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THE VERDICT IS IN... Our second tournament of the series was a raving success. And this time bringing forth a new winner.

This weeks tournament had a field of 51 players, and ran just under 2.5 hours. Not unlike our first tournament, the competition was strong, and ruthless; with our eventual winner slinging his chip stack all over the place.

The Steemit Poker League would like to congratulate our tournament winner Hive account@agr8buzz He picked apart the crowd in less than 2.5 hours.

As you can see, agr8buzz was hungry for blood.

Early round action
Less than 5 mins into play with the blinds still at 15/30 Hive account@dontstopmenow raises to 60, Hive account@bryan-imhoff on the button calls. Hive account@jmehta in the BB calls. Flop comes 6c2c4d Jmehta checks, Dontstop bets 30, Bryan raises to 150, Jmehta calls, Dontstop reraises to 795, Bryan reraises to 2940, Jmetha calls all in, Dontstop calls all in. Bryan 4c4s, Dont 2s2d, Jmetha Ac5c
The turn drops a Jd, and the river a 6d = 6c2c4dJd6d Bryan wins 8985 with higher boat knocking Dont and Jmetha out of the tournament.

Lessons from a shitty player: You can't bluff a donkey & watch your bet sizes
Blinds at 15/30 Hive account@bigpchef sees QQ in the hole, and raises from the button to 105. BB Hive account@team-leibniz calls. Flop comes 8h3c10c checked to bigp who bets 112. Team calls. Turn is Ah, Team leads out with a 245 chip (representing a pair of A). Bigpchef just calls. River comes 6h, Team leads out with a 400 bet. Bigp calls. Team turns over Q2. Bigp wins hand with QQ. Team should have seen fear in my check/call on the turn, and proceeded to pound the river despite what card ended up falling. I tell you why...my preflop raise could indicate high cards, I fire when the flop comes, and I just call a bet once an A falls. Raise, raise, call-was my actions thus far. Why would I slow play here? If I have AA, or AK, I just made my hand on the turn, doubtful I would check raise you at this point, risking you also checking and me not making $ on my made hand. I most likely would reraise you instead of calling and hope you call or shove. I would instacall your shove and hopefully win the pot. Instead, you for some reason felt I may have an ace here, and simply bet 400 when the river fell. This was a huge mistake in my opinion because of your bet size. Your 400 chip bet into a 900 something pot, gave me 3.3 to 1 pot odds to call you. If you had made a pot sized bet, my odds would have dropped to 2-1. Combine that mistake, with me being an absolute donk, I made the "hero" call and took down the 1739 chip pot. It was actually a brilliantly timed bluff, just wasn't executed correctly because of the bet size.

Hero call, bitches!!

Donk mentality, aka how not to play poker
20/40 blinds. Bigpchef on the button sees Qh6h (suited and that's all that matters) and calls 40. Flop comes 5s6c9h Bryan checks, Team checks, Bigpchef bets pot 120. Bryan folds, Team calls. Turn is 10h (in the mind of Bigp, this may as well be quad aces. He's going all in no matter what.) Team leads out with 200, and the donk, err, Bigp raises to 960. Mind you Team was the BB, and could have any number of junk hands that were gold after the junk flop. Team thinks about it for a min or so, and folds. Most likely folding the best hand. The donks sacks out, yet again.

The Bubble Boy has been anointed
Blinds 800/1600 agr8buzz (As10d) raises all in from the sb. Bryan (AhQc) calls from the bb for 7320. Flop comes 10h7c4sJs8d Daniel takes down the 45K pot knocking Bryan out and making him the dreaded bubble boy.

Sorry, Bryan. We couldn't resist. All in good fun. We'll be roasting the next bubble boy as well :D

Tales from the concession stands during the break
The following are quotes, sorta, from players at the chili dog stand/table. Kinda made up, kinda not...
"That was an interesting dish, haha"
"Yea, sick"
"27, 27"
"You had 27 chili dogs?"
"Yeah and I'm holding on for dear life."
Don't ever eat the chili dogs at the concession stand

Below is the action from the last few mins of the final table. Watch it now
Hive account@agr8buzz never really lost any traction from the start of the final table. Systematically knocking out the remaining three players in a matter of mins.

That's a wrap. Please join us next time as we go into how Tuck & Bigp loss the tournament, and who's atop the bounty leader board. Will we have a new leader? Wait and see...

Don't miss our next game. You could be the next winner.

Updated Tournament Schedule*

DATE	TIME CDT / UTC	Prize Pool
6/21	8PM / 1AM	200 SBD Guaranteed
6/25	6PM / 11PM	200 SBD Guaranteed
7/1	4PM / 9PM	TBD
7/7	2PM / 7PM	TBD
7/13	12PM / 5PM	TBD
7/19	10AM / 3PM	TBD
7/25	8AM / 1PM	TBD
8/8	6AM / 11AM	TBD
8/14	4AM / 9AM	TBD
8/20	2AM / 7AM	TBD

^{*Times/Dates are subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control.}

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