Robb N U wins Event #12

Robb N U walked away with his 2nd DRP event win on Sunday. It was the 2nd largest take in DRP history and the 42 points boosted RNU's standings in the points. Now sitting with 70 pts in 16th place, he's poised to make a move at the top 12. RNU continually played pots, and with a combination of shear aggression and continually showing a good hand, he was able to move up into contention. First big pot, was against Lefty who moved in with 7300 at 600/1200 and RNU called from the SB creating about a 15,800 pot. Board came 78695 creating a straight on the board, but RNU held KT to make a bigger straight. This provided RNU with the chips he wanted to play his game and with 16 remaining he was among top 6 in chips (Kramer 50K, Jelly 44K, General, 38K, RNU 33K, Cowboy 33K, Tallywacker 32K) representing nearly 65% of the chips in play.

General got his chips by cracking Pajamas' AA earlier with QQ when a Q fell on the river, then surviving when he moved in with KK only to find himself up against AA again, only to get another K on the river. Then he again had KK against Cpt Fission's AA and again caught a K. This was a huge hand for Cpt, as with it he would easily have been chip leader nearing the final table. As it turned out, with 12 left Cpt woke with AA in the BB. Jelly, Wolf, and General all had limped for 1600 and Cpt reraised 4000. Jelly called as did Wolf and General. The flop came out 889 and Cpt moved all-in for his remaining stack only to be called by Wolf's J8. Cowboy would be next to bust and we had our final table.

Tomi was extremely shortstacked and would be first to be eliminated. Peanut Butter came to table short-stacked only to finally get it in with AJ vs RNU's KJ and double up, but then drastically lose to Tallywacker's all-in with 88 to PB's JJ. 3 spades came on the flop and 1 on the river to give Tallywacker a 4-card flush. Being very short-stacked after that experience he would soon be out in 9th. Fireworks flew to eliminate Ken in 8th. General limped at the 1200/2400 level only to be raised to 10K by Wolf who was reraised to 25K by Tallywacker. After much deliberation Ken moved all-in for 30,800, Wolf called all-in for 26,300, and Tallywacker called the extra 5,800. Wolf showed AA, Tallywacker KK, and Ken QQ. The Aces and Kings held and Ken was eliminated in 8th place on the bubble. Tallywacker would be eliminated by Wolf when the board ran out 88J8J. Tallywacker couldn't lay down and Wolf showed pocket K's for a bigger fullhouse. General's good luck would finally end as we was eliminated in 6th place. Kramer would be eliminated in 5th after being shortstacked and moving in for just over 20,000 and being called by Wolf with A5h. Kramer had the lead though with KK and when the door card showed a K it appeared he was way out in front. But, the other two flop cards were the 3 and 4 of hearts. A Q on the turn gave Wolf 10 outs total heading to the river. No heart but a red deuce nonetheless gave Wolf the wheel and the hand. Jelly would be eliminated in 4th after the flop came out Q52, Jelly bet and was reraised by RNU. Jelly called and the turn was a T. Jelly checked the turn and it was checked behind by RNU. An Ace on the river and Jelly bet was reraised by RNU and Jelly instantly moved in and was instantly called. Jelly had flopped 2 pair (5's and 2's) but RNU rivered broadway with KJ to create a monster chip stack with 3 remianing. RNU now had about 250,000 chips to equal stack of approximately 60,000 of Ruby Cube and Wolf. Ruby Cube had been fairly quiet doubling through RNU once with a higher flush. But on a flop of A52 they got it all-in after an unraised preflop action. Ruby showed Q5 but RNU showed 88. A diamond gave Ruby 14 outs to hit on the river, but they were blanks and RNU busted Ruby in 3rd. A longer than expected heads up match ensued with Wolf moving his stack from 60K to 120K to 60K constantly. Eventually they got it all-in with AT (Wolf) vs 99 (RNU). All low cards came and RNU was the winner.

Some other notable hands were RNU limping with 57 and flopping 557 followed immediately by hitting a set on the flop with AA vs Kramer's QQ. RNU nearly lost a significant amount of chips, but it turned into a double up through Wolf when a move on a J73 flop when Wolf bet, RNU raised and Wolf called worked out for RNU when a K came on the turn. They got it all in and RNU showed KT and Wolf J8. Wolf failed to improve and RNU doubled up.

