Our 6th champion in this Playground Poker Spring Classic has just been crowned! After nearly 9 hours of play, it was Darryl Beal who emerged as our 50/50 Bounty winner, collecting 13 bounty chips worth $100 each along the way.
Darryl built a monster stack as the tournament was approaching the bubble, and although he lost good portion of it to Eric Nuss shortly before the final table, he remained patient and never gave up hope. He grinded a short stack in the late levels of the final table before finally finding himself heads-up versus Michele Black, who was on her quest for a second trophy here at Playground. Although Michele had the chip advantage, the two players agreed to share the prize pool evenly, leaving behind the require 5% extra for the eventual winner. The winner was now set to take home just over $5K, and the runner-up a touch over $4.6K.
Darryl doubled-up in one of the first hands of heads-up play to even the match, and the two went back and forth for a few orbits until a huge hand occurred. Michele played a flush draw very aggressively on the turn, and with all the chips in play, she missed the river and lost to the top two-pairs of Darryl, who took most of her chips in the hand. With only 1 big blind behind, she wasn’t ready to give up just yet – and was determined to become the 3rd female champion of 6 events in this series so far. She went on to double up 4 times, and rebuilt a stack worth 25% of the chips in play. On her fifth all-in, she tabled 
, and was up against Darryl’s 
. They both connected on the 
flop, however Darryl got the best of it when the running cards brought a 
and a 
to give him two-pairs.
With that hand, Michele was knocked out in 2nd place, and Darryl was crowned our Event 6 champion, taking home the biggest share of the prize pool, as well as a Playground Poker Spring Classic Champion’s Trophy.
Congratulations!
Event 6 Champion: Darryl Beal – $5,148.00
Event 6 Runner-Up: Michele Black – $4,620.00
Michele Black
Last Hand of Play
over 
, leaving Eric with very few chips behind. On the second hand, his 
held against 
to score him the bounty chip.
, and ran another straight on the 
.
board to earn himself yet another bounty chip, while eliminating a dangerous player from this final table.
