Tony Uhlir wins Cully's Kids
Tony Uhlir was able to take down the entire $10,000 first place prize today!
The event saw 109 people show up to play (Mike Commodore was blinded for 2 rds, and had his chips pulled 5 minutes before he showed up) for a prize pool of $19,300.
Everyone started with $5,000 in chips and cards were in the air around 12:15. During the first 2 levels of blinds, only 2 people were kncocked out. The first, Jon Shilling, flopped a set of 4's only to lose to a turned set of Q's.
After we returned from the break to 100/200 blinds, things began to speed up dramatically and by the next break, through the next 2 and a half hours of play 71 more would find the rail. After the 3rd break, 36 players came back to 1000/2000 blinds, and in literally 1 hand on each of the 4 tables, 6 people were nearly simultaneously eliminated and we were down to 3 tables. It was on this table that Matt Cullen mad his last stand with A9 to AQ, but he couldn't catch up and was eliminated from his own tournament. Things continued rather quickly right through until we got to 16 people. Then after a short hiatus, more people had to leave the tables. Eventually we were at 12 people left and started hand for hand play. One big hand was Jason Stewart surving an all-in with J9, with the 9 of spades against 2 others, 88, which was all-in for less than Stewart and TT which had them all covered and there were thoughts that the final table would start after just one hand of bubble play. Robert Thompson (TT) caught a set on the flop but there were 3 spades. Both Jason and the entrant with the 88 and flush draws, but Jason's was still bigger. 88 improved slightly with a gutshot draw on the turn with a 9, but a spade on the river gave Jason a huge pot and we still had 11 people playing. Eventually, Annie Cullen was forced all-in for just 2K in the SB with 89, we had another all-in on the hand for only 5K while 2 others called the 10K blinds. the 5K all-in had 99 and won the hand as the other 2 hands were both KT and made no improvement. We went to the final table with:
Mohammed al-Naseer - Seat 1
Tony Uhlir - Seat 2
Jason Stewart - Seat 3
Robert Thompson - Seat 4
Jeff Hogan - Seat 5
Gail Brookings - Seat 6
Andy Moseng - Seat 7
Percy Perkins - Seat 8
Josh Dahlstrom - Seat 9
Mark Cullen - Seat 10
Things started off fairly quick as Jason ($300) and Percy ($400) found the rail early as J4 and QQ respectively found the rail against KK.
Jeff Hogan lost a huge hand to Mark when his Q9 failed to improve against Mark's AJ after he hit a J on the turn. Soon after Jeff ($500) was eliminated with K5 ($4K) on the same hand as Robert ($600) ($7K) when Mark hit a J on the turn again with AJ.
For the next while, the only hands won were by those before the flop as they went all-in to steal blinds. Eventually 2 hands would knock heads as Mark's JJ went up against Andy's AK. The flop was QQ3, the turn was a J to seal the deal for Mark and send Andy ($700) home in 6th.
Soon after on a hand we actually saw a flop on, Mohammed had K6 and Tony had 54. After check on the flop and check on the turn, Tony bets 14K to put Mohammed ($800) all-in. Mohammed shows K6 to be out in front of Tony's 54. But on the river, a 5 falls and Tony rakes the 68K pot.
Josh continued his plan to steal blinds, but when he was in the SB, he got caught with one too many of those attempts. He raised all from the SB with 63 while Mark woke up with AK and doubled up with a $180K pot when the 63 failed to improve. Josh was still left with a number of chips but they migrated into the pot shortyl thereafter with K8 for 73K total. Gail called from the BB for another $43K with QJ. Josh was ecstatic to be thinking of picking up the pot with K high, until the river brought a J to bust Josh ($1,000) in 4th.
3 handed play was extremely cautios as the only move was all-in several, several times without a call. Eventually Mark moved all-in with A9c, but, Tony woke up with AhKh in the BB and immediately called, and after a flop of 268J6, Mark moved to the rail with a $2,000 finish.
Heads up play last about 5 minutes, if even, when Gail ($3,000) moved all-in with KT for about $180K total and Tony made the call with A9, after a flop of 3QJ48 giving Gail an open-ended, but failing to improve.
