G0T T!LT?'s Got Some Serious Game
G0T T!LT? gobbled up the competition at Poker Stars on Sunday (Credit: Wikipedia)
It's not easy making a final table of any tournament, much less one that is as hotly contested as the Poker Stars Sunday Million. Rare folks make a final table once. It's even rarer still for someone to make the final table of the same event twice. In back-to-back weeks, the feat is virtually unheard of. This past weekend, one person – G0T T!LT? – did just that. Last week, he finished in ninth place at the Poker Stars Sunday Million. This weekend, he took down the whole enchilada. He bested 2,701 other folks in the monthly $535 buy-in of the tournament and took down the top prize of $248,632.G0T T!LT? even faced another online whiz kid heads-up, Tommy2tyme, who won Bodog's $100,000 Guarantee in early November, en route to the championship. Here are the results: 1) G0T T!LT? - $248,632.80 2) Tommy2tyme - $126,412 3) ScAvvY06 - $83,688.80 4) HBHCR - $68,952 5) Oly_B - $55,432 6) poisson13 - $41,912 7) turtlestar - $29,473.60 8) ElFook - $18,657.60 9) DrEskilstuna - $10,816 Full Tilt held its $750,000 Guarantee on Sunday and easily surpassed the guarantee. 4,025 people paid to play, driving up the total prize pool to an impressive $805,000. 585 folks made bank including Aaron Bartley (377th), Ben Roberts (201st), Keith Sexton (126th) and Chris Ferguson, fresh off his WSOPC win in Lake Tahoe (85th). Tim_Rantasha was first out of the final table. IWEARGOGGLES played an aggressive game taking out ELIA in seventh and busting Adar, aka Serge Ravitch, in third place. He entered heads-up play against MotherBucker with almost three times more chips and had the lead going into the final hand. These are the final standings: 1) IWEARGOGGLES - $142,154.95 2) MotherBucker - $86,054.50 3) Adar - $56,350 4) ActionAaron - $44,275 5) boltsva - $33,246.50 6) tschueg - $24,633 7) ELIA - $18,515 8) Egarim - $14,490 9) Tim_Rantasha - $10,787 Party Poker also exceeded its weekly guarantee. 1,611 players entered Sunday's $300,000 Guaranteed generating a $322,200 prize pool. As is usual for final tables at PartyPoker, the action was fast and furious. Within the first half hour, four players hit the rails. At this point, drgnslayer2 held the chip lead. Proving that poker is indeed a fickle mistress, he went from first to the rails in no time flat as MOLYKA crushed him with pocket queens. MOLYKA then claimed vasily777111 in fifth position after making quad threes on the river. Unfortunately, MOLYKA would leave the tournament next, holding big slick in the pocket. During three-handed play, the chip leader would again go down in flames. psykotow's bottom pair couldn't overcome the top pair of wmarjo. His third place finish was good for more than $22,000. In the end, Pahvi won the day without striking a deal. Here are the results: 1) Pahvi - $64,440 2) wmarjo - $35,442 3) psykotow - $22,231.80 4) MOLYKA - $17,559.90 5) vasily777111 - $14,821.20 6) drgnslayer2 - $11,115.90 7) Sem_Deus - $8,538.30 8) PeeGee999 - $5,638.50 9) mendieta19 - $4,349.70 10) pete47eleven - $3,060.90 Ultimate Bet saw 908 entrants on Sunday. This meant the site had to pay out more than $18,000 to meet the $200,000 Guarantee. cooldaddy-1 froze out the competition to take down the title and $45,000. These are the final standings: 1) cooldaddy-1 - $45,000 2) Tomgus456 - $26,500 3) mlabbe22 - $18,000 4) aconsuma - $13,100 5) GoLeafsGoEh - $10,500 6) psmoney - $8,500 7) biggrigg2 - $6,500 8) Rusty_Nail - $4,500 9) McShove - $3,400 10) mkind0516 - $2,000 Bodog also had trouble with attendance on Thanksgiving weekend. 833 peeps paid to play, leaving Calvin Ayre and crew with a $16,700 overlay. THAY3R, aka Thayer Rasmussen, sat in on the action, taking third place in the tournament. However, the day belonged to syzygy3732. He earned $25,000 for his first-place finish. Here are the results: 1) syzygy3732 - $25,000 2) Killa_Tyven - $14,000 3) THAY3R - $9,000 4) manderbutt - $6,500 5) NoShot4U - $5,400 6) daisypower - $4,400 7) naskoxx - $3,400 8) VARNATRADER - $2,400 9) ALYS21 - $1,550