Nahanni74 Wins Tourney #2 of 2nd Quarter

The Lady is a player! Taking down a tough field of eleven gents, she captures her first win of the year.

Herbavor and Beerhog tried to get in also. But Herbavor’s field rats couldn’t generate enough power out in Iowa for the internet to work. And Beerhog used his gerbils for other purposes and was late getting them back into their cages, so he missed.

Matchy I assume was buying high powered fans or building a windmill farm in his back yard.

SpartanToJo made his return to the NPP circuit and was given a rude greeting by the Poker Stars dealer. Welcome back to our nightmare! Sparty on!

On to the action:

4 min: McGuiness gets crippled as his (KJ) turns two pair but they also made Nahanni a straight.

7 min: SpartyToJo (12th) and Sev4TSev call Boother’s raise. The flop is [Jd 3d 2s]. Boother bets, Sparty raises with (Qd Js), 747 folds, and Boother re-raises with (33). Sparty calls. The turn is a [Q] and that gets them both all in.

28 min: ArticBlast (11th) is the next one out and I missed the hand on the other table. I tried to get it but I got involved in a hand and then the table closed.

29 min: The short-stacked McGuiness (10th) makes a stand with (A9) and I call from the blind with (QJ). A [Q] on the flop and the dark beer is emptied.

39 min: Rownder (9th) goes all-in with (55) against Boother’s (AK) and loses the race. No three-peat for Rownder, but an impressive double win!

43 min: Boother, Duder (8th) and BigLou get involved in a pot. The flop is [9c 7d 8c]. A short-stacked Duder gets all-in with an open ended straight draw (AT), but runs into Boother’s (TT) and no straight hits for a split and no {A} comes to save him.

47 min: Faldo is the short stack now but doubles up as his (KQ) beats Boother’s (KT). This starts a rash of small stacks surviving to fight on.

49 min: Bad beat of the night. After a flop of [7 6 8], short-stacked Tigercub (44) and Rennzzo (JJ) get all-in. Rennzzo is a 75-22 favorite at this time. When the turn is a [Q], Rennzzo moves to a 86-14 favorite. But a [5] spikes on the river and Tigercub is still breathing.

52 min: The new short-stack Biglou gets all-in with (A3) and is called by Boother’s (AJ). As a 70-23 dog, Biglou spikes a [3] on the flop and it holds on.

58 min: This streak ends when the slightly shorter stack Rennzzo (7th) gets all-in with (AT) but runs into Biglou’s (AK).

Break:
Boother 5955
Nahanni 4125
Sev4TSev 2655
Tigercub 24430
Biglou 1895
Faldo(Mikeniks) 940

66 min: Boother, Biglou and Sev4TSev see a flop of [T J 5]. Biglou (6th) gets all-in with his top pair (QJ), the airplane flies away and Boother calls with slow-played (KK). Ouch!

79 min: Tigercub (5th) makes an all-in move on Sev4TSev with (97), but 747 calls with (A9).

89 min: Sev4TSev (4th) tried to buy Nahanni off any draws she had, going all-in with (Q7) and a flop of [J 3 Q]. But Nahanni had (KK) and that returned 747 to the hangar.

97 min: Faldo(Mikeniks) was the new short stack and called all-in with (Jh 7h) against Nahanni’s (98). An [8] fell on the flop and your host was done.

99 min: This was a quick finish. Nahanni had a 12500 to 5500 chip lead but a flop of [Jc 2c Jh] got all the money in! Nahanni had (Qc 8c) for a flush draw and over cards. Boother (2nd) had hit two pair on the flop holding (4d 2d). The turn was an [8] giving Nahanni the lead and a [J] on the river was over kill.

Congratulations Nahanni and Boother has two 2nd’s in a row!

1st – Nahanni 15 pts
2nd – Boother 14 pts
3rd – Faldo(Mikeniks) (5 pts)
4th – Sev4TSev 3 pts
5th – Tigercub 1 pt
6th – Biglou
7th – Rennzzo
8th – Duder
9th - Rownder 10 pts
10th – McGuiness 1 pt
11th – ArcticBlast
12th – SpartanToJo
Aqualung (3 pts)

Grand totals for points are on the side of the blog.
( ) means seat already won.