2the916k wins Sunday Night H.O.R.S.E.

The May 16th edition of Sunday Night H.O.R.S.E. has a smaller than normal crowd of 125 runners looking to take down the largest weekly HORSE tourney on Full Tilt Poker. The prize pool was the typical $30,000 with $9,000 going to first place.

Only six Full Tilt Poker red pros took part in the event with Diego Cordovez being the only player to finish in the money. Cordovez finished in 13th. The other notable to finish in the money but not make the final table was Kevin “kice32” Iacofano who finished in 11th place. Dainiux and Kaluminati both returned to the final table this week but it was Zeta Beta Zeta that was chip leader heading into the final table. This is how the final eight players stacked up:

Pnutbrain 27,732
Dainiux 48,315
JoaoMATHIAS 24,526
The witt 72,509
Indariva 9,040
Zeta Beta Zeta 101,484
Kaluminati 40,008
2the916k 51,386

Pnutbrain lost about half of his stack in the first hand of the final table. He then decided to commit his last 11k in chips the very next hand during Razz. He was all-in on fifth street holding 8-8-4-3-A and faced a made eight-six from Zeta Beta Zeta. Pnutbrain made an 8-7 low on sixth, but needed to improve in order to outdraw Zeta Beta Zeta. The river brought pnutbrain a queen and he was out in 8th place.

Indariva managed a couple of double-ups to survive, but still wound up finishing in 7th. He put his stack at risk on third street of Stud with split queens and ran into the split kings of Kaluminati. Indariva failed to improve and Kaluminati improved to kings-up to send indariva out in 7th.

Heading into Stud Hi-Lo with bets of 6k and 12k, joaoMATHIAS held a 36k stack. He picked up split aces and decided to go to war with the hand. 2the916k picked up split fours with an eight and picked up trip fours by fifth street. JoaoMATHIAS was all-in by 5th with the split aces he started with. On sixth, he picked up a flush draw, but was drawing dead on the river when 2the916k filled up. JoaoMATHIAS was out in 6th place.

A few hands later Zeta Beta Zeta was all-in on sixth street with eights-up and an eight low draw. 2the916k called with a made eight –low and a flush draw. 2the916k hit his flush draw on the river and Zeta Beta Zeta failed to improve to finish in 5th place.

The very next hand, Kaluminati bet every street to sixth street with a lone ace. On sixth, he picked up a pair of kings and moved all-in. Unfortunately for him, the witt caught trip threes on sixth. The river failed to bring Kaluminati another king and he finished in 4th place.

Dainiux was down to 22k during Holdem and put 16k of that in the pot pre-flop. He then moved all-in on a flop of Ac-8d-6s holding just K-Q. 2the916k flopped a pair of sixes with his 6-5 and made the call. The turn brough a pair of eights on board and a river king, queen, or ace would give Dainiux the pot. The river fell the 9h and Dainiux was out in 3rd.

At the start of heads-up play, 2the916k held a 210,155 to 164,845 chip lead over the witt. The two decided to chop the prize money and leave $1,000 to play for. 2the916k took $7,163.49 and the witt $6,836.51 in the chop. Heads-up play continued for a while following with both players holding the chip lead at some point. Finally, the witt was ground down to his last 8k in chips during Omaha 8 or better and they all went in for the blinds. The final hand saw the witt holding Kh-Ks-Qd-Jd against the Kd-Qh-Js-8c for 2the916k. The flop brought 2the916k a pair of jacks and the turn gave him jacks-up. The river failed to improve the witt and 2the916k became our champion.

After the chop, 2the916k took home $8,163.49 and the coveted Sunday Night HORSE title. He started third in chips and stayed near the top of the leader board the entire final table. When it mattered, he took charge and took down the title. Congratulations to 2the916k, Sunday Night HORSE champion.