Hey Matt....just to fill you in over there mate, we played round 3 of the Black Country Poker Club last night.
Once again it was a great night with some terrific poker played and, as seems the norm since we began this club, some amazing bad-beats.
The first one came wheh we were down to 7 players after I had taken out Darren and Paul Melia in the same hand to give me about 14k of the 45k in play.
Steve raised 600 UTG and Chris re-raised to 2000 on the button. I was on the sb and made it 5000 total with :as: kd
Steve folds and Chris went into the tank before calling my 5k, leaving a pot of almost 11k in the middle.
As I had him well covered I moved all-in before seeing the flop to push the onus back onto him. The flop came :
:
to miss me totally, but with Chris knowing that I could knock him out and with the places at the top of the League being so tight, once again he went into the tank.
Eventually he called, insisting "I have played this awfully" and asking if I had eights or nines. I was very shocked when he tabled ac qs to leave me an 85% favourite (more like 92% actually, as Steve told me that he had folded KQ ) but after a nine hit the turn, Chris rivered the qh to take a monster chip lead.
I managed to fight back from that monsterous bad-beat to take out Steve and Marcel, with Razza finishing 4th despite not even turning up to play !!
The dangerous Tony went out 3rd which meant that Chris and I were heads-up knowing that the winner would take the League lead on 31 points from Steve by virtue of having had a 1st and 2nd place.
It was a very long duel, which lasted around 90 minutes as we both had a very similar chip-stack for most of the battle but three hands stood out.
Firstly, dealer Steve dealt me a K face-up which prompted Chris to throw his Ace away and so the hand had to be re-dealt.....but we decided to see what would have happened anyway......and I would have had AQ on a Q-High flop.....to Chris"s AA !!!
Then, about 75 minutes in, I folded
td to Chris"s all-in shove on a
qd jd :
: board, reasoning that I could have many dead outs and was probably already behind and also had enough chips left to up my aggression a little and win some back quickly......Chris showed
to leave me feeling pretty sick.....again !!
Finally, we both got them all-in, much to the delight of the watching Club members still awake. The flop came ac td
and with the
on the turn, Chris shoved all-in, but as he hadn"t raised pre-flop, I couldn"t put him on the ace and I had hit with my
:
:
to give me 3rd pair AND a straight draw. After much thought I called but was dismayed to see his
for two-pair......but now it was my turn to get the break when the
th
was dealt by Steve to give us BOTH two-pair and a split pot !!
I managed to get ahead a couple of hands later and then, when Chris shoved all-in, I called with
and a crestfallen Chris showed
.
He had hope with a 6 on the flop but a 3rd 9 on the turn sealed his fate and so I had my first victory and move top of the League at the halfway stage of the season, though it"s still all to play for with that GCBPT seat awaiting the winner after week six .
POINTS AFTER WEEK THREE....
1ST.....BRIAN YATES...........31
2ND.....STEVE REDFERN........31
3RD.....TONY TRIPPIER.........30
4TH.....CHRIS BAKER............28
5TH.....PAUL FOY................25
6TH.....DARREN HOOPER.......15
7TH.....JAMES RASMUSSEN...10
8TH.....MARCEL FURET.........10
9TH.....MATT McKINLAY........9
10TH...PAUL MELIA...............7
Have a good flight back Matt and see you in February......and if anyone out there would like to join our club, feel free to e-mail me at BOINGBLITZ@BLUEYONDER.CO.UK for details......good standard, great fun, superb prizes !!
BOING BOING !!
