Ryan Hunts out First in the Final

Congratulations to Tim, Ryan, Evalyn, Alex and Chris for taking home a piece of the $6000 in our classic final.

When we got down to the final five Evalyn was the first to make a move shoving her small stack with A8, Tim called with pocket J's. Flop was JT4 followed by a 3 then 4.  Tim knocks Evalyn out and we are down to four.

About an hour of play with four players Alex's good run was about to end, Ryan all in with KT against Alex AJ.  The board comes 9QJ29 and Ryan doubles up leaving Alex with 6k.  Very next hand Alex is all in with Q2 and Chris calls with J7.  Chris rivers a straight and sends Alex packing.

Tim shoves all in with 65, Ryan snaps with TT, the board is 6JAJ5  and Tim takes off with third place.

Down to Chris and Ryan with Ryan holding most of the chips.  Chris gets a double up to keep him in the game a bit longer before pushing all in with K4 of diamonds.  Ryan calls with AJ and we get 96J64 but not enough diamonds to keep Chris in the game.

Congratulations to Ryan for taking out the coveted bracelet and the tasty first prize (just under $3k)!

$UGAR $HUM $HINES ON IN TONIGHTS CLA$$IC V FINALE

Tonight was the final qualifying round of the Dunedin Casino Poker Classic - Series V.  A shorter field but still 17 players here to maintain or improve their standings, as well as take advantage of the $2000 guarantee.

Top three this week were: Chris R, Chris S, and Michael with $1,000, $600 and $400 up for grabs.

Chris R went out in 3rd.  His all in was called by $ugar $hum.  Q9 vs A10. J 4 J 6 7 and nobody hit the board so Chris' A10 was good.

Michael and Chris then went head to head and within a few minutes Michael was all in with Chris calling.  K7 against QJ and the board came out: 8 10 2 A... and a friendly Queen on the river pushed the pot towards the monster stack, $ugar $hum.

So Chris takes out the final Classic qualifier and on about the 10th go we finally got a photo worthy of instagram, or at least for replacing an old profile pic:p

THE CLASSIC V FINALISTS

And so concludes the 5th season of the Dunedin Casino Classic.  By making the final table Michael G had enough points to take a seat in the final Saturday week.

The only other noteworthy ranking change tonight was Will taking 100 points for making the final table and finishing the season in first place narrowly overtaking Ryan by a slim margins, well done Will.

Tonight's tournament marks the end of the Season, leaving just the repechage this Saturday and the Grand Final Saturday Week.  The players qualifying for each are as follows:

Both tournaments will commence dealing to stacks, but any player failing to take their seat by the end of the first level, may be disqualified!  (Do yourself a favour and if you are going to be late, pick up the phone and let us know.  The Pit Boss's ddi is 4700913)

Otherwise, congratulations to everyone who made the Final, and all the best to those in the repechage this Saturday.

Kev the Comeback Kid

Pretty good turnout for our penultimate Classic Qualifier tonight, with a total of 26 players.  In addition, there were 33 rebuys and 44 addons for a combined prize pool of $2200.  From tonight's contribution, the Classic pool is now sitting on $5,684, and in just one weeks time we'll know who exactly is going to get to play for it!

Tonight's top four were Danny W, Karl R, Kev F and Ryan H.

First out we have Ryan go all-in with the flop being 8-7-2.  Kev and Danny call.  Turn and river are 3 & 5 respectively.  Ryan shows A3, but no good for him, Kev flips over his 95 knocking out Ryan with a pair of 5's.

Danny goes all-in for 3½BB and is called by Karl.  Danny rolls over "The Mutt" K9 and Karl show K3. Flop is Q-8-7.  Few chances for Danny here.  Turn is a trey, giving Karl a pair of 3's.  River is a bricky 6, so Danny is out on 3rd.

Now we are left with Karl and Kev.  The chips are switching back and forwards every few hands.  Kev manages to get Karl down to 3BB and Karl goes all in blind.  Karl manages to win the hand and has a few more chips now.  Kev folds a few before he calls an all in.  Kev rolls over AT and Karl 97 suited.  Flop comes out Q-4-5, turn is an 8.  Karl looking for a 6,7,9 to win...  But unfortunately the river is an A, strengthening Kev's hand.  Kev busts out Karl with a pair of A's.  Well done Kev!

