Season 20 Week 5

HISTORY! HISTORY! HISTORY! HISTORY! HISTORY! HISTORY!

Oh, did I mention the fact we made history at the VPL on tuesday night.

With a call from Jared, to reserve his seat, with three minutes remaining before the first color up, he made the 23rd person to sit at the VPL tables.

That's right! There was a total of 23 people who made it to the VPL for week 5.

Domino effect: with having the most people at the VPL also meant the largest payout in VPL history..............but more on that later.

This tournament also has the honor of being the longest tournament in VPL history.

The tournament ended with the blinds at 600/1200 (first time at that level) at 2:06am. That's right 2:06. The cash game ended before the tournament did (unheard of)

The play was extreme. Two tables of eight and one table of seven.

The table I was at had extreme action right off the bat. After a few hands into the tournament, there was an all-in and a call. Didn't knock out the player but left him severly crippled.

Coming into the break, there was still three tables of action.

This season has shown, pretty consistently, that after 20 players the payout goes to 5 spots (the 5th going towards the points and TOC).

Season 20 has had only one week with less than 21 (week 2 had 18)

Of course with the big number of players comes the big number of points.

The points race right now is very tight. Only 2 points separate the first three spots.

Now down to the action:

This week's bubble contained the following people: Quentin, Alan, Todd, David and TC

Up to this point, very crazy (and sometimes questionable) poker playing.

Someone had to get the honor of bubble boy.

This week that honor belonged to Todd. He left the tournament in 5th place.

Money time: Quentin, Alan, TC and David.

This is the point where the tournament seemed to just creep.

Everyone was in the money, however, nobody wanted to leave. The chips seemed to be floating back and forth from one player to another.

Finally there was a 4th place finisher.

Alan, gracefully left the table in 4th place with a win of $31.

After Alan, again, it seemed that the table ran into a bowl of jello.

I'm not saying there wasn't action. There was plenty of action. The only problem was that shortstacks were doubling up and then losing their chips again.

The chips went back and forth. The chip lead was a roller coaster ride.

With a 4th place finish, all tournaments must have a 3rd place finisher.

This tournament was no different.

In 3rd place with a $39 win was Quentin.

Heads-Up: TC and David.

David came into the tournament with a massive chip lead.

TC battled back as much as possible but in the end, it wasn't enought.

TC ended week 5 in 2nd place with a $97 win.

Which meant, David, was week 5's winner.

This record finish left him with the chip and an amazing $195 payout.

Crazy Fact of the Tournament: I counted 7 pocket pair of aces and only 2 of them got busted.

Can it get any better, we can only wait and see.

Check the points race and come next week to see who will win week 6.

It could be you!

Good luck everyone.