Eleven players made it to the felt – one shy of the record! Nice job NPP Team!
And welcome back Hlam14! Herb had been a regular at the NPP game for years. You can see his POTY record on this blog and that speaks for itself. He is joining us from his new home in Iowa.
Nahanni and Boother sat out some of the early going and ArcticBlast was late, but they all saw live action. On to the show!
48 min: Nahanni (11th) missed the first 45 minutes of action. Playing the big games on-line must take precedent over NPP action. Nahanni is short-stacked and has to make a move with (A5). Beerhog correctly calls with (Kh 8h) and an [8] on the turn ends Nahanni’s short night.
51 min: A short-stacked and late ArcticBlast (10th) bluffs with a lame flop of [386], but 7Jokers hits the [8] on the flop to freeze out Blast.
56 min: A short-stacked Rennzzo (9th) goes all-in and gets picked on by Mikeniks and 7Jokers with Joker’s (As Qs) taking the pot.
Break:
Mikeniks 3170
Doneill 3165
Beerhog 3153
Tigercub 2800
7Jokers 1517
Boother 1110
Hlam14 835
Biglou 750
62 min: A short-stacked Hlam (8th) goes all-in with (KQ) and is called by another SS Biglou with (JJ). This cripples our Iowa homeboy and he goes out soon after.
70 min: 7Jokers (7th), BigLou and Beerhog call the blinds. The flop was [827]. BigLou bets and they all call. The turn is [6]. BigLou bets and only 7Jokers calls. They get all-in on the river of a [J] and BigLou’s straight on the turn took the pot down.
75 min: Boother (6th) gets hurt by Mikeniks hitting a flush and then goes all-in with (KJ), but ran into Beerhog’s (77) and he got no help. No three-peat for Boother. Nice run!
82 min: Doneill starts his run. Beerhog (5th) gets all-in with (AQ) and is called by Doneill with (AT). The [T] on the flop ends Beerhog’s night.
In the next 15 minutes, Mikeniks-Faldo gets bad beat 4 times in a row.
97 min: A very short-stacked Mikeniks (4th) (A3) hits Doneill’s (AT). Amazingly, the flop was not [333]. Go figure.
107 min: BigLou (3rd) has his (QQ) run into a flop of [K28] and Doneill’s (K2).
Heads up, Doneill has a 13,500 to 3000 lead over Tigercub.
115 min: Tigercub (2nd) battles for a while, but his (44) loses to a Doneill flush. Congratulations on your 5th NPP tourney win, Doneill!
1st – Doneill 21 pts
2nd – Tigercub 32 pts
3rd – BigLou 5 pts
4th – Mikeniks-Faldo 15 pts
5th – Beerhog 30 pts
6th – Boother 34 pts
7th – 7Jokers 21 pts
8th - Hlam14 0 pts
9th - Rennzzo 14 pts
10th – ArcticBlast 13 pts
11th – Nahanni 44 pts
Duder 13 pts
Aqualung 10 pts
Matchy 5 pts
DavetheDog 3 pts
Total point race is on the side of the blog.
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what do you mean playing big games online must take precedence? I was at work…it sucks!!! didn't think I would get home so late. really wanted to play. I play big online games after I get bounced from NPP. I am happy though that there is no scheduled game next tuesday and so the next 2 games for the quarter are the 9th and 16th!!! great! I will get to play on the 16th (but not the 9th). I really want to qualify for the championship event. Wouldn't it be great if we all had to ante up like $20 (or $50 or $100) at the beginning of the season that goes towards the championship event prize pool? So like at the beginning of the season (or whenever new people join), we all send Mike $20 (for example)...we seem to have about a group of 15 that play...so that would put $300 for the championship event which is 9-handed (right?)...so the $300 can be distributed to the top 3 as 50%, 30% and 20% (Mike would just transfer the money through PS). A little extra bone to play for. And for new people, they could play 1 to 2 times without the $20 surcharge and if they like the group and want to continue playing, they have to transfer Mike $20. (of course, we’d have to trust that Mike doesn’t have a gambling problem and play the prize pool away……you don’t have a problem do you?)……..oh man…wouldn’t $100/player be nice??? Really, $100 isn’t that much when you think about it…we have 48 games…that is only ~$2 per game going to the championship event….now there’s a big prize pool to play for!
Soooo…what do you think Mike? I know you don’t want to raise the weekly stakes…but what do you think of what I proposed? Maybe put up a voting thing on the blog for $20, $50 and $100…??? If 70% or more of us were interested, we could try it out next year…???
oh question...so you have 3 qualifiers already...and then a 3rd and 4th quarter qualifier...which will make 5 players...so then do the top 4 people in points get to play the final event?
The NPP Tournament Committee will review the standings, strength of schedule, tea leafs, the 8-ball and of course accept bribes to determine who gets in the NPP Final.
The trouble with a season-beginning buy-in is the same problem we would have with raising the stakes. I want to increase the player pool - not shrink or lock it.
I think we could cut the player pool at 24 full timers. That would guarantee a 16 to 18 player SNG most nights. Plenty of full table and short table practice on the same tourney night.
From the content of the comments about raising the stakes, it looks like Nik's doesn't have a gambling problem, maybe Nahanni does!!!!
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