min: Budda627 (7th) has his (JJ) run into Theedouble*d’s (KK).
80 min: A SS Tigercub8189 (6th) goes with (A4) and runs into ThePunk75’s (AJ). Ouster #4.

85 min: Midway2933 (5th) bluffs at it, but Theedouble*d had two pair.
99 min: Theedouble*d (4th) had to go with (As 4s) with an [A] on the flop. But ThePunk75 is holding (AK). Ouster #5 for ThePunk!

109 min: Rennzzo (3rd) tries with (A7) but Mikeniks-Faldo is holding (AK).

110 min: Heads up: ThePunk75 15000 – Mikeniks-Faldo 8700
115 min: Heads up: ThePunk75 16500 – Mikeniks-Faldo 7200

2nd break:
ThePunk75 20571
Mikeniks-Faldo 3429

120 min: Heads up: ThePunk75 14500 – Mikeniks-Faldo 9200

121 min: We both limp into a flop of [8h 5d Qh]. ThePunk75 checks and Mikeniks-Faldo (2nd) bets the pot and gets called. I put Punk on a pair - of what I have no idea, but I figure I am behind with my (6h 4s).

The turn is a pretty [7], but unfortunately for me it is the [7h] and ThePunk is holding (4h 2h). Ouch, as the money gets all in there.

Congratulations to ThePunk75 on another NPP win.

1st – ThePunk75
2nd – Mikeniks-Faldo
3rd – Rennzzo
4th – Theedouble*d
5th – Midway2933
6th – Tigercub8189
7th – Budda627
8th – Derf-63
9th – Absea98

Standings are on the right side of the blog.