Viffer is the King of the Big Game - 13/04/2010

Online pro David "Viffer" Peat was richly reward for lasting every minute of the PartyPoker.com Big Game IV - walking away form the Les A club in Mayfair, London with £147,275 profit.

Viffer - the Big Game's big winner

"Viffer", along with the UK’s Neil Channing, played all 48 hours of the Matchroom Sport organized crazy cash game with the American walking away with a a record profit for the event.

Viffer produced a stunning performance and opened up on the Sunday night so aggressive that he created a table image that he exploited to the maximum throughout the rest of the game. Through talking trash, overbetting, re-raising and generally being a maniac he found himself £40,000 down almost immediately, only to come right back and completely dominate the table for 48 hours. “I couldn’t be any happier,” said Viffer at the end of the 48 hour marathon, “I am still ready to play, can’t we go on for longer?”

The American pro was involved with some epic tussles with almost every member of the table and because of his loose aggressive play he found himself exempt from eviction on all but one occasion. For the first time in the event’s history, organisers Matchroom Sport introduced evictions every six hours. All players on the table at the time voted for who they wanted to leave and the only exemptions were for the player who had been at the table the least amount of time and for the player who was statistically the most aggressive. Reasons for voting off players were wide and varied. For example, Team PartyPoker.com professional Bodo Sbrzesny was evicted twice for beating up the table, while the likes of Simon Munz were curiously voted off when they were losing. Any play deemed to be nitish also found themselves on their bike and out the door!

Another new innovation was the player walk-ons with Team PartyPoker.com’s Tony G’s ‘Bicycle Race’ entrance and Roland De Wolfe’s howling ‘Hungry Like The Wolf’ curtain raiser particularly memorable. Luke ‘FullFlush’ Schwartz was greeted with a round of loud boos as he made his way to the table while Neil Channing entered in his karate suit.

One of the pots of the show was when Channing and Viffer, both very deep, flopped set over set. Viffer flopped a set of eights, while Channing flopped at set of fours. A miracle one-outer on the turn gave Channing quads and a £64,000 pot! Another key moment came when Viffer folded on the river what would been the biggest pot of the game. On a board of 10 8 8 Q 7 he was river check-raised all-in by Phil Laak, who held 78 to Viffer’s AA. It would have been over £100,000 if he called. Viffer eventually folded and came back from the break with a sign on highlighting that he was ‘Phil’s Bitch.’ The blogging A Team of Snoopy and Jen Mason live reported for 48 hours on the PartyPoker Blog. Details of the hands, gossip and videos can be found at: http://blog.partypoker.com/big-game-iv/partypoker-big-game-day-1-live-updates.html and http://blog.partypoker.com/big-game-iv/partypoker-big-game-live-blog-day-2.html

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: “The Big Game just gets bigger and better every year. The introduction of the eviction process was fascinating but nailing down the reasons why a player was evicted was difficult – there were a whole host of reasons.”