Friday 2 March 2012

JHobbit1: Lord of the League


Last Tuesday, we went full circle as Adam JHobbit1 Saunders was crowned League XIII Champion, a near three years on from winning the inaugural League during Black Belt Poker's infancy.

This victory was even more dominating, and the most convincing in the League's history with The Hobbit encountering far less obstacles than his movie counterpart. After the eight legs, he was a massive 82 points ahead of his nearest competitor, despite a below-par 49th showing in the final leg.

Instead, The Hobbit paved the way for a final table of fresh faces, with recent Green Belt Phil PhilNe2Q Quelch pulling out his first League win to date. He was closely following by Jon Ourkid888 Laight in second, with Kim insider66666 Vernon picking up the bronze.

1st PhilNe2Q -- $122.41
2nd Ourkid888 -- $82.32
3rd insider66666 -- $62.30
4th NPStars1 -- $42.27
5th pbsef81 -- $31.15
6th JKitin -- $23.36
7th bas2604 -- $18.91
8th bagpussrocks -- $15.57
9th LizLemmon -- $13.35
10th thehingster -- $11.12
11th FlopTheNuts77 -- $11.12
12th Essxhg -- $11.12

The Hobbit's reward was a combination of bragging rights, personalised hoodie and free entry into a Black Belt Live event, the latter of which was also embraced by Mark 99Ranny Ranson and Stewart Stewboi Morrison who snapped the next two spots.

Although former Champion 99Ranny didn't have to crank his neck too much, Stewboi was forced to sweat it out to the bitter end with just a handful of points separating him from the chasing pack. After dropping in 28th, the window opened for kippery and ZoeRiZZ0 to steal third with a minimum placing of 13th and 9th respectively. In the end, they finished 22nd and 25th, and Stewboi survived.

Despite the lack of movement in the top six, it was all change lower down with TheZartog, WiseOwlBB and Sarrendipity replaced in the top 10 by doochats, Mrdroddle and NPStars, the latter emerging from nowhere to grab some last-second Belt Points.

197 competed in this League, but the prize winners were, amazingly, all Orange:

1st JHobbit1 -- East End Live seat & personalised hood (766 points)
2nd 99Ranny -- East End Live seat (684 points)
3rd Stewboi -- East End Live seat (667 points)
4th kippery -- 750 Belt Points (659 points)
5th ZoeRiZZ0 -- 600 Belt Points (655 points)
6th BoraBoraBoy -- 500 Belt Points (631 points)
7th doochats -- 400 Belt Points (619 points)
8th clevski -- 300 Belt Points (617 points)
9th NPStars1 -- 200 Belt Points (603 points)
10th Mrdroodle -- 100 Belt Points (603 points)

11th AlRawling -- (598 points)
12th Sarannedipity -- (596 points)
13th Essxhg -- (594 points)
14th TheSimian -- (591 points)
15th BubbleCloud -- (585 points)
16th WiseOwlBB -- (578 points)
17th thehingtser -- (575 points)
18th TeeDeeEye1 -- (563 points)
19th TheZartog -- (560 points)
20th bornTOflirt -- (558 points)

The final whistle may have sounded, but there remained a ray of hope for the eight leg winners who were invited to compete in the Second Chance SNG for a bonus Black Belt Live seat.

A depleted field of seven (PhilNe2Q was notable by his absence) took their seats, although only one could walk away with the last laugh, and that man was Leg 2 winner Sean TableKnight Herran-Venables.

1st TableKnight -- Black Belt Live seat ($200+20)
2nd SebastianKat
3rd ChipRead77
4th BoraBoraBoy
5th sceaga2
6th seven7777777s
7th TheZartog

The Black Belt Poker tournament lobby is busier than a bee working overtime at the moment with a plethora of promotions and events to catch your eye.

This week once again created qualifiers for April's East End Live; they were: Cursonator, barberq88, Yosemity2207 and splendidninja. Meanwhile, degen4good earned entry into the Samurai, and TheZartog and ChipRead77 won Tuesday's $5+0.50 feeder for a shot in a $30+3 super satellite of their choosing.

Our regular events also hit the cyber felt, including:

Orange Belt Freeroll (Limit Up), Wednesday (20:00)

1st Mrdroodle -- 500 Belt Points
2nd JHobbit1 -- 300 Belt Points
3rd myteamouse -- 100 Belt Points
4th CareybearBBP -- 100 Belt Points

$15+1.50 Deepstack Mulligan, Wednesdays (20:00)

1st thehingster -- $126.00 (50 Points)
2nd nickhem1 -- $85.05 (30 Points)
3rd JKitin -- $47.25 (10 Points)
4th bagpussrocks -- $31.50 (5 Points)
5th WiseOwlBB -- $31.50 (5 Points)

$1 Yellow Belt No-Lose Deepstack, Thursday (20:00)

1st catacetina4 -- $31.00
2nd PhilDee64 -- $21.00
3rd adygolf -- $13.50
4th TEOTeD01 -- $10.50
5th shaolin4aces -- $8.50
6th Ourkid888 -- $7.00
7th vinvgo -- $6.00
8th Bambury -- $5.00
9th hiddenacesBBP -- $4.00
10th LizLemmon -- $3.50

If the aforementioned looks value-packed, then next week is braced to be reminiscent of cans of sardines in an elevator, starting with Tuesday's Spring Break event. The new League will commence on March 13, but to fill the gap we're hosting a special one-off tournament with tokens into the recently announced Spring Sales event added to the standard prize pool.

Along with our usual array of tournaments, you'd be mad to miss out.

If you'd like to take a munch out of the value being dangled above, then there's nothing to stop you: simply click here to download the software and open an account by following the step-by-step process provided.

Previous reports:

Week 1 - League XIII: Cool for 'SebastianKat'
Week 2 - No Knightmare for Shaun in Leg 2
Week 3 - Gorilla Warfare in Leg 3
Week 4 - Mike Check; Shaw Wins Leg 4
Week 5 - Purple Patch; Zartog Strikes Back
Week 6 - Seven Heaven in Leg 6
Week 7 - A Great Read; McKelvie Top Leg 7

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