Online Poker -- The $1K Roundup, Week of Mar. 29Scott Montgomery, Michael Benvenuti, and Shaun Deeb Win Big |
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Editors Note: The Absolute Poker recap has been changed below to reflect new information.
It's official. Shaun F. Deeb is an absolute sicko. After a seemingly improbable week where he won four tournaments and took over the Card Player Online Player of the Year race, Deeb has done it again. This time, he outlasted everyone else in Absolute Poker's $150,000-guaranteed tournament for nearly $40,000 and another 480 points. Make sure to check out the recap to see what a heater looks like.
Read the recaps for the $1K events on Full Tilt, PokerStars, and Absolute Poker below.
Full Tilt Poker -- $1K Monday
The $1K Monday drew in a respectable 383 entrants this week, down a bit from last week's field of 418. The guarantee was still surpassed, however, eventually settling on $383,000.
The tournament paid out the final 36 players, with the bubble-boy honors going to OPOY candidate Steve "gboro780" Gross. Notables to make the money included Matt "Claw1980" Holtzclaw (35th), Dan "WiLDmAn75" Buzgon (31st), Darryll "DFish" Fish (29th), Jagz7 (26th), Jeff Madsen (24th), Jason "JCarver" Somerville (23rd), Nick "FU_15" Maimone (17th), Andrew "fergwrx" Ferguson (15th), Justin "exxplicit" Allen (14th), Daniel "imabigkidnow" Kelly (13th), and Justin "WPThero" Rollo (12th).
The final table featured pros Michael "YrrsiNN" Huber (fourth), Kory "s00tedj0kers89" Kilpatrick (third), Boris "fratboy247" Kravets (second), and Full Tilt pro Scott Montgomery (first).
November Nine member Montgomery (pictured right) came into the final table with a huge chip lead, holding almost twice as many chips as his nearest opponent. Montgomery continued to build his lead as he took out ALLinwithtdaBEST, awh1013, ThePh0neBo0th, and Kilpatrick. When he got to heads-up play with Kravets (pictured above left), he held close to a 5-1 chip lead.
That lead got even bigger on the final hand of the night, when Montgomery's A
K
bested Kravets and his J 10
all in preflop. The board ran out A J 3 A 6
, and his trip aces gave him him the title and the first-place prize of $95,750. Montgomery talked about his latest accomplishment and winning a seat into this year's World Series of Poker main event on his blog, right here on CardPlayer.com.
Here were the final table results:
PokerStars -- Super Tuesday
The Super Tuesday on PokerStars was also a bit down, bringing in 389 players and creating a total prize pool of $389,000.
The tournament paid out the final 45 players, including the likes of Joe "bigegypt" Elpayaa (45th), Ty "puffinmypurp" Reiman (40th), Evan "PURPLE"K"99" Parkes (39th), govshark2 (34th), Thierry "BOKPOWER" Van Den Berg (33rd), Chris "LUHMAN" Martin (32nd), Gordon "holla@yoboy" Vayo (30th), Isaac "westmenloAA" Baron (26th), Alexandre "Allingomes" Gomes (23rd), Matt "mattg19843" Graham (21st), Chris "Bushman" Bush (20th), Stu "thedonator" Paterson (19th), Ozenc Demir (16th), Jeff "jeff710" Hakim (13th), Jamie "TheCronic420" Rosen (12th), James "Andy McLEOD" Obst (11th), and J.P. "JP 5-time" Kelly (10th).
The final table featured notables such as Marc "mysterio6044" Karam (eighth), Todd "tbt4653" Terry (seventh, pictured above left), Eric "Ericb09" Blair (fourth), Jason "JP OSU" Potter (third), gibler321 (second) and Michael "WatchOutFish" Benvenuti (first).
Blair started off with the chip lead, but ultimately failed to hold on when his A J went out to Benvenuti's dominating A K in fourth place. Benvenuti's pocket eights then took out Potter (pictured right) in third place, which gave him a slight lead going into heads up play with gibler321.
On the final hand, both players saw a flop of A J 7. After a series of bets and raises, gibler321 called all in holding A 6 but was in major trouble against Benvenuti's A 7 for top and bottom pair. The turn and river failed to counterfeit and Benvenuti took home the title along with $75,855.
Here were the final table results:
Absolute Poker -- $150,000 Guaranteed
The Cereus network failed to draw in enough players to meet their guarantee but only fell short by eight players, attracting a field of 142.
The $8,000 overlay was distributed evenly among the final 18 players fortunate enough to cash. The last player to miss out on the money was Chris "Czarbushov" Bush, who tried to blind his way in to the money on the short stack. He failed to double up, and the remaining two tables were all in the money.
The players who cashed included Scott "ScottyDog25" Hall (18th), JBLAZE20 (17th), hwtd1 (16th), Tommy "Robot Piemel" Nguyen (14th), and John "JRD_312" Dolan (10th).
The final table featured many notables, such as Lucas "Beaver Fever" Rifkin (eighth), Matt "NoBadBeatsPlz" Kay (seventh), Hunter "TheHuntd" Frey (fifth), Steve "MiguelPrado" Gross (fourth) and Mendieta19 (second), but nobody received more attention than eventual winner and all-around tournament crusher Shaun "TedsFishFry" Deeb.
Steve "MiguelPrado" Gross, was fighting to stay alive and more importantly outlast Deeb. Both players were and still are in first and second place in the OPOY rankings. Ultimately, Gross fell in fourth place, picking up 240 points along the way.
Deeb (pictured below left) sat in the middle of the pack for most of the final table until doubling up with A-K against A-10. Then he took out TWOLIP69 in third place when his A-Q held against K-8. Despite that surge of cards, Deeb was still down 2-1 heads up against Mendieta19.
Deeb then raised on the button and Mendieta19 made the call. The flop came out 10-9-7, and both players got it all in. Mendieta showed slow-played pocket kings, but he was drawing very slim to Deeb's 8-6 for a flopped straight. That hand got the players closer to even, and Deeb took the lead on the next hand with a flop reraise.
On the final hand, Mendieta19 raised, and Deeb put him all in. Mendieta19 called and showed A J and was racing for the tournament against Deeb's 2 2. The flop came out A Q 8, and Mendieta19 took the lead. The turn was the 10, and he improved to a royal flush draw. The river was the...2! and Deeb took the pot and the tournament with a rivered set of deuces.
This was Deeb's fifth outright victory in the last nine days. During the last two weeks, Deeb has cashed for over $260,000 in OPOY-qualifying events and now has a 790-point lead over current second-place resident Steve 'gboro780' Gross.
Here were the final table results:
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