Budda627 Wins His 1st NPP Tourney!

Budda627, in only his 2nd NPP event, beat a field of fifteen to becomes the 43nd player to win an NPP tournament. He comes from last at the 1st break, in a remaining field of past winners, to win it too!

Also returning to the NPP felt tonight were Beerhog and Sjagot1990. Welcome back guys.

Sorry for the late tourney results as my work schedule was a killer at exactly the wrong time to get this posted sooner.

In addition, playing poker, keeping score, untangling Beerhog’s son’s fishing poles and attending to a bonfire – all at the same time – means you will miss the occasional hand or two of what you DO post.

On to the action:

2 min: Douche_Splat (15th) sees his pair of K’s run into Beerhog’s two pair.
10 min: Derf-63 (14th) is gone next and I missed it.
15 min: ThePunk75 (13th) is gone next, and I missed that too.

34 min: Sjagot1990 (12th) flops two pair (64%) and Mikeniks-Faldo has to call with (Ad 7d) with a flush draw and what I thought was an over-card (36%). I hit the flush to give Jags a sad welcome back.

37 min: Funtoon (11th) is gone next, and I missed it.
39 min: Meatsword (10th) bubbles on adding points as his flush is topped by Beerhog’s bigger flush! Ouch!

48 min: Akensi (9th) has to go with (AJ) and is called by Beerhog with (QQ).

57 min: Sirgash (8th) makes a move with (AK) but Beerhog has (KK) and a monster chip lead at the break.

1st Break:
Beerhog 9970
Gotbug 2905
Kensik 2480
Mikeniks-Faldo 2450
Tigercub8189 2030
LittleRedElf 1685
Budda627 980

80 min: Play goes on for a while before Gotbug (7th) sees his pair of K’s and backdoor straight draw (52%) get run down by Beerhog’s (47%) flush on the turn.

88 min: A short-stacked LittleRedElf (6th) has to go with (66) and a flop of [23Q], but Beerhog holds (23)! Ouch!

92 min: Tigercub8189 (5th) goes AIPF with (TT) only to find Kensik holding (JJ)! Tiger still manages to pad his 3rd Quarter lead this evening.

94 min: Mikeniks-Faldo is AIPF with (44) only to see Beerhog turn over (KK).

110 min: Budda627 and Kensik have whittled Beerhog’s massive chip lead down to where everyone is about even at this point. Game on!

115 min: Beerhog (3rd) gets a little impatient on a flop with a [7] in it holding (A7), and finds a snap-call by Budda627 with (AA).

119 min: Kensik (2nd) moves in with (57) (93%) and a flop of [57K]. Smelling a bluff or at least thinking he has an over card, Budda627 calls with only (A4) (7%). But runner-runner [4] [A] lands to give Budda the chip lead!

2nd Break:
Budda627 12955
Kensik 9545

122 min: Kensik regains the chip lead as his pair of Q’s out-kicks Budda’s pair of Q’s.

125 min: Kensik 15490 - Budda 7010

130 min: Wow, what a turn around in five minutes!: Budda 14000 - Kenisk 8500

131 min: Kensik flops a pair of Q’s again, but Budda rivers a pair of Aces to win it.

Cruel ending for Kensik. He fought off two hot players for as long as he could.

Congratulations to Budda627 on his first NPP win!

1st – Budda627
2nd – Kensik
3rd – Beerhog
4th – Mikeniks-Faldo
5th – Tigercub8189
6th – LittleRedElf
7th – Gotbug
8th – Sirgash
9th – Akensi

Standings are on the right side of the blog.