Stu "The Donator" Paterson
Michael Benvenuti, aka WatchOutFish, won $75,855 for his efforts at the Poker Stars Super Tuesday event on March 31, 2009.
389 players made it to the Super Tuesday tourney at Poker Stars earlier this week. This set the first place prize at nearly $76,000. Among those who finished strong but shy of the final table were JP "JP 5-time" Kelly in 10th place ($5,446), James "Andy McLEOD" Obst in 11th, ($5,446), Jamie "TheCronic420" Rosen in 12th ($5,446), Jeff "jeff710" Hakim in 13th ($4,668), Ozenc "ozenc" Demir in 16th ($3,890) and Stu "thedonator" Paterson in 19th ($2,723).
The final table chip counts looked like this going in:
Eric "Ericb09" Blair -- 309,182
Baikal7 -- 166,641
gibler321 -- 132,741
Michael "WatchOutFish" Benvenuti -- 131,667
Jason "JP OSU" Potter -- 101,539
Todd "tbt4653" Terry -- 95,002
M.nosbocaJ -- 88,064
Marc "mysterio6044" Karam -- 79,980
tibyun -- 62,184
Blair hit a rough patch towards the middle of the action and wound up a spectator after the eventual champion Michael “WatchOutFish” Benvenuti took him to task. “Ericb09” hit the rail in fourth place and earned less than half of what he had hoped to for his efforts.
Benvenuti took his gains all the way to heads-up play against gibler321 and held a narrow chip lead over his opponent. He emerged victorious from the heads-up match-up.
Here are the final results:
1) WatchOutFish - $75,855
2) gibler321 - $57,377.50
3) JP OSU - $42,790
4) Ericb09 - $32,676
5) Baikal7 - $22,367.50
6) M.nosbocaJ - $17,505
7) tbt4653 - $13,615
8) mysterio6044 - $9,725
9) tibyun - $6,807.50
Summary: Michael “WatchOutFish” Benvenuti won the Super Tuesday event at Poker Stars after defeating a tough field of 389 strong, including several well-known internet rounders.