2024 Fall Super Stack – Event #7: $340 Seniors NLH

It was a marathon game today, with the action going for about 16 hours before a winner was decided, but heads up didn’t take long, though they had to move to the poker room to finish it out as a result of the late hour. John Foley was the short stack for most of heads up and in the end, it all came down to a race between Foley’s pocket nines and ace-queen.

There was an ace on the flop, and then the ace-queen ran out to Broadway for the decisive win. The winner of the game asked to remain anonymous for personal reasons, so their picture and name won’t be shared.

It’s now heads up between John Foley and Mr. Anonymous after Don Fujita hit the rail in 3rd. He shoved the button with ace-six and was called by Anon in the big blind with ace-eight. The eight played on a board of 2♣K♦2♠4♦5♦ so Fujita was out in 3rd place.

It wa s blind on blind when Nancy Kelln shoved over a limp from Mr. Anonymous. He called it off with king-jack and held against her king-deuce suited and they are down to three left.

It was a bit of a brutal end for April Facey tonight. She was the chip leader for a good chunk of the night but then ran into it in a few hands to bust out in fifth. In the previous hand, she got it in with ace-king against king-ten of diamonds, and the anonymous player flopped diamonds for the win.

That left her with about 400k which went in the next hand with jack-ten. John Foley woke up with ace-jack and called. The board ran clean for the ace and Foley won it to send Facey to the rail.

They are down to 5 left now after Jim Berry followed Eddie G to the rail tonight in 6th place.

Eddie Guilbault shoved all in early and Nancy Kelln smooth-called from the cutoff. Guilbault was in rough shape with pocket sevens into the rockets for Kelln and, at least in this case, it wasn’t always coming seven.

April Facey is still the leader, but it’s a little closer than it was before. Full stacks are below.

They are down to 7 left now after a huge hand that saw Don Fujita come from behind to take a near triple. He shoved under the gun for 210k and Jacqueline Ray reshoved with less next to act. It folded around to April Facey in the small blind, and she made it three all-ins with a stack that covered the whole table.

Both Ray and Facey were playing ace-queen while Fujita was dominated by both with queen-eight. This is poker, though, and Fujita turned the eight for a big win. He outstacked Ray, so she hit the rail in 8th place while Facey had to pay off Fujita.

There are now less than 10 minutes to the next break, and I’ll grab full chip counts while they are away from the table.

April Facey raised the hijack to 75k and Eddi G called from the big blind. The flop was 10♠6♦5♦ and Eddie check-shoved over Facey’s bet of 100k.

“I have to call, even though I’m only drawing,” she said, putting out the call for a bit more than 200k total. Eddie hit the ten while Facey had overs and a backdoor straight draw with queen-jack. The turn and river bricked for her and Eddie doubled, but she still has a mountain of chips in front of her.

They are down to 8 left now in the Seniors after Rob Bridger lost a race with pocket nines against king-jack. The jack came on the flop and he was left with fumes. He doubled once when he was forced all in from the big blind in the next hand, but was out the following hand. This was Bridger’s first Seniors tournament as he just turned 50 and it seems likely he’ll be back for another go come January.

They are down to 9 left now in the Seniors after Bridget Calvank busted in 10th. She was very eager to make the final table tonight so she could “get some press like her hubby.” Her hubby Scott was on the rail for her game tonight after he busted the event early, and she was on his rail this past August when he won his first ring at the Aug WSOP-C.

Here is a look at most of the final table tonight. There is one player who has requested anonymity for personal reasons so their picture isn’t included, but worth noting that the same player was one of the Anon final tablists from last night’s One-Day Deepstack as well.

It’s turning into a bit of a Ladies Night here at Deerfoot today. There are 11 players left in the Seniors game now and five of them are women with April Facey holding the huge lead. Jacqueline Ray is also in the mix, looking for her second final table in as many days after she made the FT of the One-Day Deepstack yesterday.

Meanwhile, across the room, Haven Taylor is waiting for the outcome of a match between Kali Shuali and Nicholas Teeuwen, so the final round of the Heads Up game is guaranteed to have at least one woman, and it could easily be a battle between Shuali and Taylor for an all-woman final.

They are on the final table bubble now after Cheryl Knight from Lethbridge hit the rail in 12th place tonight. April Facey is still the big leader tonight with about 1.3 million in front of her, which is close to 1/3rd of the chips in play right now. Full prizes to date are under the payouts tab.

They are down to 12 left in the Seniors now after the exits of Kevin Willerton and Dwayne Johnston. Johnston’s chips went to the ever-growing stack of April Facey when she turned a set of queens in the race against his ace-king.

They are down to 14 players left in the Seniors event now with Level 20 about to end. April Facey is still leading with about 1 million but John Foley is stacking chips as well. A lot of Foley’s chips came from 15th-place David Labchuck. They got it in with both players holding ace-king, but Foley ran out to a 4-card flush to take it down. A few hands later, he finished Labchuk off with queens over aces when he spiked his queen.

Below is a look at the cashing players so far.

Place	Player	Prize
15	David Labchuk	$793
16	Mike Lonigro	$744
17	Pam MacNaughton	$694

They are now down to 18 players left on the final two tables and the clock is paused for hand-for-hand play. They’ll take two minutes off the clock for each hand played until the next elimination.

There are just over 15 minutes to play in Level 18 and the field is now down to 19, just two off the money. They’ll break down to the final two tables and go hand-for-hand after the next elimination.

The Seniors players are on a break following Level 16 and it looks like April Facey is still the clear leader. She’s playing more than 600k at the moment.

There are 22 players left in the game at break, so when they return for Level 17, they will be just 5 eliminations off the money spots.

It looks like April Facey is now the overall leader with about 400k in front of her and 33 players left in the game. There are about 10 minutes left in Level 15 and they are now 16 players off the money spots.