Week 45 - Beat the Meatles
1st ($55 / 10pts): Randall "On a Roll" Ryan
2nd ($10/ 7pts): Brad "I Got Rolled" Patterson
3rd ($0 / 4pts): David "Reauxling" Bates
4th ($0 / 2pts): Ken "Roll Over" Neafcy
Low Stakes / 10 Players / 1 Table / 125a Endtime
Week 45 notes, observations, and oddities:
-Adam showed up 1 hour late and had only lost $1K to the blinds. In 3 hands he proceeded to rebuy.
-Aaron won a hand, which meant he didn't finish last: he made it all the way to 9th.
-Julie didn't win a hand all night, but showed Aaron how to make the most of it by surviving to 8th place.
-Ray and Adam spent much of Rounds 4 & 5 sitting around $10K. Both tried to claw their way to significance. Both failed.
-Stan was down to $2900 with 10 minutes left in Round 3, built his stack back up to $30K, then lost most of it when Ken refused to go away with Q-8 vs. Stan's A-Q, because Ken mystically knew his questionable hand would 2 pair on the river to beat Stan's top pair/top kicker. Well played, sir.
-In a similar vein, Ken built an enormous stack early that didn't appear to be able to be cracked. He then proceeded to get into a pissing match with Brad, the other big stack, and over the course of about 30 minutes managed to create a gargantuan stack. For Brad.
-David proved that his newbie win a few weeks ago was no fluke. He finished 3rd, but a few unlucky breaks kept him from building a stack much past $30K late, and he finally succumbed at about 1am.
-At about 12:30am, Brad had a 3:1 advantage (about $130K) to the next closest chip stack. Adam, seeing a moment where he could influence the outcome, declared "This is Brad's to lose; everyone expects him to win, so anything short of that is failure." The jinx now fully in place, Brad crapped his pants and obligingly began doinking off his massive stack over the next hour.
-I didn't think it possible, but Mick's iPod might be more annoying than Jeremy's, if only because she has a tendency to like Loopy McLoops A Lot groups. I'm sure they're good to dance to; unfortunately, not a lot of dancing going on at McJo's. I'm declaring an end to the paint-by-numbers computer musicians, and am showing up next week with my iPod full of acid rock/jam band tunes so we can hear music droning on repititiously and annoyingly as played by talented musicians.
-On a related note, we all found out that tonight's table denizens all like Styx, to the amazement of everyone at the table: each person figured they were the only one. Well, except Aaron; he didn't know Styx was anything other a river in hell. Wrong, sir: it was also your all-in hand.
So, this looked a lot like last week..only different. For starters, I did have reasonably decent cards scattered throughout the night, instead of hours of nothing but crap cards. But the play was somewhat similar: a lot of time spent with about 20K until towards the end, a lot of shifting gears on playing style, and enough luck to win pots at the right times.
2nd ($10/ 7pts): Brad "I Got Rolled" Patterson
3rd ($0 / 4pts): David "Reauxling" Bates
4th ($0 / 2pts): Ken "Roll Over" Neafcy
Low Stakes / 10 Players / 1 Table / 125a Endtime
Week 45 notes, observations, and oddities:
-Adam showed up 1 hour late and had only lost $1K to the blinds. In 3 hands he proceeded to rebuy.
-Aaron won a hand, which meant he didn't finish last: he made it all the way to 9th.
-Julie didn't win a hand all night, but showed Aaron how to make the most of it by surviving to 8th place.
-Ray and Adam spent much of Rounds 4 & 5 sitting around $10K. Both tried to claw their way to significance. Both failed.
-Stan was down to $2900 with 10 minutes left in Round 3, built his stack back up to $30K, then lost most of it when Ken refused to go away with Q-8 vs. Stan's A-Q, because Ken mystically knew his questionable hand would 2 pair on the river to beat Stan's top pair/top kicker. Well played, sir.
-In a similar vein, Ken built an enormous stack early that didn't appear to be able to be cracked. He then proceeded to get into a pissing match with Brad, the other big stack, and over the course of about 30 minutes managed to create a gargantuan stack. For Brad.
-David proved that his newbie win a few weeks ago was no fluke. He finished 3rd, but a few unlucky breaks kept him from building a stack much past $30K late, and he finally succumbed at about 1am.
-At about 12:30am, Brad had a 3:1 advantage (about $130K) to the next closest chip stack. Adam, seeing a moment where he could influence the outcome, declared "This is Brad's to lose; everyone expects him to win, so anything short of that is failure." The jinx now fully in place, Brad crapped his pants and obligingly began doinking off his massive stack over the next hour.
-I didn't think it possible, but Mick's iPod might be more annoying than Jeremy's, if only because she has a tendency to like Loopy McLoops A Lot groups. I'm sure they're good to dance to; unfortunately, not a lot of dancing going on at McJo's. I'm declaring an end to the paint-by-numbers computer musicians, and am showing up next week with my iPod full of acid rock/jam band tunes so we can hear music droning on repititiously and annoyingly as played by talented musicians.
-On a related note, we all found out that tonight's table denizens all like Styx, to the amazement of everyone at the table: each person figured they were the only one. Well, except Aaron; he didn't know Styx was anything other a river in hell. Wrong, sir: it was also your all-in hand.
So, this looked a lot like last week..only different. For starters, I did have reasonably decent cards scattered throughout the night, instead of hours of nothing but crap cards. But the play was somewhat similar: a lot of time spent with about 20K until towards the end, a lot of shifting gears on playing style, and enough luck to win pots at the right times.
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