Results and league standings available at http://www.statsgenie.com/ as normal
This months is the quarterly no-rebuy, no-limit format so tends to be a more tense, tight and serious affair.....being down to 9 players as well, I thought the game would be over quickly tonight, but turned out to be a wrong assumption
The game was tense and tight, although lots of table chat going on as well (Bill, don't forget to do that quote for Sean :-) ) Mick started out the early winner of several reasonable sized pots so looked to be his night. Andy had lost a few chips then decided to make an all-in lunge at the pot when I raised with my A-K. I also had a few more chips than Andy, so decided to call, with Andy showing 9-8 suited.... I was ahead and neither improved, so Andy was first out and the only one with no points tonight!
That set me up nicely but continued to play quite tightly. I built up a nice stack of chips but then had a run in with Jon and dropped back down to third in chips. Jon then took a big chip lead with everyone else being slightly below average except Mick and myself by the break.
As the blinds went up, there was more action, but everyone was still playing tight, solid poker.... Bill managed to survive three all-ins by splitting the pot, normally by hitting a miracle card on the river... but Derek's luck deserted him and got taken out by Mick by a cruel card on the river
After the second break the blinds were high and only Jon had enough chips to sit back and relax for a while. I decided to step up a gear and won a couple of uncontested pots to get a good sized stack. In the final round, there were still 5 players left, although Mick immediately got taken out, then I got lucky as Darren decided to make a stand when I had him dominated and that left 3 players. Steve got whittled down and was out next, leaving Jon and I to play the last 4 hands of the tournament. I won the first couple of hands and with the chip counts almost identical was over aggressive on the 2nd last hand with T-7 and when Jon called my pre-flop raise we were both committed to play out the hand. The flop was checked, but Jon bet the turn. I had to make a crying call and sure enough, Jon had paired his Jack and took the pot and a well deserved victory
Phew, another points/cash finish for me which does my league position the world of good (that's what it's all about :-) )
The game overall was great, it seemed everyone was really on their best game tonight which made it fascinating and huge fun to play, so well done to all
Even better, we only have to wait three weeks for the next game :-)
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