Once again, the DDR warriors assembled, and once again, a battle ensued. At 7 o’clock, we all were fresh, ready for another fun tournament, happily drinking and shooting the shit about this that, and the other. By 11, we were bleary-eyed, tired of exchanging blows. The final round was $1000/$2000 round, when DoctorLove and Coopzilla finally ended the evening.
Our crew began short-handed again, starting at two tables with 10 players. Kattaclysm, a founding father of the Deuce Deuces was absent from the evening, and Dice Man had some family things to deal with. We all wish the best for our pal Dice Man, and hope he can return to us and give us the rest of his money.
On the black table we had DoctorLove, CMoney, SunshinesBitch (eventually, being 30 minutes late, but even bringing Sunshine herself), Mojo and Coopzilla. On the red we had Motown, Meat Sock, StillNotFat, Jodizzle, and the Canuck.
During one of the quietest rebuys we’ve seen for quite a while, the black table seemed very hushed. It wasn’t until the 2nd round of the evening where we dropped our first rebuy with the red table following quickly after. The night had a final total of 8 rebuys, split evenly between the two tables.
A few of the highlights from the Black table included a 3 way all in festival between Coopzilla, CMoney and Mojo. Mojo, in an attempt to take the 22 bonus, had limped pre-flop, and Coopzilla had called behind him with K8s. CMoney, in a position to make a big stack jumped jammed with AKo, getting called by both players. The flop gave no help, but the turn 8 put Coopzilla in the lead, and the river kept him there. Rebuy for CMoney!
His second rebuy came at the end of the rebuy period, where he got the chance to put Q6 to the test against Mojo’s 55. Mojo’s 5s held, and CMoney ended the rebuy period with $0 in chips, and some ground to make up.
After the break, and the tables joined, Mojo took the first blood. On a hand that can only be described as “fucking improbable as all hell,” the hand started with 6 players in for the blind. Mojo looked down at Ts8d and checked down the option to raise out of the blind. The flop came AsKs9d, and remarkably, all 6 players checked it down. The turn brought the Qs, and TheCanuck started out the betting with a $200 bet. Mojo, Coopzilla, and SunshinesBitch all called it down. The river brought the Js. The Canuck came out with an interesting $200 bet again, and Mojo made it $1200 to go. Coopzilla then re-raised (with what Coop?) to $2400, and in miracle of all miracles, SunshinesBitch raised again to $4K. The Canuck folded, and Mojo, figuring he had to see at least one caller, pushed all in. Coopzilla started paying attention and folded. SunshinesBitch had the 9 of spades, and couldn’t let it go (I couldn’t have either buddy…)
After nearly two full blind levels, it seemed like CMoney couldn’t catch a break. He’d get a cheap look at a flop with 88, or AJ, and watch the flop completely miss him, and people left and right betting all over the place, all the while dropping his stack further and further down. Eventually he got down to $3250, and pushed in the $200/$400 round. As the bounty, he never had a prayer. He gave it a show with 98s, a damned respectable hand to try with, but got caught by Motown with K6s. The turn gave Motown a pair of 6s, and that was all she wrote for CMoney.
After brutalizing Mojo with the Firedrill on a Q high board (that turned two 2s), Meatsock walked into the shit, as Mojo pushed all in with AKo on his big blind. Meatsock called off his chips with AJo, and found himself on the bad end of being dominated (normally, he digs being dominated, but not in poker.) That hand seemed to be the bit of destruction for him, as Mojo caught a river straight against him, and eventually, Coopzilla did the same to knock him out in 8th place.
Next to go was one of the favorites for the top spot in the tourney. Jodizzle had bled herself down terribly, first in the rebuy (where she apparently couldn’t win a hand for shit), and then just in the regular bit. She survived once, doubling up to $8K during the $300/$600 round (in a race against StillNotFat, when SNF’s 77 got counterfeited by the board), but she couldn’t survive another one. In an attempt to pull off the “Canadian Aces” maneuver, she went all in with 22 on the button, only to walk into the Canadian himself who held TT. 4-1 odds against treated her, well, exactly how you’d expect them to, and Jodizzle was out in 7th.
In a performance that can really only be appreciated by a superstar (like myself) Coopzilla began his damn near perfect domination of the rest of the tournament. Decidedly helped by hitting damn near every hand possible (including full-houses so unlikely it that bordered on cheating .) Easily knocking players around with his big stack tactics, he first knocked out Motown, when Motown got himself shortstacked. Mojo called with 55, and Coopzilla called with AcKc. The board brought clubs, and Motown was toast. Then came StillNotFat, who got in as a favorite with top pair against Coopzilla’s flushdraw, but the lucky tend to get luckier, and Coopzilla rivered his heart flush.
In a move that can only be called “stealing Coopzilla’s” thunder, DoctorLove put a harsh beat on TheCanuck, leaving the Canuck with a single $1,000 chip. However, it was, of course Coopzilla who took him down, raising (absolutely unnecessarily) with 99, to go up solo against TheCanuck’s 86o. TheCanuck hit one 8, but nothing else.
By the final 3, it was Coopzilla by a landslide. He had nearly 60% of the chips, and Jesus Christ himself dealing for him. Mojo tried to use some small stack bully tactics, which worked to pick up a little scratch, but ran out of steam as Coopzilla called him. Mojo was the preflop dog with K9 against Coopzilla’s A2. A lot of cards came close, but when the hand was dealt, Mojo took his $64 and stood up in 3rd.
With the final two, DoctorLove changed his slow style up considerably, turning highly aggressive, and caught Coopzilla off guard. DoctorLove doubled up, and put himself at around a 2.5 – 1 chip dog. Still, Season One’s champion could not be swayed for too long. DoctorLove played a beautiful last hand, and Coopzilla caught a lucky river as a slight dog, but at the end of the night, DoctorLove took 2nd place and Coopzilla took down the 1st place cash.
Call it a comeback, call it a resumption of power, but whatever you call it, it was impressive. Coopzilla personally booted 60% of the competition (although TheCanuck was sort of a walk.) Though nobody is even close to Mojo’s money winnings on the season, Coopzilla’s 2 3rd place finishes and now, his 1st place finish place him squarely on Mojo’s “folks to beat” list for the championship trophy. Jodizzle’s recent poor finishes haven’t helped her, but she’s still up there in contention for the championship, and both DoctorLove and TheCanuck have seemingly come out of the blue into contention.
Expect fireworks for Tournament 5, where some of our colleagues will make their final championship stand. Coopzilla will have the bounty on his head, and frankly, that’s not a position he does well in. Will he come out over the top of Mojo’s first place position? Will Jodizzle come back into her former glory, proving that her 2nd place finishes weren’t flukes? Will TheCanuck storm back to prove his Season 2 Champion status wasn’t just luck. And finally, will SunshinesBitch end up with positive points? More to come, the third Thursday of May…
We make history, once again, that day.
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