Once again a late night and less sleep leaves us a wee bit bleary eyed the following day as we decided to hang back at the hotel and try to relax before the evening ahead. The original plan was to head to South Goa and get some lunch at one of our favourite restaurants in Goa - Martin's Corner. I guess we will have to do this tomorrow now.
We reached the jetty on time this evening but Murpy's Law came into play once again with the feeder boats getting delayed for the player pickups. Almost 30 players were waiting at the jetty anxious to get onboard and register themselves for the BPC 1250 Superturbo satellite for seats into the IPC 10k tournament later this evening. At the venue players quickly registered themselves for the Single Table SnG satellites. One seat per 8 players would be awarded. Finally 4 tables were filled up with 32 players and eventually 4 players won their seat at a fraction of the cost into the IPC 10k tourney.
It was then time for the tourney to begin. Many players were playing at the cash tables to kill time before the main game of the evening was to begin. Finally 55 players started the in the 10k tourney. With a few late entrants the tournament was closed with a final field of 58 players. The action till about halfway thru was SUPER tight!! No one was making any major moves and there was limited action with small pots being played across most tables. Slowly the eliminations began to go up and about 9 levels in we were down to half the field. There was a lot of intense poker action with players battling each other for chips and table domination. We were updating periodically on the action LIVE from the venue onto Twitter and Facebook. There was some quite crazy hands and multi-way all-ins too.
Finally we got down to the final table with varying stacks. The short stack on the table was Phil Sanders who at one point in the tournament was down to ONE chip. But he managed to build his stack a bit and held on to make it to the final table. The other name of interest on the final table was Nikhil Jain who was the winner of the 5k tournament the previous evening. Nikhil who was also down to barely 1000 chips at one point battled hi way back and was at 2nd chip position on the final table. The action on the final table lasted for about an hour with the price of poker getting more and more expensive. Once we were down to the final 7 who were to be paid we had faster eliminations and Nikhil Jain added to his winnings from last night by cashing out in 6th place. It then came down to headsup and it was Phil Sanders who literally came back with a chip and a chair and bested Keshav Sethia in a tournament that lasted 6 hours and 15 minutes. Beating out 57 players, Phil took home a very healthy share of the prizepool along with an IPC Winner's Medallion, a bottle of French champagne, a DVD of Rounders and an IPC coffee mug. Many congratulations to our IPC 10k winner Phil Sanders along with runners-up positions for Keshav Sethia and Arjjun Singh.
Back now at the hotel finishing up this blog post. The clock's just hit 6:30am and I hope to get in a good rest before we begin the action and coverage of the final day of the India Poker Championship. The response has been quite good from the participants and we look forward to having a similar field tomorrow (or tonight as it were) as well.
Catch you on the flip side!
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