Also, earlier on the final table, Kev was down to less than 1 BB, somehow he managed to come back and win the whole thing! I guess miracles do happen...

Just a reminder that this Saturday, we have our $150 May Deepstack starting at 2pm, and instead of the Thursday Turbo tomorrow we're running a free to enter/$10 rebuy satellite where 1 in 6 will be guaranteed to win a seat.  Registration opens at 5:30pm and the Satellite starts at 7:30pm.  Click here for details.

Ben Busts out the Best

We had a great turn out for tonight's tourney with 50 points awarded for each K.O. 28 players in total, some new and some familiar faces.

A total prize pool of over $2200 meant that there were 5 prizes to give away with a guaranteed first prize of $1000.

The lucky 5 remaining players of the 28 were Charlotte, Damien, Adam, Ben and Mark. Damien had a double K.O. sending Michael home and Mark home in 5th possy.

4 remaining and its heads up between Charlotte and Damien. Charlotte's all in with A J v A 7. Flop is 10 9 9 turn 5 river J. Charlotte K.O's Damien and he finishes in 4th.

Charlotte's on a roll and goes all in again, with A J. Adam's counting his chips thinking about his move. Is his hand good enough? Does he have what it takes to call.........why not. He calls with K J.
Flop comes 7 7 7. Jeepers. I wonder if Ben folded a 7?? Anywho, turn is 6. Charlotte is feeling confident. BOOM out comes K on the river giving Adam Ks full and has Charlotte covered. Charlotte finishes 3rd.

Adam and Ben have made a deal and are now playing for the pic on the blog.

They are both all in. Adam has 8s 9d vs Ben's Jd 8c.

Flop is 4d 9c Kd, turn 8d, river 3d.

Ben is our winner with J high flush.

Well done Ben and well done to those that K.O'd their opponents during the tournament.

Only 2 more Wednesday Classic V poker nights left before the finale. The estimated prize pool is $6038

Remember you must be a Dunedin Casino club member to qualify also. If you've got the points, then you must be a club member for them to be valid.

Good luck to all!!

Kev goes flett out and wins!

Tonight's tournament produced 21 of Dunedin's finest poker players, all wanting a slice of the $2000 guaranteed prize pool. The final 4 were in the money. Karl got the bubble and the final 4 were Kev, Ryan, Chris and Greg.

The chips were being exchanged around the table for a round or 2 when all of a sudden Chris goes all in with 10 9. If he didn't go all in I'm sure Greg, who called, would have with his pocket As.
2 Q 2 was flopped. Hmm may be runner, runner 10 or 9? No, just a 6 8. All of Chris' chips went to Greg and Chris finished in 4th.

Couple of hands on Kev and Ryan battle it out. Kev is stacked but helps Ryan out when he loses a hand but then 2 hands later he gets it back again and some. Kev is now chip leader and he's up against Ryan who's all in. Ryan's A 2 against Kev's A 3. Flop is 2 K 3, turn 5, river 10. Kev knocks Ryan out who finishes 3rd.

Now a showdown between Greg and Kev. Greg goes all in after the flop Q hearts 2 hearts 3. Greg has J 3 hearts against Kev's J J hearts. Turn A hearts and river 6 hearts.

Well done to Greg finishing a respectable 2nd and congratulations to Kev for taking 1st prize, almost a year to the day after winning last year. Amazing!!

Another win for Will. Danny gets in some good cardio.

This week we had double final table bonus points, 10 lucky players got 100 bonus points towards the leaderboard. We also had four players receive early sign up prizes, varying from a free dessert, to a free add-on. There were 23 players this week and a prizepool just over $2,300.

Top four got paid this week, but I will make a special mention for the Bubble, Danny. Out of pure chance, while balancing tables, Danny was forced to move tables five times. In the end, Danny got taken out while all in vs Greg. Danny was ahead with KJ against JT, Greg scored a full house on the turn. It was more than enough to send Danny from the table... one last time.

Greg went home with fourth place. He was all in for around two BB against Will and Brendan. When the turn came out, Will bet, Brendan folded and Will showed a flush. Greg missed both his cards.

Next out was Ketch in third. Ketch was all in on the flop and called by Will, K2 against Q7, both players had hit their under cards. 7 2 8 on the flop, the turn and river an Ace and a Five. This win brought Will to almost 2/3 chips in play.

