Kensik Wins His 2nd NPP Tourney to Kick Off Qtr #4

Due to my outstanding recruiting skills, only eighteen players started the 4th Quarter. We have been averaging around twenty-two.

But we did have some new players and one returning player – so Faldo is happy. And after all – it’s all about Faldo.

Kensik played solid all night, staying near the top all evening long, and closed it out in a tough heads-up battle.

Our new players were Cheeks87 and Vanettij. Welcome to NPP guys!
Returning to the NPP felt tonight was McGuiness007. Welcome back.

On to the action:

37 min: T3chalady (18th) sees her (44) loses to Douge2’s (A9) with a [9] turn and river!
40 min: A short-stacked (SS) ThePunk75 (17th) goes with (KJ) and loses to Tomservo’s (AK).

42 min: Duder1123 (16th) gets all his money in with (42) and a flop of [4Q4] (93%). Derf-63 calls it with (AJ) (7%). Duder gets the ‘bad beat of the night’ as the turn and river are [A] [A]! Ouch!

47 min: Douge2 (15th) goes AIPF and loses to LittleRedElf. I missed the hand as the pole dancer knocked my beer out of my hand. (Best excuse I could think of)

50 min: Proving my luck continued Mikeniks-Faldo (14th) goes with (88) and runs into Derf-63’s (99). Derf had Faldo’s number all evening.

52 min: Cheeks87 (13th) gets the standard NPP welcome as his (KT) hits the flop with a [T] in it, but is called by Kensik holding stealth (AA).

55 min: Rennzzo (12th) also gets 2nd worst bad beat of the night as his (QQ) (81%) gets run down by McGuiness007’s (44) (19%), with a [4] on the flop. Another OUCH!

1st Break:

Kensik 5085
LittleRedElf 5020
Vanettij 3187
Tomservo2 2880
Derf-63 2325
Absea98 2280
Akensi 1976
McGuiness007 1751
Funtoon 1160
K9isadog 906
Budda627 430

After the break, a rush to the exits ensues:
62 min: K9isadog (11th) pushes with (A5) but finds Akensi with (AQ) (28%).
65 min: A SS Budda627 (10th) has to go with (KJ) and cannot catch LittleRedElf’s (KQ).
66 min: Derf-63’s (9th) has his (AQ) run into Kensik’s (KK).
75 min: Absea98 (8th) loses a coin flip as his (AK) cannot catch McGuiness007’s (JJ).
77 min: Akensi is cold-decked (7th) as her (AK) hits a [K] on the flop, only to find McGuiness007 holding (KK)! This crippled her stack and Funtoon took the last of her stack four minutes later (81 min).

92 min: A SS Tomservo2 (6th) goes with (Qc 8c) but cannot catch LittleRedElf’s (KJ).
112 min: McGuiness007 (5th) sees his (TT) run into Vanettij’s (QQ).

2nd break:
Vanettij 9914 (rare place for a 1st timer to NPP!)
Funtoon 7219
Kensik 7047
LittleRedElf 2820

124 min: LittleRedElf (4th) is all-in with (AQ) (70%) and Kensik calls with (A9) (24%). The flop has a [9] in it to end our over-all point leader’s evening.

131 min: Kensik (41%) calls Vanettij’s (3rd) top pair all-in (58%) with an open-ended straight draw and gets there! Nice run and great job Vanettij.

Heads up: Kensik 19000 - Funtoon 8000
135 min: Kensik 16000 - Funtoon 11000
140 min: Kensik 21000 - Funtoon 6000
145 min: Kensik 23000 - Funtoon 4000

147 min: Funtoon (2nd) has to go with (66) and Kensik has to call with any two cards (Tc 3c). The flop has a [T] in it.

Congratulations to Kensik on another NPP win.

1st – Kensik
2nd – Funtoon
3rd – Vanettij
4th – LittleRedElf
5th – McGuiness007
6th – Tomservo2
7th – Akensi
8th – Absea98
9th – Derf-63

Standings are on the right side of the blog.