Another Super Tuesday and another super turnout as 579 players took a shot at PokerStars weekly $1,050 tournament. This meant that the $300,000 guarantee was almost doubled as there has been $579,000 up for grabs, which might be shared between the highest 72 players with $109,431 reserved for the winner. And it was fairytale stuff as hielkuh, a Dutch player who claimed within the chat box to just have had 20 euros in his account in September, beat two-time WSOP bracelet winner and previous Super Tuesday winner Mark 'AceSpades' Radoja heads-up to win $78,846.17 after a four way deal.
Some of these who were out before the cash kicked in were: David 'davidv1213' Vamplew (441st), Bryn 'BrynKenney' Kenney (437th), Team PokerStars Pro Jake Cody (306th) and Team PokerStars Online's Caio 'Pessagno' Pessagno (167th).One Red Spade would make the cash though as PokerStars Challenger Stavros 'IDOLLS' Kalfas finished 28th, good for $2,895.00.
It would take almost six hours for the tournament to be reduced to the general two tables and when it was the largest and maybe sickest hand of the tournament came right along. For the entire hands on the final table perhaps hielkuh will look back in this one because the key hand of his entire tournament as he and zcedrick played a 404,000 chip pot. To position that during perspective this pot was bigger than six of the chip stacks on the final table.
Pre-flop AceSpades11 raised to 8,160 from the hi-jack, zcedrick three-bet to 17,550 at the button just for hielkuh to make it 48,000 from the small blind. Back on zcedrick he moved all-in for 193,750 total and hielkuh called.
zcedrick: K♣K♦
hielkuh: Q♥Q♦
The pre-flop cooler would continue post-flop because the board ran K♠3♥J♣9♥T♥ and hielkuh hit a miracle river to take the chip lead. "Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good I guess," he typed into the chat box afterwards.
So zcedrick was out in 18th for $4,632 that is an identical quantity that EDWARDHOPPER (17th) and Bigdaft (16th) picked up. Whilst lanestars (15th), Bartho85 (14th) and Breknell (13th) all added $5,790 to their accounts. And the general three to fall before the general were Philipp 'philbort' Gruissem (12th), Wonderdino (11th) and Bryan "theczar19" Piccioli (10th) all of them picked up $6,948 for his or her efforts.
Those nine exits all happened within the space of 45 minutes so after eight hours and 33 minutes the overall table was set with AceSpades11 holding a slight chip lead from hielkuh. Special mention also to ninoley who was making his second Super Tuesday final table in exactly seven weeks having finished third within the October 8th edition.
Seat 1: hielkuh (Netherlands) 618,943
Seat 2: Tomatee (Uruguay) 549,017
Seat 3: Deputado1414 (Brazil) 163,758
Seat 4: 1mDonuts (Malta) 39,054
Seat 5: KornHizzle20 (Canada) 370,824
Seat 6: jus2awsum (Canada) 122,243
Seat 7: Mark 'AceSpades11' Radoja (Canada) 663,022
Seat 8: ramastar88 (Argentina) 112,250
Seat 9: ninoley (Brazil) 255,889
Level XXXI: Blinds 3,200/6,400, ante 800
No shortstack survival this week
After last week's amazing shortstack comeback by Palau777 then despite starting the general table with just over six big blinds 1mDonuts might well has been feeling confident. And when the Maltese based player got a double up on just the seventh hand of the general table it seemed like another short stack comeback was within the offing. Two hands later he was out.
It folded to Deputado1414 within the hi-jack, the Brazilian opened to 15,744, 1mDonuts three-bet all-in for 64,508 and when it folded back to Deputado1414 he made the call.
Deputado1414: K♦Q♥
1mDonuts: A♠J♠
1mDonuts looked set fair for a double up however the 7♠J♦2♦4♦9♦ board had other ideas and he was out of the final, picking up $8,858.70 as he shut the door behind him. Within 10 minutes he'd have two players to maintain him company.
Temporary disconnect becomes permanent
At the beginning of the general table ramastar88 from Argentina were disconnected which meant each hand was taking a while. Finally, 14 hands into the final, he reconnected although he might well be wishing he hadn't.
