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PuertoRican   United States. Mar 16 2021 05:50. Posts 13024

Former StarCraft: Brood War player, Markus Gonsalves, is now the 2020 World Poker Tour (WPT) Gardens Poker Champion!

Gonsalves – formerly known as “Proct” during his StarCraft: Brood War days, and currently known as “LURPED” in online poker – was a well-known American StarCraft player who invented “The Stove,” which was described by JonnyCosMo in 2006 as a “type of rush against a terran opponent where you go scouts first, then switch to DT, then mass arbiters and stasis them.” As a fellow Protoss player, I used to be a fan of “The Stove,” as it worked great against low level Terran players on Lost Temple.





On March 14, 2021, Gonsalves went into his heads-up match against Tuan Phan with a 5-1 chip lead, but the match lasted over 90 hands due to the third hand they played, which saw Phan winning a coin flip. According to WorldPokerTour.com, Phan’s “pocket deuces held against Gonsalves’ king-queen, prolonging the match for what would be another three hours.”





The rest of the match highlights, as described by the World Poker Tour, can be read here: “The match predominantly consisted of small pots, with Gonsalves refusing to let Phan close the gap too much. On the other hand, Phan didn’t allow Gonsalves to chip away at his stack. 57 hands after Phan’s initial double up, he was able to double up again. This time, he got it in as a big favorite with ace-six against Gonsalves’ queen-six. Phan’s ace remained best, and for the first time in the heads-up match Gonsalves’ lead was below 2-to-1. Twenty hands later, for the first time at the final table Phan took the chip lead… Phan’s chip lead was short-lived, however, as Gonsalves found a double of his own shortly thereafter. Gonsalves raised all in with ace-ten and Phan thought for a while, using two of his time-extensions before he called with queen-six suited. No help came for Phan, and his tournament ended not long after.
In a limped pot, Phan flopped bottom two pair and committed his stack on the turn. Gonsalves, however, had flopped a flush and called Phan’s all-in raise. A safe river card fell, and with that Gonsalves became the newest WPT champion.”

Gonsalves will meet another member of this final table, Qing Liu, at the WPT Tournament of Champions later in 2021.


Final Table Results

1st: Markus Gonsalves – $554,495
2nd: Tuan Phan – $359,650
3rd: Jonathan Cohen – $263,090
4th: Chance Kornuth – $195,085
5th: Straton Wilhelm – $146,655
6th: Qing Liu – $111,795

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Liquid`Drone   Norway. Mar 16 2021 06:09. Posts 3093

congrats to proct.

He actually stole 'TheStove' from a player named 'Masturnate' from the nohunters community - who was the real inventor. (he had done the build vs proct using TheStove as his account. )

lol POKER 

PuertoRican   United States. Mar 16 2021 06:23. Posts 13024


  On March 16 2021 05:09 Liquid`Drone wrote:
congrats to proct.

He actually stole 'TheStove' from a player named 'Masturnate' from the nohunters community - who was the real inventor. (he had done the build vs proct using TheStove as his account. )


Sick. I think I remember seeing the name Masturnate, but I don't remember where.

Either way, it was a fun build order for Protoss back in the day. It was one of those "it's so crazy it just might work!" strategies.

Rekrul is a newb 

uiCk   Canada. Mar 16 2021 11:09. Posts 3521


  On March 16 2021 05:09 Liquid`Drone wrote:
congrats to proct.

He actually stole 'TheStove' from a player named 'Masturnate' from the nohunters community - who was the real inventor. (he had done the build vs proct using TheStove as his account. )


Yes I remember masturnate, he was an older guy in a community of 13 y Olds. And he used to be very creative and probably innovated a bunch of strats/BOs.

Right down memory lane, damn. Nohunters game reports before replays where around was the shit.

I wish one of your guys had children if I could kick them in the fucking head or stomp on their testicles so you can feel my pain because thats the pain I have waking up everyday -- Mike Tyson 

Endo   United States. Mar 16 2021 19:37. Posts 953

Gonsalves raised all in with ace-ten and Phan thought for a while, using two of his time-extensions before he called with queen-six suited

was this preflop? how many bb was Phan on still?

someone explain to me calling with Q6s seems like a good idea there if it was preflop with a nontrivial amount of bb's =/


Gumster   Sweden. Mar 16 2021 19:51. Posts 2290

i lol'd at The Stove, remember that useless strat hahaha

Do not push the river, it will flow by itself. - Polish proverb 

TimDawg    United States. Mar 18 2021 17:02. Posts 10197

looking back at that Cosmo interview and seeing those old pictures was awesome

online bob is actually a pretty smart person, not at all like the creepy fucker that sits in the sofa telling me he does nasty shit to me when im asleep - pinball 

Baalim   Mexico. Mar 18 2021 22:57. Posts 34246

lol I remember the Stove... how in the fuck did that thing ever work

Ex-PokerStars Team Pro Online 

Garfed   Malta. Mar 19 2021 16:36. Posts 4818

@PuertoRican
fixed the main page - happens when old main post goes into old posts and has a tweet embedded - you either have to delete the tweet or make it a screenshot


PuertoRican   United States. Mar 19 2021 16:48. Posts 13024


  On March 19 2021 15:36 Defrag wrote:
@PuertoRican
fixed the main page - happens when old main post goes into old posts and has a tweet embedded - you either have to delete the tweet or make it a screenshot


An old trick to make sure an old website works properly.

Rekrul is a newb 

Santafairy   Korea (South). Mar 19 2021 20:14. Posts 2224

Protoss scum

It seems to be not very profitable in the long run to play those kind of hands. - Gus Hansen 

Jelle   Belgium. Mar 20 2021 07:05. Posts 3476

AAA journalism & fact checking in a world of clickbait and fake news. Bravo drone & puertorican

GroT 

urasofty   Canada. Mar 30 2021 21:01. Posts 81

His tennis needs work tbh


Ryan Neilly   United States. Mar 31 2021 10:47. Posts 1631

great job bud - DReaMe


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