The month of April concluded last night with a great turnout, and the tournament leaderboard remained unchanged from the prior week, with MrMxyzplitk actually increasing his lead over the pack with an 8^th place finish.  But spots 3 through 4 weren’t decided until the final hand of the evening when LuckyJake321 eliminated Street 3 heads up to claim the week 5 title.  It was very interesting heading into 4 handed play at the final table as if Street 3, crossfade37, or Gijoevaldez had taken the first place prize, they would have vaulted into 2^nd place for the month.  But it was the short stack of LuckyJake321, who played patiently, and eventually found a way to double his stack twice, eliminating crossfade37 in 3^rd, and moving into the chip lead.  You can hear the final table call here, with fleapid, cprpoker, Street 3, and 4get 2 4bet me:

For finishing in 1^st place for the month, MrMxyzplitk wins a 1 month subscription to online training site DeucesCracked, 25,000 Pokernations Bonus Chips, and $33 deposited into his player account.  Finishing in 2^nd place in the monthly leaderboard was AllIn4flush, who also wins the 1 month subscription to DeucesCracked, 10,000 Pokernations Bonus Chips, and $22 deposited into his player account.  In third place, fleapid will take a month of training from DC, 5,000 bonus chips, and $11 transferred to his player account.  And finally, cprpoker wins a free month to training site GrinderSchool for his 4^th place finish in the monthly leaderboard.

On the TPT Live show, Mike Matusow was scheduled to join, but unfortunately didn’t get into his destination in San Diego in time, so was rescheduled to a date in the near future.  But we were very fortunate to be joined by another Deepstacks coach, in poker professional Alex ‘The Insider’ Outhred.  Alex joined us by phone and spent nearly 40 minutes talking about Deepstacks, general poker strategy, his restaurant (the FABULOUS Stout Burgers in West Los Angeles), and his $500k win on the TV hit “Are you smarter than a 5^th grader?”  Catch the whole show here:

Finally, we also awarded 4get 2 4bet me a free month to DeucesCracked as the Hand of the Week winner for the month of April, and GoofyRooster was the proud recipient of a TPT T-shirt for playing in both the WSOP Satellite (won by BrooklynBeast) and the TPT Thursday Night Points event.  It was a full docket.

More of the same to come next week as we begin a brand new month of points events, and we get ever closer to awarding the $2,000 WSOP Package through the TPT WSOP Satellites.  Don’t’ miss the games and all the action, or your chance to win more prizes.