Welcome to the First Live Poker Radio Tournament

Over 38 runners so far...

Welcome to the Insanity! We're working on getting some great prizes for the future, but everyone wants to be the inaugural champion of the world.

Well, of the LivePokerRadio Tour world.

Well I've been trying to get myself knocked out of a Razz Freeroll but every time I call I catch.

My Trip 8's crush Iam23skidoo and we are off and rolling.

The Initial Gigli of the LivePokerRadio Tour is Wammie whose Qs9s were dominated by Pvanharibo's pocket nines. Wammie flopped the flush draw but no help came.

Bam Bam is gone after Numbblowme's Aces took out the last 60 chips of Bam Bam. From Way DownTOWN BAM BAM!

Top 5 so far
1. Pvanharibo
2. Irongirl
3. Scottc25
4. bdidde
5. Champsampson

and in the Dank position ... Iam23skidoo.

09:12

Recent Ejections : Cemfredmd whose A5 was no match for Bayne_s AJ. JACKACE!
OOSSUUU754 is also out!

Hoy's trip tens were enough to take a chunk of my chips, but I play better short chipped and I am in the Dank Position.

Down to 4 tables...

09:22
Pebbles Trip Kings were enough to take a ton of Numbbono's chips and he is now in the Dank position as I doubled up versus Kajagugu as A3o > 22.

1QueensUp1 aka Pokerbrian is out and we have 35 runners left.

Top 5:

1. Pebble78
2. Bdidde
3. MikeMaloney and his TCU Baloney!
4. Pvanharibo
5. OhCaptain who is looking at puppies that won't chew for OhCountess! (That's his job)

09:30

HighonPkr - Jordan and once Top 5 Irongirl have hit the rail but we would like to invite you back again. HighonPoker's Bitches (Pocket Queens) are called by Pvanharibo's 9's and the RNG is generous to the undercards as Pvanharibo's straight on turn is good enough. Going all in Preflop is not good enough to help the overcards tonight. Just see Irongirl's exit.

Miami Don's 4 flush hurt Irongirl's Cowboys and MadBrooklyn's JackAce is no good versus Fuel's Gold of Riggstad. Pocket fives hold up and we are down to 31.

If you see a nine hit the flop stay away from Pvanharibo. Champsampson's top pair is no good and he is out to her trip nines.

09:40
Set over Set.... Muhctim loses to Ddionysus 10's vs Jacks. Muchtim is in the Dank Position.
Bayne_s A10o is no good to OhCaptain's AK because sometimes Anna Kournakova looks good and wins. But not often.

Top 5
1. Pvanharibo
2. OhCaptian
3. Miami Don
4. Hoyazo
5. Lightning36 and Muhctim is in the Dank position.

Somebody's sleeping on the couch and it looks like Numbette as she takes out her own hubby Numbbono. Down to 27 players.

09:50
I've still got 5k in chips in the freeroll. Now I'm just calling blind, more entertaining for me. Runner Runner Runnered someone with KK7 showing. Got the nuts and he's cursing me out.

Scottc25 is out when his 7 4 o lost to DDionysus's QQ. Down to 26.

I'm in the Dank position when Twoblackaces pocket tens sniff out my hammer drop and Pinkystinky's boat takes me out.

The Pvanharibo express continues as she steamrolls through Zeem. Kd3d vse KQo Pvan hits the 3 on flop and turn and an unimproved Zeem hits the rail.

10:00 and we are at break. Wait a min, I didn't even make it to break, ah screw it, the host never wins his own tournament. Right Mook, Hoy, Riggs?

I can't make myself bust in Razz...
In the LPR tourney Astin and Muhctim have hit the rail also... we are down to 21

Top 5 at Break...
1. Pvanharibo 6766 in chips
2. Hoyazo 5330 in chips
3. Ddionysus 5000 in chips
4. Kajagugu 4375 in chips
5. OhCaptain 4151 in chips

Who will win, Who will be the LPRT inaugural champion. And will Tragedy ever bust out of that Razz freeroll. Stay Tuned!

Ohcountess finally fell asleep and her chips went with her. Nighty Night.

Pvanharibo is beatable as her 4's are no good against Bdidde's AK. And the pain continues the next hand for Pvanharibo as her A6 is no good against Pebble's Jacks.

Evy and her DD's are in the Dank position. Good luck hun, you'll need it.

