Last night was another fun night at Mondays at the Hoy on pokerstars, as a host of bloggers and non-bloggers battled it out for $20 apiece and a shot at one of the three money spots at the top of the leaderboard as well as the eternal glory of knowing that you won a MATH tournament. In the end, it was Iggy outlasting the field to take down his first Mondays at the Hoy event, disposing of Guin after just a few minutes of heads-up play when his Ace-high bested Guin's King-high to end the tournament. Iggy played solid throughout the event, as he has been honing his skills in the blogger events much more often since he returned to the rat race, and remained near the top of the leaderboard throughout most of the tournament. LOK1 rounded out the cash positions with his third-place showing in MATH, ending up our first week with first-time cashers in both first and second place in some time.

As for me, I had an all-too-familiar occurrence of late, which was my daughters (1 and almost 3 years old) waking up crying in their bedroom within about 5 seconds of the beginning of Mondays at the Hoy. That played out well for me, since I was dealt the Hammer right as the wakeup began, so I reraised preflop instead of folding like I normally would, and Wes, the original preflop raiser, called my reraise as I figured he would. When the flop then came A74 rainbow, I pushed with my Hammer, figuring he likely has an Ace but I had to run. Wes called, showed his AK, I did not improve and I got up to tend to the girls. When I returned to the computer about an hour later, I had IM's that it turns out I had managed to quadruple up on my allin hand the very next hand with the rest of my chips (about 150 chips as I recall), and managed to outlast three or four other players before finally being blinded out. In all, a frustrating night for me at the MATH, but a very enjoyable time was had by everyone.

Congratulations again to LOK1, Guin and especially Iggy for their cashes last night in Mondays at the Hoy. See you next Monday night at 10pm ET on pokerstars. Password is "hammer" as always.