At last we managed to get another casino trip organised. It has been nearly a year since my last trip and very, very nearly a year since the CamberleyBoyz went to the Casino, so about time !
My evening started out with my customary luck on the Roulette but also the Blackjack this time, so unless my Poker night is disastrous, I have won enough to pay for my Poker already :-)
There are 40 runners and the CamberleyBoyz consists of myself, Derek, Jon, Andy, Alex, Sean and Karen so confidence is high that some of will meet on the final table
I can’t remember much about the game overall, but I do remember that I was doing quietly well to begin with and peaked at around 5000 chips but then hit a bad patch when I bottled out with top pair and average kicker and frittered more chips away, suddenly finding myself very low in the last three hands before rebuys ended. I ended up going all in and loosing the 2nd last hand, then sticking in my 2000 chips blind on the last hand but won it ! So in the end, I spent £50 on the poker and had won £60 before so did have enough winnings to cover my nights entertainment :-)
After the final add-ons, the average stack was around 5000 and the chips standings at the break are:
- Mike 5400
Jon 4900
Alex 10’700
Sean 4000
Karen 3000
Derek 2500
Andy 4100
Things get a bit hazy after that, but with the seat moves I now have Jon and Karen on my table…. and manage to take out Karen when I get dealt A-A !
There is soon more table consolidation and I’m on a table with Sean and Alex. Things are getting tense and play is tight, then Sean goes on a bender and doubles up… .then soon sticks it in the middle again but gets knocked out this time (in around 15th ?)
At last we have the final table, with myself, Alex and Jon all making it to the last 10 players. Only the top 7 should get paid, but the table agrees to pay 8th, 9th and 10th £20
This is just as well as I get a bit too aggressive with pocket 3’s and get called by pocket 9’s The 9 on the flop and runner-runner to make the other guy a flush was all a bit unnecessary in my view, but I was always behind so take 10th place and £20 prize
Just time to spend my £20 on roulette and get a drink, then Jon is out in 9th. He has 4-4 against 8-8 (same guy I went out to) but again does not improve and is out in 9th.
By the time we leave Alex playing, there are only 7 players left. In the end Alex split 1st and 2nd place prize money when they got heads up
Approximate finishes were:
Derek 30th ?
Andy 28th ?
Karen 20th ?
Sean 15th ?
Mike 10th (£20)
Jon 9th (£20)
Alex Joint 1st ! (£590)
Not a bad showing from the CamberleyBoyz overall, and congratulations to Alex on a hard fought and well deserved top place finish
2 comments:
Mike, you do me a disservice! It wasn't exactly a bender and was out in 12th not 15th ;-)
And in my defense my play had been (uncharacteristically) solid all night (no rebuys, just one add on at the break). I would have gone into the break 2-1 chip leader on my table with something like 15000 chips were it not for a bad beat on the last hand. I was ahead at the flop with two pair when we went all in, but my opponent hit his 6 the river for a straight.
After the break my solid play continued and Andy made the mistake of disrespecting my all in raise and paid the price when he called with 7-3 os (or something equally insubstantial). Much to the amazement of the others at the table provoking comments like "Is he feeding you chips?"
I continued to play quite well but by 12:30 there had been 12 players left in for ages - probably over half an hour. It was getting late and everyone was hanging on for the final table with was just swapping and stealing blinds. I was tired and getting anxious for some action. Blinds were 1600 and when we got a couple of callers I was only a few thousand chips off the chip leader and flopped top pair J with A kicker. 6, 4 (unsuited) accompanying the J on the board meant that my opponent would be, at best, drawing for a straight looking for a runner runner for a flush. I went all in confident that I was ahead. Unfortunately his 6-4 gave him two pair which held up.
What can I say... profuse apologies... just goes to show how hazy my recollections are :-)
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