After a raise to 14,400 from jus2awsum, he moved all-in for 80,850 and Deputado1414 re-raised forcing jus2awsum out of the pot. The Argentinian turned over A♠K♥ and was in a race against Deputado's T♣T♦. The Q♣K♣J♥ flop gave ramstar88 the lead, the A♣ turn gave him an unwanted two pair because it gave Deputado1414 a straight and the Brazilian improved to a flush at the 5♣ river. For finishing eighth ramstar88 picked up $13,027.50 for his troubles.
On the very next hand jus2awsum, who was right down to just over 11 big blinds after his raise/fold at the previous hand, moved all-in for 81,388 from under-the-gun, hielkuh flat called from the cut-off and everybody else folded. Showdown time:
hielkuh: T♠T♦
jus2awsum: K♦Q♣
Yet again the top ranking hand and not using a recognisable nickname (I DON'T BELIEVE dimes has yet passed into popular poker parlance) would delay because the board ran J♦3♦3♥A♦6♥ and jus2awsum peppered the board without quite with the ability to connect with finish seventh, good for $18,817.50.
Deputado1414 plays sheriff, gets it wrong
The first break of the overall would come and go before any longer significant action occurred, then the overall table was lured out of its temporary slumber in back to back hands involving Deputado1414. With blinds at 4,000/8,000 ante 1,000 he opened to 16,000 and collected calls from KornHizzle20 (239,186), AceSpades11 (705,545) and Tomatee (657,668).
So four to a flop of 4♣3♦T♠, this didn't decelerate Deputado1414, he c-bet 32,000 and KornHizzle was the one caller. At the 4♠ turn Deputado1414 slowed down, checking the action to KornHizzle20. The Canadian based player bet 56,000, leaving just 135,000 back, Deputado1414 check-raised all-in and KornHizzle20 called all-in.
Deputado1414: 6♦6♠
KornHizzle20: A♦A♥
The J♣ river gave KornHizzle20 a whole double up and left Deputado1414 with just 53,030. At the next hand ninoley open shoved from the cut-off for 170,901 (just over 21 big blinds) with K♠T♠ and Deputado1414 put the remainder of his stack in from the large blind with K♣5♣. The 9♠K♦T♥Q♦T♣ board gave ninoley an entire house and Deputado1414 a sixth place finish worth $24,607.50.
ninoley gets to work so he can visit work
Despite landing that knockout blow with five players remaining ninoley was the shortstack by far. A FEW orbits later the Brazilian got a far needed double up by the hands of hielkuh in a blind on blind battle. After AceSpades11 opened to 18,360 from the button, ninoley shoved for 265,171 from the small blind with A♠T♠ hielkuh called from the massive blind with K♥Q♥ and AceSpades11 got out the best way. The 4♥J♦A♥ flop arrange a hell of a sweat for ninoley, but top pair hung on the 5♦ turn and 6♠ river.
This meant that with blinds now 4,500/9,000 ante 1,125 not up to 25 big blinds separated first from fifth and the tournament was paused to check out ICM chip chop numbers. When the figures, which included $6,000 left to play for, were announced it seemed quite a great deallots. Everyone would lock up no less than third placed money: '6.52a.m here, wish to visit work," said ninoley. "8.52a.m just called in sick," shot back hielkuh. However, AceSpades11, the chip leader, rejected the deal as he wanted extra, something the remainder players weren't prepared to present. So play continued.
Kornhizzle20 squashes Tomatee
When deal negotiations came about Kornhizzle20 was the shortest stack of the lot with just below 500,000. Within the space of 20 hands he'd greater than double that to take a commanding chip lead and knockout Tomatee within the process.
He'd already taken a few chunky pots from the Uruguayan to take the chip lead when he landed the fatal blow. From a stack of 218,638 Tomatee min-raised to 20,000 from under-the-gun and KornHizzle20 made the decision. The 2 of them took a J♠9♣T♥ flop and the chips flew in. Tomatee showed Q♠T♠ for second pair and an open ended straight draw, KornHizzle20 had K♠J♣ for high pair and a gutshot. The J♦ turn and 3♣ river kept KornHizzle20 in front and sent Tomatee out in fifth, $31,266 better off.