Will and Brendan promptly came to a deal which they were both happy with, they ten played off for the remainder and the glory. Heads up lasted around 40 minutes. The final hand, Brendan shipped it with AK and was called with A3. A 3 on the flop gave Will the lead, no Kings came out and Will took the First place. J Q 3 6 9.

Pre-reg prizes and a 1st for Ketch.

This week, along with the $2,000 guarantee, we had 5 pre-reg sign up prizes. The prizes were for Club Casino members who had signed up at least a day in advance.  The prizes won this week were a complimentary desert from The Grand Bar and Cafe, a 2 for 1 meal voucher for the Grand Bar and Cafe, a limited edition drink bottle, a double addon in the Thursday Turbo tomorrow and an exclusive dc t-shirt.  It was a lot of fun so we're going to find find some new prizes to add to draw and try it again next week.

We had 22 Players this week to fight it out for the $1000 1st place.

Top four this week were, Ketch, Mark, Pete and Rayel.

Pete went home with Fourth place after he tangled with Rayel's JJ, Pete had two overs with AQ. Unluckily for Pete he didn't manage to hit, 7 6 4 T K.

Mark found himself short stacked and pushed all-in with A9. He was called by Ketch with KQ. Mark was looking good until the turn came a Queen for Ketch. 2 T 6 Q 5.

Heads up play was between Ketch and Rayel. Ketch managed to get a double up when he called Rayel's bluff  9.2, with his A3. This double up gave Ketch just over half chips in play. Soon after Ketch made another all-in call. Rayel saw an Ace and pushed with A7, Ketch turned over a strong AJ and the kickers played it out. 7 J 6 8 2, the stronger hand prevailed and Ketch took the pot and the First with a pair of Jacks.

Thanks for a great tournament, don't forget, next week there are more early sign up prizes to be won.

Peasant Produces Pocket Pair

So it went down like this tonight.

After a quiet start the tourney ended up with 28 players with extra points available for knockouts.
The tournament started conservatively for those who wanted the knock out points, waiting for their chance to pounce on those more vulnerable and willing to risk their stack. This was anyones tournament and this was an epic opportunity to increase their points for a desirable position on the leaderboard.

After a lot of pushing, shoving and knocking-out there was 5 left playing for position and 4 spots available for the money.

The Peasant, Sammy, Sung, Damien and Wong.

Finishing just outside the money was Sung who got rolled by The Peasant. This added another knockout to the 4 he already has. Not bad going for a Peasant.

Largely stacked but anything could happen with these sharks! Sharks v Peasant...game on.

The Peasant and Damian fold this hand which leaves Wong and Sammy. Sammy has Wong covered so all he needs now is to win the hand. All sorts of cards come out and the one that matters is a 10. Sammy wins with a pair of 10's and has stripped Wong of all his chips, 19K worth! Sammy all of a sudden goes from rags to riches and has earned himself some knockout points.

It is now a break. The players give themselves a chance to consult the poker gods, compose themselves and brace themselves for what could be the last round for the evening.

The 14th round starts and 2 seconds later there's a bust out. Sammy has gone all in and Peasant boy called. Why they ask? Because it's possible The Peasant could get a runner runner flush. The poker god listened to that Peasant because that's exactly what happened. Sammy finishes in a well deserved 3rd.

Heads up, Damien v The Peasant. The gods have listened to The Peasant thus far. Can they continue to deliver. We'll see this hand I guess.

Damien all in K 7 off and The Peasant calls 6 6 off. On the flop is A 10 4, all clubs. Damien has K clubs. Interesting. Turn is 8 spade, still a chance here for Damien, only slightly behind. What can a river produce? A 4 of diamond you say. Yip, that's Damien done and dusted which gives The Peasant his 7th knockout and the first place prize for the night. Well done Alex and Damien.

The Peasant would like to say a special thanks to Gavin from the Peasant Poker team.

Wednesday Night Poker

Dunedin's only guaranteed poker tournament with a guaranteed first prize of $1000!  Good luck!

The Deck does requests... If only the Players knew what to ask for...

Tonight we had 24 Players turn out for the weekly Wednesday $2000 guarantee Tournament.

