partypoker US Network Series (Jan. 17-24)

Another series on the partypoker US Network, another tournament victory for Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken.

This time around, Vanauken topped a field of 76 in Event #2, a $320 buy-in Progressive Knockout in which he claimed the top prize of $2,908 and added another $5,972 in bounties for a combined $8,880 in earnings, nearly 40% of the overall $22,800 prize pool.

Vanauken was in the top 10 of the leader board all tournament long, working his way up to the top three by the ninth level of play in the evening and taking the chip lead within the last half-hour of the 15-level late registration period.

By the time registration closed, Vanauken nearly doubled his already-chip-leading stack and became the first player to reach 1 million, and kept climbing from there as he eliminated Daniel "leinad" Buzgon in ninth place on the bubble.

Two eliminations later, Vanauken took his chip lead into the final table. He briefly relinquished it to eventual runner-up "RiverMan" during four-handed play, but reclaimed it after eliminating "l23weeeeeeeee" in fourth place and followed it up by running the table, knocking out "dadadada" in third, and then mowing down "RiverMan" heads up to earn yet another victory in a partypoker US Network Series tournament.

Event #2 Final Table Results

The partypoker US Network Series resumes Tuesday with Event #3: 15K GTD 40 Stack 8-Max NLH at 8 p.m. ET, so be sure to come back then. A full schedule of the remaining tournaments can be found below.

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In Level 24 with blinds of 12,000/24,000 and an ante of 3,000, "RiverMan" opened to 52,800 on the button and Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken three-bet jammed for 614,000 effective. "RiverMan" immediately called.

"RiverMan":
Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken":

The ladies did not love "RiverMan" as Vanauken locked up the win by the turn, hitting a wheel on a runout of to eliminate "RiverMan" in second place ($3,205 in total earnings) and claim victory along with $5,972 worth of bounties and the top prize of $2,908 for a total of $8,880. Stay tuned for a recap of the action.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken	3,800,000	602,358
RiverMan	Busted

On the final hand of Level 23 with blinds of 10,000/20,000 and an ante of 2,500, "RiverMan" opened the action with a raise to 44,000 on the button and was three-bet to 110,000 by Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken in the small blind. "dadadada" was in the big blind and cold four-bet jammed for 188,000, prompting a fold from "RiverMan" and a call from Vanauken.

"dadadada":
Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken:

"dadadada" was unable to fade an ace on the flop and was left high and dry by both the turn and river , finishing the tournament in third place as a result. Meawhile, Vanauken takes roughly a three-to-two chip lead into his heads-up match witwh "RiverMan" with both players having locked up $2,905 and competing for nearly $3,300 in bounties.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken	2,280,842	473,456
RiverMan	1,519,158	-221,000
dadadada	Busted

In Level 23 with blinds of 10,000/20,000 and an ante of 2,500, all of the chips got into the middle preflop after a series of raises that resulted in "l23weeeeeeeee" being all in for their tournament life from the cutoff against Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken, who was in the big blind.

"l23weeeeeeeee":
Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken:

"l23weeeeeeeee" had virtually no chance as the flop left them in need of hitting running cards. Instead, Vanauken hit each remaining card as the turn and river came to give him a full house as it completed the runout and eliminated "l23weeeeeeeee" in fourth place.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken	1,807,386	613,604
RiverMan	1,740,158	67,700
dadadada	252,456	-143,500
l23weeeeeeeee	Busted

As time expired in Level 21 (7,000/14,000/1,750), Angel "chromeking" Lopez jammed for 143,000 in the hijack and received action from "RiverMan".

Angel "chromeking" Lopez:
"RiverMan":

Lopez was in great shape for a double and the flop did little to jeopardize that. The turn did give him four more outs to sweat, but it would be one of the original two that he needed to fade in that fell on the river to spell his elimination at the expense of "RiverMan".

Moments later, "RiverMan" once again got stacks in with against Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken, who could find nothing more than a jack on the runout with his , and "RiverMan" is now closing in on the chip lead with four remaining.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eric "alwaysliquid" Vanauken	1,428,342	-597,299
RiverMan	1,315,098	808,069
Angel "chromeking" Lopez	Busted