Bluff Mag Player Strikes Internet Gold Again
October 28 (Credit: Wikipedia)
Last week, Chris “BluffMagCV” Vaughn won the Full Tilt $1 Million Guaranteed. This week, he worked his magic over at PokerStars, using the online handle SlippyJacks. 2,617 folks paid to play at the Sunday Million on October 28, 2007. 414 of them made bank, including the final nine, each of whom was guaranteed a five-figure payday in the $530 buy-in tournament. SlippyJacks knocked the first two players out of the final table. Then, he struck again, clipping the wind out of yeamanyeaman's sails in fifth place. He then took all the remaining players out of the competition, including blanconegro, who had a 2-to-1 lead when heads-up play began. Here are the final results: 1) SlippyJacks — $240,633.15 2) blanconegro — $122,344.75 3) forcewithme9 — $80,996.15 4) PerPer — $66,733.50 5) yeamanyeaman — $53,648.50 6) LuckyLady519 — $40,563.50 7) domingo32 — $28,525.30 8) MrKorvOla — $18,057.30 9) Hasn82 — $10,468 Full Tilt's $750,000 Guarantee fell $3,200 short of that goal. The site put up the cash for the 3,734 players in attendance. FTP pros who cashed in the event included Erica Schoenberg (469), Chris Ferguson (399), Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby (361), Chip Jett (233) and his lovely wife, Karina (295). Hendon Mob-ber, Ram Vaswani, was the top pro in the field, taking down the 192nd spot. mSobeJim let FastEddie267 knock out most of the competition. That is, until he snuffed out rash123's tournament life in fourth place, taking a chunk of Eddie's cash with him. Eddie would then lose his shirt to moneytree09 three-handed, paving the way for mSobeJim to take the top spot and the $132,787.50 payday. These are the final table facts, folks: 1) mSobeJim — $132,787.50 2) moneytree09 — $80,250 3) FastEddie267 — $52,500 4) rash123 — $41,400 5) OneOfTheseDays — 31,050 6) tsarrast — $23,025 7) Dasassassin — $17,250 8) NewSeptember — $13,500 9) Frenchie64 — $10,050 869 people paid to play at UltimateBet's $200,000 Guarantee. The site, which is the online home to Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari had to shell out over $26,000 to meet the total. That was about the same amount as the take for second place. Regardless, johne147 and G0 F1SH valiantly battled for the top spot. In the end, the F1SH went for a swim and received $27,000 for his efforts. Here are the final results: 1) johne147 – $45,000 2) G0 F1SH – $27,000 3) maddmike – $18,500 4) laughatthis – $13,000 5) skiboy1 – $11,000 6) broodogg – $9,000 7) takemehigher – $7,000 8) MMZentner – $5,000 9) 2GR84U2 – $3,500 10) jerkstore_ - $2,000 Bodog also had attendance troubles. The site saw only 774 players on Sunday for the $100,000. Calvin Ayre and crew put up $22,600. Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin was the biggest name at the final table. The online player faced BlueFare, the eventual champ, heads-up, taking home nearly $15,000 for his play. These are the final table facts, folks: 1) BlueFlare — $25,000 2) basebaldy — $14,300 3) vita500 — $9,200 4) NippleFlipper — $6,900 5) Joe McGuire — $5,500 6) sfish513 — $4,500 7) J Lew — $3,500 8) PokerKaiser — $2,500 9) northwest888 — $1,600 Finally, the peeps at PartyPoker added a bit of a gift to their prize pool - $3,400 in an overlay to match the $300,000 Guarantee. 1,483 players benefited from the site's generosity, especially the 200 who made some moolah for their gameplay. Redragon63 was the first elimination of the final table. tipexmum took the third spot, leaving the final two players dead-even in chips. This led to one heads-up hand. After which, tibzen and bagetak agreed to split the remaining prize pool, effectively ending the competition. Here are the final results: 1) bagetak — $46,842.25 2) tibzen — $46,157.76 3) tipexmum — $20,700 4) ISplashFunds — $16,350 5) connieoffski — $13,800 6) CatenaccioMS — $10,350 7) Mariatik — $7,950 8) Ananasbrus — $5,250 9) lullipoker — $4,050 10) redragon63 — $2,850