KANNONEPLAYA wins Sunday Night H.O.R.S.E.

The April 11th edition of Sunday Night H.O.R.S.E. Poker hit its guarantee exactly as 150 players showed up to try their hand at this weekly HORSE Poker classic. The typical $9,000 was paid for first with 16 players paid. None of the Full Tilt red pros made the money in this event, but Cyndy Violette tried her hardest to. She finished just shy of the money in 21st.

Those that made the money but failed to make the final table included TurnRiva in 16th, Brandon “BrandonPL” Leeds in 15th and grrrrmonsta in 9th. Jim Kilarjian screen name “WinnerFish” headed into the final table as chip leader but Kaluminati was right on his tail. Here are how the final eight started play:

WinnerFish 86,089

Nicolak 48,281

SamENole 76,012

pokertrip 26,939

FOsubliminaLD 45,694

areastm_19 33,860

KANNONEPLAYA 49,668

Kaluminati 83,457

It only took five hands to lose our first player. Pokertrip moved all-in on fifth during Razz with a queen with a redraw to a six. KANNONEPLAYA made the call with a ten and a redraw to a perfect six. Pokertrip improved to a nine on sixth street, but KANNONEPLAYA caught his perfect six on the river and pokertrip was our 8th place finisher.

WinnerFish started the final table as chip leader. In one of the biggest collapses that we have seen in recent memory, WinnerFish bled off some of his stack and then lost a huge Stud 8 pot when he tried to force areastm_19 out with just a pair of deuces. Areastm_19 had a low straight draw and outdrew the deuces to leave WinnerFish with just 2,169 chips. He put them at risk a couple of hands later with split sixes against Areastm_19, who held buried aces. WinnerFish finished with sixes-up, but Areastm_19 caught a pair of fours to give himself aces-up and WinnerFish left in 7th place.

A few hands later, FOsubliminaLD decided to go to war with his 25k stack with split eights and a backdoor eight-low draw. Kaluminati made the call with just a draw to an eight low, but with an ace. Kaluminati proceeded to catch an ace for a pair of aces on fifth and then caught his eight low on sixth. FOsubliminaLD failed to improve and was out in 6th.

SamENole lost most of his 48k stack in Holdem when his open ended draw failed to crack the aces of Nicolak. This left SamENole with just 231 chips and they were all in the next hand in the big blind. KANNONEPLAYA raised everyone out and ran Kd-10h against the Jh-8d of SamENole. The flop gave SamENole a straight draw, but that draw failed to improve. The river brought a straight for KANNONEPLAYA and SamENole was out in 5th.

For some unknown reason, Nicolak decided to cap the betting pre-flop during Holdem to put himself all-in with Kh-5s. Kaluminati called with Ac-10s. An ace on the turn left Nicolak drawing dead and we were down to three.

Areastm_19 put most of his 59,818 stack in during Omaha and then raised all-in on a flop of Ac-8s-2h. KANNONEPLAYA made the call and held Ad-Kd-Js-2d against the Ah-2h-8d-6d of areastm_19. Areastm_19 had top two and the only low draw at the time. However, the turn Kc gave KANNONEPLAYA the lead for high and the river Qc sealed the deal and sent areastm_19 out in 3rd.

Starting heads-up play, KANNONEPLAYA held a 289,205 to 160,795 lead over Kaluminati. Kaluminati was down to just 60k a couple of time, but kept roaring back and actually held the chip lead briefly. Finally, the game switched to Razz and the stacks were nearly dead even. The two decided to even chop and draw an end to the tournament. Both received $7,500 for a tournament well played. KANNONEPLAYER had a 4,000 chip lead over Kaluminati at the time of the deal and was declared the champion. Sadly both could not be awarded the title this week as there could be only one winner. Both played a fantastic game and can be proud of the effort they put forth.