27 players took their seats looking for cards, cash, and something to brag about until next month. Double A walked away with all three.

Crime Dog wasted no time setting the Best Hand of the Night, making aces full of fours before everyone had properly settled in. The hand stayed on top for the entire night, earning Crime Dog his first RPL cash of the season and a very respectable $260. Apparently, crime does pay.

The Jackpot Hand climbed to a record $1,970, with quad sixes and quad jacks holding the combination to the safe. Neither showed up, so the jackpot rolls into next month. There will also be a new wrinkle: if the designated Jackpot Hand stays hidden again, the best quads of the night will take home a piece of the prize. Four of a kind may finally be more than a good bad-beat story.

Last month’s champion, Shull Train, was MIA, so the sniper was transferred to runner-up Stoneface JG. AK eventually found his target, pulled the trigger, and collected the bounty. Shull Train may have avoided the sniper, but his substitute was not so lucky.

The final table quickly dropped to six before everyone remembered they actually wanted to stay. Things lingered there until KO knocked out two players on back-to-back hands, and suddenly we were down to four.

Then came the grind.

Double A passed up two chances to steal Wheel’s big blind while holding AKo, a level of restraint rarely witnessed at an RPL table. His reward was watching Wheel repeatedly flop top pair against him and slowly drain his stack. KO was having similar luck, repeatedly missing the flop while AK and Wheel happily accepted his chips.

Double A eventually decided patience was overrated and shoved from the small blind with K2. Wheel looked down at A3 and snapped him off. A king came right in the door, another arrived on the turn for emphasis, and Wheel’s night ended in fourth place.

Down to three, Double A found AJo against KO’s KJ. KO needed help, but the deck had apparently stopped taking his calls. He exited in third, leaving Double A and AK to settle the championship.

On the final hand, AK completed from the small blind and Double A checked Q8o. The flop came Q-10-4. Double A bet, and AK called. Both players checked the blank turn, followed by another blank on the river.

That was when AK decided bottom pair had tremendous bluffing potential and moved all in.

Double A went deep into the tank, replayed the hand, considered his life choices, and eventually made the call. It was the right one. AK’s pair of fours was caught impersonating a real hand, and Double A’s queens were good enough to finish the job.

Final Results

1. Double A: $1,045

2. AK: $670

3. KO: $480

4. Wheel: $320

5. Scotty Lob: $160

Congratulations to Double A on the victory, Crime Dog on his first RPL cash of the season, and AK on collecting the sniper before getting caught with his hand in the bluff jar.

The jackpot will be waiting next month at more than $1,970. Bring your quad sixes, quad jacks, or at least four matching cards worth talking about.