While the big focus for online poker sites comes with the Sunday games, there is not a day without a poker game that is worth looking out for. This is great news because we all run different lives and have separate schedules that we need to keep track of. What works for one person may not exactly work for another so it can be great to have some time when you know you can get online and enjoy some big poker action for a good amount of money. This is definitely the case on Tuesday evenings and some British poker players definitely had a Super Tuesday this week!
Real Madrid almost had a Super Tuesday this week but they just failed to overcome their first leg deficit and this means that Borussia Dortmund clinched their place at the big Wembley final later on this month. This is something that plenty of poker players will be looking to emulate with the Dusk Till Dawn backed International Stadium Poker Tour event heading for Wembley at the end of May. There was great success this week though and two British poker players managed to grab over $100,000 between them for their play on the Super Tuesday game.
Big poker success playing for big money
The $1,050 buy-in of the PokerStars Super Tuesday event is certainly eye-watering but it managed to draw 541 people to the game. This clearly means that there is a market for this sort of event and the fact that there was a prize pool of $541,000 on offer shows you that there was something special to play for. Whatever else you do with your time on a Tuesday night, it is not likely to be as exciting or as thrilling as this poker game!
Amongst the final 9 players were two UK players so they knew they were in the running to make big money. The smallest amount lined up for the final table was just under $9,000. This would be a big drop from what the winners would expect to get but it would still represent a healthy return for the initial investment and the time spent playing poker.
Going into the final table, the chips leader was David Emmons, who is known as “Betudontbet” online and he held 570,808 chips. In the third position at the table was one British player, “route666” who held 220,383 chips and in the fifth position around the table was Goldenboys, who held 320,280 chips.
For once, the chip leader going into the final table held on for victory and David Emmons grabbed a whopping $92,265 for his trouble. There was real UK success in second place though as “Goldenboys” found himself taking home $86,265 for a second place finish. The other UK player, route666 finished back in sixth place but this still earned a respectable $22,992.50. Both players grabbed the sort of financial return that most players could only dream of when playing poker and it remains to be seen how all their other Tuesdays this year rank against Super Tuesday.