Bmore's Brawl #6 Tourney Recap

Wow, what can I say about Brawl #6? We shattered our attendance record with 30 entrants, had our first Royal Flush of the series, had a record for most KOs in a Brawl, welcomed five new Brawlers including an FTP Pro, and had an epic heads up battle for the title!

First let's start with a big thank you and welcome to first time Brawlers hastur310, The9to5, toilets, vrameglis and Beth Shak. Beth Shak became our first guest appearance of a Full Tilt Pro. She was very kind to accept the invitation, and everyone enjoyed taking some flops and having conversation with her during the Brawl.

The Brawl also shattered the previous attendance record of 24 with 30 entrants last week. With this count, roccav was able to receive the full buy-in bounty when he busted our Full Tilt Pro, as well as a free "I KO'd a Pro" t-shirt from Full Tilt Poker. Congrats!

First time Brawler hastur310 had a very exciting hand, when he rivered the first Royal Flush in Brawler history below:

Good flop, but you gotta love that river!

Seven Brawlers made the money this week. AltronIV was the first to bust out when his live cards preflop got crushed by quads below:

Congrats to AltronIV for his first Brawl cash last week. Watch out if this guy gets hot. I was next to go in 6th place when I raced Soooted42 below:

See ya! Keeping family close together, xojones was next to bust in 5th, when he ran into jmlabrie18 with a monster:

With the blinds escalating, the short stacks continued to press, but the coin flips weren't in their favor this week. Here's saveparmk72 busting in 4th when his AK can't improve:

AK just wasn't winning tonight, as Soooted42 busted out with in 3rd as well:

That left two previous Brawl winners to battle it out for the title this week. It was an epic match between jmlabrie18 and roccav, with many awesome hands to watch. Here's a point early in the battle when jmlabrie18 makes a move to get chipped up:

On the turn, it looked like the match would be over quickly, but jmlabrie18 spiked a jack on the river to get chipped up:


Unfortunately, my computer froze up during the last couple of hands, but we were able to retrieve the hand history of the final hand below:

Seat 3: roccav (57,020)
Seat 9: jmlabrie18 (32,980)
roccav antes 250
jmlabrie18 antes 250
roccav posts the small blind of 1,000
jmlabrie18 posts the big blind of 2,000
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to roccav [9c 9h]
roccav raises to 5,000
jmlabrie18 raises to 12,000
roccav has 15 seconds left to actroccav calls 7,000
*** FLOP *** [Qh Ac 2h]
jmlabrie18 bets 20,730, and is all in
roccav has 15 seconds left to act
roccav has requested TIME
roccav calls 20,730
jmlabrie18 shows [8h Ks]
roccav shows [9c 9h]
*** TURN *** [Qh Ac 2h] [9s]
*** RIVER *** [Qh Ac 2h 9s] [6c]
jmlabrie18 shows Ace King high
roccav shows three of a kind, Nines
roccav wins the pot (65,960) with three of a kind, Nines
jmlabrie18 stands up
jmlabrie18 (Observer): gg
roccav stands up


A sick call to end a hard-fought heads-up battle. Congrats to roccav for taking it down and capturing a record-breaking 11 KOs for one Brawl. Final lobby results below:

Thanks to all of those who came out to the Brawl. It was a very exciting week. I'd like to, once again, send a special thanks to Beth Shak for sitting in with our crew and taking some flops. I had numerous people tell me after the tournament that they thought that it was really cool for a pro to come hang out with us for the evening. Next week, we welcome Keith Sexton, another gracious FTP pro, who is kind enough to take some time and play with the Brawlers...

See you all Wednesday!

Damn Donkeys,

Bmore