J3gamble Wins His 1st NPP Tilt

J3gamble spanked the NPP lineup. This lady wants her turn!

J3gamble becomes the 70^th person to win an NPP tournament. He did it in fine style and definitely earned it in this marathon session. It was almost 3 hours of poker action!

The reason of course is the battle for the 1^st seat in the NPP Finals. The last four weeks of a quarter is like Sunday on the PGA Tour. It time to go for it.

Douge2 was surprisingly MIA, but the rest of the pursuers for the seat were in attendance.

Remember, Faldo is a wildcard. He does not take a seat from anyone. So, our current leader for the 1^st seat in the NPP final is still Douge2. So with 2 weeks to go, a lot of players are still in contention to catch him.

Besides, depending on how the cards fall, Faldo can still be caught. That’s why this is so exciting.

On to the action:

7 min: Lump2 (16^th) runs into J3gamble’s two pair.

14 min: A short-stacked (SS) Suetman123 (15^th) goes with (88) and runs into Tim481’s two pair.

22 min: Theedouble*d (14^th) has (QQ) and runs into LittleRedElf’s (KK). Ouch!

25 min: KingBing420 (13^th) Missed it.

42 min: Tomservo2 (12^th) hits trips but T3chlady has a straight.

46 min: Derf-63 (11^th) Missed it.

48 min: Douge2 (10^th) blinded out.

50 min: Sanster89 (9^th) blinded out.

1^st break:

Tim481    6650

Absea98    3465

LittleRedElf    3150

Rjmech     3010

J3gamble     2830

95corolla     1845

T3chlady     1670

Mikeniks-Faldo    1380

72 min: A SS Rjmech (8^th) runs into Mikeniks-Faldo’s two pair.

84 min: A SS LittleRedElf’s (7^th) pair of Aces are out-kicked by J3Gamble’s Aces.

89 min: 95corolla (6^th) goes with two pair and runs into Tim481’s trips.

93 min: A SS Absea98 (5^th) has to go with (A9) but Tim481 has (AQ).

Now a long struggle ensues. Back and forth as everyone’s stacks go up and down. TWSS!

2^nd Break:

Tim481    7540

J3gamble    7330

Mikeniks-Faldo    4785

T3chlady     4345

150 min: Did you catch the time here?? T3chlady (4th) runs into Tim481’s (QQ).

153 min: Mikeniks-Faldo (3^rd) gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar as he moved all in with (KdJd) but falls to J3gamble’s (AK). Well it would have worked for Rjmech!

The heads up battle was a knock-down drag out affair also. The winner will claim his first NPP victory and get a spot on the Walk of Fame!

Heads up:    J3gamble   14000     -     Tim481     10000

160 min:      J3gamble   14600     -     Tim481      9600

165 min:      J3gamble   12000     -     Tim481     12000

170 min:      J3gamble   18500     -     Tim481       5500

172 min:  A SS Tim481 (2^nd) tries it with (Q6) but J3gamble has (QQ).

Congratulations to J3gamble on his 1^st NPP win!

1^st – J3gamble

2^nd – Tim481

3^rd – Mikeniks-Faldo

4^th – T3chlady

5^th – Absea98

6^th – 95corolla

7^th – LittleRedElf

8^th – Rjmech

9^th – Sanster89

10^th – Douge295corolla

11^th – Derf-63

12^th – Tomservo2

13^th – KingBing420

14^th – Theedouble*d

15^th – Suetman123

16^th – Lump2

The 1st Quarter Standings are on the right side of the blog!