Chili put on an awesome display
Almost felted from the off she made an uber comeback to destroy the rest of the field. Some incredible laydowns too that I hope they show.
Matchroom were so impressed with Chili's performance that they asked her to commentate on the next heat - which (after a bit of protest) she did. Felt pretty guilty as I assured her it would take just 4 hours or so, and then we're treated to the longest heads-up in the history of televised poker.
Each previous heat lasted between 88 and 100 hands. The heat Maria commentated on took 130 hands to get to the heads up stage, then another 210 hands of heads up itself (including 13 all-ins, each time the underdog winning). We finally finished around 2.30am (7 and a half hours after the heat started).
Thats a very long time for a tv tournament with only 50 bb's starting stack ... unless they changed it
wd maria x
Aye, the starting stacks are 50bbs, but instead of the usual 30mins > 45mins a level, they've gone for 21 hands a level. This means all that dwelling doesn't eat into the blind levels. The levels are also frozen at 15k / 30k.
All in all, not a bad structure - pretty good for a televised tourney imo.
Jen's heat is on at the mo btw.
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