Canterberry Poker League · Tournament #36
Six Knockouts, and Second Place Again
Warren Mervin took out nearly half the field and lost heads-up in six minutes. Dawn Buzbee has her third win.
Fourteen players went home and Warren Mervin sent six of them — and finished second, for the second time in three months. Dawn Buzbee won it with three, in three hours and forty-nine minutes, closing out a six-minute heads-up match for $120.
It is her third Canterberry Poker League win, sixteen months after the second, and it puts her level with a small group: only Warren, Eric Denny and Rick Mazza have won more.
Warren takes $75. Eric Denny was third for $40 without a knockout all night, and Mandy Denny fourth for $30. Fifth was shared and so was the money: David Doole and Rick Mickaliger took $10 each.
Where the money went
| Player | Prize | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dawn Buzbee | $120 |
| 2 | Warren Mervin | $75 |
| 3 | Eric Denny | $40 |
| 4 | Mandy Denny | $30 |
| 5 | David Doole | $10 |
| 5 | Rick Mickaliger | $10 |
The undercard
Six paid from fifteen pushed the bubble deep, and it was shared: Steve McLean and Josh Reel both finished seventh. Duane Barone was the first player out after an hour and twenty-three minutes.
The bigger picture
Six tournaments, six different winners — a full season so far without a repeat, which this league has managed once before.
Doole stretches the lead to 92 points, twenty-one clear of Charlie Drotar, and he has now cashed in five of his six nights.
| League standings — after #36 | Points | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Doole | 92 |
| 2 | Charlie Drotar | 71 |
| 3 | Eric Denny | 62 |
| 4 | Tom Buzbee | 54 |
| 5 | Rick Mazza | 52 |
Canterberry Poker League #36 — Friday, November 11, 2011. 15 entrants, six paid from a $285 prize pool. Points shown are the league standings after six tournaments of the 2011-12 season.