Overall, we had 41 players, 124 buy-ins for a total of $6200 in the prize pool. After expenses, that paid over $2000 for 1st, $1200 for 2nd, and down to $100 for 8th.

As fate would have it, last month's bounty didn't show up and that makes the $50 bounty on me. Since the bad beat jackpot has been hit every month for the past four, I had to increase the qualifying hands from any full house cracked by a higher hand, to 8's full cracked by a higher hand. Yet in spite of this increase, the bad beat jackpot was hit again during this tournament. The jackpot was hit when pocket-3's of Ricardo Fuentes went all-in against pocket Jacks of Eric Salilnas, and the board flopped 999 -- thus giving both players a qualifying full house. Ricardo won $68 and Eric won $37.

The $50 high hand was won by David-J with quad jacks, and $50 was awarded to the aces cracked of Trent Lee.

During the rebuy period, there were more bad beats at my table than I can count. My AK was beat badly by JT with a runner-runner straight. However one hand kept coming up at my table repeatedly, and it always seemed to hold up: pocket-10's. I was dealt pocket 10's three times, and each time they held up; same for other players that I noticed.

I managed to make it to the final table with a resonable chip stack. The payout schedule called for the top eight places to be paid. However, once we were on the bubble the action was so slow that all the players decided to take $100 out of first place, and create a 9th paying place -- thus ensuring that everybody was in the money.

The players finished in this order:

Congratulations to everybody who made it to the money.