Week 6 Results
1st ($160 / 13pts): Dallas "Tofu Tongs" Dickinson
2nd ($80 / 9pts): Aaron "Meat Hooks" Wanstrath
3rd ($0 / 5pts): Adam "Pork Pincers" Joseph
4th ($0 / 3pts): Ray "Turkey Tweezers" Flowers
High Stakes / 9 Players / 1 Table / 1200p Endtime
This evening ended rather abruptly, with the heads-up action going for maybe 4 or 5 hands? Two all-ins, with reasonable hands on both sides, and both fell Dallas' way.
Prior to that, the theme of the evening was "Aaron should always be forced to the end of the table, such that his arms don't hide: the button, the pot, the flop, the bets and really anything." Although the rest of the nicknames above are destined to be fleeting, evanescent examples of my rapier wit, one can only hope that Aaron "Meat Hooks" Wanstrath will remain, along with Martin "The Human ATM" Galway.
Speaking of Galway, he arrived late and left early, but *refused* to buy in a second time, thus removing $20 from the eventual winners' split. Thanks, Martin! New guy Keith got to enjoy a break-time trip to the nearby ATM at our favorite convenience store/crack den. Not surprisingly, he returned with a tall-boy og beer in a paper bag - I think he was trying to "pass."
The only real poker lesson of the night was "Pocket Aces don't usually get cracked." Despite the last few weeks/months of watching the vaunted bullets go down to 4-card straight draws and flush draws, the aces held up not once, not twice, but three times (and weren't called at least once or twice more). The most dramatic AA deathblow came when Eric called Aaron's (and put himself all-in) with KQ suited. It wasn't really that dramatic of a hand, but for the fact that it ended with Eric's cards embedded somewhere between the Oreos and the cat-scratching-tower-thingie. This elicited a "Damn, you got all Adam on that hand."
Anyhoo, after that, Ray went out on an "I'm too close to the felt to wait for a better hand" all-in, and Adam fell to Aaron on a "this hand is too good to fold" hand. The only drama at the end was the rush that Dallas got, pulling him from small stack to "almost even with big-stack Aaron" before heads-up.
As noted at the top, once Adam was out, the night ended quickly, with Dallas getting several very good hands and Aaron running into very-good-but-not-quite-best hands.
2nd ($80 / 9pts): Aaron "Meat Hooks" Wanstrath
3rd ($0 / 5pts): Adam "Pork Pincers" Joseph
4th ($0 / 3pts): Ray "Turkey Tweezers" Flowers
High Stakes / 9 Players / 1 Table / 1200p Endtime
This evening ended rather abruptly, with the heads-up action going for maybe 4 or 5 hands? Two all-ins, with reasonable hands on both sides, and both fell Dallas' way.
Prior to that, the theme of the evening was "Aaron should always be forced to the end of the table, such that his arms don't hide: the button, the pot, the flop, the bets and really anything." Although the rest of the nicknames above are destined to be fleeting, evanescent examples of my rapier wit, one can only hope that Aaron "Meat Hooks" Wanstrath will remain, along with Martin "The Human ATM" Galway.
Speaking of Galway, he arrived late and left early, but *refused* to buy in a second time, thus removing $20 from the eventual winners' split. Thanks, Martin! New guy Keith got to enjoy a break-time trip to the nearby ATM at our favorite convenience store/crack den. Not surprisingly, he returned with a tall-boy og beer in a paper bag - I think he was trying to "pass."
The only real poker lesson of the night was "Pocket Aces don't usually get cracked." Despite the last few weeks/months of watching the vaunted bullets go down to 4-card straight draws and flush draws, the aces held up not once, not twice, but three times (and weren't called at least once or twice more). The most dramatic AA deathblow came when Eric called Aaron's (and put himself all-in) with KQ suited. It wasn't really that dramatic of a hand, but for the fact that it ended with Eric's cards embedded somewhere between the Oreos and the cat-scratching-tower-thingie. This elicited a "Damn, you got all Adam on that hand."
Anyhoo, after that, Ray went out on an "I'm too close to the felt to wait for a better hand" all-in, and Adam fell to Aaron on a "this hand is too good to fold" hand. The only drama at the end was the rush that Dallas got, pulling him from small stack to "almost even with big-stack Aaron" before heads-up.
As noted at the top, once Adam was out, the night ended quickly, with Dallas getting several very good hands and Aaron running into very-good-but-not-quite-best hands.
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