May MTT Winners Board

Looks like I will kick off the board again this month. Had the chip lead late in this one but I will take 2nd....

PokerStars Tournament #48888298, Limit Omaha Hi/Lo
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
126 players
Total Prize Pool: $1260.00
Tournament started - 2007/05/03 - 20:30:00 (ET)

Dear bryan24,

You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
A $245.70 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 159.60 tournament leader points in this tournament.

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Hellmuth's Kids River D Rat / Bryan24

Sep-Oct Sunday League Champs
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1st Place THF League March06, May06, Feb07,Sep-Oct07

2nd Place THF League April06, June06, November06, December06

I'm not playing it.

PokerStars Tournament #48880308, No Limit Hold'em
Super Satellite
Buy-In: 500 FPP
337 players
Total Prize Pool: $1685.00
Target Tournament #48834012 Buy-In: $135.00
12 tickets to the target tournament

Tournament started - 2007/05/05 - 22:05:00 (ET)

Dear FinK22,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
You qualified to play in Tournament #48834012 and are automatically
registered for it.
See Tournament #48834012 Lobby for further details.

You really have to appriciate stupid people. 14 left and 12 get the $$$ (I wasn't in danger... had folded KK, QQ, QQ the past 10 hands). 3 stacks are just at or under 10,000 and the 2 that busted out each had well over 30K. One called all-in with TT against a big stacks 37s and the big stack flushed the flop... the other was checked to in the BB with T9 and was unfortunate enough to see a 994 flop when a big stack limped with 44. You may say it was understandable for him to stick around for all his chips but why bother? A 60K stack doesn't win you any more than a 30K stack does, blinds were at 2000/4000, three shortstacks and the shortest (8000) would have been in the 4000 BB the very next hand. Risking $215 when there is nothing to gain... gotta love the idiots.

BTW, I had an amazing run of luck in this one. I accidentally had registered for a different MTT under my super-secret account and got one of those pop ups in my chat window saying "500 FPP to Sunday Million starts in 8 minutes" when we were 45 minutes or so into the MTT so I relogged as FinK, registered then went back and continued my tourny... busted out of that while the FPP tourny was on 1st break so I logged in and was happy to see I still had 925 chips left. Couple orbits of bad hands and I was down to right around 500 and was checked to in the BB with 82, checked the 842 flop and the 2 on the river and had two people flush the river to triple me up. 10 hands later after flopping 2 sets and flopping a flush I was up to 10K

PokerStars Tournament #48887735, No Limit Hold'em Rebuys
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
1269 players
Total Prize Pool: $49770.00
Tournament started - 2007/04/30 - 16:00:00 (ET)
Tournament finished - 2007/04/30 - 22:50:42 (ET)

You finished in 27th place for $224


PokerStars Tournament #48888649, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
717 players
Total Prize Pool: $7170.00
Tournament started - 2007/05/05 - 21:15:00 (ET)
Tournament finished - 2007/05/06 - 00:57:31 (ET)

You finished in 3rd place for $659.65

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Steven ["Toothlus"] Vorholt

Good deal, 2nd straight takedown in this tourny. 1000 FPPs into $430, forgot how much I like the sats to the $215's

PokerStars Tournament #49450001, No Limit Hold'em
Super Satellite
Buy-In: 500 FPP
336 players
Total Prize Pool: $1680.00
Target Tournament #49445990 Buy-In: $135.00 (dunno what this means, it was to the Sunday Million and I of course received $215 T$)
12 tickets to the target tournament

Tournament started - 2007/05/07 - 22:05:00 (ET)

Dear FinK22,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
You qualified to play in Tournament #49445990 and are automatically
registered for it.
See Tournament #49445990 Lobby for further details.

If you choose to unregister from this tournament your account will be
credited
with $215.00 Tournament dollars. Tournament dollars can be used to buy
into
any tournament.

Had AA cracked by AK in a monster pot (45,000) which would have guarenteed my win with 5 left to be knocked out leaving me with 5000 chips at 1500/3000. Won this coinflip in a nice fashion and a couple blind steals kept me above the shortstacks for the win

huh? im confused. how could you win that hand? looks like their is a higher straight on the board

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THFSOP Event #4 Champion
THFSOP Event #8 Champion
THFSOP Event #10 Champion

Current count: 3 Bracelets

its hard to see, but fink made the strait flush

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2007 THFSOP LIMIT HOLD' EM CHAMPION

Actually, it's that villain has the King high flush...Fink has the 8 high straight flush

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1st place, March/April 2008 Sunday League

Fault always lies in the same place, my fine babies: with him weak enough to lay blame.

Keep em rolling Fink and Steven

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PokerStars Tournament #49447014, Limit Razz
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
40 players
Total Prize Pool: $400.00
Tournament started - 2007/05/08 - 16:45:00 (ET)

Dear J0NAH,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $180.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 127.17 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/tlb_tournament_rankings.html


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.


OK, only 40 in it but it took me 3 and a half hours playing "THE REAL MAN'S GAME" - ended up doing a split with the player in 2nd so got $145 each not the $180 my email says.

p.s. that was my first MTT win!!