Twitter Poker League: Zarte Elfe takes the tourney, Taketime takes the league

While 21,380 players whooped up the big money WCOOP action on Sunday night, 1,622 Twitter players paid the more modest $1.10 Twitter Poker League buy-in and got ready to play for cash prizes, league points, and all-important Twitter bragging rights.  

The top league players have every reason to play each week, and league leader Monyarrasco has missed just the one game this season; but she didn't find her stride this time and would never boast more than average chips. Our Twitter tourney reporter tweeted news of her 397^th place exit when her [Ac][2s] was called by stottmack with [5h][2c]. A five on the flop was enough to end her tourney with just 1 league point won for the appearance.

League high-flyers taketime (3^rd), Smola37 (6^th) and TUZEX (8^th) would have a better day and increase their leaderboard tally, all three reached the money spots.

The Twitter Tourney tweeter must have had her calculator at the ready, she tweeted that taketime's new score put him in joint first place, pointing out, "Of course a final table will give him the decisive lead."

Taketime was closer to the bottom of the chip rankings than the top for most of the tournament, so the final table looked unlikely. Then a classic coin flip pair of nines flipped his way and he beat Zarte Elfe's ace king. This was enough to keep him going longer than any of his league rivals, TUZEX would finish 112^th and a good performance from Smola37 who finished 19^th.

Faith in the poker gods

No one can win a poker tournament without a hand or two seeming to prove the existence of the poker gods.  Taketime found a pretty hand that might make him believe in hold'em miracles.  Frozenkex was on the small blind with [Qd][Jd] and taketime in the big with [Ac][7d]. You could say the [Qh][7c][7h] flop hit them both. Well the [Qc] turn hit Frozenkex harder. Who would be most eager to fling their chips into play? It would be taketime when he saw the [7s] river. Frozenkeg couldn't get out of that one. The quads won taketime a pot that would sent him to heavenly heights joining the tourney chip leaders.

AHL_777 gained a monster lead as the tourney whittled its way to three tables. There was a big stack on big stack challenge when AHL_777's nut flush took on chip leader zzp600's trip kings. Then AHL_777 would built on his lead when his [Th][Tc] ran into two player's ace kings, radeczky and sandro1703 the players with the 'snap' hands. AHL_777 would hit a [Ts] to hammer home the win and eliminate both players.

Taketime might have had his share of luck with the quads, but he couldn't win anything much in the hands that followed. As the final table approached, he looked in danger of bubble elimination.  It would eventually be ivanes_84 who went out in the dreaded 10^th place.  Ivanes_84 pushed all-in with [Th][Td] and Zarte Elfe was in a position to call with [4h]4c] . The [4d] was the first card out, Zarte Elfe would find a full house, and head to the final table as the chip leader.

Final table chips were as follows:

Seat 1: Zarte Elfe (534541 in chips)

Seat 2: Tevanyannnnn (200840 in chips)

Seat 3: Eyal_A (257310 in chips)

Seat 4: SLDC (316616 in chips)

Seat 5: Grigori5 (126174 in chips)

Seat 6: AHL_777 (461042 in chips)

Seat 7: legioner93 (344400 in chips)

Seat 8: taketime (86885 in chips)

Seat 9: Rhodan_xx (105192 in chips)

 

The final table must have been taketime's aim as no matter where he placed he would win enough points to take the league top spot from Monyarassco. This was just as well, he came to the final table as the short stack.

 

However the new league leader wouldn't be first one out, that would be grigori5, who made a move with [Ad][Jh] and couldn't beat Tevanyannnnn's [As][Kh]. 

 

Taketime would move all-in with [As][9d] and legioner93 took him on with[Kh][Qd]. It was a cruel way to go, with [4d][8d][Ah][Ad] taketime was looking good, but count those diamonds... The [7d] on the river gave legioner93 the flush and taketime would finish in 8^th place.

 

Eyal be out next

Eyal_A had few chips, saw an ace and made the obvious move. His [Ac][2h] was taken on by legioner93 with [Kd][Tc]. Legioner93 hit a king, and Eyal_A took $43.79 prize money for 7^th place.

Rhodan_xx had one of those hands that are near-impossible to get away from, his [Ac][Kc] ran into Zarte Elfe's [Ah][As] and it was all over, finishing  6^th.

 

Two for the price of one

 

Zarte Elfe would use those chips he'd won effectively, taking on both Tevanyannnnn and AHL_777 when they moved all-in in a hand. Tevanyannnnn was playing [8h][8s] and AHL_777 [9c][9s] but Zarte Elfe's [Ah][Kc] would hit a straight and eliminate two players in one hand. Down to three players in double bust-out quick-time.

 

This big win made  Zarte Elfe our first tourney millionaire, he  played 1,461,708 chips, legioner93 had 681,630 and SLDC 289,662.

 

SLDC raised [Th][Td] and legioner93 called to see a [6h][2c][Ah] flop. SLDC bet out and called when legioner93 re-raised. A [3d] turn, and SLDC check-called to see the [8s] river. SLDC must have known bravado was his best chance of winning the hand, his  all-in push on the river gave legioner93 pause for thought, but he wouldn't  fold his winning [Ac][7c]. SLDC was out and we were heads-up.

 

 

Heads-up  chips were even-ish:

 

Zarte Elfe: 1,288,708

legioner93:  1,144,292

 

 

 There were some early skirmishes but no momentum was gained by either player, and the final hand came down to a battle of the kickers.  A raise from Zarte Elfe, who continued to bet on the [Tc][3d][2c] flop. Legioner93 re-raised and  Zarte Elfe moved all-in. Neither player was folding top pair... Zarte Elfe was winning with [Td][7h] and legioner93 couldn't catch-up with his [Ts][5h].

 

Congratulations to Zarte Elfe who collected $260.53 for his win. It was Zarte Elfe's first try in the Twitter Poker League, and with six tourneys played he's in 19^th place on the leaderboard.  We hope he'll be back to claim more points.

 

The Twitter Poker League spreadsheet has finished its complex calculations; a fresh league leaderboard is now ready for inspection.

 

Top league players are as follows:  

 

Twitter Poker League Leaderboard - Week 6 (09-05-10)

taketime - 38

monyarrasco - 32                 

alytus73 - 29                 

Smola37 - 29

TUZEX - 27

fiv31 - 26

Roucous - 26

firebreather - 25

Tevanyannnnn - 24

customm123 - 23

 

Credit to Taketime won the first tourney of the season (link:  http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/2010/twitter-poker-league-taketime-takes-down-072018.html ), cashed last week, and has now found a second Twitter Poker League final table. There are two league tourneys before the season ends, we'll see if he can hold on to the lead to claim the big win.

If you want to know more about the Twitter Poker League our handy website is the place to go. If you want to follow PokerStars on Twitter we'll be happy to see you there.  That's it for now, have yourself a good week of tweeting, poker, and/or poker
Posted originally: 2010-09-08 18:35:27