Hello folks,
In lieu of an actual recap, I will give you all you need to know: Scott Randall took down his first 52 Irving event. Playing from a position of power all night, and with his lovely fiance in attendance, Randall stayed in the chip lead for much of the evening and took it down. Congrats to him.
Now for some housekeeping. The standings and updates have been somewhat lacking lately, so it will all be caught up now. The standings to the right are done, and the Bonanza Pot total is fully updated, as we went over the $600 mark on Friday night to a total of $610.
Expanded Standings
Updated Through October 24
Name/BA/H-AB/Wins/Cashes/Movement
1) Vida: .959/47-49/4/5/=
2) Clutch: .887/205-231/12/20/=
3) J-Mac: .772/186-241/7/15/=
4) Kenton: .696/55-79/2/4/+1
5) Masi: .684/93-136/4/7/-1
6) Paul Carr: .681/47-692/3/=
7) Willis: .671/141-210/4/7/=
8) Bearman: .629/78-124/1/6/=
9) Conlon: 625/85-136/2/4/=
10) McCrystal: .611/22-36/0/1/=
11) Ketaineck: .598/76-127/1/5/=
12) Randall: .588/70-119/1/4/+1
13) Edge: .576/106-184/1/4/-1
14) Elias: .541/20-37/0/2/=
15) D-Rose: .534/39-73/2/2/=
16) Fallica: .431/31-72/1/1/=
17) Lundblad: .417/5-12/0/0/=
18) C-Lees: .364/24-68/0/0/=
19) McKean: .333/5-15/0/0/=
20) Loucks: .306/15-49/0/0/=
21) Harry Dang: .279/12-43/0/0/=
22) Dohmann: .192/5-26/0/0/=
23) Stu: .150/3-20/0/0/=
Friday, October 24, 2008
Curly Howard 105
A sparse crowd of 5, the league-mandated minimum for a sanctioned 52 Irving event, gathered on Wednesday morning for The Curly Howard 105. Chips were flying early in the tourney, as Harry Dang tried to make a move on the first hand when dealt a pair of pocket Queens. But he ultimately ceded the pot to J-Mac and spent much of the remainder of his tournament trying to rebuild his stack. After dropping a few more big hands, HD got involved in the wrong hand with Kenton Wong, a hand that would end his day prematurely. After a flop of AAQ, a short-stacked Harry was all-in against Kenton. Kenton flipped A8 to Harry's pocket 5's, and Harry's fate was cemented. To add insult to injury, Kenton caught an 8 on the river, giving him a boat and sending Harry to a 5th-place exit. Rather than picking up lunch, as the tourney had started not too long ago, Harry gamely offered to deal, an offer which was gladly accepted. Next, Kenton turned his sights on Vida. After a flop of 3Q9, Kenton made a small bet into Vida, eliciting a call. The turn brough a 7 and two checks. A king fell on the river and Kenton pushed all-in. Vida quickly called and sheepishly flipped over AK for Kings, one better than Kenton's queens (Q5). Kenton, however, rallied nicely, accepting an invitation from Clutch to join him for a day at Foxwoods. After surviving several all-in scenarios, 9 by his count, David Bearman would be the next to go. Shortstacked by a significant margin, Bearman moved all-in preflop with K10. Vida called with A9. The flop came A10J and the turn and river brought blanks, eliminating Bearman in 3rd place. Starting heads up play against J-Mac, Vida held a chip lead of nearly 4-1. Shortly after the tourney had been narrowed to 2, Vida pushed all-in from the small blind and was called. He flipped A4 and J-Mac turned over K10. The board fell 68357, giving Vida a straight on the river, that, although meaningless, is perhaps appropriate given his streak of good luck lately. Vida has now won 4 of his last 5 tournaments entered and finished in 2nd place in the other. The next event will be held Friday at 8 ET. Please join the gentlemen of 52 Irving for the Jackie Robinson Memorial.
