Running Like a God

The Black Belt Poker League reached its halfway point this week as 52 took the felt to battle it across the virtual felt.

The winner was Purple Belt and multiple WSOP final-tablist Spencer dionysian Lawrence. He pipped Andrew barty1uk Barton who took a token all the way to second.

Sarannedipity couldn’t quite complete the hat-trick of final tables, but BoraBoraBoy was enjoying his second consecutive after making seventh last time around.

1st  dionysian — $83.20
2nd  Barty1uk — $54.60
3rd  BoraBoraBoy — $39.00
4th  JHobbit1 — $26.26
5th  lionrampant27 — $19.76
6th  BoatDrink — $14.56
7th  2LAMCHOP2 — $11.96
8th  shaolin4aces — $10.66

A 17th place finish is enough to see Leg 1 winner Tristan tristiano Chaplin return to his pace-setting ways and sneak back above mikeymixitup with 238 points.

1st  tristiano — 238 points
2nd  Sarannedipity — 224 points
3rd  mikeymixitup — 216 points
4th  BoatDrink — 208 points
5th  PhilNe2Q — 195 points
6th  shaolin4aces — 194 points
7th  Bagheira1 — 181 points
8th  PhilDee64 — 168 points
=9th  2LAMCHOP2 — 165 points
=9th  veg41 — 165 points
11th  baligirl13 — 164 points
12th  dionysian — 162 points
13th  lionrampant27 — 158 points
14th  Touagorimou — 157 points
15th  kippery — 156 points
16th  paul6543 — 155 points
17th  13kendo13 — 151 points
=18th  ChipRead77 — 150 points
=18th  ourkidsid — 150 points
=18th  TeeDeeEye1 — 150 points
=18th  BoraBoraBoy — 150 points

It’s iPOPS month this November with the fifth outing of the series producing some great-value tournaments with huge guarantees.

The mini schedule is done and dusted, but the big guns are on their way starting with a $150+10 freezout tomorrow night at 20:00. Regardless of entrants the prize pool will be a guaranteed $300,000.

There are eight tournaments in total with buy-ins ranging from $30+3 right up to $330+20 and a $200+15 Main Event on Sunday, December 01 with a cool $400,000 guarantee.

We’re guaranteeing over a million in prize pools so if you want to take advantage make sure you check out the lineup in the Black Belt Poker cardroom lobby.

See our promotions page for details.

This week's other results:

Turbo Takedown (Monday, 20:30) - 13 runners:

1st  PastiemanCnaC — $58.50
2nd  eixip50 — $39.00
3rd  stevegw — $19.50
4th  Touagorimou — $13.00

Nifty at Nine (Monday, 21:00) - 27 runners:

1st  dajaroo — 540 Belt Points
2nd  blackbeltkickbox — 378 Belt Points
3rd  HoltenderCnaC — 243 Belt Points
4th  NPStars1 — 135 Belt Points
5th  1894IAIN — 54 Belt Points

'Samurai ‘Showdown’ Orange Belt Freeroll (Wednesday, 19:30) - 28 runners:

1st  TeeDeeEye1 — Samurai seat ($250+25)
2nd  nickhem1 — Samurai satellite token ($30+3)
3rd  HammerHorror — Samurai feeder token ($5+0.50)

Deepstack Mulligan (Wednesday, 20:30) - 12 runners:

1st  NPStars1 — $90.00 (100 Belt Points)
2nd  Touagorimou — $54.00 (90 Belt Points)
3rd  2LAMCHOP2 — $36.00 (20 Belt Points)
4th  HoltenderCnaC (5 Belt Points)
5th  BoraBoraBoy (5 Belt Points)

‘Samurai Showdown’ Purple Belt Freeroll (Thursday, 19:30) - 11 runners:

1st  NPStars — Samurai seat ($250+25)
2nd  scobags2 — Samurai seat ($250+25)

Newcastle Live Satellite (Thursday, 20:00) - 9 runners:

1st  metz222 — Newcastle Live seat (£180+20)
2nd  tandy26 — £17.50
3rd  2LAMCHOP2 — £7.50

Yellow Belt No-Lose Deepstack (Thursday, 20:00) - 47 runners:

1st  AlRawling — $31.00
2nd  coziwant2 — $21.00
3rd  Mo33a — $13.50
4th  Fudgie66cnac — $10.50
5th  cnacandy64 — $8.50
6th  NPenfold666 — $7.00
7th  MForce16 — $6.00
8th  BlackMadonna26 — $5.00
9th  ChewieIsMe — $4.00
10th  LoonzyBBP — $3.50

Click here for a full list of exclusive tournaments.

Previous Reports:
Celebrate Christmas with League XXIIWeek 1: A Happy Chappy 
Weel 2: All's Wells That Ends Wells 
Week 3: Purple Patch in Leg 3