Top four got paid out this week. The final five were, Will, Mark, Damien, Karl and Greg.

Mark went out on the bubble with AT vs QQ. There was a bubble deal among the players, so he didn't go home empty handed.

Next home, in fourth place was Damien. He found himself short stacked and out of time. He went all in with Q8 and got called by Karl with KQ. 4 6 7 3 Q on the board, not the card Damien wanted to hit on the river.

There was quite a bit of play three handed. Here are a few hands in sequence:

Karl had found himself short stack, around 8k chips, after getting unlucky the previous hand, to Greg. He was all in blind, Greg called his bet to try finish him off. Karl ended up being ahead with his blind hand, A3 vs QK. 5 2 9 4 8, a double up for Karl and he is back in the game (still a major short stack).

Karl managed to work his way back up to around $45k, through pushing all in and stealing blinds. Eventually the blinds fight back and Will calls him. Karl A9 and Will with AT, the flop came out with three hearts, the turn delivered a fourth, giving Karl the nut flush to his Ace. 6 7 2 4 J.

 A seemingly dead board got Greg all in against Karl on the turn, T 5 8 3, both players had two pair, Karl had T3 and Greg had 53. Greg called for a three on the river to give him a full house..... and BOOM!! He got it. A slight lapse of judgment, forgetting that the three would give Karl a bigger full house. Should have asked for a five. Bad luck Greg.

 A few hands into heads up between Will and Karl: Will bets 20k pre and Karl goes all in, Will calls. QQ vs Karl's A7. T 5 9 4 with three hearts came out, Karl calls for a fourth Heart.. once again the deck is delivering on requests with a J of Hearts.. It was a pitty for Karl that Will got a larger flush on the river.

The final hand wasn't very eventful. Will was all in against Karl's short stack, A4 vs J7. Will got a pair of fours on the flop, and it held up. 4 Q 3 9 5.

A special mention to Chris who managed to sneak into the final table, he survived the previous hand all in for an ante six way with a $100 chip!

Thanks everyone for a great tournament.

Where There's a Will, There's a Way!

Quite a small Wednesday Classic Tournament this week, only 17 players. More of you should have shown up, you missed out on some food platters!

On final table, both Jeremy and Sammy did double knockouts! Jeremy busted out Chris S and Gary T. Sammy busted out Jason C and Marc N.

Anyway, the top 4 decided to pay out the bubble, with the top 4 being
Will S, Jeremy P, Sammy C and Andrew A.

Will bets $8K and Andrew goes all in with KJ, Will calls holding AJ. Board is 7-2-7-T-2. Will knocks out Andrew with 2 pair, A kicker.

Next of the knockouts, Will and Jeremy are at the flop, board so far is A-7-5, with 2 of the cards being hearts. Will bets $32K and Jeremy ships for about $3K more, instant call from Will. Jeremy rolls over JJ and Will rolls Q8 hearts. Turn gives us a 4, not hearts. Jeremy still ahead. On the river we get T of hearts... Will busts Jeremy with a flush!

By this time, Sammy has made a major comeback, down to around $3K earlier on the final table, he is now heads up with Will. Preflop, Sammy bets $12K, Will calls. Flop is 7-2-T, both check, turn is an 8. Will bets $12K, Sammy shoves, Will calls it. Will shows 96 and Sammy shows 85. Sammy is dead as Will has the straight, 6-T. Well done Sammy for the awesome comeback and well done Will for winning the tournament!

Knockout Tournament, Big Hit.

A solid turnout for this weeks classic Tournament. We had a total of 26 players come in for the knockout bonus point week. The prize-pool finished, just shy of $2400.

Top four got paid, they were; Ryan, Nic, Chris and Mark.

Mark went home with fourth to Nic. The prize was a bit over $200.

Next out, in third place, was Chris, he went out against Dog the Bounty Hunter (Ryan).

Final two were Ryan and Nic. Heads up went for some time until the final hand. The hand got to the flop before Nic went all in with top pair on 9's, Ryan did not hesitate to call, with his AA in the hole. Nic 9,5. Ryan AA. Flop 9 8 6. The turn came a 6, giving both players two pair. The river came and hit Nic's 5, just to rub some salt in it. Ryan finished the hand and tournament with, two pair, Aces and Sixes.

