Alex Takes out the 6-Max.

Tonight we had a solid turnout, 26 Players and a prize-pool of over $2,100, for the $20 R&A Weekly 6-max tournament.

Top four got paid, this week we had: Kirby, Alex McC, Chris R and Ryan H.

Fourth place went home with Chris R. He went out with big pocket J's. JJ vs Ryan's QT, Chris shoved into Ryan's pre-flop raise. The board flopped a Queen, leaving Chris under 10%. The turn was no use, pairing the board. Neither Jack arrived on the river. 8 Q 6 8 9.

The deck had a sense of humor and saw Ryan with pocket J's the very next hand. They continued to be unlucky and gave Alex a double up.

Kirby's chips fluctuated a lot during three way play. After a big loss, she was left with 6k chips all in against Alex, 42 against AQ. K K A 7 4 out on the table showed no remorse to the small stack. Well done on a solid third!

Heads up saw Alex and Ryan battle it out until the point where their stacks were almost identical for the final hand. Alex raised to $30k pre, Ryan pushed all in, Alex called. Ryan revealed AK and Alex showed his AT (surprisingly strong hands for 20BB in play). The flop looked good for Ryan: 5 4 Q. The turn, not so friendly, pairing Alex's T. No King on the river and Alex took out the main prize.

Thanks to everyone who came for a great night of poker!

Third time's a Charm

We had a modest turnout for the Thursday Freeze-out Tournament tonight with only 14 entries. But with special offer this week of a $1000 guaranteed prize pool, there was still some juicy prizes up for grabs.

We were very quick to make a final table, happening only one hand in after the first break.

The competition was fierce as everyone was targeting Mark N who was in hot pursuit of a Hatrick, however he made it to the top three along with Alex McC and Tumua I.

Tumua was the first to seal his fate; all-in with 10-5(c) up against Alex's A-8. The board was Q-K-9-Q-Q so Alex's A-high played and he upped his chip stack quite nicely.

An all-in win for Alex against Mark gave him a huge chip stack and Mark was left battling. Finally Mark went all-in with K-6, Alex called with K-8. Board was 10-7-10-5-2 and Alex's 2-pair with an 8-kicker won him the tournament (his first win after coming second the last two tournaments).

Congratulations to our winners.

Two in a Row for Karl!

A great tournament tonight with a few new faces coming in to try their luck. The prize pool was over $2,300!

It took a long time to find out who would be making the final table with no one wanting to be the one that missed out. Cash prizes for the top four places, in the end the battle was between Jordan G, Greg D, Chris S and Karl R.

Unfortunately after the long lead up to the final table, the players fell away quickly with Chris S falling first. With a pair of three's on the board Jordan had the higher kicker. But Karl was quickly coming up the strongest.

Karl managed to pull a straight on the river to beat Greg's two pair to leave him in third place, Soon after Karl went all in with 85 against Jordan's K5. Karl lead all the way with 4385A on the board.

So Karl was able to take out the top spot two weeks in a row! Well done!

Join us tomorrow night for our $60 Freeze Out Tournament. It'll be a treat!

Mark Bolts to the Finish Line

Tonight we had 15 players battling it out for the $750 prize pool.
Congratulations to the final three Mark, Ryan and Alex.
First to make a move was Ryan going all in with QJ of diamonds, he finds a caller in Mark with A9. The cards come out 86K64 and Mark wins with a pair of sixes with an ace kicker.
Down to the final two, Mark has a pair of 5s and makes a raise, Alex shoves over the top with Q7 and Mark calls. Cards this time are 67974 with four diamonds, one of Marks 5s is a diamond and he wins for the second week in a row.
Can Mark take it out for a third time next week or will we have a new champ? Come down and find out!

Karl Knocks out the Competition.

We had a total of 21 entries in the 6-max this week, the prizepool was a sinister $1,666.

Top 4 we had: Matt, Jordan, Ketch and Karl.

The final table went off to a slow start, but once it passed the bubble, it heated up.

Karl went up against Ketch with an Ace suited to hearts vs AJ off. Three hearts came out on the table and Karl got a substantial chip boost once he took out Ketch.

The very next hand, Karl went up against Matt. Karl had 98 and Matt had K3, 6 T 4 9 5 on the board gave Karl his pair of 9's which was enough to knock out one more.

Heads up play lasted about 25 minutes between Jordan and Karl. Chips moved around quite a bit until the final hand. Karl had Jordan's stack covered, the hands were a classic flip. Karl with pocket 3's, Jordan with QJ. 2 K 2 on the flop, gave Jordan extra outs. 5 on the turn gave a few more. There was no K, 5, Q or J on the river, so Karl's 3's held up.