20 players left and this is where the rubber meets the road. BTW 10:14 and I CAN'T LOSE in the Razz tourney, but I can't win either.

Top 5.
1. Ddionysus 5240
2. Hoyazo 5030
3. Pebble78 4810
4. JoshuaCarlsen 4728
5. Oh Captain 4711

And Hoy is making a run. Could he win a tournament that has never been in existence on his first try? It could happen.

But a lot of poker and suckouts to go. Columbo is in the Dank Position.

PinkyStinky's 8's are no good against the AQo of Hoy and the Instant Tragedy Curse has begun. Knock out the host, and lose a coin flip.

Pebble78's Queens are a girl's best friend, especially a turned set as Ddionysus is OUT as he Kings are no match for a set of angry women.

10:20 A side note, thanks to OhCaptain who has been helping me as my spotter tonight. Thanks again ol Mayo Brother!

Down to 17 and the funny note of the night comes from table assignments by Full Tilt. You put OhCaptain and Oh Countess, hubby and wife at the same table and Riggstad and his little buddy Alcanthang both from Philly at the same starting table. NICE JOB! I think Numbbono and Numbette were on the same table too. WOW!1

Pvanharibo has to stay away from Bdidde as he has had her number ALL night long A8 into Bdidde's AK and the board does not cooperate. She's down to 2k.

Ohcaptain's 7 high is good to tilt Hoy. Not really, but it was interesting to watch.

I miss broadcasting. We are dealing with "issues" and we will be broadcasting soon. Sorry for the inconvenience. MGT.

10:30

Still in Razz tourney, waiting for the railbirds that will come when I bubble it.

Iakaris is out in 17th and Evy is on live support. Virtually all in , in the big blind but folds. She gets two pair on the small blind and double up.

You can't beat Pvanharibo with nine's because Diamonds are Lj's best friend as she hits on the river to double through JoshuaCarlesen.

Evy's 45 chips are in the dank position while the Top 5 are :
1. Pebble 8300
2. Twoblackaces 8100
3. Hoyazo 7300
4. Numbette 5790
5. Kajagugu 5450

Royal Suckout of the night, Kajagugu's Jack versus Hoy's 10's. SHOW ME 4 card rivered straight. MOOOOOOOOOB (the unboom). Kaja gets his trips and exits in 15th place.

Chitwood is close thereafter as his AKc suited looked pretty especially after a 2 club flop but TwoBlackAces proves the Fuel's Gold (55) is good as he 4 straights him to put the death blow. GG Chitwood.

Girl on Girl action as Numbette and Evy35 go at it. Numbette hits her six of her 67 os and Evy needs a Q , a ten or a jack and the jack hits for the Gutshot and Numbette gets bitch slapped as Evy doubles up YET AGAIN. She won't go away.

Alcanthang doubles up as his two pair is good versus Numbette. Maybe she's on estrogen tilt?

10:40

Top 5
1. Hoyazo with a 13k commanding chip lead
2. Pebble maintains second place with 9800
3. Numbette continues the estrogen parade with 9000 chips
4. Twoblackaces with 8050
5. Bdidde with 5930

In the dank position... JoshuaCarlsen

As Evy and Alcanthang bust out as the suckout queen Pvanharibo calls alcanthangs all in with 9 3 os Al thinks he ahead with Queen Jack os. BUT NO. The three comes on the flop and al is gone. GG sir.

JoshuaCarlsen is out as his 9s3s is dominated by lightning36's Q2. A two hits the turn and he his gone.

Down to 10 and we are at the final table bubble. RaisingCayne is in the Dank Position and we are
holding steady on the top five.

Short stacks are wondering if the next time they see 74 off suit should they fold for the fifteenth time or shove.

Only time will tell.

RaisingCayne is out when Pvanharibo sucks out ONCE AGAIN with Raisin's Pair of aces no good to Pvan's rivered set of tens.

10:49 and we have a final table.


AND HERE WE GO... Fighting for the right to be called Numero Uno.

And the first one out is Riggstad
Now a hit seven is nice... Queen on the turn and Riggs is done to Hoy. Congrats Riggs.

Pvan takes a BUNCH of Lightning36 as OhCaptains prediction of aces comes true. Two pair for Lightning36 and he doubles up the hand later. Still going.

Bdidde hits a set, but Hoy hits a straight. Comedy ensues...
And we are at the Money Bubble!