Our next 2 tournaments will be on Saturday, September 8th. 11:00 am will be the start for a $40 NLHE, followed immediately at 5:00 by a 7-card stud $40 2 POINT EVENT. Remember there are less than 20 pts separating 12th from 24th and a 24 entrant Stud Event would be worth 30, 26, 24, 22, and 20 for the cashers of that event.

We'll see you in less than 2 weeks!!!

Back from Vegas

Damn am I flippin' tired today ... And I slept more than I had ever slept in Vegas. I was never feeling 100%, but still. Anyways ---- Jim Tallakson chopped a poker tournament ($60 - 65 entries) for $712 and Roger Tangen hit a royal flush on the slots for $1,000 to make their weekend pretty good --- even if Roger did fall down an escalator, lol. Sports betting was pretty good to all of us and overall the weekend was another great weekend in Vegas, and of course, I can't wait to get back, lol.

Poker, however, was being a bitch to me again, so I pretty much avoided that. I would get JJ cracked by A2, KK cracked, flopped straights cracked and whatever else. In other words, the poker gods were not with me, so I did not test their patience this weekend, lol.

Other things happened too, but as we all know the saying ... What happened in Vegas --- NEVER HAPPENED!!!

DRP Event #11 Recap

Blah, blah, blah ... Yes it's taking me forever to get this blog updated!! I'm heading to Vegas on Thursday so people have to give me a little bit of slack, right? No??? Alright then, here goes!

First of all, 40 people again was another great showing for what is still apparently summer on the Northern Plains, so that's very nice and raises the question on how many people will actually be showing up this fall??? I guess we cross that bridge when we get there!!

Secondly, not that people want to hear about me, but man do I suck lately!! I have AK run into KQ ... oh that's good! No ... not when a K and Q come out ... left with 1,200 and no 10-outer saves me ... blah, blah, another sob story - on to the good stuff!!

Things seemed to be slow going in eliminating people considering we only started with 5,000 in chips. We still had 33 left at the break! By the 2nd break, we came back to 17 people, still quite a few. Our defending champion went out in 19th when Tallywacker's 99 ran into AA. Later Pat A would survive with KQ vs AA and then bust at the final table with AQ vs AA. Pat A also busted Peanut Butter with AQ vs PB's 77. Thane made a calculated play on a 949 board against Texas putting him to a test for all his chips, but Texas called with 55 and Thane had AJ and didn't improve. This set up Texas to be able to continually make calls to bust short stacks leading up to the final table. KJ catching against 44, then A9 catching against a short stack QQ. These were enough to set up Texas for a nice final table. Going into the final table a number of stacks looked to be in good shape including Ron O, Bjorn, Texas, and Chad R. Nick T would be the first to bust, soon followed by a similarily short stacked Brad D. The next bustout was a surprise as Bjorn opened for 6K at 1/2K blinds and was reraised all-in by Chad R to 37,400. Bjorn contemplated and eventually made the call with TT only to see Chad R show JJ. Bjorn failed to improve and was left with only 4,500 and was soon eliminated in 8th. Cpt Fission would bust in 7th when his QJ failed to improve against Bin2Win's JJ, even with a T & 9 making him open ended on the flop. Cowboy would be Bin2Win's next victim as his K9 was beat by Win's AK. Chad R reraised Ron O when Ron came into the pot with a 3x BB bet. Chad put him to the test for all his chips and Ron called with AQ while Chad tabled 44. An Ace on the flop gave Ron a nice chip lead and left Chad with about 24K in chips. Bin2Win would get that elimination as his AJ held up against Chad's A9. But after eliminating 3 players in a row, Win suffered some losses and was eventually called all-in by T7 when he had AJ, and T eliminated him from the tournament.

3 handed play got interesting when Texas raised and then was reraised all-in by Ron O. Texas eventually decided to make the call, having about 40% of his cips in the pot with his raise. Texas showed QJ as Ron showed AK and after a lone K came on the flop it appeared that Ron would have a dominating chip lead going into heads up play, but a turned Q and rivered Q kept Texas alive and when Mike F eventually moved in for his final 30K and was eliminated by Texas it set up a short heads up battle. Texas eventually called Ron O's all in with K7, Ron table Ax ... but a turned K gave Texas the lead and the win.

Congrats to all, and look forward to our first 2x NLHE event of the year on August 26th!