The road was long for Joey Boczek – with 230 players in the event, it took over 10 hours to play down to a champion in this final event in the Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net. Joey had a lead for most of the play on the final table and while he had some challenges, in many cases other players eliminated each other on the way to the championship.
Even with blind levels being what they were and the deal in place, the final table still took quite a bit of time to play through and once play got heads up, energy was flagging. So, on the first hand of heads up play the chips found their way to the middle of the felt… and Birdman was able to win his first Championship in a Playground Poker Club festival event! Anyone how knows Joey will know what this means to him.
Congratulations Birdman!
Event 17 Champion: Joey Boczek – $5,075
2nd place: Derek Lerner – $5,675
Final hand of play
