PokerStars Tournament Reports - Monday, December 5th, 2005
Jon Eaton
December 5th, 2005
Each weekend, PokerStars.com hosts the biggest prize-pool tournaments online. They have a weekly $200 buy-in no limit event that has over 3,500 entrants regularly. First prize has nearly doubled in the past year, with the winner taking home around $140k now. They have also added a slew of new events, like a $300 no limit Saturday afternoon event, a $200 heads-up matches event, and nightly $150 events.
This weekend started with the $300 No Limit Hold 'Em event Saturday afternoon. 192 entered for a $57,600 prize pool.
1st - jakz101 - $17,280
2nd - UNIKORN - $11,520
3rd - doyojob - $6,854
4th - waynecoal - $4,608
5th - kylebig1982 - $3,744
6th - mysterio6044 - $2,880
7th - Oswaldo - $2,016
8th - $oprano - $1,498
9th - SL6767 - $979
Saturday evening was the $200 Pot Limit Omaha event. Only 25 players entered, but the field was still very stiff. Here are the money finishers:
1st - Townee - $2,500
2nd - fit582 - $1,500
3rd - LUKEY31 - $1,000
Just missing the cut were PokerTrails' own Jeff "The Shrike" Henry and Brett "Gank" Jungblut. BodogAri had the distinction as bubble boy.
The $100 deep stacks event, one of the new events in a daily string of events through the week, drew a field of 303 players. The marathon deep stack final table finally gathered early Sunday morning. Here are the final tablists:
1st - Time4Pizza - $7,575
2nd - Rinehart - $4,848
3rd - TooTall_Pete - $3,636
4th - solidluck - $2,424
5th - Brunomater - $1,818
6th - berg5528 - $1,364
7th - don_o - $1,061
8th - EdgyEddie - $788
9th - big nurse - $515
81 players entered the $200 Limit Hold 'Em event on Saturday evening. Only the final table was paid.
1st - King Charles - $4,860
2nd - AppSt2004 - $3,240
3rd - Kung - $1,944
4th - thopra - $1,620
5th - SHOCKNALL - $1,296
6th - ringpop - $1,053
7th - jleech - $891
8th - NotHelmuth - $729
9th - darrenpb - $567
39 players entered the $200 Stud Hi-Lo event late Saturday night. The following were the money finishers:
1st - Consarn It! - $3,120
2nd - Daffy - $1,872
3rd - CLockwork - $1,248
4th - Player [ F ] - $936
5th - 2POKER2 - $624
On Sunday afternoon, the Tournament Leader Board winner for last week, BeL0WaB0Ve, faced off with Tom McEvoy for the weekly $1,000 freeroll. Tom won the event, meaning that player Karl Marx will face off against Tom for $2,000 this coming Sunday.
The weekly $500k Guaranteed tournament drew 3,545 players. A deal was split when five-handed. The results reflect the deal that left $10,000 for the winner.
1st - madiso - $78,616
2nd - helstokk - $68,616
3rd - spin to win - $68,616
4th - Kid Blaast - $68,616
5th - kevmike - $68,616
6th - vovchik71 - $24,815
7th - skarbiec - $18,434
8th - Manor - $12,762
9th - TaK-47 - $7,657
One of the newer events on PokerStars is the $200 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold 'Em Matches. 128 players (the maximum) entered for a $25,600 prize pool.
1st - N0b0dy - $7,680
2nd - binda - $4,608
3rd - wrxtasy_03 - $2,560
4th - TheKidJNel15 - $2,560
