Eric “alwaysliquid” Vanauken Goes Back-To-Back for the Second Time This Month in partypoker US Online Series Event #4
On Wednesday night, Eric “alwaysliquid” Vanauken won his fourth partypoker US Online Series event in the month of July, and his second in as many nights. Vanauken topped a field of 71 in the $215 buy-in Event #4: $12,000 GTD PKO Bounty Boost, earning a payday of $5,691 ($3,738 in prizes + $1,953 in bounties) for his efforts.
The victory marked the second time this month that he accomplished the feat of winning back-to-back events, also doing so on July 8 and July 9, 2020 during the New Jersey-facing platform's other week-long series earlier in the month. Vanauken's four wins have brought with them more than $22,000 of earnings.
Event #4 Results
| Place | Player | Prize | KO | Total Winnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken | $3,738 | $1,953 | $5,691 |
| 2 | Ross “Thehebrewhammer” Gottleib | $2,023 | $139 | $2,162 |
| 3 | marysgotqueens | $1,459 | $297 | $1,756 |
| 4 | David “TheKing411” Coleman | $1,075 | $213 | $1,288 |
| 5 | Jinxy | $809 | $15 | $824 |
| 6 | Ryan “simlSgg” Hagerty | $654 | $174 | $828 |
| 7 | CoachD | $505 | $46 | $551 |
| 8 | Angel “chromeking” Lopez | $383 | $0 | $383 |
Eight players made it into the money, meaning the tournament was on the bubble when the final table began. Vanauken was in the middle of the pack, and knocked out the short-stacked "phillychzsteak1" in ninth place when his sixes flopped a set against two kings. Despite the knockout, Vanauken's place on the leader board remained largely unchanged.
Angel "chromeking" Lopez was the first to fall once the tournament reached the money, and was soon followed by "CoachD," who ran ace-nine suited into the ace-queen of "marysgotqueens," who was the chip leader at the time. Half an hour then went by before Ryan "SimlSgg" Hagerty also fell to "marysgotqueens" when his king-queen lost a coin flip to pocket sixes.
Every subsequent bounty was then claimed by Vanauken, who quietly chipped up over the next two levels as five-handed play went on. He earned a double-knockout against two short stacks of "Jinxy" and David "TheKing411" Coleman to bring about three-handed play, and followed it up by picking up pocket aces to knock out "marysgotqueens."
Vanauken took a slight lead into a roller coaster of a heads-up match that saw him fall behind before finding a double after making a straight versus eventual runner-up Ross "thehebrewhammer" Gottleib, and finished him off moments later after seeing two live cards connect in an all-in preflop situation.
PokerNews will be back on Thursday to bring coverage of the next event in the series, the $109 buy-in Event #5: $10,000 GTD PKO, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. ET. See you then.