Champion Chip Results

The recently concluded and now weekly ChampionChip online poker tournament on bwin saw xxxlolitaxxx win the title. An interesting name to say the least but most importantly it was a winner's name. The action concluded when xxxlolitaxxx turned a straight as his opponent turned two pair.

The straight held as as none of the four cards to make a full house came. That final piece of drama followed up a great tournament as 1642 players logged in to play online poker. Unfortunately for 1641 of them first place wouldn't be theirs that day. For that one, xxxlolitaxxx he got bragging rights and more importantly $55,065 in prize money.

The total prize pool to be divvyed up was over $300,000. Sure enough, xxxlolitaxxx got off to an early start. In short order he was behind a mountain of virtual chips. As they edged closer to the final table xxxlolitaxxx held a 2 to 1 chip advantage over second place.

Once there the chip tallies were: phantomaup, seat 1, $355,273; NeilMc, seat 2, $286,140 (who played for bwin at the WSOP last year); Tlick777, seat 3, $253,712; gregg937, seat 4, $148,654; RioFish, seat 5, $161,435; skwiik, seat 6, $254,518; Oodges, seat 7, $254,967; xxxlolitaxxx, seat 8, $1,447,851; Keiler513, seat 9, $566,128; and barapengar, seat 10, $376,322.

Gregg937 started off as a short stack and would be an unlikely opponent for xxxlolitaxxx in heads up action but sure enough he got there. Players slowly fell by the wayside as RioFish, Oodges, and Tlick went out. Barapengar, NeilMc, and skwiik were next out. barapengar cashed out for $12,579 in fifth place. skwiik nabbed 4th place who won $18,719.

That left the last three eying each other over the virtual felt. xxxlolitaxxx with $2,655,832 in chips only need to get by phantomaup with $577,566 in chips and gregg937with $817,602. The action was fleeting as the tournament wrapped up 12 short hands after phantomaup was eliminated.

phantomaup's A10 didn't improve and the former short stack gregg937's pocket jacks held. The aforementioned turned two pair vs. turned straight followed shortly later and Gregg937 had to be happy with his improbable run to second and $37,438 for second place. Third place phantomaup won $24,958.