Poker Shootout

WPS Jaco Beach, Costa Rica

Start Date: October 20, 2007
End Date: October 28, 2007
Location: Jaco Beach, Costa Rica

NL Texas Hold'em

Oct 22, 2007 at 19:00

Buy-in:	Starting Chips:
$300.00 + $40.00	$3000
Rebuys / Addons:	Starting blinds:
No Rebuys	25 / 50
Entries:	Level Duration:
67 Entrants	35 min
Prize Pool:	Comments:
$19,490 (view payout) Photo Gallery (26)

Level 11 ( 2,000 / 4,000 )

Oct 23, 2007 at 02:03

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Play By Play
02:02	at 1:52 am, the four last players decided to chop four ways, so the four of them will get $3,410 each...: Geir Andersen, Curtis Collis, Patricia Lendenius and Dale Weir. GREAT GAME

Level 10 ( 1,200 / 2,400 )

Oct 23, 2007 at 01:41

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Play By Play
01:45	four players left and fighting to get the first place.
01:41	Derek Lerner just double up his stack by winning an all in hand to Robert Zane, Derek got pair of fours and Zane A&, the flop was 6 4 6 (Lerner gets full house on the flop) the turn 9 and the river 7

Level 9 ( 800 / 1,600 )

Oct 23, 2007 at 01:38

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Play By Play
00:59	Kevin Freylag got out by going all in against Curtis Collins, Kevin had AK and Curtis 5 6, the flop was 8 5 7, the turn 6 and the river was a Jack... Curtis' two pairs wins and takes out kevin.
00:47	Carmen Taleno just went all in against Patricia Lendenius, Carmen had A#, Patricia pocket Aces, the board was: 8 5 2 K 10, Patricia wins the pot and Carmen gets the 9th place.
00:38	DK Flanegan tried to double up by going all in with 5 A, Geir Andersen called with pair of 8's, the flop was 8 K Q 2 4... Geir get's three of a kind and DK is the bubble boy... now we just got into the payout structure..

Place	Name	AKA	Chips
1	Curtis Collins		46500
2	Geir Andersen		41400
3	Dale Weir		33000
4	Derek Lerner		23700
5	Patricia Lendenius		18300

Level 8 ( 600 / 1,200 )

Oct 22, 2007 at 23:43

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Play By Play
23:58	we just got down to 10 players... we are in the bubble.... an international table: Costa Rica, Sweden, US, Mexico, France, Norway, Canada.
00:17	Kevin Freylag just won a nice pot of 46000 chips, by beating Curtis Collins, both had a pair of Queens but Kevin had an Ace as kicker.
23:43	Rob Nilsson is out of the tournament after losing an all in hand of Q 10 as pocket cards, against Kevin who had AK, the flop was K J 5 the turn 10 and river 9... Kevin got pair of Kings and knocked him out.

Level 7 ( 400 / 800 )

Oct 22, 2007 at 23:02

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Play By Play
23:38	Carmen Taleno just pushed all in another player, she had A 10, the other guy had J Q, the board was 9 7 3 3 3, she wins and double up her stack with a three of a kind and an Ace.
23:34	14 players still in the tournament
23:28	Down to two tables the activity is really interesting, playing hand by hand, one table is going all in at all times and the other one is tabing it's time to think, read and play the cards.
23:22	Nilsson just got an awefoul hand that could cost him the tourney, he went all in with pocket 8's and Kevin called him with A K suited, the flop was K 9 7 the turn Q and the river 6... Kevin wins a huge pot but did not take out Nilsson.
23:07	Eric went all in having pair of kings and Marco called him with pocket 4's, the flop was 9 Q 5, turn 7 and river 5, Eric wins....

Level 6 ( 600 / 300 )

Oct 22, 2007 at 22:17

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Play By Play
22:49	we are in a 10 minutes break.
22:46	Jim just got knocked out by going all in with 3d and 5d, Zane called him with pocket 7's, the flop was 6d 10c 10d, Zane at this point has two pairs, Jim has one but could get the flush, the turn is 3h and the river Jc, the 7's holds up and Zane wins the hand.
22:43	Giusepe is out, Eric Lerner took him out with a pair of kings ON THE RIVER!!! two tables left, 17 players in the tournament
22:38	Robert Zane, just took out Johan by going all in on the turn with three of a kind jacks, Johan had pair of 6's with ace kicker.
22:33	18 players left... agressive plays are happening all the time.
22:23	Curtis Collins just flushed out Jack Benson, with two pairs 4's and 10's

Level 5 ( 200 / 400 )

Oct 22, 2007 at 22:13

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Play By Play
22:15	WOW two player just went all in first player had JA and the second one J8, the flop is 3 A 8 (pair of Aces are winning), the turn is 8.. suddently three of a kind 8's are winning and seems to be over, but the river is an Ace... Player 1 wins with Full house AAA88
22:08	Arsenio Abitg did it again... with an Ac 9c against Ah Kh and Qs 10s, flop came 3c 9s 4h the turn 7s and river 3h, Arsenio wins a big pot with two pairs #'s and 9's. we are now with 4 tables left (33 players)
21:58	we just got another all in preflop, Ricardo Alfaro goes all in with pair of Aces and Dewrek Lerner called with K A, the flop is 9 k 4 the turn 4 and the river 6, the pair of Aces wins and Lerner is out of the tournament.
21:52	and now we have agressive players, after the river Jim went all in and made everybody to fold... he gets 5400 chips...

