It was another big Super Tuesday this week at PokerStars. A BIG field of 636 came out for the tourney, another than last week and again one of the most biggest fields ever within the history of the weekly $1,050 no-limit hold'em event. It will take nearly 12 hours to come to a decision this week's installment, with IceStream of Bulgaria ultimately prevailing to earn a groovy $120,204 first prize.
That big field created a prize pool of $636,000 -- greater than double the Super Tuesday's $300K guarantee -- with the highest 72 finishers dividing those riches. It could take greater than five-and-a-half hours for the money bubble to burst, at which point superkid-bam had the chip lead with just over 150,000 with the chase pack about 35,000 behind.
superkid-bam would maintain a large stack over the following couple of hours because the field trimmed right down to 18 players, sitting in third position with about 360,000 behind eventual winner IceStream who had nearly 520,000 and another player who'd make a deep run, fish.Suusa, who was sitting with about 410,000.
It would take some time for nine for to fall, with peterwhooo entering into the highest spot with greater than 750,000 along the way in which. MaRLaCa 309 (18th), pokerkluka (17th), and China White1 (16th) earned $5,088 apiece. guitarpiano (15th), schmetter9 (14th), and nailuj90 (13th) each took away $6,360 for his or her finishes. And hnidel (12th), Mrbarrett82 (11th), and superkid-bam (10th) just missed the overall table, with each finding $7,632 more of their accounts upon their eliminations.
With the nine-hour break approaching, just nine remained.
Seat 1: fish.Suusa (Czech Republic) -- 173,917
Seat 2: IceStream (Bulgaria) -- 652,518
Seat 3: mickl58 (Russia) -- 329,187
Seat 4: Greenstone25 (Sweden) -- 146,249
Seat 5: warspirit89 (Germany) -- 546,380
Seat 6: gernas10 (Ireland) -- 180,707
Seat 7: peterwhooo (Brazil) -- 751,471
Seat 8: filushh (Israel) -- 246,742
Seat 9: MkMyWishFish (Israel) -- 152,829
It would take slightly over 40 minutes for the primary elimination to come back on the final table, by which time the blinds climbed to 5,000/10,000.
The hand saw the table fold around to IceStream within the small blind who raised to 24,899, then mickl58 reraised to 63,600 from the large blind. IceStream responded with an all-in push, and mickl58 called with the 320,212 left behind.
It was K♦7♥ for IceStream and A♥Q♠ for mickl58. The board then came 8♦7♣T♦K♠2♣, giving IceStream two pair and ending mickl58's run in ninth.
About 10 minutes later the blinds were 6,000/12,000 when gernas10 open-shoved for 96,857 from early position with Q♣Q♥ and got one customer in MkMyWishFish who called in for 70,283 from the cutoff with 9♣9♦. The board rolled out 3♥A♦Q♠5♥Q♦, giving gernas10 quad queens and sending MkMyWishFish railward in eighth.
They'd push in the course of the 10-hour break, then another 25 minutes passed before IceStream installed a just-over-2x raise to 32,899 from middle position, and then a super-short-stacked Greenstone25 called all in for 15,601 from a seat over. It folded to peterwhooo who called to boot from the massive blind, and the 3 watched the flop come 6♣7♥A♣.
peterwhooo checked, IceStream bet 27,899, peterwhooo check-raised to 120,212, and IceStream stepped aside. At that Greenstone25 showed A♦T♦ for prime pair, but peterwhooo had A♥6♦ for 2 pair, and after the J♠ turn and 4♠ river, Greenstone25 was done in seventh.
By then IceStream had moved way out in front with greater than 1.7 million, greater than 1,000,000 away from nearest challengers fish.Suusa and warspirit89. Then with the blinds 8,000/16,000, gernas10 pushed all in for 69,640 from the cutoff and it folded to a different short stack, filussh, who reraised all in for 74,496 from the large blind and fish.Suusa called.
filushh had A♦K♠ and the threshold over fish.Suusa's A♥4♥, however the board came J♥7♥T♦4♦J♣, that four at the turn giving fish.Suusa the simpler hand and stopping filushh in sixth.
Moments later it was warspirit89 open-pushing a stack of greater than half 1,000,000 from the small blind with 4♥4♠ and gernas10 calling all in for 166,920 from the massive blind with A♣K♥. gernas10 had to improve to survive, however the five community cards -- J♥9♦2♦Q♣3♥ -- didn't cooperate and gernas was eliminated in fifth.
Not too long after the remainder four paused the tourney to talk about a deal, with IceStream still way in front with greater than 2 million, fish.Sausa and peterwhooo both within the 400,000-chip range, and warspirit89 fourth with rather less than 260,000. Both "ICM" and "chip chop" figures were presented, each keeping $6,000 back for which to play, and after some discussion it was clear no deal was going to happen, and cards were soon dealt once more.
Play continued, with a key hand coming when fish.Suusa managed a whole double-up through IceStream in a hand that saw both put chips in on all three post-flop streets with IceStream ultimately showing ace-high to fish.Sussa's set of fours. Take a look:
A twinkling of an eye later the blinds were 10,000/20,000 when warspirit89 pushed for 307,028 from under the gun, peterwhooo reraised over that for a bit more, and the others got out. warspirit89 showed A♥3♥ and peterwhooo 7♥7♣, and five cards later -- K♣5♥5♠5♣T♥ -- peterwhooo had an entire house and warspirit89 was out in fourth.
Play continued, then another short pause came to speak about deal possibilities once more, although again no agreement may well be reached.
Then as they crossed the 11-and-a-half-hour mark with the blinds as much as 12,500/25,000, peterwhooo raised to 50,000 from the button, IceStream made it 124,899 to head from the large blind, peterwhoo reraised back to 225,411, IceStream pushed all in for nearly 1.2 million, and peterwhooo called with the 815,873 left.
IceStream: A♥K♠
peterwhooo: A♦Q♣
peterwhooo needed a queen or any other favorable combination of community cards to survive, but if they came jack-high -- 3♠J♠7♣T♠4♣ -- peterwhooo was finished and just two players remained.
That big hand meant IceStream had an important edge chipwise to start out heads-play with 2,260,623 to fish.Suusa's 919,377. IceStream immediately began carving away at fish.Suusa's stack, and after 10 minutes had fish.Suusa down under 200,000.
A few hands after that fish.Suusa had but 46,631 -- a few big blind-and-a-half -- and after posting was calling all in with 3♥2♠ versus IceStream's 9♣8♣. The last board of the night ran out 6♥Q♥9♦3♦4♣, giving fish.Suusa a couple of treys and IceStream a couple of nines, and the Super Tuesday were decided.
Congratulations to IceStream for withstanding another large, tough Super Tuesday field to assert a greater than $120K first prize, probably the most biggest within the event's history!
11/5/13 Super Tuesday ($1,050 No-Limit Hold'em) results
Players: 636
Prize pool: $636,000
Places paid: 72
1. IceStream (Bulgaria) -- $120,204.00
2. fish.Suusa (Czech Republic) -- $88,086.00
3. peterwhooo (Brazil) -- $64,872.00
4. warspirit89 (Germany) -- $48,972.00
5. gernas10 (Ireland) -- $34,344.00
6. filushh (Israel) -- $27,030.00
7. Greenstone25 (Sweden) -- $20,670.00
8. MkMyWishFish (Israel) -- $14,310.00
9. mickl58 (Russia) -- $9,730.80
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Martin Harris is Freelance Contributor to the PokerStars Blog.
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