$50 Tournament results
What a day to have a poker tournament!
While it was 75ยบ outside with sunny skies and very little wind, 20 of us got together and played poker inside.
There were only 2 players eliminated during the first hour of play with starting stacks of $5,000 in chips. One of those was Pat Anderson who, with 22, hit his set on a 652 flop, after some raising and reraising and a call, the turn comes a 7 and all the chips migrate into the center of the table. As it turns out Mike Lukes has pocket 7's and leaves Pat crippled with 175 in chips. Roger Tangen was able to clean up the bounty from the big blind on the next hand.
Again there were only 2 players eliminated during the first 2 rounds after the break, but than things started to break loose. In one hand, Bobi Joubert took out Mike Lukes and Greg Joubert, who were both all-in for $1,500. She had 44 and spiked another 4.
It was a day of comebacks for 2 of the stacks, as both Bobi and Corey Eslinger were down to 500 in chips at one point. Corey was all-in with money in the blind for 500 total with 94 and caught a 4, doubled to 1,000 instead of being eliminated in 18th, went on to build his stack to over $10,000 at points and hung on to place 5th. Bobi had much better cards when she went in with better cards, but the results were the same. She had her stack up to almost $20,000 when she caught a gutshot straight draw with J8 on a board of QT39. Jason Kramer called the all-in with 33, and caught a T on the river to send Bobi home in 6th on the bubble.
David Jarrett survived on a short stack diet for much of the final table to finish 4th, Kramer suffered some of the bad luck he had put on other people during the tournament when his TT was cracked by Mark Lawson's A5 on a monster hand for 3rd position.
This set up a lopsided heads up battle between Mark and Ryan Hanson. When it started Mark had about $75,000 to $25,000 chip lead, but soon it was about $93K to $7K when Ryan finally called all-in and double up twice. Pulled almost to even before again being crippled on a "bluff gone bad" as Ryan put it. But then double up two more times to take a slight $53K to $47K lead when Ryan was dealt KQ and Mark 22. All the money went in, and on the turn a K came off and Ryan won the tournament.
Ryan and Mark each had 5 bounties, Kramer had 4, Bobi had 2, Bill, Roger, Corey, and Paul each had 1.
The next tournament is tenatively scheduled for the 20th of May. This will be a straight up $60 tournament - no bounties.
While it was 75ยบ outside with sunny skies and very little wind, 20 of us got together and played poker inside.
There were only 2 players eliminated during the first hour of play with starting stacks of $5,000 in chips. One of those was Pat Anderson who, with 22, hit his set on a 652 flop, after some raising and reraising and a call, the turn comes a 7 and all the chips migrate into the center of the table. As it turns out Mike Lukes has pocket 7's and leaves Pat crippled with 175 in chips. Roger Tangen was able to clean up the bounty from the big blind on the next hand.
Again there were only 2 players eliminated during the first 2 rounds after the break, but than things started to break loose. In one hand, Bobi Joubert took out Mike Lukes and Greg Joubert, who were both all-in for $1,500. She had 44 and spiked another 4.
It was a day of comebacks for 2 of the stacks, as both Bobi and Corey Eslinger were down to 500 in chips at one point. Corey was all-in with money in the blind for 500 total with 94 and caught a 4, doubled to 1,000 instead of being eliminated in 18th, went on to build his stack to over $10,000 at points and hung on to place 5th. Bobi had much better cards when she went in with better cards, but the results were the same. She had her stack up to almost $20,000 when she caught a gutshot straight draw with J8 on a board of QT39. Jason Kramer called the all-in with 33, and caught a T on the river to send Bobi home in 6th on the bubble.
David Jarrett survived on a short stack diet for much of the final table to finish 4th, Kramer suffered some of the bad luck he had put on other people during the tournament when his TT was cracked by Mark Lawson's A5 on a monster hand for 3rd position.
This set up a lopsided heads up battle between Mark and Ryan Hanson. When it started Mark had about $75,000 to $25,000 chip lead, but soon it was about $93K to $7K when Ryan finally called all-in and double up twice. Pulled almost to even before again being crippled on a "bluff gone bad" as Ryan put it. But then double up two more times to take a slight $53K to $47K lead when Ryan was dealt KQ and Mark 22. All the money went in, and on the turn a K came off and Ryan won the tournament.
Ryan and Mark each had 5 bounties, Kramer had 4, Bobi had 2, Bill, Roger, Corey, and Paul each had 1.
The next tournament is tenatively scheduled for the 20th of May. This will be a straight up $60 tournament - no bounties.
posted by Corey Eslinger at 9:23 PM
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