Level 4 ( 100 / 200 )

Oct 22, 2007 at 22:09

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Play By Play
21:17	with 46 players left the tournament is getting more exciting by the minute Arsenio Abitg just recovered from a bad run by calling an All in, he had Ac Jd the other player had Ah ^h, the flop was 7d Jc and 3s, with this flop Arsenio gets apair of jacks, the turn was 10s and river 6s... Arsenio is the winner of the hand and a nice pot of around 4000 chips.
21:14	Stefan just got out of the tournament by going all in preflop with 8c Kh, Curtis Collins called him with Ad Kc, the flop was Ah Qc 2s, at this point Collins is winning with a pair of Aces, the turn was 9s and the river 7c.. Collins wins and Stefan is going to play our BlackJack tournaments.
21:09	Stoney Jents just got out of the tournament by callin Patricia's all in, he had pair of 6's and she had pair of 8's, the board did not make any difference, and stoney goit out because of a pair of 8's

Level 3 ( 100 / 200 )

Oct 22, 2007 at 21:06

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Play By Play
20:54	we are in a ten minute break
20:49	Carolina Fernandez from Costa Rica knocked out the Russian player by going all in with && against Ac 10h, the flop was Ks 5c 4h Kh 2d. She gets two pairs 7's and k's.
20:48	Eric Silver just went all in again and took one player out by having a pair of queens against a pair of 6's
20:44	Curtis Collins went all in with pair of Aces and Stefan called him with Q5, the board was 5 7 10 6 K... Collins did not knocked out Stefan... but he did recover some valuable chips.
20:42	Marco Zubrod just took out another player, he went all in on the turn , he had KJ the other player called with A 4, the flop was Ac Ad and 10h, the other players gets three of a kind Aces... the turn was Qd (no wonder Marco went all in on the turn having a straight ) and river 3h. Marco gets a nice pot with this hand.
20:39	we are down to 6 tables now, that means that we have 53 players still in the tournament out of 67.
20:36	Bruno Peyyrou from France just took out Johnny Keneig by going all in preflop and getting three of a kind 10's

Place	Name	AKA	Chips
1	Bruno Payyrow		10000
2	rob Zane		9975
3	Maryse Massabo		7675

Level 2 ( 50 / 100 )

Oct 22, 2007 at 20:53

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Play By Play
20:14	Marco Zubrod beats 4 other players with a K Q A 4 6 10 K
20:11	Eric Silver went all in on the preflop, player Bruce called him with A J, but Eric had QQ, then the flop came: 3 3 k, Eric is winning with two pairs queens and threes, the turn was an 8 and the river was a 10, Bruce almost caught the straight, but Eric wins with two pairs: queens and threes
20:07	Player Geir just went all in with pocket 9's the other player called with 8 7, the flop came 2 A 10, at this time there is not much for the second player, the turn was a 3 and the river 7, Geir wins with pair of nines,, he didn't knocked him out but it did hurt a lot.
20:03	Robert Zane did it again!!!, he went all in with 10s and Ac, the other player called with 9s kc, the flop was Qh 6c and 5h (at the moment Zane is winning with the A high), the turn was As, this is destroying the other player and the river did not help him because it was a 2s. Robert Zane wins the pot and the other player got out of the tourney.
20:01	Some players are out of the tournament already, so the movement from table to table has began...

Level 1 ( 25 / 50 )

Oct 22, 2007 at 20:48

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Play By Play
19:41	Player Derek Lerner won a 3000 chips pot, he had 7 8 as pocket cards, the flop came 10h 9h and Ad, the turn was a 8 c and river 6d... he gets the straight on the river... a hand well played.
19:40	Robert Zane (place fropm last night) is back playing like a champion, he just went all in after the flop (Qd 10d 9d) the other players called and surprise! he had pocket 9's, the turn was 4c and 6c... Robert gets a nice pot of 1800 chips with a three of a kind nines.
19:34	And we have a new girl in the tournament: Carolina Fernandez, was changelled by an AJ, the flop was 7 9 7 a K on the turn and a 4 on the river, giving her the win by having two pairs (pocket cards 9 6)
19:20	a good example of the hands for tonight, Rob Nilsson had A 5 as pocket cards the flop was Q 10 8 , turn A and River 5 getting in the river two pairs having a nice little pot
19:12	right now we have 7 tables, and everybody is playing with calm.
19:05	Hey guys, we are back to the action in beautiful Jaco Beach, Costa Rica.. several players in the room and ready to fight for the prize pool.

Prize Structure

Final

Place	Prize	Player
1	$ 3,410 \|	Geir Andersen aka
2	$ 3,410 \|	Curtis Collins aka
3	$ 3,410 \|	Patricia Lendenius aka
4	$ 3,410 \|	Dale Weir aka
5	$ 1,560 \|	Massabo Maryse aka
6	$ 1,365 \|	rob Zane aka
7	$ 1,170 \|	Derek Lerner aka
8	$ 975 \|	Kevin Freylag aka
9	$ 780 \|	Carmen Taleno aka