Thursday, October 22, 2015

An 11:1 chip lead and a little luck...


Tonight we had 33 players play in the tournament, with a few more in the waiting list that didn't get the chance for a seat. Total prize pool of $1032

Greg, Jesse, Josh, Nick and Todd made it to the final five.

Jesse decides to shove, hoping for a call...Josh calls, Greg and Nick fold. Jesse has A,J going up against Josh's A 4.  Flop is shown A,3,4..Josh has the percentage. 7 on the turn, Josh still hanging in there. He needs this or he's out of the tourney. Turn comes...4. Josh doubles up with trips.

Two hands later we have another all in and a caller. This time between Greg and Nick. Greg is all in with pocket Ks. Nick has called with 10,J. the flop comes and it's 2,J,6. Greg ahead. Turn is a 7. Greg still ahead and needing this win to stay in the game. Nick has 2 outs. Can he get a 10 or J. Here comes the river....J. Nick has busted Greg out of the tourney for 4th place.

Showdown between Jesse and Josh now. Jesse is all in with 9,8. Josh has K,9. The flop is 2,9,7. Josh slightly ahead. The turn is a K which has given Josh the win and there's still the river to come. It's a J. Jesse finishes up in 3rd.

Last two standing at around 23:30 between Josh and Nick fighting for the 1st place. Josh had about 25k and Nick had about 280k chips and the blinds were 3k/6k. Josh doubled up his stack three times making him positioned ahead of Nick at one stage. But Nick has made a come back at the end with a leading stack. In the last hand Josh pushed all-in pre-flop around 80k stack with (A,3) versus Nick's (10,Q) 220k stack. Community cards dealt 5,9,10,8,9 made Nick winning the first place of tonight's tournament.

Congratulations to Nick, well done!!!