This week's Saturday Big Shot was the usual roller-coaster ride, but with a massive prize pool and tiny field, the stress and palpitations were well worth it for the six final tablists.
Sadly, PKR's own Team Pro Karl 'discomonkey' Fenton was sent to the rail after a gruelling five hour slog in a frustrating 7th place.
This week it was the turn of two well-known Irish PKR players to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. bumbumbum scooped $7,400 and mayotacker improved on his two previous 3rd place finishes with a 2nd place worth $4,400.
The tournament was finally ended when the 2.5k/5k blinds forced mayotacker to lump his last 25k into the pot with ThJh. bumbumbum made the no-choice snap-call with his K7o and flopped top two.
This result capped of a fantastic month of tournament results for bumbumbum. While he can usually be found tearing up the middle and high stake ring games, Irishman has found himself with a $6,500 APT Macau package and a $7,400 cash win after turning his attention to tournaments.
mayotacker is another hardened grinder who only dips into the choicest and biggest buy-in events, but a trend is definitely starting to emerge. The albeit brief history of the Saturday Big Shot is now dominated by high stakes cash game regulars; the die-hard tournament fanantics need to answer the challenge. Are our finest tournament players struggling to adjust to super deep stacks and six-max tables? Only time will tell whether the tournament specialists can even the score.
Result
Name: Saturday Big Shot (6 seater) (TV)
Date: 18, July 2009 19:00 GMT
Runners: 40
Buy-in: $500
Prize pool: $20,000
Duration: 6 hrs 19 mins
1. bumbumbum $7,400
2. mayotacker $4,400
3. Timvd20 $3,000
4. AtomicBetty $2,200
5. jzzdude $1,600
6. Langesp $1,400