Dr_Bump wins Full Tilt Poker Sunday Night Horse

The May 3rd edition of Sunday Night H.O.R.S.E.drew a smaller than normal crowd of 135 player. The prize pool was the normal $30,000 with $9,000 scheduled to go to first place. Several red pros strong in mixed games took a seat in this one including Gavin Smith, Kristy Gazes, S Gromenkova, Scott Clements, and Thomas Bihl.

Marching towards the money, several strong players just fell short of a payday. Allie Prescott finished in 22nd, Aaron Bartley in 20th, dfunks222 in 19th, and TurnRiva in 18th. INTERCEPTOR was hanging around the bottom of the field with four players out of the money, but he managed to cash and finish in 14th. Grrrrmonsta finished in 13th. Thomas Bihl was the only red pro to cash, finishing in 11th lace.

JustinVold made the final table of this event for the 2nd week in a row. Dr_Bump made a return visit to the final, having last gotten here in January. However, it was vengven that entered the final table as chip leader. This is how the final eight started play:

bakku-shan 82,411

phat_cat1 54,092

Barouki Jr 22,805

Dr_Bump 45,184

vengven 84,032

vince vegas1 51,925

MFoti 49,347

JustinVold 15,204

It took a few hands to lose our first player. During Omaha, Dr_Bump raised to 6,000 and Barouki Jr and bakku-shan both made the call. On a Js-9s-Jh flop, action was checked to Dr_Bump, who bet out 3k. Barouki Jr had only 3,791 and moved all-in. Both bakku-shan and Dr_Bump made the call. The turn and river both fell queens and action was checked around on both streets. At showdown, Barouki Jr showed Ac-Ad-7d-2d for aces-up. Bakku-shan mucked and Dr_Bump showed Ah-5h-Jd-8d for trip jacks. Barouki Jr finished in 8th place.

A while later during Razz, JustinVold was down to just 3,804 and called all-in a completion from Dr_Bump. JustinVold was showing a deuce and Dr_Bump a five. MFoti made the call as well with a six up. MFoti caught a four on fourth and bet out and received a call from Dr_Bump who caught a nine. JustinVold caught a four. On fifth, MFoti caught a five and bet out again. Although he caught a six, Dr_Bump elected to fold. JustinVold was actually drawing dead at this point as he held two pair, nines and fours, with a deuce. MFoti already had a made eight. While he didn’t need the improvement, he finished with a six and JustinVold was out in 7th place. Last week JustinVold finished 4th in this event. Not a bad couple of weeks work.

Later during the Razz round, vince vegas was down to just over 3k and was all-in for less than the completion from bakku-shan. Mfoti called along as well. Bakk-shan caught bad on fourth and Mfoti bet him out holding 9-6-5-4. He was well ahead of the Q-J-A-3 of vince vegas. Mfoti made a nine in five to a queen from vince vegas1. On sixth, vince vegas1 had outs an eight to outdraw MFoti, but the river brought him a jack and vince vegas finished in 6th.

The river was cruel to MFoti during Stud. He started the hand with 50,269 and was dealt split aces with a king. He and vengven capped the betting on third with vengven showing an ace as well. MFoti check-called bets from vengven on fourth and fifth. However, on sixth MFoti check-raised all-in for his last 14k. Vengven made the call and MFoti discovered that both players started with split aces with a king. Vengven was actually behind at this point. MFoti had a queen kicker to his aces with king and vengven had a ten kicker. However, he did have a flush draw as well. The river was a disaster for MFoti. He missed on the river and vengven caught a king to make kings-up, take down a 105k pot, and knock out MFoti in 5th place.

Bakku-shan got hyper aggressive with split sevens during Stud and it cost him. He raised on third after phat_cat1 completed with an ace. Phat_cat then check-called a bet on fourth. On fifth, phat_cat decided to check raise and bakku-shan decided to move all-in. Bakku-shan held split sevens with J-9-6. Phat_cat1 held split aces with J-6-5. Neither player improved their hand and bakku-shan was out in 3rd.

Phat_cat took a bit of a cooler to end his tourney. Vengven, Dr_Bump, and phat-cat1 all limped in on third during Stud 8. On fourth, Dr_Bump bet out 6k and both his opponents made the call. On fifth, phat_cat1 caught an open pair but checked. It was likely due to vengven showing three low cards on board. Action was checked around, and then action was again checked around on sixth. At the river, phat_cat1 decided to bet out 12k. Vengven raised to 24k and Dr_Bump laid it down. Phat_cat only had 19,233 left and decided to put the rest of his chips in. Vengven made the call. Phat_cat1 showed A-K-2 for deuces-full. Unfortunately for him, vengven showed 10-10-4 in the hole for tens-full and we were heads-up.

Vengven started heads-up play up 240k to the 164k of Dr_Bump. Vengven offered an even chop but Dr_Bump only wanted to do so if he was in the lead so he could get the win. Vengven offered to chop and leave 1k to play for, but this didn’t seem to interest Dr_Bump. Play continued until Dr_Bump squeaked into the chip lead. Once there, he instantly wanted to do a deal but at first didn’t appear to want to do an even chop. Vengven rejected a couple of lopsided deals. Dr_Bump attempted to setup a chop leaving 1k to play for but was unable to work out how to setup the 1k to play for. Finally, he decided to do the even chop and both players instantly accepted. Both players walked away with $7,000 and the tournament was over.

Dr_Bump officially walks away the winner of Sunday Night HORSE after a strong final table run. He started the final 6th in chips but was able to chip up to make it heads-up and walk away the winner. Congratulations.