Texas Holdem Poker

Sunday’s weekly Texas Holdem Poker Sunday Million Event at Pokerstars is once a month with a $500 buy in. It drew very well with a prize pool of over $1.5 million. Here, the Texas holdem poker action is down to the final four where the players agreed to a chop that left $30,000 to the winner. Player ‘usourcek‘ would only agree to the deal if he was given an extra $5,000. Chip leader at the time, ‘annekechillo‘ agreed to take $5,000 out of his cut to calm ‘usourcek’ and the deal was finalized. The numbers are below.

StaffBryanS [Host]: usourcek: $125,000
StaffBryanS [Host]: annekechillo: $196,750
StaffBryanS [Host]: tayballer: $126,070
StaffBryanS [Host]: hotmark777: $121,175

Play continued and a big hand quickly came up with player annekechillo getting all of hotmark777 ’s chips in the pot with pocket threes against Ace high for a race. The outcome didn’t go annekechillo ’s way.

PokerStars Game #15536821205: Tournament #77290333, $500+$30 Hold’em No Limit – Level XXXII (100000/200000) – 2008/02/25 – 04:18:34 (ET)
Table ‘77290333 283′ 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: usourcek (3262165 in chips)
Seat 2: annekechillo (13273911 in chips)
Seat 4: tayballer (8401976 in chips)
Seat 7: hotmark777 (6931948 in chips)
usourcek: posts the ante 20000
annekechillo: posts the ante 20000
tayballer: posts the ante 20000
hotmark777: posts the ante 20000
hotmark777: posts small blind 100000
usourcek: posts big blind 200000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
annekechillo: raises 400000 to 600000
tayballer: folds
hotmark777: raises 1177777 to 1777777
usourcek: folds
annekechillo: raises 11476134 to 13253911 and is all-in
hotmark777: calls 5134171 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Jd Ts 4c]
*** TURN *** [Jd Ts 4c] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [Jd Ts 4c Qc] [Qs]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
hotmark777: shows [Ah Kd] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
annekechillo: shows [3d 3s] (two pair, Queens and Threes)
hotmark777 collected 14103896 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 14103896 | Rake 0
Board [Jd Ts 4c Qc Qs]
Seat 1: usourcek (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: annekechillo showed [3d 3s] and lost with two pair, Queens and Threes
Seat 4: tayballer (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: hotmark777 (small blind) showed [Ah Kd] and won (14103896) with a straight, Ten to Ace

Annekechillo again got all the money in preflop, this time with King/Jack off against usourcek’s Ace/Nine.

PokerStars Game #15536852267: Tournament #77290333, $500+$30 Hold’em No Limit – Level XXXII (100000/200000) – 2008/02/25 – 04:22:37 (ET)
Table ‘77290333 283′ 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: usourcek (3302165 in chips)
Seat 2: annekechillo (5141963 in chips)
Seat 4: tayballer (7981976 in chips)
Seat 7: hotmark777 (15443896 in chips)
usourcek: posts the ante 20000
annekechillo: posts the ante 20000
tayballer: posts the ante 20000
hotmark777: posts the ante 20000
annekechillo: posts small blind 100000
tayballer: posts big blind 200000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
hotmark777: folds
usourcek: raises 3082165 to 3282165 and is all-in
annekechillo: calls 3182165
tayballer: folds
*** FLOP *** [7d 4d 4h]
*** TURN *** [7d 4d 4h] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [7d 4d 4h Td] [Th]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
annekechillo: shows [Jc Kh] (two pair, Tens and Fours)
usourcek: shows [9d Ac] (two pair, Tens and Fours – Ace kicker)
usourcek collected 6844330 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6844330 | Rake 0
Board [7d 4d 4h Td Th]
Seat 1: usourcek (button) showed [9d Ac] and won (6844330) with two pair, Tens and Fours
Seat 2: annekechillo (small blind) showed [Jc Kh] and lost with two pair, Tens and Fours
Seat 4: tayballer (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: hotmark777 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)

The bad luck didn’t stop there as annekechillo put his tournament at risk with, once again, pocket threes. This time, however, ran into pocket jacks, which ended the player’s impressive run.

PokerStars Game #15536869233: Tournament #77290333, $500+$30 Hold’em No Limit – Level XXXII (100000/200000) – 2008/02/25 – 04:24:51 (ET)
Table ‘77290333 283′ 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: usourcek (7622107 in chips)
Seat 2: annekechillo (1579798 in chips)
Seat 4: tayballer (7061976 in chips)
Seat 7: hotmark777 (15606119 in chips)
usourcek: posts the ante 20000
annekechillo: posts the ante 20000
tayballer: posts the ante 20000
hotmark777: posts the ante 20000
annekechillo: posts small blind 100000
tayballer: posts big blind 200000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
hotmark777: raises 277777 to 477777
usourcek: folds
annekechillo: raises 1082021 to 1559798 and is all-in
tayballer: folds
hotmark777: calls 1082021
*** FLOP *** [5h 4s 9c]
*** TURN *** [5h 4s 9c] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [5h 4s 9c Td] [5d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
annekechillo: shows [3c 3d] (two pair, Fives and Threes)
hotmark777: shows [Jd Jh] (two pair, Jacks and Fives)
hotmark777 collected 3399596 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3399596 | Rake 0
Board [5h 4s 9c Td 5d]
Seat 1: usourcek (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 2: annekechillo (small blind) showed [3c 3d] and lost with two pair, Fives and Threes
Seat 4: tayballer (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: hotmark777 showed [Jd Jh] and won (3399596) with two pair, Jacks and Fives

Shot stacked usourcek ran and ended up making the improbable run to victory and took down the extra $30,000. The final numbers ended this way:

usourcek: $155,000
hotmark777: $121,175
tayballer: $126,070
annekechillo: $196,750
PokerTov: $62, 465
backmanslivs: $46,212
HissiProppen: $33,464
cnew27: $21,034
sami31: $12,429

Keep in mind, the final four players made a deal based on equity when they were at four players.