The Poker Bus

The Rich get Richer on PokerStars

I logged onto pokerstars last night to watch the end of the $1,000 tournament. The prize pool was absolutely crazy. The top three players all received over $100,000, with first place getting $295,000. Two years ago a $20,000 win would be huge, but today it’s only like an average score.

When I opened up poker stars there were about 27 left and about half of them about half of them really well known online > emptyseat88, Genius28, Donald, PearlJammer, FoxyPlayer, ActionJeff, MrteddyKGB, neverwin, who is next, Hoss_TBF and FossilMan. Almost all of these players have won over $100,000 on pokerstars tournaments before this one.

The most LAG person in the tournament was definitely raymer. He was raising, reraising, and calling with what seemed like any two cards. I’d be afraid to raise anything but premium hands against him knowing there’s a good chance he’ll call anything. I can’t say that he was playing perfect though. I don’t know what to make of this hand.

Seat 1: skittles_165 (164414 in chips)
Seat 2: Hoss_TBF (468108 in chips)
Seat 3: FossilMan (637824 in chips)
Seat 4: ActionJeff (489783 in chips)
Seat 5: IgorFederal (213231 in chips)
Seat 6: MrteddyKGB (159203 in chips)
Seat 7: Who is next (150826 in chips)
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IgorFederal: folds
FossilMan said, “shoot! should have played my 83o”
MrteddyKGB: folds
Who is next: folds
skittles_165: folds
Hoss_TBF: raises 15000 to 25000
FossilMan: calls 20000
ActionJeff: raises 75000 to 100000
Hoss_TBF: folds
FossilMan: raises 390000 to 490000
ActionJeff: calls 389283 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [4c 2h 4s]
*** TURN *** [4c 2h 4s] [8s]
Who is next said, “wow”
*** RIVER *** [4c 2h 4s 8s] [9s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
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FossilMan: shows [4d 4h] (four of a kind, Fours)
ActionJeff: shows [Qd Ad] (a pair of Fours)

He was collecting a bunch of chips inbetween hands, but I saw a few hand where if he didn’t win a coinflip or hit a certain card he woulda been out. It was cool that Raymer ended up coming in second and I kind of wanted to see him win it. The hand he got nocked out on was definite WTF? hand:

Seat 1: FossilMan (1343680 in chips)
Seat 6: E-Daddie (3225320 in chips)
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FossilMan: raises 80000 to 120000
E-Daddie: raises 320000 to 440000
FossilMan: raises 901680 to 1341680 and is all-in
E-Daddie: calls 901680
*** FLOP *** [2c Kd Ac]
*** TURN *** [2c Kd Ac] [Ah]
*** RIVER *** [2c Kd Ac Ah] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
E-Daddie: shows [Jc Jh] (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
FossilMan: shows [8d Ts] (a pair of Aces)
E-Daddie collected 2687360 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
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Seat 1: FossilMan (button) (small blind) showed [8d Ts] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 6: E-Daddie (big blind) showed [Jc Jh] and won (2687360) with two pair, Aces and Jacks