And the bubble is POPPED!

Pebble AQ takes out Numbettes 44 with a rivered Flush and we are now CASHING!

Congrats to all the money winners:

Will it be The Dominant Chip Leader? Or Will the grizzled Veteran win?

11:13 OHCaptain is all in with J9os and doubles through Pvanharibo's A4os

11:14 Pvanharibo Donates with JQ into Twoblackaces A8o

11:15 Ohcaptain is out when his tp oesd runs into Pvan's Broadway. He takes home $37.80 and the knowledge that he cashed in the first LivePokerRadio tourney on Full Tilt.



11:15 as fast as those chips come they go as Pvan's two pair of Aces and Jacks go into the night versus Hoy's turned set. And Pvan is in the dank position with 6k!

Action is fast and furious as TBA's Set of 8's take down Hoy's Kings and Queens and we have a new chip leader TBA with 22k!

11:24 OHCaptain and I are talking "King Jack is my favorite hand," he says.
"Not tonight," I respond. WOW BOOOOOOM!

Now the blind stealing shall commence.

11:32 Ace Ten for Pebble, Ace Queen for Hoy and Pebble's Ace of diamonds ARE a girls best friend as she will double up on the 4 flush. Anyone for a chop?

11:33 Ace Ten for Pebble (Wait a min didn't I just type this,) Ace Jack for Hoy and the board blanks and Hoy gets his chips back

11:33 10's for TBA AK for Pebble, and Pebbles hits her two pair on the flop, SUCK, TBA resucks with a ten on the turn and the river flops the queen and the pot is split. If there was ever there was a WTF moment that was it.

And now this commercial message.
Next week on the LivePokerRadio Tour:
Date: Monday August 11th
Time : 10 P.M. Server Time
Buy In: $14 + $1
Format : NLHE Knockout with a $3 Bounty. DOUBLE STACK
PW: boom

11:38 Pvanharibo's A2 versus TwoblackAces AQ. Both hit the flop but Pvan gets no help and is eliminated in 4th place with a $50.40 payday.


11:39 Shennanigans as both ladies have been ejected. AQo for TBA A5o for Pebbles and the board blanks and Pebble78 takes home $67.20 in third place.


AND WE ARE HEADS UP.

Will TwoblackAces, consistent donator to the Donkament win ? Or will Hoy, win the tourney that has replaced his tourney in a karmic payback?

We have a winner...

and Irony is thick as thieves...

Hoy takes second place as the JackAce betrays yet another one.
Hoy goes home in second place with $96.60 and TwoBlackAces is your winner in the Inaugural LivePokerRadio Tour.


We sat down with TBA after his victory...

livepokerradio : TwoBlackAces, you are the inaugural winner of the LivePokerRadio Tournament. What are you feeling right now?
TwoBlackAces : Feels pretty good....and to think I almost missed it. Didn't know until late today, I bet I was the last one to sign up.

So lets get into Six Deadly Questions: AQ or 72

TwoBlackAces : hammer

WPT Event or WSOP Circuit Event

TwoBlackAces : wsop

Boxers or Briefs

TwoBlackAces : au natural

Obama or McCain

TwoBlackAces : obama

What is your dream heads up matchup against a pro

TwoBlackAces : ivey

and finally ROAR or BOOOM?

TwoBlackAces : BOOOOOOOOM

TwoBlackAces : Thanks for picking this up Sean....enjoyed it!

Thanks for taking the time out to play tonight TwoBlackAces and we want to thank everyone who came out tonight.

Next week on the LivePokerRadio Tour:
Date: Monday August 11th
Time : 10 P.M. Server Time
Buy In: $14 + $1
Format : NLHE Knockout with a $3 Bounty. DOUBLE STACK
PW: boom

For our cast of thousands, my spotter OhCaptain, my partner in crime Riggstad, I'm Instant Tragedy reminding you that the only nuts you have is when you get to say BOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!
Good Night from LivePokerRadio.Com

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LivePokerRadio would like to invite you to join us on Monday's as we fill the void left by the departure of the MATH. We would like to thank Hoyazo for the two years he dedicated to Monday's At The Hoy.

The LivePokerRadio Tour will be offering many new opportunities for you to not only donk it up, but win. Come along for the ride. Everyone says they want to be there for the first.