The KornHizzle20 rollercoaster
Now that he had the chip lead there has been no way Kornhizzle was going to chill and be a passenger, no he was going to drive the rollercoaster. And what followed was an excessively entertaining ride! As he went from chip leader to short stack, back to the chip lead after which back to the fast stack again over the distance of 59 hands which happened over 44 minutes. Listed below are the highlights, strap in, it could get bumpy:
Starting chip stack: 1,186,170:
Hand 5: Wins 254,284 chip pot against AceSpades11 with A♣8♦ on a 5♠9♠J♦A♦T♠ board. Chipcount: 1,279,562.
Hand 12: Gets unlucky to lose a 782,668 chip pot against hielkuh on a 9♠3♦Q♠8♣A♠ board with Q♦J♣ against A♥3♥ with the chips stepping into at the flop and switch. Chipcount: 918,228
Hand 13: Wins a 248,584 chip pot against AceSpades11 with A♥Q♦ on a A♠T♥2♣8♠A♦ board. Chipcount: 1,044,020
Hand 19: Loses a 957,976 chip pot to AceSpades11 you can see below: Chipcount: 468,452 (now the shortstack)
Hand 21: Loses 237,600 chip pot to AceSpades11 when he folds at the river of a 9♠9♣3♥6♣6♦ board. Chip count: 315,902
Hand 40: Wins a 884,128 chip pot against AceSpades11 with J♠6♦ against K♣J♥ on a 6♥J♣8♥7♥9♠ board with the vast majority of the money stepping into at the turn. Chip count: 884,128 (is now chip leader again)
Hand 42: Loses a 530,590 chip pot to hielkuh on a 8♠5♥4♠3♥A♦ board, hielkuh shows Q♥4♦ at showdown to win the pot. Chip count: 622,833.
Hand 43: Wins a 664,000 chip pot against ninoley with A♠9♠ on a Q♠J♠9♦3♥A♥ board. Chipcount: 964,833.
Hand 49: Loses a 531,674 chip pot to ninoley on a 3♥2♣T♥Q♠J♣ board with the latter shoving with A♣K♥ at the flop and getting called by KornHizzle20's J♠T♠. Chip count: 762,996
Hand 59: Loses a 525,208 pot to AceSpades11 who shows K♥J♠ at showdown on a K♣T♣5♦T♦5♣ board to assert the pot. Chip count: 430,393 (back to the shortstack)
And with that the ride was over as after the following hand the clock was paused to speak about a deal.
If in the beginning you do not succeed
When the clock was paused the chip counts gave the impression of this:
Seat 1: hielkuh, 784,352
Seat 5: KornHizzle20, 428,393
Seat 7: AceSpades11, 953,941
Seat 9: ninoley, 728,314
The original payouts were as follows:
1st. $109,431.
2nd. $80,191.50
3rd. $59,058
4th. $44,583.00
And the chip count chop numbers, which left $6,000 to play for, seemed like this
AceSpades11: $80,477.38
heilkuh: $74,096.17
ninoley: $71,987.61
KornHizzle: $60,702.34
AceSpades11, wanted each player to offer him an additional $1,000 on top of the chip chop numbers. "Again I'M very experienced and that i think that may be very reasonable". He said as negotiations hung within the balance. However, KornHizzle20 wouldn't budge from his number but after somewhat cajoling AceSpades11 convinced both ninoley and hielkuh to every surrender $1,250 from their share and a deal was struck.
In the aftermath of the deal the chat box talk continued however it was within the type of congratulations as opposed to tense negotiations:
hielkuh: started in September with 20 euros, kinda changed my life... won the larger 109 and now this :)"
AceSpades11 said, "that's awesome hiel"
AceSpades11 said, "congrats mate, love hearing those stories"
KornHizzle20 said, "i won the 320 6m today"
KornHizzle20 said, "got 2nd within the brawl sunday"
KornHizzle20 said, "and won the 100r on friday"
KornHizzle20 said, "get someeeeeee"
AceSpades11 said, "have 2 wsop bracelets ! /end ..."
