New Players Return ….and K9isadog Beats Them Too!!!

K9isadog notches his 5th win of the season and his 6th in NPP history to stretch his already commanding lead in the NPP Totals. Lucky for all of us chasing for NPP seats in the Finals, his total won’t count. He already won the 1st quarter seat.

We welcomed back two past players returning to the NPP felt - Nixi44 and Sirgash. It was easy to see that this husband and wife team’s poker skills have not diminished.

On to the NPP action:

23 min: A short-stacked (SS) Mistermusic5 (22nd) sees his (Tc 8c) run into Nixi44’s (JJ).
30 min: Continuing her hard luck at NPP, T3chlady (21st) sees her (QQ) run into Pre01’s (KK).

35 min: Wingsfancurt (20th) sees his (KK) lose to ThePunk75’s (AQ) when an [A] hits the turn.

43 min: Tomservo2 (19th) sees his (88) get run over by Mikeniks-Faldo’s (KK).
45 min: A (SS) LittleRedElf (18th) with (Ad 6d) can’t catch xxxKdogxxx’s (KK).
48 min: Douge2 (17th) – Missed it playing my hand.
56 min: Odds2win777 (16th) has (AA). xxxKdogxxx hits a flush with (As 2s). This is eerily similar to last week when Odds went out with exactly the same hand and a straight took him out. Weird.

59 min: A SS Theedouble*d (15th) goes with (A7) and xxxKdogxxx calls with (T8) and hits an [8] on the flop.

1st break:
xxxKdogxxx 5768
Yecats423 4185
Sirgash 3430
Mikeniks-Faldo 2978
Nixi44 2845
Funtoon 2599
Absea98 2548
Tigercub8189 2025
ThePunk75 1830
K9isadog 1481
Derf-63 1132
Suetman1 1009
Eyekall 710
Pre01 460

65 min: A (SS) Suetman1 (14th) goes with (KJ) but cannot catch her daughter-in-law, Nixi44, holding (33).

71 min: A (SS) Derf-63 (13th) goes with (Qc 7c) but cannot catch Funtoon’s (Ac Tc).
75 min: A (SS) ThePunk75 (12th) goes with (KQ) and cannot catch Eyekall’s (JJ).
80 min: A (SS) Tigercub8189 (11th) pairs his (53) with a flop of [932], only to lose to Nixi44’s (98).

85 min: I get lucky here. Two (SS)’s collide as my (A9) takes out Nixi44 (10th) holding (55) when I flop a [9]. Nice return showing Nixi.

97 min: A (SS) Pre01 (9th) loses to K9isadog’s flush. And the rush starts here!
102 min: Absea98 (8th) and K9isadog see a flop of [39J]. K9 bets it strong and Absea calls. The turn is a [Q] and the chips all hit the middle, but K9 has the bigger end of the straight. That’s two.

106 min: Yecats423 (7th) is double-teamed (twss) and loses to K9isadog’s straight. That’s three! We have seen this before this year - a run of cards and action at exactly the right time.

113 min: Sirgash (6th) sees his (KK) get run down as big stack Eyekall calls with (AJ) and hits his [A].

117 min: Eyekall (5th) now goes from the penthouse to the outhouse as he gets cold-decked by the hot hand - K9isadog. In a collision of big stacks, Eyekall goes with (55) and a flop of [653]. But unbelievably, K9 is holding (74)!!!! Ouch! Now K9isadog has a monster stack.

118 min: Funtoon (4th) goes with (AT), only to run into K9isadog’s (AQ). For those of you counting, that is now 5 of 6 eliminations by K9isadog. Just mowing them down.

2nd break:
K9isadog 21906
Mikeniks-Faldo 6059
xxxKdogxxx 5035

Davethedog showed up to sweater. Was I sitting at a poker table or a kennel???

127 min: xxxKdogxxx (3rd) comes up short as his (Ah 2h) runs into K9isadog’s (As Qs).

Heads up: K9isadog 27200 - Mikeniks-Faldo 5800

130 min: Heads up: K9isadog 23400 - Mikeniks-Faldo 9600

134 min: Mikeniks-Faldo (2nd) hits his two pair on the turn. When K9isadog moves all-in, he either has trips or hit yet another straight. Pot committed, all I can do is hope I boat. I don’t and K9 indeed has the straight.

Congratulations to K9isadog on his 6th NPP

1st – K9isadog – 24 points
2nd – Mikeniks-Faldo – 19 points
3rd – xxxKdogxxx – 15 pts
4th – Funtoon – 12 pts
5th – Eyekall – 9 pts
6th – Sirgash – 7 pts
7th – Yecats423 – 5 pts
8th – Absea98 – 4 pts
9th – Pre01 – 3 pts

Every one else earned one (1) point. Standings on the right side of the blog! The 3rd Quarter starts next week. Time to get back in the hunt for an NPP Finals appearance.