Bills heat ran last night, with Lynn, Lee, Mick and Roger playing
It was a frantic match with lots of action, so the following is just a summary of the 6 pages of notes I wrote (and I lost track by the end as well!!)
It all kicked off from the start with family pot and everyone calling Mick's small bet on the flop. The turn was checked round then Lee bets the Q on the river to take the first pot uncontested. The second hand saw the first of many encounters between Bill and Lynn, with Bill betting the flop and Lynn calling, Bill betting the turn, but taking it with another bet on the river. The first big pot was the third hand (!) with Lynn's flush beating Lee's two pair
Level 2 see's one of the many raises from Bill on the button, with everyone calling. The flop is T-5-3 (2 hearts) and only Mick and Lynn call Bill's bet of 500 Bill bets another 500 on the turn of 6d but Mick calls again. The 3h comes on the river and Mick bets out 1000. After a long think , Bill is sure Mick has hit the flush, but decides to call anyway.... sure enough Mick has the flush to Bill's A-T (top pair) so Mick gets a huge chip lead
And so it goes on (I only got through the first page of my notes so far!) There is lots of calling pre-flop but most being quite tight once the flop is down... the chips are moving around the table pretty quickly. Suddenly Lynn is down to 2000 chips and gets involve in a big pot with Lee. In the end she decides to fold on the river leaving very short stacked
At the first break the chip counts are Lee 6700, Mick 5300, Bill 4300, Roger 3000 and Lynn 700
With level 5 we see Lynn all in on flop of Q-8-3 Mick bets the 8 on the turn with everyone else folding we have a showdown... but Mick's Q is good enough to take out Lynn and we are down to 4 players
With the blinds starting to hurt some people, we are still seeing lots of pre-flop calling and action on the flop. We have a family pot for a A-J-T flop. Mick bets 500 from button and only Bill calls. The 9 on the turn sees Bill bet 1000 but Mick calls The river of 7 obviously doesn't help and is checked down. Mick's A-3 takes a reasonable sized pot to Bill's Q-8
Level 7 sees Roger all-in on the BB and only Lee calling from the SB. Roger has pocket 3's to Lee's 6-5 hearts, but a 3 on the flop leaves Lee drawing thin and doesn't improve so Roger doubles up
Next hand sees another family pot for a K-K-9 flop (2 hearts) Bill bets out 1000 and only Roger calls for the rest of his chips Bill has 9-6 against Rogers A-Q but an A comes and Roger doubles up again and now has around 2800 chips (Lee has around 2700 and Bill 7000)
Lee is short stacked so goes all-in on button with Q-9 but Mick looks him up with A-7 Luckily Lee hits a 9 on the river and takes a 4100 pot !
Level 8 and it is always going to be all action with 4 players still left ! My notes get a bit vague here as there is lots of action and at least one player is all-in every hand!
Roger doubles up on SB, then doubles up again the next hand when he hits a Q on a K-Q-4 flop against Bill's J-T
The small stacks seem to have the edge, as Lee goes all in with AQ against Mick's BB and with no-one improving takes the pot.
Then Bill is raising from the button and Roger goes all-in with 9-9 against Bill's A-Q Roger holds on to take a pot of over 10'000 and the chip lead !
The last level sees Bill out on the first hand of the level against Roger, but Lee quadruples up his 500 stack. Mick has 400 chips to Lee's 2000 and Roger has the rest, having been down and very nearly out not so long ago !!
Next hand sees Mick and Lee all-in with Roger in the BB Mick wins so triples up, but Lee takes the higher pot beating Rogers hand
hen we have Lee going all in from the button with A-6 but Roger hits his hand and takes Lee out
With Mick having less than SB left, the next two hands are dealt face up but Mick doubles up three hands on the trot and seems to be coming back into the game.... however Roger's touch returns and hits a good hand to take Mick out and the heat victory
Phew, it was a roller coaster, turbo charged, all action event and I'm quite exhausted just watching !
Well done to Roger, but we'll see Mick in the semi-final for another try
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