This evening Scott stayed home from work because he foolishly decided he would try and move some fireproof filing cabinets at the college yesterday and strained his back. Since he was bored, he logged into an online poker site and played in a RAZZ tournament with 1,012 other players. RAZZ is a game where the object is to get the lowest hand instead of the highest like in regular poker. In the past the highest he's finished in any tournament has been in the teens. He had never made a final table. Tonight things broke his way and after four hours of playing, Scott made his first final table for an online card tournament.
There were 8 players who made the final table and Scott made it all the way through the final table to heads up with a player from Spain. When they began heads up play, the player from Spain had about 1.1 million chips and Scott had about 800,000 chips. They played heads up for almost 45 minutes. Scott won a big hand early and took the chip lead then slowly ground his way to about a 500,000 chip lead. Then another big hand seemed to cripple the Spaniard taking him down to under 200,000 chips. What followed was an amazing 30 minutes. Scott got the Spaniard all in no less than 11 times and for each of the first ten times the Spaniard survived, twice drawing out on seventh street to win the hand and double up. At one point Scott was only up about 400,000 chips having lost most of his 1.6M chip lead. After a lot of small hands, a couple of big hands for Scott got him in position to finally win. As they approached the five hour mark of play Scott finally got a monster hand against a very good hand for the other player and when the hand was finished the Spaniard had only 30,000 chips left. Two hands later it was all over and Scott had won. For his victory he got the satisfaction of ruling the online Razz world for a night on pokerstars.net, a big kiss from his wife and 17,000 play chips with which he can play in other tournaments.
There were 8 players who made the final table and Scott made it all the way through the final table to heads up with a player from Spain. When they began heads up play, the player from Spain had about 1.1 million chips and Scott had about 800,000 chips. They played heads up for almost 45 minutes. Scott won a big hand early and took the chip lead then slowly ground his way to about a 500,000 chip lead. Then another big hand seemed to cripple the Spaniard taking him down to under 200,000 chips. What followed was an amazing 30 minutes. Scott got the Spaniard all in no less than 11 times and for each of the first ten times the Spaniard survived, twice drawing out on seventh street to win the hand and double up. At one point Scott was only up about 400,000 chips having lost most of his 1.6M chip lead. After a lot of small hands, a couple of big hands for Scott got him in position to finally win. As they approached the five hour mark of play Scott finally got a monster hand against a very good hand for the other player and when the hand was finished the Spaniard had only 30,000 chips left. Two hands later it was all over and Scott had won. For his victory he got the satisfaction of ruling the online Razz world for a night on pokerstars.net, a big kiss from his wife and 17,000 play chips with which he can play in other tournaments.
