Jager244 Wins His First NPP Title!

The second largest field in NPP history was no problem for Jager244 tonight.

Round five of the new season welcomed new players, CardHockey15 and Wrongwayman, and an old player and past tourney winner McGuiness007. Welcome and welcome back gentlemen.

On to the action:

17 min: A family pot ensues with six limpers. What a nice friendly table this is. Mr. Action, Mikeniks-Faldo folds. The flop is [5h Kc Ks]. Maybe my AK-suited was worth a call there. Oh well.

Acesovru (23rd) makes a pot size bet and only McGuiness007 calls. The turn is a [Qh] and McGuiness leads out with a baby bet which is called. The river is a [Th] and they get all-in and 007 has the higher two pair.

34 min: The talent at NPP is undeniable as it takes twice as long for our next exit as 7Jokers (AA) and McGuiness007 (QQ) eliminate Wrongwayman (22nd). Don’t take it wrong, man. We treat all newcomers this way. Jager244 met the same fate his first round.

37 min: Douge2 (21st) is out and I didn’t catch it.

42 min: Nixi44 (20th) had her (JJ) run into Mistermusic5’s (QQ). She must have had Faldo’s seat at another table. Ouch – but it is called poker.

58 min: The Poker Stars Break Monster works overtime to eliminate CardHockey15 (18th) and Sirgash (17th).

1st Break:

Whilden 4214
Biglou93 4085
McGuiness007 3695
Absea98 3690
Mistermusic5 2920
Mikeniks-Faldo 2405
7Jokers 2363
Theedouble*d 1860
Jager244 1715
Tigercub8189 1515
RKidder51400 1433
Hlam14 1300
Rennzzo 1275
LittleRedElf 1126
Suetman1 505
Crackbuyer 399

A new record for the number of players alive at the break! Wow!

63 min: Theedouble*d (16th) tries it with (AJ) and sees 7Jokers (88) hit an [8] on the flop.

65 min: Last week’s champ CrackBuyer (15th) is short stacked and makes a stand with (Ah 2h) against another short stack – Suetman1 with (Ac Jc), and loses and goes out soon after.

74 min: McGuiness007 (14th) has been bleeding chips since the break and gets a chance to load up as his (KK) all-in is met by LittleRedElf’s (A8). The cards stay sour for him as LRE hits his [A] on the flop. Ouch!

77 min: The valiant short stack battle of Suetman1 (13th) ends cruelly as her (QJ) loses to Rennzzo’s (35) call as [55x] falls on the flop. Carnage begins for 3 minutes.

82 min: Two more short stacks collide as RKidder51400’s (12th) call with (Ah Th) gets run down as Tigercub8189’s bluff with (96) in the blind as [875] falls on the flop. Wow!

83 min: Whilden (11th) has his (44) run into Tigercub8189’s (KK) AND Mistermusic5’s (AA).

84 min: This made Tigercub8189 (10th) have to try with (KJ) but he cannot over take Jager244’s (77). And then calm fell over the poker final table.

97 min: Hlam14 (9th) has his (JJ) run into to Jager244’s (QQ).

100 min: Absea98 (8th) has his (AJ) run into Jager244’s (AK). Can you feel the rush coming?

108 min: Our short-stacked 1st quarter point leader Rennzzo (7th) has to try with (A4), but 7Jokers runs him down as his (KQ) gets help from a [Q5Q] flop.

113 min: Mikeniks-Faldo (6th) goes with (Ad 5d) only to see that 7Jokers is holding (AA).

2nd Break:

7Jokers 9063
Mistermusic5 7839
Jager244 7463
LittleRedElf 6730
Biglou93 3405

125 min: BigLou93 (5th) goes it with (KQ) and runs into LittleRedElf’s (JJ).

130 min: A seesaw hand sees Mistermusic5 (4th) with his (AT) spike an [A] on the flop against LittleRedElf’s (KK), but Poker Stars wants the table and a [K] arrives on the river.

140 min: LittleRedElf (3rd) with (Ah 6h) cannot run down Jager244’s (A8).

Heads up with Jager244 (24000) and 7Jokers (10500).

145 min: Just getting ready to get the chip counts for the next update when after a flop of [T6J] 7Jokers goes all-in with (T8) and is called by Jager244 with (Q9) and the open ended straight draw – which hits!!! Ouch to 7Jokers, a nice comeback to LittleRedElf, and congratulations to Jager244 and welcome to the NPP Walk of Fame!

1st – Jager244 20 points
2nd – 7Jokers 14 pts
3rd – LittleRedElf 10 pts
4th – Mistermusic5 7 pts
5th – BigLou93 5 pts
6th – Mikeniks-Faldo 4 pts
7th – Rennzzo 3 pts
8th – Absea98 2 pts
9th – Hlam14 1 pt

The point standings are on the right side of the blog.