LEAGUE WEEK FOUR
Week Four kicked off a little late after we had a visit from the Local press to take a few photos and do a little piece on our little club......so everyone keep an eye on the "Express and Dingle" in the forthcoming few days.
For the first time we began play on two tables after 3 new players signed up for the rest of the season.....Maxine McKinlay, Ant Williams and Malcolm Howell....welcome to you all guys.
Table two was shorter with just 5 players and included our newly-crowned APAT UK Champion Steve Redfern and our online Satellite winner from last Wednesday night Tony Trippier and of course, nobody wanted to be the first player out. Unfortunately, Tony became "The One" with him being left short-stacked after losing a big pot and claiming "I thought we had 10k in starting chips !"
So just after the start of Level Three we went to a single table with Matt McKinlay the (very) big-stack until he saw his A-A cracked by Darren Hooper"s J-J.
We then had Q-Q lose to J-J and Q-Q to 7-7 and it seemed that you needed the worst hand to win a pot until Brian Yates called Matt's UTG all-in raise on a 7-4-2 board and his 10-10 held against Matt's fives.
This put Matt in big trouble and pretty soon he was eliminated in 10th place, prompting a few comments about wife Maxine being able to beat Matt's League total having only joined the League tonight !
The next elimination was a long time coming as the chip-lead changed about 5 times but Week 3 winner Paul Foy went out 9th followed by the 3 newbies in Malcolm(8th), Maxine (7th) and Ant(6th).
Champ Steve Redfern was still nursing a relatively short-stack but after starting the day level on points with League Leader Brian Yates, he knew the longer he stayed in, the better for him.
5th place finisher turned out to be Darren Hooper before Steve was finally eliminated by Brian in a massive hand for League implications, giving him 8 points.
That left Brian with a guarranteed 10 points for 3rd place but his 2 opponents were situated in 8th and last places in the League before tonight and both Marcel Furet and Paul Melia really upped their games for this one.
Marcel eliminated Brian in 3rd place when Brian refused to fold a King for a 3rd successive hand and his K-8 lost to Marcel"s A-4 and Marcel then went on to record his first victory, eliminating the impressive Paul Melia in 2nd.
That leaves the League after week 4 standing as follows :-
POS PLD 1ST 2ND 3RD WORST PTS
1. BRIAN YATES 4 1 1 1 7 41
2. STEVE REDFERN 4 1 0 1 5 39
3. TONY TRIPPIER 4 0 1 1 11 30
4. CHRIS BAKER 3 0 1 1 - 28
5. PAUL FOY 4 1 0 0 9 27
6. MARCEL FURET 4 1 0 0 10 25
7. DARREN HOOPER 4 0 0 0 8 21
8. PAUL MELIA 4 0 1 0 9 19
9. MATT McKINLAY 3 0 0 0 - 10
10. JAMES RASMUSSEN 2 0 0 0 - 10
11. ANTHONY WILLIAMS 1 0 0 0 - 5
12. MAXINE McKINLAY 1 0 0 0 - 4
13. MALCOLM HOWELL 1 0 0 0 - 3
With us now having reached week 4, the League will change somewhat as only your best 4 results count in the Final Standings. Therefore, for those players who have played 4 games, I have listed their worst place finish, which is now the place that they have to better in the final 2 games in order to score ANY more points.
The players situated 9th and below cannot now win Season one, even with 2 first-place finishes, while both Paul and Darren need 2 top-two finishes to remain in the hunt.
It"s all to play for on March 13th when we return to The Talbot for a triple-chance freezeout.
