Over on PokerStars, Dario Minieri was offering freezeout battles once again to anyone who was up to the challenge. Accepting the challenge this time around was Brian “$tinger 88″ Hastings. They agreed to play two deep-stacked freezeouts on tables Menkib II and Clarissa. After some reloading and setting up, both players sat on $10,000 starting stacks with $25/$50 blinds. First one to lose their stack with no reloads, wins that $10K, plus an additional $10K sidebet for each table. It looked to be a runaway for Minieri as he had his opponent down under $4K on one table and under $3K on the other. But after a very impressive comeback, Hastings was able to take down both freezeouts to book a sweet $40K victory over Minieri.
Match #1 – Final Hand
PokerStars Game #14308865899:Â Hold’em
No Limit ($25/$50) – 2008/01/04 – 01:18:00 (ET)
Table ‘Menkib II’ 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 3: Dariominieri ($4373 in chips)
Seat 7: $tinger 88 ($15521 in chips)
Dariominieri: posts small blind $25
$tinger 88: posts big blind $50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dariominieri: raises $100 to $150
$tinger 88: calls $100
*** FLOP ***
$tinger 88: checks
Dariominieri: bets $200
$tinger 88: raises $450 to $650
Dariominieri: calls $450
*** TURN ***
$tinger 88: bets $1200
Dariominieri: raises $2373 to $3573 and is all-in
$tinger 88: calls $2373
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
$tinger 88: shows(four of a kind, Threes)
Dariominieri: mucks hand
$tinger 88 collected $8745 from pot
Dariominieri said, “gg”
Match #2 – Final Hand
PokerStars Game #14309161451:Â Hold’em
No Limit ($25/$50) – 2008/01/04 – 01:40:57 (ET)
Table ‘Clarissa’ 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 3: Dariominieri ($1334 in chips)
Seat 7: $tinger 88 ($18578 in chips)
$tinger 88: posts small blind $25
Dariominieri: posts big blind $50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
$tinger 88: raises $75 to $125
Dariominieri: calls $75
*** FLOP ***
Dariominieri: checks
$tinger 88: checks
*** TURN ***
Dariominieri: bets $200
$tinger 88: raises $18253 to $18453 and is all-in
Dariominieri: calls $1009 and is all-in
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Dariominieri: shows(a pair of Queens)
$tinger 88: shows(a straight, Ace to Five)
$tinger 88 collected $2667 from pot
$tinger 88 said, “gg”
Dariominieri said, “gg”
