DaMatrix Revolutions: October 2008

DaMatrix busts Ken Doherty (Twice!)

Last month I busted Devilfish (again) and today I busted Ken Doherty twice in Ken's $10,000 Triple Bounty $25 Rebuy & Addon tournament on VCPoker to claim a $2,500 prize on top of my $350 share of the prizepool for coming 3rd. I should have won my 122nd tournament really but, still, not bad for a $77.50 investment!

"Once a month, our good friend Ken Doherty will be joining you on the tables in “Ken’s Triple Bounty Tourney” giving up to three lucky punters the chance to scoop $500 each or one extremely jammy player the chance to grab an astounding $10,000!!!

In essence, Ken will have three lives and be able to rebuy, if necessary, on two occasions. Be the player to take all of Ken’s chips once and you will win $500! Be the player to take all of Ken’s chips twice and you will win $2,500!! Be the player to take all of Ken’s chips THREE times and you will win a fiendishly irregular $10,000!!!"

121 MTT Wins

You may recall that in 2007 I won my 100th MTT at an average field size (AFS) of 156. I won one more before the end of the year and this year I have won a further 20 MTTs.

My all time MTT wins now stands at 121 at an AFS of 135.

BlueSq Power Hour

"Blue Square Poker's 'synchronised winnings' promotion during the Olympics is back by popular demand and this time the stakes have been raised sky high by offering a top prize of a trip for two to Las Vegas including three night's stay at a 5 star hotel on the strip, a show and a helicopter flight tour! The power hour poker challenge is to clock up as many winning 6 or 10 seat Single Table Tournaments (STT's) as you can within an hourly period.

There are three levels of competition with prizes for the top three in each category. The Las Vegas trip is the top prize for players competing in the $30+ STT tier. For those whose bankroll may not stretch to this level, there is still plenty of reason to get involved with $500 top prize for $10-$20 STT's and $250 top prize for the $1-$5 tier.

Synchronised winnings Gold medalist architectus (aka DaMatrix) managed a massive 9 wins in one hour playing purely 10 seat STT's.

If you think you can better this, you have from 12am on October 1st till 11:59pm on October 31st to see how many you can win!"

Full details of the promotion are available on Blue Square Poker.

PokerNews Cup II Result

I made it to day 2 and eventually got busted with 98 on a 965 flop against the flopped nuts!

Congratulations to Nali Kaselias, 2008 PokerNews Cup Main Event Champion! ($250,000 AUD)

1st - Nali Kaselias $250,000
2nd - Kenneth Damm $120,000
3rd - David Lee $73,100
4th - Ray Sukkar $49,200
5th - Martin Comer $41,000
6th - Tim Heath $32,800
7th - David Gorr $24,600
8th - Grant Levy $16,400
9th - James Broom $12,000

The Million Dollar Bet

Zigmund aka Ilari Sahamies, who I busted in the WHUPC €500 side event in 2005, bets over a million bux on FullTiltPoker just after 2am today!

PokerNews Cup - Melbourne, Australia

Whilst watching the WSOPE final table online I booked my flight to Melbourne last night (just over £1,000 return, £300 up on last year's flight!)

Fingers crossed I run like John Juanda and take the A$250,000 guaranteed first place prize down in the PokerNews Cup main event!