Season 12 - Week 20

BPC Season 12 - Week 20
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Ant has only played in about half of the games this season, but that doesn't mean he's forgotten how to play.  He was last night's big winner, and the 15 points nearly double his season total.  He's at 33 points now and climbing up the leaderboard, passing by Omar, Remo, David, The Milkman and Hee Hall, landing in 19th and 23 points out of the Top 9.  With 5 weeks left, there's still time to find a way in.  Heck that's only a 1st and a 3rd, or two 2nd places.  (But then who would deal the Final Table?)

Chester has awoken and is on da roll.  He nabs his third pointing in a row and back to back 2nd place, and passes by Charlie to move into 4th place just a point behind me.  (Backoff!)  I can now declare it... he becomes the 4th player to lock up a Final Table seat.  Its also enough to give him a share of the bonus chips for Mini-Season 4.  Bagu didn't play last night, but for the first time in BPC history he is going to buy his point, which means he and Chess will tie for the Mini-Season and split the bonus chips.

Padma took 3rd place, her 4th of the season and 7th pointing in total.  She also moves past Charlie and is in 5th place, and probably locks up her first ever Final Table seat.  But she's at 73 points, so her minimum is 78 and I can see a scenario where that may not be enough though, so I'm not ready to call it a lock just yet. 

Charlie pointed last night too, with a 5th place finish, but because 4 of the 5 pointers were already in the Top 9, he drops down from 4th to 6th.

Newlius got 4th place, and although he doesn't pass Charlie or anyone else, he does come closer to securing his first ever spot at the Final Table.  At 67 points and 5 weeks left, he's guaranteed at least 72 points.  Another pointing would help his cause tremendously, or he needs to root for the people ahead of him or way at the bottom to soak up the remaining points.  Not ready to call him a lock just yet.

9th place (Nicole, who was this week's Bubble Girl) is at 56 points right now, which projects to 70 points exactly.  But the 5 people directly behind are less than a single 1st place finish behind so the final seats are far from set. 

The final Mini-Season starts next week!  5 weeks left in the season, we're in the home stretch and as usual its shaping up to be an exciting finish!!!


Player   Week 20
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Anthony  15
Chess    12
Padma     9
Julius    6
Charlie   3
Nicole    Bubble


Player    Total
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Mike      98
Jagu      84
Scott     78
Chess     77
Padma     73
Charlie   69
Julius    67
Judy      57
Nicole    56
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Steven    54
Jeremiah  52
Arjan     48
Kurt      47
KarJacked 46
Papa Kumo 39
J Potts   35
Bagu      35
Jeena     35
Anthony   33
Omar      26
Remo      25
David     24
Eric      24
J Hall    19
Guest 1   10
Sungina    9


Player     Mini-Season 4
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Chess     29  <-- Tie!
Bagu      29  <-- Tie!
Mike      26
Anthony   26
Padma     21
Scott     19
Kurt      19
Papa Kumo 18
Steven    17

2nd place, Chess...

3rd place, Padma...

 
4th place, Newlius...

5th place, Charlie...

Bubble girl, Nicole...

Very clever cupcakes...