The main event of our February Heart Attack has just concluded, after 848 players sat down to play for a prize pool of $5000 free cash!
The clear front runner for the majority of the last several tables was fuchscs. Holding a significant chip lead, it seemed like his tournament to win.
fuchscs naturally came into the final table as chipleader, and held this spot for a very long time. In a few instances when play become five-handed, he suffered a few bad hands, but managed to pull back up to almost one million chips with four players remaining. At this point, he held over half of the chips in play.
He also busted the fourth place finisher loserlori with pocket fives, after his opponent went all in pre-flop with ATo. The board didn’t improve for loserlori and she was eliminated. fuchscs rocketed to over one million in chips.
redwithredaces and Manhanas held approximately 109,000 and 126,000 chips respectively against fuchscs holding 1,411,000 after play became three-handed. The chip count between the two short stacks fluctuated wildly, but Manhanas continued to hold on, doubling up several times on as little as one big blind to stay alive.
Throughout the whole final table Manhanas maintained a positive vibe, and showed amazing sportsmanship on every hand. Offering good luck and congratulations to all players, he certainly deserves the Best and Fairest award for the tournament!
redwithredaces was forced to put in his last 20,436 chips when the big blind was at 30,000. Both players called, but fuchscs folded after Manhanas bet the flop. The cards were revealed, and unfortunately for redwithredaces, his pocket Deuces weren’t good after Manhanas flopped a pair of tens holding AT. Heads-up play began!
On the final hand, both players went all in pre-flop. The race was on – Manhanas held Ad 4c, and fuchscs held Kc 9c. The flop came down 9s Kh Qs, and it was all but over. A Queen on the turn counterfeited the pair of nines, but the river bricked and Manhanas finished in second place for $600. fuchscs held on to the top the whole way, and came away a champion for $1,000 free cash!
Don’t worry though, Heart Attack isn’t over yet. There’s still two more weeks of daily freerolls, so keep earning those Comp Points and you can take a chance at $500 free cash every day!
– Phil @ CarbonPoker