You want the details? Let's get you all of them:

Date: Monday's starting August 4th
Time : 10 P.M. ET Full Tilt Poker
Buy In: $10 + $1 (May change due to special events)
Format : Single Stack NLHE (May change due to special events)
PW : Boom

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Final Table

The final table is set. Working on chip counts.

Seat 1 Alan Colon
Seat 2 Vineet Pahuja
Seat 3 Mark Herm
Seat 4 Alex "Screwball" Nepomnyaschiy
Seat 5 Barry Leventhal
Seat 6 William Phipps
Seat 7 Boris Kravets
Seat 8 Jeremy Schoenberger
Seat 9 Paul Kitsos
Seat 10 Allen Bari

1:50pm - First real action has Jeremy Schoenberger doubling off Mark Herm. AT versus 99. Herm has been swimming upstream since his battle with Leventhal.

2:00pm - Leventhal's railbirds are losing their minds. No judgment calls from me. But he is wearing a Shockey jersey. Just saying.

2:05pm - No real action at the table but the battle of the railbirds started heating up but ended quickly when "Shockey" fell out of the stands. Leventhal is alive and kicking well but his railbird's day is over.

2:10pm - Blinds are now at 40k/80k/10k with the average chip at exactly 1,725,000. God bless ten handed math.

2:15pm - First elimination at the final table. Boris Kravets pushed as a shorty and was called by Paul Kitsos. Kitsos proves the presto is gold. Kravets collects $22,425 for 10th.

2:30pm - Things all of sudden got very tense. Nepomnyaschiy and Leventhal were involved in a hand and Phipps starts talking about the two soft playing each other. Both are warned by the TD but the chatter kept going between the three. Eventually all three were warned but things escalated. Leventhal was given a 10 hand penalty and ended up standing toe-to-toe with Phipps before leaving the area. Leventhal's railers were also given a warning.

2:33pm - Phipps takes the opportunity to almost felt Mark Herm. T2d for Herm, AKo for Phipps. Ten on the flop was outdone by a King on the turn. Herm doesn't have enough for the blinds.

He pushed his last 95k was knocked out by Schoenberger. After a great run, Mark Herm takes home $34,500 for 9th place.

2:50pm - Leventhal is back after his penalty. Things have calmed but we will see what happens once he starts slinging chips. Alex Nepomnyaschiy has been very quiet and is the shortstack at the table. This is a big change from his 20+ vodkas and slam dancing action near the end of day 2.

3:10pm - Things have slowed back down with no one willing to tangle with the big stacks and everything calmed down. Players are now on a 15 minutes and we're working on chip counts. 8 still remain.

3:20pm - Current chip counts at the break:

Seat 1 Alan Colon - 1,200,000
Seat 2 Vineet Pahuja - 2,800,000
Seat 4 Alex Nepomnyaschiy - 1,100,000
Seat 5 Barry Leventhal - 2,400,000
Seat 6 William Phipps - 1,500,000
Seat 8 Jeremy Schoenberger - 1,600,000
Seat 9 Paul Kitsos - 2,100,000
Seat 10 Allen Bari - 4,000,000

Blinds are 50k/100k/10k

3:50pm - Leventhal and Nepomnyaschiy had a significant hand that didn't really push many chips around but was interesting. Nepomnyaschiy folded AQ face up to a re-raise from Leventhal after tanking for a decade. Leventhal showed AK. Yesterday's version of Alex would be signing his prize sheet right for 8th right about now.

4:00pm - Possible misstep by Schoenberger by not catching the biggest tell in the world on Leventhal. While headsup, Shoenberger was contemplating calling a 600k river bet when Leventhal thought he heard a call and said "You got me" and started to show his cards even though there was no call. Floor and dealer confirmed there was no call. Either Schoenberger missed that piece of information or wasn't buying it because he ended up folding. Leventhal then mucks face up showing his airball bluff.

4:20pm - Alan Colon just doubled up off Allen Bari with AK versus KQ. Not much dancing going on at this point.

4:30pm - Blinds are now 50k/100k/15k with average stack just shy of 2,200,000. We've been 8 handed for two hours.

5:00pm - Classic deepstack final table. Flops are few and far between, railbirds are getting anxious and things will start to heating up prior to the upcoming dinner break.

5:30pm - Players on a dinner break. Most excitement I've had over the last 3 hours has been trying to figure out who is getting my dinner money.

