bra boy84 takes down PokerStars Twitter Poker League, week 2 |
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Portugal's bra boy84 won the second league event on Sunday besting 2,370 Twitter users to win $376.36 and take top points. Spain's Germán dj won week 1 of the league and now shares first place on the league leaderboard. The league will run for eight-week seasons awarding $25,000 of prizes annually. The Grand Final is scheduled to coincide with WBCOOP and will see PokerStars dish out special prizes for the best Twitter updates and Player of the Year. With a $1.10 buy-in the league tournaments aim to entertain rather than make poker fortunes. @PokerStars provides live updates for each event, and sociable players provide comments using the #tpoker hashtag - you'd be surprised how much hand history you can squeeze into a 140 character update. Bounty-licious @TaniaUncensored I'm out :( KQ suited against 77 and AJs... good luck to all the people who are still in #tpoker!!!! I will keep watching! TaniaSux may have busted in 635th place but she and others were happy to rail the #tpoker tourney as it headed towards the final table. The Final Table JeanGrae was first to bust in unlucky 9th with [Ad][Ks] beaten by Pimir's [Ah][Ts] when he hit a river [Th]. Not much later Pavel1035 made a move, re-raising bra_boy84 with [10c][9c] but bra boy84 was not for folding his [Ah][Tc]. Ace high was all it took to eliminate Pavel1035. Bra boy84 was the busiest player at the table so it was no surprise to see him re-raise Danilo1012 from the big blind. Danilo1012 called for a flop of [Jc][7c][10d]. When Bra boy84 bet Danilo1012 pushed all in with [Kc][Tc], only to be called by bra boy84 who showed [As][Ts]. Danilo1012 hit the flush card [Ac] on the turn to double up. Dinosaur's fight back Bra boy84 briefly lost his lead to Pimir when the pair tussled each holding a pair, but just a few hands later bra boy84 found his only moment of final table danger when all-in with [Ac][8c] he beat Pimir's [3s][3c] He was all set to dominate the final table again. Aq27 was unlucky to run his [Ah][Kd] into FHMack's [Ac][As]. Most of the chips went in pre-flop, aq27 would miss the [7h][5c][8c] flop but came out betting, FHMack wasn't giving up to a re-raise and when cards were on their backs Aq27 would be unsurprised to be out 7th. Dinosaur trouble This gave FHMack the chip lead, although in the next hand bra boy84 would try his best to catch up. Pimir went all-in with [As][Qh] and bra boy84's [Td][Tc] won the coin flip with Pimir out 5th. Then there were 4 Bra_broy84 has good reason to change his name to bra boy62. With [6d][2d] in the big blind he found a full house and was gifted chips from Danilo1012, then next hand his small blind [6c][2d] hit two pair versus FHMack's [Th][Td]. Igor388 played few hands and was forced all-in on the big blind with [Js][9s]. FHMack's small blind [Ad][5c] was too good for him and he was out in 4th. Blind panic There was barely time to note heads-up chips before they were all-in for a hand, but thanks to the magic of PokerStars' Instant Hand History we did manage to preserve them for posterity : Seat 5: bra boy84 (3,111,081 in chips) In just the second hand of heads-up play FHMack raised and was re-raised by bra boy84, but on a [3c][5c][Jc] flop FHmack pushed and bra boy84 quit. The hand levelled things out between the two. Even stevens bra boy84 inched his way to a chip lead yet again while avoiding showdowns or post-worthy hands. Then a raise from bra boy84 and a re-raise from FHMack boosted a pot and the players saw a [8c][7s][Td] flop. FHMack bet and bra boy84 pushed all-in. FHMack called with his [As][Qd] and bra boy84 showed [7d][9d]. A pair of sevens was enough to win the game for bra boy84. Points mean prizes Twitter Poker League Week 2 results (6 -13-10) The Twitter Poker League may have a smaller prize pool than the Sunday Million and fewer players than the ¼ Million, but at just a fortnight old the Twitter Poker League has found plenty of fans. Want to join them? The next game is Sunday June 20th at 14:00 ET.
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