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Archive Boards => Archive => General Live Poker Discussion => Topic started by: BOINGBLITZ on May 18, 2011, 11:35:41 AM
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The new season opened with a few veterans sitting out this one (Marcel Furet, Steve Freer and Mick Wells), a few old faces returning to the fold (Debjani and Andy Duncan plus Paul Melia) and a World Champion newcomer(Charles Mason).
On the night, no fewer than SIX players were absent for various reasons so just 15 players sat down and it would be a new name on the "Shirt Of Shame" as Malcolm Howell shoved with ac qh on a Q-high flop and was called by Steve Redfern with qs 4c only for the 4s to hit the river to leave Malcolm out and muttering something about bad calls and fish.
Paul Melia had improved his profile with a terrific performance at the BCPC Team Championships when he top scored to take down the Individual Title but it was an early exit tonight as it was for Ant Williams and Tony Trippier.
When Andy Overton also exited after shoving with kh 9h and getting called by Charles Mason with ad qc AND by Richard Davis with :as: ac that meant that of the 7 players who won seats in Season Five, only Matt McKinlay was in the points for Week One of the new campaign.
Matt had struggled during the first level when his aggression failed to intimidate Charles to his immediate left and Matt had lost half his stack in the first ten minutes, maybe a little disconcerted by his drinking orange juice all night following a rather painful operation during the week (ouch !!)
The Final Table bubble saw Rob Hewlitt go when he shoved his short-stack with jh :3c: and Mark Eagles was priced in and made the call with 6s 8c and an 8s on the flop sealed Rob"s fate.
The Final Table opened with not some much a bang as a thunderclap !......Debjani Duncan shoved with qd qs and Charles made the call with 8c 8d . Brian Yates passed :3d: :3h: and Matt passed tc td but Richard Davis called with kc ks meaning that Ant Williams had dealt 5 pocket-pairs in a row !
The board came down 6c 9d :3s: jc 9s and so Richard trebled up and Deb left in 9th with Charles in 8th.
Andy Duncan then doubled-up through Steve Redfern to leave him short and that prompted his shove with kh :3c: and Mark Eagles called with ah 7c .The familiar "luckbox" cry went up as the flop came kd td 7d but the 7h gave Mark trips and Steve was gone.
Paul Foy had nursed his small stack into 6th spot before shoving ah ks and getting a call from Matt holding ac 9c and also from Mark and his ks kd and the board was no help to anyone to send Paul to the rail.
Brian Yates decided to FLAB (Fold Like A Bri) to a shove after raising with 7-7 but then decided a shove was the order of the day with kh 8h but Richard had :as: tc and Bri left in 5th and when a deal was cut, it gave Richard Davis his first EVER BCPC cash at the 22nd attempt and meant that of the 4 players remaining, 3 were chasing there first ever BCPC victory.
That was not to be for Andy Duncan who ran tc jd into Matt's ad qh and Matt then quickly became the big-stack when his ah 4h outdrew Richard"s :as: jd on a 8h jh 4d th :2s: to devastate Richard"s hopes.
Matt quickly finished him off to go Heads-Up with Mark Eagles and when Mark shoved with jd 8h Matt called BLIND.....and turned over qs qc !!
It looked like Matt's night until the flop came 7d jh 8d to give Mark 2 pair but the 5c turn and 5d river counterfeited that 2-pair and Matt was the winner - the first 4-time BCPC winner and it also sent him to No.1 in the new BCPC rankings.
WEEK ONE TABLE
POS PTS
1 MATT McKINLAY 15
2 MARK EAGLES 12
3 RICHARD DAVIS 10
4 ANDY DUNCAN 8
5 BRIAN YATES 6
6 PAUL FOY 5
7 STEVE REDFERN 4
8 CHARLES MASON 3
9 DEBJANI DUNCAN 2
10 ROB HEWLITT 1
11= ANDY OVERTON 0
11= TONY TRIPPIER 0
11= ANT WILLIAMS 0
11= PAUL MELIA 0
11= DARREN HOOPER 0
11= TOD WOOD 0
11= CLIVE PADDEN 0
11= CHRIS BAKER 0
11= MAXINE McKINLAY 0
20 MALCOLM HOWELL 0
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Malcolm Howell shoved with ac qh on a Q-high flop and was called by Steve Redfern with qs 4c only for the 4s to hit the river to leave Malcolm out and muttering something about bad calls and fish.
Actually subtly different in reality - with a mid position limper, and me with a 2xAvg stack, I limped the button with Q4. Malc checked his BB with AQ whilst holding a stack of less than 20x - perfect shove spot? flop is Q hi, and Malc leads out for small bet - I set him all in with my top pair hand and he snaps..... all pretty standard really, but shouldn"t really have got to the flop. OK turn was a 4, but as usual in poker, aggression rules over passivity. Only one fish in this hand - letting three others see the flop cheaply whilst holding AQ and short stacked was pretty bad.
