Week 8 Results
1st ($70 / 10pts): Martin "Low Stack Comeback" Galway
2nd ($0 / 7pts): Adam "Also Ran He's The Man" Joseph
3rd ($0 / 4pts): Ray "Third Place Ain't No Disgrace" Flowers
4th ($0 / 2pts): Laura "SurvivesOn Fumes" Boudloche
Low Stakes / 10 Players / 1 Table / 12:20 Endtime
Many others staged amazing comebacks tonight, but who'd have thunk that after holding just 600 in chips (yes, that's SIX HUNDRED) I would eventually be charged with writing the winner's account of the evening? That's right. I staged the biggest comeback in McJo's history.
The story can be divided into two phases - the downwards phase (where I normally see "zero... dealing... leave" at the end), and the upwards phase. I had bleak, bleak cards in phase one - only once did I have anything decent (AJ suited) - and Randy crushed me when I stuck my neck out and bet pre-flop. (thanks... mate...) By the time I was down to 600 I was wondering why so many at the table weren't putting me all in just to get me out of the game. A couple of folded hands later I looked at my cards - AQ - and thought "this is it... yet another ignominious demise... another dull drive home..." - I went all in pre-flop and ended up quadrupling to 2400. I got AK or something similar the very next hand, went all-in preflop again, quadrupled again to 9600. Almost a whole buy-in!!! I realized if I could just fold enough, I could mentally stabilize and not spontaneously combust. I did manage to stabilize... quite a few times I had Ace+rags, but after an Ace would flop, I was able to suicidally threaten all-in and legitimately get more chips. Plenty of other low-stack folks made their own attempts at comebacks too, Laura and
Adam most notably, so it was certainly the night of the "low-stack comeback."
My phase two cards were a lot, lot better and I was able to slowly build up, winning 5K a few times in a row from well-off Mick, who was either a crazy chip-polishing woman to my left, or a crazy garage-building woman to my left. Lee also got a nice boost from Mick with his AK over Mick's KK (Ace came on the flop). Things eventually unravelled for both of them. OK, starting to remember the killing hands: alone in the hand w/ Mick, I remember seeing a flopped Jack to go with my J10... she called my all-in w/ her AK, thinking I hadn't paired - but I had, and AK didn't help her any favours.
Down to the final four, I killed Laura and Ray in the same hand. Ray aggressed all-in pre-flop with his 10-10, not knowing I had QQ. I called, and Laura (whose stack was much lower) went all in 'cos she must have thought her Q10 was worth something. (yes most of Laura's outs were held by Ray and myself... so pretty bad luck there!) My Queens prevailed.
Adam and I were head-to-head by about midnight, with 160,000 in chips on my side (not bad after having only 600 around 9pm) and Adam who was the other comeback kid (he'd had 4800 at his lowest earlier). We started slowly, gaining big-bet confidence, and in the final hand, a QJ gave Adam continued confidence to bet 12K pre-flop - a normal big bet. I had pocket 3's and was just about able to call - I didn't want to make any mistakes with my dominant stack, and 3's isn't exactly powerful post-flop. The flop couldn't be better - 3-Q-10. Adam now looking at a pretty nice top pair, he bet big, like 30K. I went all in and he called, not expecting to see a stealth 3-3-3 set, and it was all over.
2nd ($0 / 7pts): Adam "Also Ran He's The Man" Joseph
3rd ($0 / 4pts): Ray "Third Place Ain't No Disgrace" Flowers
4th ($0 / 2pts): Laura "SurvivesOn Fumes" Boudloche
Low Stakes / 10 Players / 1 Table / 12:20 Endtime
Many others staged amazing comebacks tonight, but who'd have thunk that after holding just 600 in chips (yes, that's SIX HUNDRED) I would eventually be charged with writing the winner's account of the evening? That's right. I staged the biggest comeback in McJo's history.
The story can be divided into two phases - the downwards phase (where I normally see "zero... dealing... leave" at the end), and the upwards phase. I had bleak, bleak cards in phase one - only once did I have anything decent (AJ suited) - and Randy crushed me when I stuck my neck out and bet pre-flop. (thanks... mate...) By the time I was down to 600 I was wondering why so many at the table weren't putting me all in just to get me out of the game. A couple of folded hands later I looked at my cards - AQ - and thought "this is it... yet another ignominious demise... another dull drive home..." - I went all in pre-flop and ended up quadrupling to 2400. I got AK or something similar the very next hand, went all-in preflop again, quadrupled again to 9600. Almost a whole buy-in!!! I realized if I could just fold enough, I could mentally stabilize and not spontaneously combust. I did manage to stabilize... quite a few times I had Ace+rags, but after an Ace would flop, I was able to suicidally threaten all-in and legitimately get more chips. Plenty of other low-stack folks made their own attempts at comebacks too, Laura and
Adam most notably, so it was certainly the night of the "low-stack comeback."
My phase two cards were a lot, lot better and I was able to slowly build up, winning 5K a few times in a row from well-off Mick, who was either a crazy chip-polishing woman to my left, or a crazy garage-building woman to my left. Lee also got a nice boost from Mick with his AK over Mick's KK (Ace came on the flop). Things eventually unravelled for both of them. OK, starting to remember the killing hands: alone in the hand w/ Mick, I remember seeing a flopped Jack to go with my J10... she called my all-in w/ her AK, thinking I hadn't paired - but I had, and AK didn't help her any favours.
Down to the final four, I killed Laura and Ray in the same hand. Ray aggressed all-in pre-flop with his 10-10, not knowing I had QQ. I called, and Laura (whose stack was much lower) went all in 'cos she must have thought her Q10 was worth something. (yes most of Laura's outs were held by Ray and myself... so pretty bad luck there!) My Queens prevailed.
Adam and I were head-to-head by about midnight, with 160,000 in chips on my side (not bad after having only 600 around 9pm) and Adam who was the other comeback kid (he'd had 4800 at his lowest earlier). We started slowly, gaining big-bet confidence, and in the final hand, a QJ gave Adam continued confidence to bet 12K pre-flop - a normal big bet. I had pocket 3's and was just about able to call - I didn't want to make any mistakes with my dominant stack, and 3's isn't exactly powerful post-flop. The flop couldn't be better - 3-Q-10. Adam now looking at a pretty nice top pair, he bet big, like 30K. I went all in and he called, not expecting to see a stealth 3-3-3 set, and it was all over.
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