25 Nov 11

The PokerStrategy.com TV World Championship Final Table is Set

Xenboy of South Korea and Martin77BG of Bulgaria book their place in the final table of the PokerStrategy.com TV World Championship.

Heat 6 Champion Xenboy

The final two heats of PokerStrategy.com TV World Championships have come to a finish in highly entertaining fashion.

Heat 6 - Xenboy Takes It Down

In one of the tensest and cagiest heats of the series,

Xenboy of South Korea has booked his place in the final.

There was nothing between any of the participants in the early stages, each man was aggressive, and no sooner would one win a pot than he would lose another.

But from this stalemate of early levels, the table seemed to naturally tighten up in the middle stages. That was when the hyper aggressive Xenboy started to pull away from the pack.

As the overall play got tighter, Xenboy got more aggressive. Despite his fast pace, Xenboy was involved in the longest three handed battle of the series, with

ziggi and

flplopes.

It may have been a slower pace, but Xenboy never relinquished control, and after dispatching flplopes in 3rd place, he bust his heads-up opponent ziggi in suitably faster style, in the very next hand.

At times he struggled with language barriers, particularly when communicating with the dealers, but there was no doubt that Xenboy let his chips do the talking in heat number 6.

Heat 7 - Martin77BG Dominates

Heat 7 Champion Martin77BG

The final heat did not disappoint for action and entertainment, with perhaps the most colourful line-ups of the series.

Most notably

Martin77BG, who had already won Face The Ace, another televised studio tournament, arguably making him the most experienced player in the pack.

Joining him was

Dylboi011 of Wales, a last minute replacement who made his presence known by donning a full body penguin suit. He wore this because he lost a prop bet and it was certainly a forfeit, because he must have been boiling under the intense heat of the studio lights.

Martin77BG started exactly how you would expect a TV champion to, by running over the table. The deck really hit him in the face right from the offset, as he bust his fellow Bulgarian countryman

Petrakow in the first orbit and continued to pound the rest of the table thereafter.

In fact he never really looked back, busting

DuneBuggy and

Kyyberi soon after and holding more than 60% of the chips in play by the time the heat was three handed.

If heat 6 had the longest three handed battle, heat 7 had the shortest, as a three way all-in ended the tournament. All the money went in the middle pre-flop and the pocket queens of Martin77BG spiked a queen on the flop against the ace-king of Pelator and the king-ten of Dylboi011.

Which was a fitting end to the heat, as Martin77BG dominated from the offset, ran like god throughout, bust every single player, and made it look very easy indeed.

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And with those two winners, the final table is set. Join us once again from December 12-14 when one of these 8 men will be playing to win that $20,000 first prize.