March Madness Poker Tournament
Well that was it for the March Madness this year. Nearly 300 players turned up to take advantage of the massive overlay on offer, with a final prizepool of just under $11,000.00. It looks like a good time was had by all.
A big congratulations to Zoli82 for taking down the huge 1st prize of $2737.00
Some of you would have noticed a difference in the advised and final payout list, the problem here has been corrected and all players received at least the earlier advised payouts. Those finishing up the order actually came out well ahead. The full list of placings and payouts is shown below.
Zoli82 really started to dominate midway through the final table using his big stack to some good effect.
For those who missed it the final hand is below, terftlf starting with the better hand, was outflopped and amazingly missing all of the many outs he had.
March Madness Final Hand
| Seat 5: terftlf ($159,744 in chips) | ![[JD,AH]](/images/13/en/poker/hand1.gif) |
| Seat 9: Zoli82 ($2,212,756 in chips) | ![[AC,5S]](/images/13/en/poker/hand2.gif) |
| ANTES/BLINDS terftlf posts blind ($30,000), Zoli82 posts blind ($60,000). |
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| PRE-FLOP terftlf bets $129,744 and is all-in, Zoli82 calls $99,744. Having a premium hand terftlf is not going to pass on the opportunity to double up, he is 70% favourite going in. |
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| FLOP Bad flop for terftlf, giving a pair to Zoli82, he both the Jack and the flush draw to fall back on though and is 44% going into the turn. |
![[board cards 5D,QD,4D ]](/images/13/en/poker/flop.gif) |
| TURN No diamond but the king is not all bad news for terftlf, he now has the jack and both a flush and straight draw, 31% at the river. |
![[board cards 5D,QD,4D,KS ]](/images/13/en/poker/turn.gif) |
| RIVER No help there and Zoli72 takes it down with a pair of fives! |
![[board cards 5D,QD,4D,KS,9S ]](/images/13/en/poker/river.gif) |
| SHOWDOWN Zoli82 wins $319,488 with a pair of fives. |
Final Standings
| Place | Nickname | Paid |
| 1 | Zoli82 | $ 2,737.00 |
| 2 | terftlf | $ 1,752.00 |
| 3 | letsgo774 | $ 1,095.00 |
| 4 | Octowhissy07 | $ 722.63 |
| 5 | Steadfast2 | $ 514.25 |
| 6 | Moose_wizard | $ 416.06 |
| 7 | ckspinner_28 | $ 328.47 |
| 8 | ukeric | $ 262.77 |
| 9 | .texaswolf | $ 218.98 |
| 10 | ALL-SAINTS | $ 205.70 |
| 11 | mwright007 | $ 131.38 |
| 12 | pvfc23 | $ 131.38 |
| 13 | sleprock18 | $ 131.38 |
| 14 | michaelhe | $ 131.38 |
| 15 | luomo1 | $ 131.38 |
| 16 | booker37 | $ 109.49 |
| 17 | pokerloons | $ 109.49 |
| 18 | Willben1 | $ 109.49 |
| 19 | beeryT | $ 109.49 |
| 20 | mikky81 | $ 109.49 |
| 21 | oksana60 | $ 102.85 |
| 22 | rhendrie | $ 102.85 |
| 23 | TheTilter18 | $ 102.85 |
| 24 | Valdnieks | $ 102.85 |
| 25 | khicks56 | $ 102.85 |
| 26 | TALNSXY2000 | $ 102.85 |
| 27 | alamojoe35 | $ 102.85 |
| 28 | SerjF | $ 102.85 |
| 29 | auburndude | $ 102.85 |
| 30 | YANKS-SUK | $ 102.85 |
| 31 | scdrunkguy | $ 102.85 |
| 32 | JUSTJLX2 | $ 102.85 |
| 33 | CamelsTongue | $ 102.85 |
| 34 | vegas | $ 102.85 |
| 35 | Norden | $ 102.85 |
| 36 | JokernordXX | $ 102.85 |
| 37 | pokker59 | $ 102.85 |
| 38 | xRogueCardx | $ 102.85 |
| 39 | marka12 | $ 102.85 |
| 40 | txmick1111 | $ 102.85 |