Tonights Terminator Winner Just Wouldn't Die!

Tonight's action started with only 12 players spread evenly across 2 tables, even with this many players we still had 28 Rebuys and 29 Addons making tonight's total prize pool of $1101 plus another $300 in bounties.

1st prize tonight was $551, 2nd $330 and paying to 3rd paying $220.

Right away we had some great hands, Chris R flopping Quad Aces early in the tournament and we had Andrew flopping an open ended straight flush only to get run down runner runner by another flush!

Final table and we had a huge 3 way all in with Hayden with Q 8 up against Des with J 9 and Noel with J J, flop comes 7 10 2, turns a K and river an 8, Des rivering a straight and Hayden out in 5th place.

Bubble tonight went to Martin who on the small blind moves all in, Kirby in the big blind looks at A 5 and calls.  Martin never looked at his cards but has 9 3, flop comes J 10 K, turns a 5 and river a 3, Kirby taking the pot and Martin's bounty with a pair of 5s.

Next hand we had Des and Noel all in against each other.  How Des was still in the tournament I don't know?  Des had 2.5k left earlier which was just enough for a 500 ante and a 2k small blind!  From this he battled and grinded his way back to have 45k, which was exactly what Noel had.  Noel looks at A 4 and pushes all in, Des looks at A J and calls, flop comes J 3 10, turns a K and river a 3, Noel out in 3rd place taking away $220.

Heads up and we had Kirby up against Des who just refused to die.  Both decide to do a deal taking $400 each and playing for the remaining $81 and the Wednesday night Terminator Title and Photo!

Final hand and blinds are 8k/16k, Des on small blind just calls and Kirby
bets no harder.  Flop comes Q A 3, Kirby moves all in, Des looks at Q 5 and thinks for a long time and finally calls, Kirby shows 2 3, turns a 7 and river a 6, Kirby out in 2nd place taking $400 and $75 in bounty's.

Des from under 1 big blind comes back to win the Tournament taking away $481 plus another $175 in bounty's.

The Sweet Taste of Pineapple Victory

This weekend was full of excitement at Dunedin Casino as we launched Crazy Pineapple for the first time in New Zealand.

18 eager players turned up for the New Zealand Crazy Pineapple Poker Championship. With a prize-pool of almost $4,000 the stakes were high.

The competition was slow and steady and we had our final table after about four hours. Top three were paid. They were Aaron M, Alex M and Josh B.

Aaron was short stack as he went all in with A-4-? Josh called with K-K-? Board was 10-7-6-7-A and with Aaron rivering top 2-pair, he got a nice double-up.

After losing out on a few big pots, Alex went all-in post-flop with J(c)-8(c)-? Josh called holding 9-6-? With q-4(c)-9(c)-3-K on the board, Alex missed his flush and Josh's pair of 9's was enough to stay in the game. Alex still took home 3rd place prize, a Crazy Pineapple T-shirt and a golden pineapple.

Josh was next to go all-in with Q-A-? (suited). Aaron called with 10-10-? Board was 3-7-6-J-J so Aaron's 2-pair won him the tournament and first ever Crazy Pineapple Championship in NZ. He also took away with him the trophy and some pineapple souvenirs. Well done.

Crazy Pineapple Satellite Winner

Tonight we had a $10 satellite to the May 21st Crazy Pineapple champs. We had one guaranteed seat and the winner was Andrew!