bearbeer escapes with over $29K

This past Sunday, “bearbeer”, a Swedish pro player, got past 965 other runners to take down the $100K guaranteed event on Cake. The hand leading up to the final table was one of those things that prevents honest hard-working poker players [1] from sleeping at night. Two players got all in: AK vs. A9. Flop comes K-x-y rainbow. Game over, right? Nope – running 9′s gave us our final table and the 11th place finisher the seed of a nightmare.

When the shouting was over, we had this:

We had some great poker and big buzz from the fans on the rail. Finally it got down to two of the finest, and they got all the money in with very respectable hands:

bearbeer faded the six-ish outs and took down $29,270 for first place. “GREINKE 4 CY” had to settle for about $20,600, which will still get him season tickets to the KC Royals.

bearbeer says that he plays 25-30 hours per week, including the big Sunday tournaments. And we’ve definitely got that – recall that 966 players is substantially larger than the WSOP field that Chris Moneymaker beat to win the championship six short years ago. And now that the breaks in Cake’s tournaments are 100% synchronized, there’s no excuse for you not to play in a bunch of ‘em. See you out there.

[1] Is that phrase an oxymoron?