ACF1K - May 20, 2006

Another ACF1k by PBT is in the books and we weren't really sure about the turnout for this particular tournament especially because of the other tournament in Tagaytay on the same day. We had 50 people and 18 people re-bought back into the tournament making the prize pool at Php 66,200. We changed the starting stack of the tournament to 1,000 and fixed the blind structure accordingly. We made the registration process a little bit more streamlined, doing away with the roll call from the previous week.

Top Five Highlights

5 - We had all new faces at the Final Table, Christian Bernardez, Trevor Roberts, Dino Antonio, Romeo Tobias, Dina Brainard, Jun Lanas, Marie Lourdes Pascual, Francisco Del Rosario, Ryan Peralta and George Brainard.

4 - Dina Brainard and Pascual became our first women in the final table with Brainard finishing in 6th while Pascual finishing in 4th. It was Dina's husband George that took her out, much to her chagrin. After asking her what he could do to make up for that, she simply said "He could win the tournament."

3 - Ryan "Lucky" Peralta who in a span of three hands had quad Kings AND quad Fours in the final table.

2 - In back-to-back hands, after Peralta's quad Fours, George Brainard had quad fours as well. What are the chances of that happening. Compound the fact that both players started with pocket fours.

1 - George Brainard winning the tournament and winning Php 22,100 prize money and saving him from the dog house that night.

See you guys next week at the ACF5K which is not our tournament so I can play, Yeah...

Marco
PBT