And GG MattBlue - awesome form right now!
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My exit was not quite like that - Charles shoved with his 8"s, I called all in for less, you and Matt folded than Richard called. Pretty standard bad luck really seeing as I"d had QQ a couple of hands before and had a walk when I was desperate for a double up. Very pleased for Richard though who was due a deep run like that.
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Well done Matt, nice work fella.
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Nice report Brian, thanks to everyone at the club for such a nice welcome, looking forward to my next visit in July ( can"t make June as I"m at the Isle of Wight Festival).
Well done Matt
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Sorry for the subtle errors peeps...but on the few occasions I am still playing, it can be difficult to take 100% correct notes ;D
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The official report hides my true downfall, which was whilst 4 handed and chip leader I managed to double up Matt who was 2nd in chips.
Holding :3c: :3d: in the BB I flat called Matt's UTG raise. I check called the ah 4h 7s flop, then led out on the 5c turn to which Matt shoved and shouted something along the lines of "LET"S GAMBLE!!". Looking at the veritable mountain of chips that had somehow got into the pot, and taking the chance that Matt could be drawing, I felt I couldn"t pass for 5K from my remaining 7.5K, so called hoping to luckbox the river. Matt showed ac qh and the river bricked. Had I folded to the shove I would have still been in 3rd place, as Mark was pretty short at that point.
Lesson is not to play Matt when he"s sober, whilst assuming he"s playing his usual inebriated style ;D I know there"s other lessons in there too, but I was attempting to be creative against a tricky player (my plan here was never to check fold the flop after flatting the BB).
WP Matt, deserved win. And to Tricky Dicky for his first cash.
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The official report hides my true downfall, which was whilst 4 handed and chip leader I managed to double up Matt who was 2nd in chips.
Holding :3c: :3d: in the BB I flat called Matt's UTG raise. I check called the ah 4h 7s flop, then led out on the 5c turn to which Matt shoved and shouted something along the lines of "LET"S GAMBLE!!". Looking at the veritable mountain of chips that had somehow got into the pot, and taking the chance that Matt could be drawing, I felt I couldn"t pass for 5K from my remaining 7.5K, so called hoping to luckbox the river. Matt showed ac qh and the river bricked. Had I folded to the shove I would have still been in 3rd place, as Mark was pretty short at that point.
Lesson is not to play Matt when he"s sober, whilst assuming he"s playing his usual inebriated style ;D I know there"s other lessons in there too, but I was attempting to be creative against a tricky player (my plan here was never to check fold the flop after flatting the BB).
WP Matt, deserved win. And to Tricky Dicky for his first cash.
Shocked!!! :o
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great report mate but lost half my stack to a very good lay down by myself gos sum thing like this me bb :as: 8c mr mason limp UTG WITH ad1 4h flop ac 8h 4d i bet 200 he calls turn 5c i check he go 550 think i make it 1750 he call river was 4s i bet 650 he gos 2500 i pass showing asked he he got the boat and shows ace 4 nice hand mate woop woop well played see ya all next month
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The official report hides my true downfall, which was whilst 4 handed and chip leader I managed to double up Matt who was 2nd in chips.
Holding :3c: :3d: in the BB I flat called Matt's UTG raise. I check called the ah 4h 7s flop, then led out on the 5c turn to which Matt shoved and shouted something along the lines of "LET"S GAMBLE!!". Looking at the veritable mountain of chips that had somehow got into the pot, and taking the chance that Matt could be drawing, I felt I couldn"t pass for 5K from my remaining 7.5K, so called hoping to luckbox the river. Matt showed ac qh and the river bricked. Had I folded to the shove I would have still been in 3rd place, as Mark was pretty short at that point.
Lesson is not to play Matt when he"s sober, whilst assuming he"s playing his usual inebriated style ;D I know there"s other lessons in there too, but I was attempting to be creative against a tricky player (my plan here was never to check fold the flop after flatting the BB).
WP Matt, deserved win. And to Tricky Dicky for his first cash.
Shocked!!! :o
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would have expected that from Redfern (or maybe Tony Fishier)
but never Andy
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would have expected that from Redfern (or maybe Tony Fishier)
but never Andy
Yep absolutely donking terrible. Felted myself. Wrote it down as self punishment :"(
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would have expected that from Redfern (or maybe Tony Fishier)
but never Andy
Yep absolutely donking terrible. Felted myself. Wrote it down as self punishment :"(
;D