Old Guy Gets Lucky Again

Tonight we had 27 players come to battle it out for the prizes with a prize pool just short of $2000.

Congratulations to the top four taking home some $$$: Chris, Jesse, Jeff and Lewis.

Jesse went all in with K9 clubs against Chris with 67 of clubs. Out came 6TAJJ and not enough clubs to save Jesse from going home.

Next saw Chris with K9 against Lewis with pocket 7's. Chris hit trip kings and after a quick count up Lewis was left with $3,500 and forced all in next hand. He doubled up,  though was still without enough chips was forced all in again with J9 against Jeff's K6. Jeff hit the straight and Lewis was left to take home third place.

Down to the final two Chris was all in with J4 and Jeff with A2. 98QJ9 and two pair of J's and 9's was enough for Chris to take it out two weeks in a row. What a great effort!

Thanks to everyone who took part tonight and we hope to see you next week!

Massive No Limit Freezeout!

Excellent turnout today for the Tournament. Starting at 2pm so it didn't clash with the Blackjack Tournament that was also running for the long weekend, the remaining seats filled up very quickly.

With 30 players and a prize pool of over $5,000 we assigned the cash to the top 5 finishers and with over $2,000 for first place!

With steady dealing all afternoon, the final table was reached around 6:30 and some players who'd busted out earlier getting together to get the cash game rolling.

6th place, although it wasn't assigned a prize, the top 5 were generous enough to put in $30 each as a bubble prize (buy-in back)

Once bubble was determined, 5th was taken out soon after, Jeff was beaten by Jacque's AK.

4th place went to Rayel, he was called by Greg. Rayel went all-in with J8 vs Greg's A9. Ace high was good enough to hold up when neither player synced with the board of: 4 T Q 5 7.

Greg, with his new found chips went on the aggressive, he raised to $30k, Andy went all-in. Greg had AJ vs Andy's A3. The Board played out: 4 2 2 9 9, A near escape for Andy, splitting the pot. Soon after the to got it all in, Greg called Andy's shove. Andy with QT, Greg with A8. Greg hit an 8 on the turn for the knockout: 5 6 2 8 J.

With very similar stacks, final two made a deal to play for $1,600 each and play it out for the glory and the extra $300. Heads up played out for about half an hour between Jacque and Greg. The final hand of the Tournament, Greg got it all-in pre and was called by Jacque. Greg final hand, the noble AK, Jacque with KJ. In the end, Greg managed a straight by the end of the hand (Ace high was also good). 5 3 4 5 2. Well done Greg!

Thank you to everyone who made the effort to turn up to the freezeout. Keep an eye out on the blog for upcoming tournaments.

Chris Cleans up Short Handed

This Wednesday 17 Poker Players ventured through the rain to play. We had a prizepool of just over $1,600.

Top 3 went to: Chris R, Rayel and Ross.

Chris raised to $10k against Rayel, Chris faced an all-in bet in retaliation, he looked down to a couple of Rockets and had an easy call. Hole cards: AA vs AT. The flop wasn't without a sweat for Chris: T 5 5, Q and 2 on the turn and river secured Chris' the pot, and the knockout.

Ross and Chris played it out heads-up. The final hand was quite similar to Rayel's last. Chris raised to $10k and Ross shoved into him, Chris called. Another monster hand for Chris, AK against Ross' A8. 9 J 9 K 8, Chris secured the win with the King on the turn.

Thanks to everyone who ventured from the comfort of home to play.

Karl on a Hot Streak

We had a great turnout to our Wednesday No-Limit Hold'em Tournament with 25 people all eager to get their hands on their share of the prize pool that got to almost $2000.

The play was fairly aggressive as the three tables quickly got down to two. The final table was just as brutal at times. Ryan got down to one $100 chip but managed to hang on a while. At the final table, he was all-in for $400 and was leading at the turn with a pair of 6's, however a 7 on the river gave the other player a pair of 7's and Ryan was out. A valiant effort nonetheless.

The top four were paid tonight. They were Karl R, Gary T, Rayel N and Nick K.
Nick was the first to go all-in. Holding A-7, Karl called with Q-8. The board was 9-10-J-6-5 giving Karl the straight on the turn.

Gary was next to try his luck, all-in with J-7. Karl again called. He had K-4. Q-8-A-3-10 and it only came down to the high-card.

Karl was quick to strike again while the iron was hot. Rayel was all-in with 6-2(d), Karl had Q-5(c). Flop was 7(d)-6(c)-7(c) so Rayel still had a shot at runner-runner, but the board turning the K(c) gave Karl the flush and tournament win. Karl played so well, he was able to knock out the three others in about a 15 minutes period.

Congratulations to our Winners.

Join us on Friday as we are giving away seats to the October Deep-stack Tournament in our Fun-Friday Satellite. One seat will be guaranteed. See you there!

Biggest Winner, Biggest Grinner

22 Players in the Wednesday 6-max this week. A prizepool of over $1,800 lead to a fairly slow final table.

the last 4 standing (sitting) were: Morgan, Ross, Gavin and Sammy.

After surviving the bubble, Gavin was taken out on his BB by Sammy. Sammy pushed him all in pre-flop, Gavin with Q3, Sam with AK. Sammy paired up on the flop, K 5 6 6 8.

Ross and Sammy went to the flop before it all went in. Ross instigated the betting on a 3 8 4 flop. Sammy called Ross' bet and they both revealed pocket pairs; Sammy with 77, Ross with AA! Two hearts as the final community cards (total 4)left both players a wee bit speechless. Sammy was lucky enough to have the 7 of hearts, Ross' Aces, not so lucky.

Morgan was all in against Sammys stack, Morgan had the dog hand, K9, Sam with AQ. Morgan had the lead until the river delivered Sammy an Ace. 6 9 8 J A.

Well done Sammy, treat yourself to a perm!