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The Poker.com 1st Birthday Tournament started with 694 players, after more than 6 hours we watched the final table as the last 10 players battle it out for their share of over $50,000 of prizes.

21:30 - final table - snoopy78, Spongeey, p0kerFaceB0uy, bagelbuddy, KingChubb, thepokerpanther, JayCCW, Hist007, Sheepodog, ziegler.

Sheepodog comes in as chip leader with around $250,000 in chips. Blinds are $5,000/$10,000.

21:33 - Several hands go without seeing a flop as players move all in to steal blinds uncontested.

21:34 - Hist007 raises to 80k, sheepodog calls. Hist checks the flop and sheep moves all in. Hist007 folds.

21:35 - Spongeey is all in pre-flop for $16k, sheep calls from the 10k big blind. Spongeey AK holds up and doubles up thru Sheepodog.

21:36 - Hist007 and Bagelbuddy all in preflop. Hist007 with A6h hits his flush on the turn against Bagels JQ with 4JJ flop. bagelbuddy is out in 10th position winning $1500.

21:37 - Pokerface and ziegler see a flop for the cost of a BB. It comes out Q8Q and ziegler bets 10k, pokerface raises to 30k, ziegler re-raises to 50k and pokerface folds.

21:38 - Sheep and KingChubb enter a pot, Sheep takes it down on the turn after King folds. Sheep is now in a commanding chip lead with $370k.

21:39 - Pokerface and JayCCW all in preflop, pokerface turns AA against JayCCW 77. The Aces hold up and Jay is out in 9th position winning $1600.

21:40 - Pokerpanther doubles up thru Pokerface, KK vs AT with a K on board.

21:42 - Hist007 all in for 182k, spongeey folds on a $7500 small blind with only $1310 left. Hoping to outlast someone to move up a position during the next orbit.

21:43 - King and snoop see a flop, snoop moves all in on the flop and King folds from his BB position.

21:44 - snoopy moves all in preflop for $320,000 uncontested by a 30k raise from ziegler, he now has $370k in chips, equal to sheepdog.

21:45 - ziegler and snoop see another flop, snoop bets 30k and ziegler moves all in for 50k and is called. snoop has 55, ziegler has KJ with a J on board (top pair). The Jacks hold up and he doubles up thru snoopy.

21:46 - sheep and pokerface see a flop, 4TQ flop and sheep calls pokerface's all in with his J9 open-ended straight draw. sheep doesnt complete it and and pokerfaces JK holds up, he doubles up thru sheep putting him in chip lead.

21:47 - Sponge is all-in on the BB for 1300, with KTh against snoops J4. Snoop pairs the 4 and Spongeey is out in 8th position winning $1700.

21:48 - pokerface takes another pot, he now has $360k in chips.

21:50 - pokerface takes another pot, be now has $380k in chips, his nearest competitor sheepodog has $272k.

21:51 - snoopy and pokerface are in a pot with an all diamond flop. Its a 180k pot by the turn and pokerface bets 90k, snoop folds. Pokerface now has $470k in chips.

21:52 - Hist007 moves all in preflop for 180k with A6s. panther calls with AJos and wins, hist007 is left with 80k in chips.

21:53 - Hand 468 one of the most exciting of the touranment was a 3 way all-in. ziegler calls the BB $15k, P0kerFaceB0uy uses his chip stack and re-raises to $97.5k then KingChubb moves all-in for $17.5k. ziegler then moves over the top all in for $146368. It does not isolate KingChubb in the race as P0kerFaceB0uy quickly calls a further $63868. The cards are turned up with ziegler (Ad,Kd), KingChubb (Qs,Ah) and Pokerface with (4c,4d).

The flop comes down (4h,Jh,5h) giving pokerface the early lead spiking a set of fours.

The turn falls with a nice looking 6h giving KingChubb the Ace High flush, ensuring a cool triple up from the main pot. The river is a blank ten on spades helping no one.

P0kerFaceB0uy takes $287736 from the side pot with his trip fours, while KingChubb wins $75000 from the main pot with his ace high flush.

Ziegler is out of the race in 7th position, earning $1800 in cash.

21:54 - hist007 is all in with 63h does not hold up against pokerface with AK. He is out in 6th position earning $1900.

21:55 - Pokerfaceb0uy now has over $700k in chips and is using every one of them to take command of this table.

21:57 - Pokerface raises to 60k and KingChubb calls all-in from the button with 66. Pokerface has AJ and hits and ace on the flop. KingChubb is out in 5th position earning $2000.

21:59 - Down to 4 players, Pokerfacebouy on $730k, thepokerpanther on 113k, Sheepodog on $325k and snoopy78 with 200k in chips.

22:00 - pokerface continues his agressive play against the blinds, moving to over $750k in chips.

22:01 - Pokerface and Panther see a flop. They move all-in on the flop with K6 vs K5. Pokerface takes out another player, thepokerpanther is dominated and removed from the tournament in 4th place winning $2500.

22:02 - snoopy78 and pokerface see a KJT flop and pokerface agressively bets 50k into a 40k pot, he takes it down and hits $850k in chips.

22:03 - Pokerface uses all his chips to bully the blinds again, taking down $30k worth of blinds with an $80k raise.

22:04 - P0kerFaceB0uy posts 10k SB, Sheepodog posts 20k BB, snoopy78 folds. P0kerFaceB0uy raises to 60k, sheepodog raises to 100k, P0kerFaceB0uy calls a further 40k. The flop comes down (8d,5c,Kc) and P0kerFaceB0uy bets 50k, Sheepodog raises to 100k and P0kerFaceB0uy moves all-in for $739238, Sheepodog calls and is all-in for $107883. P0kerFaceB0uy has (9h, Th) an amazing bluff of 10 high gets called by Sheepodog with (2c, Ks) top pair with the worst kicker. The turn brings (Qh) giving P0kerFaceB0uy an inside straight draw. The river comes down with the miracle card (Js) giving P0kerFace a king high straight. Sheepodog is out in 3rd place winning $3500.

22:05 - P0kerFaceB0uy posts a 10k SB, snoopy78 posts the BB of 20k. P0kerFaceB0uy raised preflop to 70k, snoopy78 moves all-in for $170879. P0kerFaceB0uy calls him down pushing another $120879 into the pot. snoopy78 has (8c, As) and P0kerFaceB0uy has (Td, Tc). The flop comes (3d,4s,7c) the turn is (Qc) and the river a (4c). P0kerFaceB0uy wins with two pair, tens and fours. Snoopy78 is out in 2nd place winning an amazing $5000 in cash.

After a 35 minute final table battle and a gruling 7 hours and 4 minutes of tournament play P0kerFaceB0uy emerges victorious as the champion and winner of the Poker.com 1st Birthday $50,000 freeroll tournament. P0kerFaceB0uy takes home a whopping $10,000 in cash and a year's supply of cake!

Earlier in the tournament I spoke with P0kerFaceB0uy on the outer tables, he said "If I win, do I have to have the cake? I am diabetic, I can not even eat it." To his support, the players started asking whether they could trade the prize for a years worth of beer or KFC! P0kerFaceB0uy said not even diabetes would stop him from consuming beer and would prefer to celebrate the Poker.com 1st Birthday with beer!

So congratulations to P0kerFaceB0uy, your first gloucose free cake or case of beer will arrive very soon!

Paul @ Poker.com