Well done to all those who got knockouts this week, they received 50 bonus points, per knockout,  towards the leaderboard.

Only a Classic makes Classics!

There were 21 players tonight playing for a share of the $2k prize pool. There were 4 prizes up for grabs and those fortunate enough to be in the top 4 were Will S, Alex M, Greg S and Ray W.

First to go was Will. He was up against Ray. Will has J 10 Ray has K Q. The flop was very favourable for Ray being 6 Q Q. Turn 9 and river 4. The face of poker last week is no more.

1 down, 2 to go were the winners thoughts. Greg's turn to try something on going all in with A 8. Alex eventually calls exposing his A 9. Close to call this one. Dealer flops out 8 7 2.....7..6. Wow nice move there by Greg to double his stack.

Alex wants some of his stack back but this time he's looking at Ray. Alex is all in. Ray must call with A Q. Why not when you're up against Alex's 8 5! Flop is 4 2 3. Still anybody's. Turn is an A. Boom! Alex hits a straight. Only a 5 can help Ray now for a split pot but it's not to be because it was a 4. Just what the Pro ordered.

Time to get down to business and eliminate some of these players. Greg and Ray are all in but Alex doesn't want a piece. Greg 9 9 and Ray A 5. Flop was made for Greg 9 5 A, turning a Q then a 7 for the river. Ray is gone burger and finishes 3rd.

Only Greg and Alex left. they look evenly stacked but Greg is a tad ahead. They're both all in. Alex with K 10 and Greg A J. One of the sickest flops we've seen this year, Q Q Q...5...2. Funnily enough Greg is our winner with trips, A high.

Well done Greg and thank you to all those that played.

Huge turnout for Wednesday Classic

Tonight we had a total of 35 Players in our $2000 guaranteed Wednesday Classic. The Prizepool got close to $3000.

Top five this week were; Rayel, Will, Gary, Tumua and Ryan.

5th place went to Gary who was in a 3 way pot with Will and Rayel. No one hit on the flop or river, Will hit a nice pair of Kings on the River, it was strong enough for the pot and a triple up for him.

Tumua went home with 4th, after finding himself short stacked and looking down at a King. K3 vs Ryan with 88. 6 2 A Q T on the board. The King missed and Ryan took out the pot with his Eights.

Next out, finishing in 3rd, was Rayel. He started the hand with a raise into Will, who pushed him all in pre-flop. J9 against A6. If the ace wasn't scary enough, two more came on the flop, 3 A A, 7 9. Triple Aces took the pot.

Heads up this week we had, Will with 80% chips in play, and Ryan. Will shoved all in with Q7 and got a call from Ryan with A7. The queen came on the flop, Q 6 2, the River and turn were of no use to Ryan, K T.

Well done to Will for a great Tournament. Thanks to everyone who turned out this week for a great night.

Wednesday Classic Structure

WEDNESDAY CLASSIC QUALIFIER – TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE

$30 REBUY & ADDON TOURNAMENT WITH CLASSIC POINTS

NO LIMIT TEXAS HOLD’EM REBUY TOURNAMENT

UNLIMITED REBUYS AND UP TO TWO ADDONS

Wednesday, 8pm from 3 February – 18 May 2016 (inclusive)

All Buy-in’s, Rebuys & Addons: $30

($22 prize pool + $4 registration fee + $4 to the Classic Prize Pool)

Start Stack: 2,000                                                     
Rebuys: 2,000                                                          
Addons: 2,000

Blind Levels: 20 minutes for the first 3 levels, then 15 minutes                                                    Prizes: Cash

Level	Duration	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante
1	20 min	25	50
2	20 min	50	100
3	20 min	75	150
10 minute break
4	15 min	100	200
5	15 min	150	300
6	15 min	200	400
7	15 min	300	600
8	15 min	400	800
5 minute break
9	15 min	500	1000	100
10	15 min	700	1500	200
11	15 min	1000	2000	300
12	15 min	1500	3000	400
13	15 min	2000	4000	500
5 minute break
14	15 min	3000	6000	1000
15	15 min	5000	10000	1000
16	15 min	7000	15000	2000
17	15 min	10000	20000	3000
18	15 min	15000	30000	4000
19+ Tournament Director

Register in-room only, up to 7 days prior.

Late registration & alternates available until the end of level 3.