Each player started out with T150k in chips using the standard T100k blinds schedule. Play started out rather slow with several players arriving late and one player not showing at all. Substitute player Carl W. was a NCNS and will be the first player penalized under the new cancellation policy which awards negative last place points. After the last of the late arriving players arrived, the field settled at 18.
Sean was the first player eliminated after Mike T. limped in early position and Sean looked down at pocket jacks. He raised it to 13k with blinds at 1.5k/3k. It folded back to Mike who re-raised to 45k. Sean re-raised all-in for 46.5k more and Mike insta-called revealing pocket aces. No help came for Sean and he was out.
John M. was the next player to hit the rail after Nick flopped trips, turned a boat and made quads on the river. John's full house was good for 17th place. Kevin was next (out 16th) when he got it all-in with top pair (jacks) on the flop and ran into a buzzsaw in the form of Angie's slow played pocket aces.
"Buffalo" Bill was out 15th when he raised to 16k preflop with blinds at 2k/4k/500. Eric raised to 40k all day and Bill pushed for a total of 76k. Eric called revealing pocket 5's whilst Bill showed pocket 8's. Bill led all the way until the river brought a 4th heart to the board making Eric a flush. Best thing for him, really. His therapy was going nowhere.
Anita was out in 14th place when she limped with pocket kings and ran into the flopped boat of Jason Ta. She was followed by both Jeff R. and Tom W. who were eliminated on the same hand by Mike T. On the hand, Mike's pocket 10's turned a full house to Tom's J-9 and Jeff's pocket queens.
Angie was short stacked and crippled after getting caught trying to steal blinds by Lolly's jack and was out in 11th place on the next hand when her Q-8 was bettered by Nick's Q-9.
Eric burst the final table bubble after calling Nick's all-in, leading and having the river card flush favor from earlier returned to him.
After having her chip stack reduced a few hands earlier at the hand of Jason Ta, Lolly was the first player eliminated from the final table when she moved in blind with 6-2 o/s and was called by Keith. Mike T. was next when he moved all-in for about 130k with Kh-9h. Keith called in the BB with K-Q, matched his queen to the board and sent Mike out in 8th.
Jim O. was out 7th after he found himself short stacked and getting a string of crappy cards. He finally woke up with pocket 4's, but unfortunately he ran into Keith's pocket jacks. Jim was followed by Jason Ta. (out 6th) and the S3E2 bubble boy Kyle H. (out 5th).
Jim H. was eliminated in 4th place after re-raising Jason Tr's 175k raise to 420k and having Nick move all-in behind him. Jason folded and Jim called showing Q-J o/s. Nick turned over pocket 10's which held up and Jim was out.
Jason Tr. was out 3rd when he pushed his short stack in with the Kh-9h and got a caller in Keith who took the pot with ace high.
Nick held a sizeable chip lead over Keith head's up with blinds at 40k/80k/10k and play continued for about 20 minutes until the final hand of the tournament came.
With blinds at a staggering 60k/120k/20k, Nick raised to 370k and Keith moved-in on top for 570k more. Nick called and showed the Ac-10c. Keith turned over the Kd-Qd. Nick led through the 2c-2s-4d flop, but Keith could take the lead with any king, queen or running diamonds. But the 8c turn missed him and took outs away in the form of flush possibilities for his opponent. The Jc river gave Nick the winning flush and his 3rd career FNCPT regular season win.
With the jack of clubs river card, Lolly hit the River Jackpot for $80. A new River Jackpot will start next month.
Congrats to Nick on his win and thanks for everyone who attended S3E2.
~ Jason Tr.
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