Week 25
1st ($120 / 13pts): Adam "I Object" J
2nd ($60/ 9pts): Mick "Over Ruled" M
3rd ($0 / 5pts): Martin "Bi Polar" G
4th ($0 / 3pts): Derek "Super Tight Ten" M
High Stakes / 7 Players / 1 Table / 1215 Endtime
The game was fairly even keeled, and without too many crazy beats. That is except what I would qualify as less of a bad beat and more like a brutal beat. Derek M, a new addition to the rotation, and a fairly novice player got all his chips in having paired the Ace of his AQ. Ironically we had warned him earlier in the evening that if one played long enough you would see every conceivable hand all the way to the Royal Flush, every conceivable suck-out (either for or against you), and all sorts of hands where one is doomed by the cut of the cards. So of course in this hand Derek M had what was an inescapable hand for even the best players, only run into Martin G's Big Slick. Out Derek M went, but despite this he had played very well and finished fourth. And seemingly being a glutton for punishment asked to be added to the regular invite list.
Speaking of Martin G, he of course played his all too familiar style. By mid game he had built a dominating stack. He was then able to speculate with any two cards, and push people out of pots with ridiculous bets. Generally there are no middle ground results for his "5K" Galway onslaught. Either he has an early flame-out, or he steamrolls the table. Now to his credit the big wins actually come for him more often than for many of our more conservative players. But on this night he suffered the former outcome and played the role of his other nickname "ATM" - load him up and then start making withdrawals.
Another notable event was a rare waving of the rules. Aaron W yet again showed us that for him no culture existed before his entry into the world. The iPod shuffled its way to a track from Bauhaus (http://www.bauhausmusik.com/) and he had no idea who they were as a band or what it was as an architectural movement. So out came the web-enabled phones. I of course asked for them to be put away (as is a major house rule), but I was immediately overruled by the Mc of McJos. Over several hands to follow Mick lead readings from Wikipedia and general discussions of both iterations of these cultural movements.
Remarkably both Mick and I fought our way through later rounds with stacks that fell below the 10x Big Blind levels to make it to heads-up. I even took a bad beat to drop me to about 6K with the blinds at 1000/2000. But a few All-Ins later - one of which was a desperate push with 95os which went up against AK and managed to hit a nine - I clawed my way back to a middle chips standing. From there I built up to the win when I figured had no real chance unless I played super aggressive and made some big withdrawals from the "ATM."
It all ended with Mick sure that my big bet was a bluff when we flopped rags. Thinking that I was playing a weak Ace she went All-In with her Anna Kournikova, only to find I had two-paired my measly 82.
2nd ($60/ 9pts): Mick "Over Ruled" M
3rd ($0 / 5pts): Martin "Bi Polar" G
4th ($0 / 3pts): Derek "Super Tight Ten" M
High Stakes / 7 Players / 1 Table / 1215 Endtime
The game was fairly even keeled, and without too many crazy beats. That is except what I would qualify as less of a bad beat and more like a brutal beat. Derek M, a new addition to the rotation, and a fairly novice player got all his chips in having paired the Ace of his AQ. Ironically we had warned him earlier in the evening that if one played long enough you would see every conceivable hand all the way to the Royal Flush, every conceivable suck-out (either for or against you), and all sorts of hands where one is doomed by the cut of the cards. So of course in this hand Derek M had what was an inescapable hand for even the best players, only run into Martin G's Big Slick. Out Derek M went, but despite this he had played very well and finished fourth. And seemingly being a glutton for punishment asked to be added to the regular invite list.
Speaking of Martin G, he of course played his all too familiar style. By mid game he had built a dominating stack. He was then able to speculate with any two cards, and push people out of pots with ridiculous bets. Generally there are no middle ground results for his "5K" Galway onslaught. Either he has an early flame-out, or he steamrolls the table. Now to his credit the big wins actually come for him more often than for many of our more conservative players. But on this night he suffered the former outcome and played the role of his other nickname "ATM" - load him up and then start making withdrawals.
Another notable event was a rare waving of the rules. Aaron W yet again showed us that for him no culture existed before his entry into the world. The iPod shuffled its way to a track from Bauhaus (http://www.bauhausmusik.com/) and he had no idea who they were as a band or what it was as an architectural movement. So out came the web-enabled phones. I of course asked for them to be put away (as is a major house rule), but I was immediately overruled by the Mc of McJos. Over several hands to follow Mick lead readings from Wikipedia and general discussions of both iterations of these cultural movements.
Remarkably both Mick and I fought our way through later rounds with stacks that fell below the 10x Big Blind levels to make it to heads-up. I even took a bad beat to drop me to about 6K with the blinds at 1000/2000. But a few All-Ins later - one of which was a desperate push with 95os which went up against AK and managed to hit a nine - I clawed my way back to a middle chips standing. From there I built up to the win when I figured had no real chance unless I played super aggressive and made some big withdrawals from the "ATM."
It all ended with Mick sure that my big bet was a bluff when we flopped rags. Thinking that I was playing a weak Ace she went All-In with her Anna Kournikova, only to find I had two-paired my measly 82.
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