If you’ve been hanging around the tournament hall here at Playground Poker Club in the past two days, you may have heard the now famous line by Tony “GameBoy” To – “GameBoy is Back!”.
Well, this time, “GameBoy” really is back! After losing a huge pot worth ~1.1 million a few orbits ago to table opponent Craig Stewart, Tony was left with only 9,000 in chips, which was not even enough to post a small blind, and only 3 times the ante at the time. After a few successful double-ups, he quickly found himself north of 300,000.
Just before the tournament went on break moments ago, Tony was facing a raise from Kyle Bowker and a 3bet from Trevor Delaney when he decided to move his 306,000 stack in from the small blind. Kyle then announced his all-in, and Trevor backed out of the hand.
Tony “Game Boy”:
Kyle:
Tony smashed the
board to score more than a double up, exclaiming “Game Boy is back!”, triggering a laugh from the crowd gathered around the table. He now sits on 740,000 going into level 24, as Kyle was crippled to 1 big blind.
Tony is on the run for his second victory in this Playground Poker Fall Classic, as he took down Event 5 – $1,000 + $100 Deepstack – a few days ago for $46,180.