Congrats to CrazyLou and all Bookmaker poker players
Some chances come once in a lifetime. Others are as routine as dropping a nice pick-up line to the pretty little redhead at the convenience store. A few of these chances involve some meritorious award after being executed successfully, while other victories occur away from the public eye; inside oneself.
He had made the final table once before, and bowed out before making his presence felt. The odds were stacked against him to ever make it back that far, let alone improve beyond his already criticized accomplishment. They said he was the beneficiary of ill-timed decisions and 'bad beats', others just said the mother****er got lucky.
Last night was his night to change all that, to rewrite history, to finish what he had started.
CrazyLou entered the final table ranked 3rd with a chip stack of just over $21,000. He felt a quiet calm coursing through his veins, the cylinders were spinning upstairs, all his thoughts and opponent reads were interconnected beautifully like the inner workings of a stop watch. He felt complete control over his table image, mixing his play up masterfully and switching positions more violently than a politician up for re-election. Nobody at that table could touch him, but that doesn't mean nobody tried.
Jeremythegreat sat to his right, and would proceed to challenge him throughout the final table. The first big test occurred after Jeremy moved in for just over $19,000 into CrazyLou's big blind. CrazyLou held AQ of spades, and contemplated the decision carefully before folding. He had just over $23,000 in chips at the time, and it made no sense to put his entire tournament life on the line for what he knew would be a coin-flip at best. He folded, and Jeremythegreat quickly showed AJ offsuit, arrogantly mocking Lou for his decision to get away from the hand. The attempt to throw him off his game didn't inspire Lou to ''get even'', it didn't prompt him to think about revenge, he simply moved onto the next hand and played the best poker he was capable of playing.
Several dozen hands later, the field began to narrow, survival of the fittest and all those old cliches that run through your head anytime there's a Rocky re-run on the tube.
When the smoke began to clear, only Jeremythegreat and CrazyLou remained alive, dualing it out in a brief heads-up war that resulted in CrazyLou winning his first ever SBR Poker Freeroll.
69 entered the tournament that night with victory on their minds.
Only one had a chance to escape with a 'W', one man took that opportunity and seized it.
This article is your congratulations, CrazyLou, for achieving the unthinkable and cementing your name next to the list of forum legends who have earned the right to refer to themselves as champion.
-Anonymous Poker beat writer
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He had made the final table once before, and bowed out before making his presence felt. The odds were stacked against him to ever make it back that far, let alone improve beyond his already criticized accomplishment. They said he was the beneficiary of ill-timed decisions and 'bad beats', others just said the mother****er got lucky.
Last night was his night to change all that, to rewrite history, to finish what he had started.
CrazyLou entered the final table ranked 3rd with a chip stack of just over $21,000. He felt a quiet calm coursing through his veins, the cylinders were spinning upstairs, all his thoughts and opponent reads were interconnected beautifully like the inner workings of a stop watch. He felt complete control over his table image, mixing his play up masterfully and switching positions more violently than a politician up for re-election. Nobody at that table could touch him, but that doesn't mean nobody tried.
Jeremythegreat sat to his right, and would proceed to challenge him throughout the final table. The first big test occurred after Jeremy moved in for just over $19,000 into CrazyLou's big blind. CrazyLou held AQ of spades, and contemplated the decision carefully before folding. He had just over $23,000 in chips at the time, and it made no sense to put his entire tournament life on the line for what he knew would be a coin-flip at best. He folded, and Jeremythegreat quickly showed AJ offsuit, arrogantly mocking Lou for his decision to get away from the hand. The attempt to throw him off his game didn't inspire Lou to ''get even'', it didn't prompt him to think about revenge, he simply moved onto the next hand and played the best poker he was capable of playing.
Several dozen hands later, the field began to narrow, survival of the fittest and all those old cliches that run through your head anytime there's a Rocky re-run on the tube.
When the smoke began to clear, only Jeremythegreat and CrazyLou remained alive, dualing it out in a brief heads-up war that resulted in CrazyLou winning his first ever SBR Poker Freeroll.
69 entered the tournament that night with victory on their minds.
Only one had a chance to escape with a 'W', one man took that opportunity and seized it.
This article is your congratulations, CrazyLou, for achieving the unthinkable and cementing your name next to the list of forum legends who have earned the right to refer to themselves as champion.
-Anonymous Poker beat writer
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