2024 Fall Super Stack – Event #8: $1,100 Heads-Up NLH

It was a bit of a marathon in the Heads Up game tonight with several of the first round matches going very long. While some games seemed to go very quickly, others dragged on for a couple of hours.

When it got down to the semifinals in the money, it was Haven Taylor versus Oleksandr Lobur with Taylor coming out the victor. On the other side, it was Kali Shuali against Nicholas Teeuwen wth Teeuwen taking it down. Interestingly, Shuali was up against her poker coach and close friend, Michael Malm, in the quarter-finals, taking it down to move on.

The final battle went for a couple of hours with Teeuwen holding the advantage over Taylor through most of it. I wasn’t able to watch the action that closely as I was following the final table of the Seniors game at the same time, but pretty much every time I looked at the heads up match, Teeuwen was in the lead.

Final Results from Heads Up

Place	Player	Prize
1	Nicholas Teeuwen	$8,295
2	Haven Taylor	$4,791
3	Kali Shuali	$2,672
4	Oleksandr Lobur	$2,672

Nicholas Teeuwen is still in the lead in the final heads up match and the stacks are still about the same with Teeuwen on about 20k and Haven Taylor on about 10k.

The final match between Nicholas Teeuwen and Haven Taylor is underway with Teeuwen holding the lead right now. The game was supposed to play with a 25k start stack for the final match, but because of how long some of the matches were today, the two players in the final agreed to a 15k start stack instead. At the moment it looks like Taylor is sitting with about 10k.

It’s been a bit of a marathon in the final semifinal match tonight. Kali Shuali had the lead for a while, but Nicholas Teeuwen just came back for the win.

Haven Taylor has been very patiently waiting for the winner of this match so they can get on with the final round.

Kali Shuali is leading the final semifinal match now with about 23k to Nicholas Teeuwen’s 7k. Haven Taylor is waiting for the winner of this match for the finals.

Across the room, the Seniors final table is now setting up with four ladies among the participants. Six of the final 12 players in this one were women, with Michelle Murray and Cheryl Knight ending in 11th and 12th respectively while April Facey has a huge lead with more than 1.3 million.

The second semifinal match is now set after Kali Shuali took down Mike Malm. She’ll be meeting Nicholas Teeuwen in the second semifinal match to start shortly.

While the second semifinal match doesn’t even have its competitors set yet, the first one is already complete with Haven Taylor taking the win. That makes Oleksandr Lobur the first player to cash out in this game, collecting the first payout of $2,672.

The second semifinal is still waiting on both competitors as Mike Malm and Kali Shuali are still battling, as are Weston Pring and Nicholas Teeuwen to decide who the two semifinalists will be.

It was a marathon between Weston Pring and Antonios G in their Round 2 match, but it’s now finally over with Pring advancing to the 3rd round to meet Nicholas Teeuwen. The winner of that match will meet the winner of the Mike Malm/Kali Shuali match for the second semi-final. Malm/Shuali is underway and it looks like Malm has a slight lead now.

The first semifinal between Haven Taylar and Oleksandr Lobur is already underway with the players looking to be about even right now.

Perhaps the most interesting matchup in Round 3 is between Michael Malm and Kali Shuali. As a couple, they know each other’s game very well so it will be interesting to see who prevails. Malm is on a red-hot run right now as the current leader of the API so he’s likely to be tough to beat, but Shuali has some moves of her own, so it will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

Meanwhile, the first semifinal matchup is set after Haven Taylor bested Nick Peterson to move on to face Oleksandr Lobur shortly.

Oleksandr Lobur is the first player to the 4th round now after he just defeated Dylan Payne. He is now guaranteed money and awaits the winner of the match between Haven Taylor and Nick Peterson for his semifinal opponent.

All the R2 matches are either in play or complete now, and there are two R3 matches in play now as well. See below for a look at the matchups underway right now.

The opening round of the HU game is now complete with Dylan Payne, Nick Peterson, Thomas Taylor, and Weston Pring all advancing from their first-round matches.

That leaves the round 2 matches underway with a few of them already complete. Haven Taylor, Oleksandr Lobur, Mike Malm, and Dylan Payne all winning Round 2 matches with Adam H/Nick P, Kali Shuali/Thomas Taylor, Antonios G/Weston Pring, and DJ Sharma/Nicholas Teeuwen still underway.

The first Round 3 match is also set now, though it’s not underway yet. Dylan Payne will be battling Oleksandr Lobur each other in R3.

The first Round 1 match is complete with Dylan Payne taking down the win from Michale “Berny” Bernstein to advance to Round 2. Payne will be battling David R in the second round shortly.

Meanwhile, the other three R1 matches are still underway, with the complete R2 brackets also in play at the moment. Four players will be getting paid later tonight:

The HU game is now underway with 20 players in the mix. That gives a few players bys into Round 2, but round 1 action is now underway. The bracket info is in the image.

The HU game is a bit delayed at the moment as they have 19 entries and are waiting to see if they get any more. So far, it looks like a pretty serious field with players like Haven and Thomas Taylor, Stephen Dauphinais, Nicholas Peterson, Michael “Berny” Bernstein, Weston Pring, Jo Teliani, Roman Brar, Mal Hagan, and Paul Sokoloff among the players waiting for the start.

The side game on Monday is a heads up battle for $1,100. The action kicks off at 4 pm and there is no late entry or rebuys for this one because of the HU format.

The structure says that players start with 10k in chips, but tournament director Landon Lacroix just informed me the decision has been made to bump that up to 15k to start, so players will start the matches with 150 big blinds as the action begins at 50/100. There are no antes in play for this tournament.

I will do my best to keep up with this one, but the Seniors game is also happening, so my attention will be a bit divided today.