Two for Nothing

We won an online poker tournament at National League of Poker today, for the second time in 60 days!

Here's a screenshot of the decisive moment, as we topped 40 other players and won with 7-9.  But we have to admit there was a catch or two:

• It was a qualifier for the monthly "Poker Studs Championship" in the last week of June.  The top ten automatically qualified.
• The winner claimed more than 9,000 NLOP points - but no money.  (This explains our title, because that was also the situation in April.)
• Because of those facts, everything at the final table was a bit like "garbage time" in basketball.  Some players bet big with relatively little.
• Two of the final four players we eliminated (including "Smoker" defeated in the final hand) apparently left the table early.  Their hands "auto-folded" when we challenged them.  So all we had to do was "drain the pool" to win.

But we did rally from about ninth place at the start of the ten-seat final table.  And we even had to overcome an NLOP computer freeze at "three-to-go," which seems to happen to us every other day these days.  And in heads-up play (albeit against a player who had left), we won 17 pots in a row!  The streak ended with identical hands, and an "all-in" tie.

So all in all, we say a win is a win is a win.  Thank God for even little wins!