AIPS III Event #4 Champion: theron74
Congratulations to theron74, who wins the fourth AIPS III banana as champion of the Pot-Limit Omaha event, which drew 72 entrants.
theron74 won an epic heads-up battle against Iceland's DrPepperIce, who was playing in his first AIPS events, when his flopped set of deuces improved to quads on the turn. Congrats to everyone who made the final table!
Just-for-recognition bounties go to:
- Mickey Jay (Scott "OffDeadline" 12th place)
- OffDeadline (Fasso "stpetebeach" 21st place - the dunderhead didn't really play, just forgot to unregister and darn near made the money - until he ran into me)
- Zerkaboid (Chris "willhopper" 65th place)
- (columbo DNP)
NEXT EVENT: No-Limit Hold'em with Rebuys, Thursday, May 22, 9 p.m. Eastern
Click here for the Player of the Year standings. (Special thanks to Ante Up! scorekeeper Gambit for compiling them and Blazman for hosting the results).
Click here for the schedule and all the info on AIPS III events. We'll update it as we set dates for future events, and recognize champions. (This link is also permanently posted on the right-hand side of the blog with all the other important links).
- SCOTT
Christopher Cosenza is co-host of the longest running poker podcast on the planet, Ante Up! He started playing poker seriously in 2003 and his favorite players are Phil Ivey and Kenna James, though he tends to act like Phil Hellmuth if you make a bad play against him.
Scott Long, Ante Up!'s other co-host, is the author of the monthly Bet on It column in tbt*. He began gambling way too young (don't tell the fuzz!) and in the seventh grade, named his state "Gambleland" for a school project (State Animal? Loan shark, of course).
WOW......what a great tourney by all. This was one of those tourneys where I played every character: Short stack, idiot, chip leader, you name it. Want to thank DRpepperice....I lost my connection heads up and he waited on me to get it back and at that point he had a 4/1 chip lead. By the way...i played the 1st level thinking the was PLO8....that was my idiot part of the tourney. So, thanks for whoever told me it was OMAHA HI. Can't wait for the bannana!!!! Thanks for teh great pod cast and great group of listeners....ANTE UP NATION ROCKS....
Posted by: theron74 | April 26, 2008 at 03:51 PM
Congrats on your banana theron74. I should have blinded you out when I had the chance ;)
It was fantastic finally playing in an AIPS event and I couldn't believe when I found myself being the chipleader and getting to heads-up because I almost never play Omaha, let alone Limit. Theron74 played really aggressive heads-up and deserves the first place. You can count on me playing in more AIPS events from now on.
Thanks to Chris and Scott for your great podcasts - without it there would be no AIPS!
Posted by: DrPepperIce | April 26, 2008 at 04:23 PM
Wow, Theron!! Nice comeback!!! Congrats to everyone!!
Posted by: Christopher Cosenza | April 26, 2008 at 04:35 PM
Pot limit Omaha is an evil game. I busted out with AcTcAsKs against a single suited pair of kings. The suits were the same as my aces, so just about the only thing that could save my opponent was the single king left in the deck. I was a 4-1 favorite. Guess what came in the flop? There is one RCG that better stays out of my way for a while if it knows what's good for it.
So, back to the PLO tables for me.
Posted by: Erwin Blonk | April 26, 2008 at 05:45 PM
Theron ran into me online earlier in the week and told me how disappointed he was he couldn't play AIPS on Thursday. I said, "Thursday? It's on Saturday." He said he was glad he asked, because Saturday was good for him. Congrats on the banana.
On the other hand I pulled a real dumb move, forgetting I had registered. Did I play too tight? On the plus side I saw La Fille du Regiment from the Met in HD. Great! Happy to have juiced the prize pool (and outlasted Chris).
Posted by: Fasso | April 26, 2008 at 07:15 PM
Let's see if you're saying that on May 10!
Posted by: Chris Cosenza | April 27, 2008 at 03:32 AM
"Let's see if you're saying that on May 10!"
Five bucks on Fasso.
Posted by: Erwin Blonk | April 28, 2008 at 08:17 AM
Erwin - http://www.cardclubs.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=3968
Posted by: Rant2112 | April 28, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Oops, my bad, I thought he referred to event 5. I'll go with Fasso on both.
Posted by: Erwin Blonk | April 28, 2008 at 02:20 PM
Standings site has been updated; http://aips.isgreat.org/
Sorry for the delay. Here's a summary of the top 25:
Rank FullTilt ID POY Points*
1 Zerkaboid 332.03
2 lj47 205.70
3 Dante1126 205.59
4 engstrok 180.68
5 NewtSkins 180.41
6 Mickey Jay 176.14
7 Blazman 172.30
8 Bazkar 151.43
9 theron74 145.96
10 Pyrat13 127.16
11 Nikademus 120.51
12 ian jones 119.44
13 Joker10690 118.76
14 Joe24Pa 117.52
15 bcg8r 108.86
16 imtoomuch4u 107.25
17 Spazhead 107.08
18 SkinnyFatGuy 104.16
19 DrPepperIce 103.21
20 godard 102.85
21 nzgreen 96.42
22 reaganballa11 95.77
23 trumpetman25 91.99
24 PokerGeek 90.21
25 carbidex3 88.82
Cheers!
Posted by: Gambit | April 30, 2008 at 09:48 AM