Full Boat Finish

Karl and his Boat

18 Players and a cool $1750 for the top 4 this week.

Final table raced to heads up this week, 5 players got knocked out within half an hour. Dan H, Ray, Karl and Chris R were our top 4.

Ray pushed all in pre with a pair of 3's, Dan called with KT. The flop came out A A 4 and gave Dan a shot at a counterfeit. A King came out on the board and all but secured Dan the pot.. 5 on the river sent Ray home with 4th prize.

Chris shoved all in pre into Karl, and got a call. A3 up against Karl's A9. Q Q A on the flop gave Chris a good chance at a split. Unluckily for Chris, the turn came a 7 and the river a 4.

Dan and Karl played it out heads up for around an hour. Karl managed to switch the balance of power, going from 1/3 chips in play to 2/3 in a flip between his AK and Dan's pocket 7's.The flop had given both players a good pair and a decent pot to bet into.  Dan and Karl got to the turn (Queen) before the chips were in the middle, Dan calling with T6 and Karl holding AQ. The river came out a Queen which gave Karl a full house to top off the Tournament, a worthy hand for his first 1st of the year.

Well done to all who cashed tonight and during Sunday's Deepstack.

Maynard the Best Man Win!

We had 20 players turn up for the March $200 Deepstack Tournament today. All of them were eager to win their share of the prize pool of almost $4000. The tournament ran for almost seven hours.

We paid the top four; they were Ray W, Alex M, Kev F and Gary T.

Kev's once big stack was diminishing and he eventually pushed all-in for less than the big blind. He had A-8. Alex had K-Q. Alex flopped the set of Q's which was eventually enough to send Kev packing. (Q-8-Q-10-2)

Ray was the next to go all-in, shoving pre-flop on the small blind with J-3(s). Alex called with pocket 7's. Though Ray flopped two spades, the turn and the river saw nothing and Alex's 7's held. (5-4-A-6-4)

Last to try and take Alex down was Gary. Pushing all-in pre-flop with K-6, Alex snap-called with A-10. Gary flopped top-pair but an A on the turn gave Alex the better pair and the tournament win. (K-8-Q-A-J)

Thanx to all those who came to play and congratulations to our winners.

Chris with his finishing hand.

Heads up between Aaron and Chris started pretty even 140k vs 105k,

 Aaron got a double up with 55 vs AJ.

Chris managed to work his way back into the game doubling up to 60k

Chris got it all-in against Aaron's raise, Chris managed to climb up to 50% chips, winning with  55.

With even stacks, the two decided to split the top prizes.

Chris got a juicy AQ in the flip for the photo.

WELL DONE GUYS!

This Sunday is the $200 15k deepstack, starting at 2:30.

Chris PLOts his First Win of the Year

We had 24 players turn up for our debut of our alternating PLO/NLH tournament tonight. With the addons and rebuys, we managed to get a prize pool of over $1800.

The top four were paid. They were Alex M, Hamish R, Chris R and Dan H.

All of the knock-outs happened in the 3000/6000 PLO round. The Board A-A-2-3-8 was out. Hamish shoved all-in with Q-K-J-9. Hoping he would fold, Dan called with 8-8-Q-10 and his fullhouse sent Hamish packing.

Alex was next to go all-in with A-10-3-8. He only had 2x the Big Blind, so Chris called with 7-7-8-Q. Board was 5-4-J-6-3 so Chris' pocket 7's held and Alex was next to get knocked out.

Dan was next to shove. Raising "pot" pre-flop, Chris re-raises all-in. Dan had 10-Q-7-4, Chris had  6-8(h)A-Q(s). Board delivered four hearts and Chris' flush was enough to take down Dan and claim his first "W" for the year.

The fun continues on Friday with our Turbo S'n'G tournament kicking off at 7:30pm. we'll see you there.

Taking Out #1 With Just His Starting Stack

We had 22 Players and a prizepool of $1750 in our Weekly Wednesday 6-Max.

Final four this week we had: Rayel, Ray Wong, Jason M and Chris R.

Jason had had a good night without a rebuy or add-on and arrived at the final table as chip leader. He was content to have made the cash and loosened his range making for some interesting end game.

Jason took a double up out of Chris when his bluff got called and he managed a runner runner straight (much to the dismay of the two short stacks and Chris). Jason reclaimed the chip lead.

Rayel was all in before the flop and matched by Chris and Jason. The flop came out 8 8 7 and Jason pushed all in, Chris called with pocket Aces. Jason flipped over K8 (trips). Rayel had A9 on the short stack. The turn revealed a King which gave Jason a boat. Only one river could change the outcome of the hand, that one card wasn't a 6 though. Jason made a double knockout and fast-forwarded himself into heads-up.

Jason had roughly 5/6 chips in play, Ray with the remainder. Ray gave himself a fighting chance when he managed to double his stack. Shortly later, Jason went all-in and was called by Ray, A2 against Q7 pre. T 3 6 5 T came out as the community cards scoring Jason the win and a dream run for a $20 entry. Well done!!!

As a fun wee change, next week the Wednesday Tournament will be alternating rounds between NLH and PLO.

Alex Claims Another Taste of Victory

We have a whopping 28 in our Weekly Wednesday 6-Max Tournament tonight. With all three tables almost full, the stakes were high. Everyone was fighting for their share of the prizepool of over 2k. This week saw a few new faces as well.

Top five were paid this week. Those five were; Alex M, Gary T, Karl R, Martin K and Gavin B.

In the first battle, we had Alex with A(s)-10(d), had A-9. Both all-in preflop. Flop was 6(h)-8(s)-5(s) and Alex got lucky with 10(s)-6(s). Runner-runner flush took out Gary.

Next to fight it out was Martin and Gavin. Both all-in preflop, Martin had J-Q and Gavin had pocket 8's. All was looking good for Gavin, until Martin rivered a pair of J's (A-2-4-6-J).

A flop of A-K-9 had shown, Martin went all-in with A-6. Karl called with K-7. Turn (J) and river (9) gave Martin the higher two pair and Karl left in 3rd place.

Our final went back-and-forward a few times but when the board 4-Q-6-J-2 was out, Alex went all-in with K-6. Martin called with 3-6. Alex's K played and left him "King" of the tournament (two in a row).

Thanks to all those that came tonight, it made for an exciting tournament. And congratulations to all of our winners.