6:20pm - Current chip counts:

Seat 1 Alan Colon - 1,600,000
Seat 2 Vineet Pahuja - 1,400,000
Seat 4 Alex Nepomnyaschiy - 1,200,000
Seat 5 Barry Leventhal - 2,600,000
Seat 6 William Phipps - 500,000
Seat 8 Jeremy Schoenberger - 1,400,000
Seat 9 Paul Kitsos - 3,300,000
Seat 10 Allen Bari - 5,400,000

Blinds staying 50k/100k/15k

6:35pm - Didn't take long for the first player to hit the rail after the break. William Phipps was severely short but caught AK. Allen Bari called with T9 and caught a 9. Phipps finishes in 8th for $51,750.

7:00pm - Players are getting a little chippy as they realize the end could come at any time. Railbirds are taking catnaps waiting for the next big action. TD's are probably tired of seeing all our faces for the last 70+ hours. I'm afraid to go on a hunt for RedBull lest I miss some action.

7:20pm - Big pot between Jeremy Schoenberger and chip leader Allen Bari. Schoenberger and Bari get all the chips in preflop with ATh versus QQ. Bari hit a set on the AKx one heart flop but Schoenberger went running hearts to pick up a huge pot.

8:00pm - New blind level is 60k/120k/20k. I've found a brand new way to entertain myself as these guys continue to push chips around to each other. And just like a good bluff, you have to use it at the right time. Suddenly moving out of my seat towards the table will have the entire stands full of railbirds get up and move forward. The dealer feels special getting all that attention when he is just collecting the blinds.

8:15pm - Barry Leventhal is out. Action folded around to Alex Nepomnyaschiy on the button who came in for 500k. Leventhal pushed in for an extra 860k. Nepomnyaschiy tanked and eventually called. His JJ survived again Leventha's AQ. Barry Leventhal will collect $69,000 for his 7th place finish.

8:20pm - Approximate chip counts in the middle of play:

Seat 1 Alan Colon - 2,000,000
Seat 2 Vineet Pahuja - 1,700,000
Seat 4 Alex Nepomnyaschiy - 3,200,000
Seat 8 Jeremy Schoenberger - 1,600,000
Seat 9 Paul Kitsos - 3,200,000
Seat 10 Allen Bari - ~7,000,000

8:30pm - At the beginning of the day Barry Leventhal promised to tip the dealers 10% of whatever he won. True to his word, he came straight back to the tournament room and deposited $6,900 into the dealer toke. Good man.

Anti-climatic hand between Schoenberger and Kitsos. Kitsos called Schoenberger's allin and they both turned up AQo with Schoebergers Qd freerolling the flush on the turn. Blank on the turn and chopped up.

8:35pm - Alex Nepomnyaschiy has decided to give himself a nickname. From hence forth until we've gone completely loopy, he will be called Alex "Jedi Master" Nepomnyaschiy.

8:40pm - Things are popping along again. Alan Colon open shoved with KTc and was snap called by Paul Kitsos with QQ. Colon doubled up when his saving King hit the turn. Action is picking up but it still took us 5 hours to go from 8 players to 6. The "Jedi Master" is starting to pick up his chatter now that we are 6 handed.

8:50pm - Alan Colon's KT luck has run out. In the SB he pushed in 1,700,000 with KT and was eventually called by Vinny Pahuja in the BB with 88. The eights held up and Alan Colon is out 6 place finisher getting $86,250.

9:00pm - Break time. Next level is 70k/140k/25k. Approximate chip counts at break:

Seat 2 Vineet Pahuja 3,800,000
Seat 4 Alex "Jedi Master" Nepomnyaschiy 3,200,000
Seat 8 Jeremy Schoenberger 3,250,000
Seat 9 Paul Kitsos 2,100,000
Seat 10 Allen Bari 5,500,000

10:00pm - Things got a little strange and then techno issues kicked in. Between all that happening the tournament ended and we have a 2008 Borgata Summer Open Main Event winner.

Allen Bari outlasted Vinny Pahuja to take down the title, add $500k plus to his bankroll and add some fine jewelry.

New comer Jeremy Schoenberger finished 3rd followed by Alex "Jedi Master" Nepomnyaschiy in 4th and Paul Kitsos in 5th.

Standby for the followup post and live interviews. Congratulations to Allen Bari.