KornHizzle20 said, "ya, guess that settles it"
hielkuh said, "yea that just about /ends it"
Kornhizzle20's wheels come off in fouth
Now that a deal were struck play noticeably loosened up, ninoley - who do not forget needed to get to work - was the principle protagonist simply moving all-in for his entire stack of nearly 50 big blinds on multiple occasions.
However, he wouldn't be the primary out, 19 hands after the deal discussions were completed and a few 81 minutes after Tomatee was eliminated in fifth place the only man show that was KornHizzle20 got cancelled.
From the button hielkuh opened to 36,000 with K♥6♥, KornHizzle20 three-bet to 88,550 from the small blind with A♦4♣ and hielkuh made the decision. At the A♠K♣6♦ flop KornHizzle20 continued for 78,550 and hielkuh smooth called. The 8♥ fell at the turn and with as regards to a pot sized bet left KornHizzle20 moved all-in and was snap called. He didn't improve at the Q♠ river and was out in fourth.
All-in nin
Over the following dozen hands ninoley continued his aggressive tactic of moving all-in so much and it will ultimately prove his downfall, because the saying goes, 'it works everytime however the last time.'
It passed to him within the small blind and he open shoved for 917,524 (46 big blinds) and hielkuh made the call.
ninoley: K♠J♦
hielkuh: 6♣6♥
The 8♥9♣Q♥ flop gave ninoley additional outs as did the 8♦ turn, but he missed all of them at the 7♦ river and similar to that we were heads-up. Congratulations to ninoley for his second podium finish within the Super Tuesday in precisely seven weeks
Heads-up chip counts:
It was quite the match up, within the blue corner we had Mark 'AceSpades11' Radoja, a two-time bracelet winner who was trying to become a two-time Super Tuesday winner. Within the red corner hielkuh, a Dutchman who, if we believe his chat, needed to call in sick to work and had just 20 euros in his PokerStars account in September. No contest right? Well thankfully there has been a leveller - the chip counts - as hielku held a large chip lead of just about five to one.
Seat 1: hielkuh, 2,371,251
Seat 7: AceSpades11, 523,749
Blinds were 10,000/20,000 ante 2,500 as play got underway and it searched for the entire world as though the Ductchman's inexperience was going to be brutally exposed as AceSpades11 scored two double ups to take a 1.7M to 1.2M chip lead. However hielkuh fought back and at the final hand there has been only a single small blind separating the 2 stacks with hielkuh the only with the slenderest of benefits.
On the button hielkuh opened to 50,000 with Q♣5♣, AceSpades11 bumped it to 121,742 from the large blind with A♠A♦, heilkuh made the decision and the 2 of them saw a 7♣4♥6♦ flop. First to behave AceSpades11 led for 157,224, hielkuh made it 425,000, AceSpades11 shoved all-in and hielkuh called.
With two cards to come back AceSpades11 was a 63% favourite to win the pot and all but seal his second Super Tuesday title. But the 3♦ turn gave hielkuh and unbeatable straight, AceSpades11 was drawing to a chop however the river was the 4♦ and hielkuh was the winner.
Congratulations to hielkuh on his victory and commiserations to AceSpades11 who, whilst denied his second title, did score the largest cash of the tournament way to the four handed deal.
Super Tuesday: $1,050 NL Hold'em
Entrants: 579
Prize pool: $77,673.05
Places paid: 1800
1st. hielkuh (Netherlands), *$78,846.17
2nd. AceSpades11 (Canada), *$82,977.38
3rd. ninoley (Brazil), $70,737.61
4th. KornHizzle20 (Canada), *$60,702.34
5th. Tomatee (Uruguay), $31,266.00
6th. Deputado1414 (Brazil), $24,607.50
7th. jus2awsum (Canada), $18,817,50
8th. ramastar88 (Argentina), $13,027.50
9th. 1mDonuts (Malta), $8,858,70
*denotes four way deal
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