Absolute Poker $150,000 Guaranteed Sees Low Turnout
It seems poker players took a little time off this past week from the online tournaments as the larger poker rooms saw poor turn outs for their weekly guaranteed events. Absolute Poker is one of the online poker rooms who saw a low turnout, which was bad for them but good for the online players who participated.
The event saw only one hundred and twenty one players registering to compete in the $1,000 plus $50 buy-in tournament. Only eighteen places were paid so players had to be on their best game to earn a payout.
Usually the turnouts are quite good and we can report several notable cashes before the final table takes place. However this time only two players deserve mentioning. Steve “STEVOL” Leonard finished in eighteenth place while Nicholas “BLUMESIUSX” Blumenthal came so close to the final table finishing in twelfth place.
Nine players entered in final table place with the bottom four earning paydays in the thousands. But the top five players earned paydays in the tens of thousands, which is where every poker player would like to be.
When it came down to heads up play, James “JDAWG217” Navolanic and Michael “MIKEIVEY” Meredith would compete for the top prize of almost $40,000. It would be an interesting matchup and on the final hand Meredith held the chip lead and the cards were in his favor. After both players went all in it was Meredith who was able to come up with the first place win.
AbsolutePoker Final Results:
Michael “MIKEIVEY” Meredith — $39,750
James “JDAWG217″ Navolanic — $24,000
COOKIELULU — $17,625
GOGATORS86 — $14,250
LHPM65 — $19,875
ACE10CLUBZ — $9,000
BEACHRAT1946 — $7,125
_ADVANCED — $5,250
DARKHAWK-2000 — $3,750
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