Well done to Karl on his first cash on the 6-max structure!

Mark Moves in for the Win!

Tonight's Freeze Out Tournament had 20 players with a $1000 prize pool. While Mark N managed to take out the top prize, he faced some tough competition to get there.

In the running for the prizes were Corey H, Jordan G, Alex McC, and Mark N.

Unfortunately, Corey was the first to go to take fourth place in an all in against Mark. Mark had 29 and Corey also had a 9. A 2 and a 9 came in on the flop giving Mark two pair, the turn and river were no help to Corey who was unable to catch up.

Not long after this Jordan was out also, so it was Alex and Mark heads up where it was a battle to get the upper hand.

Finally after several hands of all ins and calling and with the blind levels due to go up again, we managed to find our victor. Alex holding AJ and Mark K7. The cards came out 636Q7 leaving Mark with two pair, and taking out first place!

It was a great tournament tonight, and join us again next Wednesday and Thursday for more tournaments and be in to win some awesome prizes!

An Ace Effort by Alex

We had a reasonable turnout to our $20 6-Max Tournament tonight, with 18 players all fighting for their share of the money. A nice prize pool of over $1700 made for a pretty competitive game.

We had seven people on the final table, but our three prize winners were Alex M, Brendan N and Gary T.

Gary had a few bad beats on the final table. Calling an all-in with pocket As, up against pocket Js, the board rivered a J and made a huge dent in his stack. He tried to claw his way back but his all-in with Q-9 wasn't enough to beat Brendan's K-6 with a board of 8-A-6-J-4.

After a while of back-and-forward between Alex and Brendan, it was all over when Brendan was all-in with K-5. Alex had A-Q. Board was A-8-7-J-10 and Alex's pair of Aces claimed victory.
Congratulations to our winners.

We kick it off again Thursday night with another $60 Freeze-out Tournament. Registration up until the end of the first break.

Hot Poker for this Freeze-Out!

Tonight was a $60 Freeze-out Tournament. No rebuys, no addons, no re-entries.

With 26 entries, it was nearly 1am before the tournament wrapped up with a prize pool of $1300 divided among the final four players.

Tumua I. finished in fourth, when an all-in with J9 was beaten by Eva. A pair of K were on the board but Eva had the higher kicker. The final three were Bryn N. Eva L. and Sammy C. with both Bryn and Eva trying to knock Sammy from chip leader.

For a while it was difficult going. Eva calling Sammy's all-in with KK but unfortunately Sammy had flopped the straight. A few hands later it was returned when Sammy called Eva's all in but this time Eva had the better hand with two-pair.

Bryn wasn't going to give up easily either. Calling Eva's all-in pre-flop with A2 he unfortunately lost to K8, when the cards came out K4QQJ. Though he did manage to get one over on Sammy a few hands later with two pair 10's and 8's over Sammy's 10's and 6's, and another all-in later on achieving a straight on the river.

Eventually though, someone had to be third and that was Bryn when Eva had the higher kicker. Then a short while later Sammy finally managed to defeat Eva with JJ while Eva had 89 suited. A's on the flop ensured Sammy's victory and the flush didn't quite come through for Eva.

It was a great tournament tonight, and don't forget to join us next week with our tournaments on Wednesday and Thursday. Beginning at 7:45pm.

Jase with the Ace

We had a great turnout to our $20 6-Max Hold'em Tournament, with 24 people all fighting it out for their share of the money. Triple addons proved popular and it built the prize pool to a tasty $2000.

We had seven runners make it to the final table, but the top four were paid.
They were Chris K, Jason S, Lucy W and Greg S.

Lucy was low in chips and her blind and ante pushed her all-in and she decided to not look at her cards. Chris called her all-in with J-10, Jason calls with pocket 7s. Lucy's cards were 9-5. The board was Q-8-3-8-2 and Jason's 2-pair were enough to knock her out for 4th.

Jason climbed to chip leader, calling Chris' A-10(o) with A-10(d) and hit a runner runner flush.
With only a few chips left, Chris shoves all-in pre-flop with Q-10. Jason calls with K-5 and Greg calls with 2-4. Board was 10-9-7-7-K and Jason's higher 2-pair claimed his next victim.

Down to heads-up, Greg pushes all-in holding 8-9(c), Jason has A-8. With nothing on the board, Jason's Ace-high was enough to take out the tournament. Congratulations.

Join us on Thursday as we launch the $60 Freeze Out Tournament. One stack, One shot at the money. See you there.