Thus Tony Uhlir wins the 2nd Cully's Kids poker tournament!
The event saw 109 people show up to play (Mike Commodore was blinded for 2 rds, and had his chips pulled 5 minutes before he showed up) for a prize pool of $19,300.
Everyone started with $5,000 in chips and cards were in the air around 12:15. During the first 2 levels of blinds, only 2 people were kncocked out. The first, Jon Shilling, flopped a set of 4's only to lose to a turned set of Q's.
After we returned from the break to 100/200 blinds, things began to speed up dramatically and by the next break, through the next 2 and a half hours of play 71 more would find the rail. After the 3rd break, 36 players came back to 1000/2000 blinds, and in literally 1 hand on each of the 4 tables, 6 people were nearly simultaneously eliminated and we were down to 3 tables. It was on this table that Matt Cullen mad his last stand with A9 to AQ, but he couldn't catch up and was eliminated from his own tournament. Things continued rather quickly right through until we got to 16 people. Then after a short hiatus, more people had to leave the tables. Eventually we were at 12 people left and started hand for hand play. One big hand was Jason Stewart surving an all-in with J9, with the 9 of spades against 2 others, 88, which was all-in for less than Stewart and TT which had them all covered and there were thoughts that the final table would start after just one hand of bubble play. Robert Thompson (TT) caught a set on the flop but there were 3 spades. Both Jason and the entrant with the 88 and flush draws, but Jason's was still bigger. 88 improved slightly with a gutshot draw on the turn with a 9, but a spade on the river gave Jason a huge pot and we still had 11 people playing. Eventually, Annie Cullen was forced all-in for just 2K in the SB with 89, we had another all-in on the hand for only 5K while 2 others called the 10K blinds. the 5K all-in had 99 and won the hand as the other 2 hands were both KT and made no improvement. We went to the final table with:
Mohammed al-Naseer - Seat 1
Tony Uhlir - Seat 2
Jason Stewart - Seat 3
Robert Thompson - Seat 4
Jeff Hogan - Seat 5
Gail Brookings - Seat 6
Andy Moseng - Seat 7
Percy Perkins - Seat 8
Josh Dahlstrom - Seat 9
Mark Cullen - Seat 10
Things started off fairly quick as Jason ($300) and Percy ($400) found the rail early as J4 and QQ respectively found the rail against KK.
Jeff Hogan lost a huge hand to Mark when his Q9 failed to improve against Mark's AJ after he hit a J on the turn. Soon after Jeff ($500) was eliminated with K5 ($4K) on the same hand as Robert ($600) ($7K) when Mark hit a J on the turn again with AJ.
For the next while, the only hands won were by those before the flop as they went all-in to steal blinds. Eventually 2 hands would knock heads as Mark's JJ went up against Andy's AK. The flop was QQ3, the turn was a J to seal the deal for Mark and send Andy ($700) home in 6th.
Soon after on a hand we actually saw a flop on, Mohammed had K6 and Tony had 54. After check on the flop and check on the turn, Tony bets 14K to put Mohammed ($800) all-in. Mohammed shows K6 to be out in front of Tony's 54. But on the river, a 5 falls and Tony rakes the 68K pot.
Josh continued his plan to steal blinds, but when he was in the SB, he got caught with one too many of those attempts. He raised all from the SB with 63 while Mark woke up with AK and doubled up with a $180K pot when the 63 failed to improve. Josh was still left with a number of chips but they migrated into the pot shortyl thereafter with K8 for 73K total. Gail called from the BB for another $43K with QJ. Josh was ecstatic to be thinking of picking up the pot with K high, until the river brought a J to bust Josh ($1,000) in 4th.
3 handed play was extremely cautios as the only move was all-in several, several times without a call. Eventually Mark moved all-in with A9c, but, Tony woke up with AhKh in the BB and immediately called, and after a flop of 268J6, Mark moved to the rail with a $2,000 finish.
Heads up play last about 5 minutes, if even, when Gail ($3,000) moved all-in with KT for about $180K total and Tony made the call with A9, after a flop of 3QJ48 giving Gail an open-ended, but failing to improve.
Thus Tony Uhlir wins the 2nd Cully's Kids poker tournament!
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