"pay4medsch00l" Wins partypoker US Network Players Choice Heads-Up Event #2
The partypoker US Network Players Choice Series Event #2: $109 Heads-Up (64 Max) was as big of a success as it could have been Monday evening, filling to its capacity of 64 entries more than two hours prior to start of the tournament.
With a heads-up format, play started with 32 matches among 64 players, a number that would be halved six times before declaring a winner. Five hours after the tournament began, that winner was declared in "pay4medsch00l".
"pay4medsch00l" won their final heads-up match over "madroc" in 15 minutes of play, doing so after being the second of the two to win their semifinal match against "MegaWinner" in a back-and-forth battle that lasted for nearly 40 minutes.
Event #2 Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay4medsch00l | $1,552 |
| 2 | madroc | $784 |
| 3 | MegaWinner | $528 |
| 4 | BigDickRick | $528 |
| 5 | Dan "mj23style" Sewnig | $336 |
| 6 | upayformypennys | $336 |
| 7 | maniacalmonk | $336 |
| 8 | a_stormy_knight | $336 |
Tournament Action
Mike "MistaMenza" Menzer was the first of 64 to find the rail after losing his first-round match to "UAUTCU", who won their second-round match against "Selurznug" before losing their third match to finish in 11th place ($208). "Selurznug" also had a first-round match of note, eliminating Borgata Ambassador Katie "KatieStone" Stone.
The second round began with 16 new matches, all of whose winners would make it into the money. However, players such as Vinny "brownmagic" Pahuja and Angel "chromeking" Lopez were among those to fall short. Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken also fell short after he was unable to beat "BigDickRick" to end the round, finishing the tournament in 17th place.
The 16 players that made it into the money quickly became eight, and that number even more quickly became four as Dan "mj23style" Sewnig fought his way into the final quarterfinal match, only to fall to to "BigDickRick" just like Vanauken two rounds earlier.
With the semifinals set, both matches took parallel routes that saw chips go back and forth. Eventually, "madroc" took a lead they would never relinquish over "BigDickRick" and quickly made it into the finals. "pay4medsch00l" also took a lead over "MegaWinner" that they would momentarily give up before regaining form and taking all the chips in the match, and 15 minutes later had done the same against "madroc" to make the results of both the match and the tournament official.