Points Earned (out of 5):
Harry Dang: 1 point
Kenton Wong: 2 points
David Bearman: 3 points
Jason McCallum: 5 points (4 for 2nd, 1 for cash)
Jason Vida: 7 points (5 for 1st, 1 for win, 1 for cash)
Points Earned (out of 5):
Harry Dang: 1 point
Kenton Wong: 2 points
David Bearman: 3 points
Jason McCallum: 5 points (4 for 2nd, 1 for cash)
Jason Vida: 7 points (5 for 1st, 1 for win, 1 for cash)
Monday, October 20, 2008
The Marshall Mathers Classic - October 17
October 17, 2008
The Marshall Mathers Classic
9 players turned out for a Friday night card game two weeks prior to Halloween – here’s how the action unfolded…
9th place (1 point): Harry was crippled when he turned an ace-high flush but J-Mac caught a full house on the river. Harry was left with one chip and he went out on his next hand for an early exit…
8th place (2 points): Next to go out was research’s tallest man, Greg… Dohmann went all in with pocket queens but was knocked out by C-Lees who paired his king on the flop and then got trips on the river.
Kings were kind to C-Lees all night, as shortly thereafter he was dealt pocket kings on back-to-back hands, and he doubled up each time when he hit a set on the board.
7th place (3 points): Newly engaged Scott Randall was next to fall, as he re-raised Clutch all-in and Clutch was priced in with 4 hearts after the flop. The turn brought another heart and Randall was done. Fortunately for the rest of us, his fiancé showed up to give him shit about it. The C-Lees response to Randall’s loss? “I would have immediately gone out and gotten a 22-year old…”
6th place (4 points): C-Lees luck ran out with his face-card pocket pairs… he had queens and after an A-2-8 flop, Matt K. bet 100 and C-Lees went all-in. Ketaineck called with A-2 and the rest of the cards came up empty for the newly minted R-3.
5th place (5 points): Next to the rail was 52 Irving resident Matty Willis who was shortstacked and pushed all-in with pocket 2’s… Clutch looked down at pocket queens and made an easy call. No help came and Willis was gone.
4th place (6 points): Former poker player Paul Carr made a return to 52 Irving and showed no signs of rust from his long, graveyard-shift-induced layoff… but his luck ran out when his all-in for 842 chips with pocket queens was called by Ketaineck’s A-8… it wasn’t the Ace that did it, but a 6 on the turn gave Matty the straight to knock Paul out in a very respectable return to the table.
3rd place (7 points + 1 for cash): 3 players cashed in this nine-man event, and 3-handed poker lasted for a while, but soon Clutch found himself the shorter stack and he pushed all-in with 8-9 and was called by Ketaineck’s A-9. The flop brought a 9 and the river an ace, giving Matty aces up and giving Clutch the 8 points and $20.
2nd place (8 points + 1 for cash): On the first hand of heads up, J-Mac was dealt pocket aces and he checked them pre-flop. The flop was 10-J-2 and when J-Mac checked, Ketaineck went all-in with J-Q. A quick call and no improvement on the turn or river gave J-Mac the 2-1 chip lead. A lot of chips moved around for about 45 minutes, but finally J-Mac caught A-K of hearts and Matty made an all-in move with 10-2 and was called. An ace on the flop gave J-Mac a commanding chip lead, and when he was dealt A-K of hearts on the very next hand, it was over when he caught 3 more hearts to win the event, his first win in well over 2 months.
1 point - Dang
2 points - Greg
3 points - Randall
4 points - Lees
5 points - Willis
6 points - Carr
8 points - Clutch
9 points - Matt K.
11 points - J-Mac
The Marshall Mathers Classic
9 players turned out for a Friday night card game two weeks prior to Halloween – here’s how the action unfolded…
9th place (1 point): Harry was crippled when he turned an ace-high flush but J-Mac caught a full house on the river. Harry was left with one chip and he went out on his next hand for an early exit…
8th place (2 points): Next to go out was research’s tallest man, Greg… Dohmann went all in with pocket queens but was knocked out by C-Lees who paired his king on the flop and then got trips on the river.
Kings were kind to C-Lees all night, as shortly thereafter he was dealt pocket kings on back-to-back hands, and he doubled up each time when he hit a set on the board.
7th place (3 points): Newly engaged Scott Randall was next to fall, as he re-raised Clutch all-in and Clutch was priced in with 4 hearts after the flop. The turn brought another heart and Randall was done. Fortunately for the rest of us, his fiancé showed up to give him shit about it. The C-Lees response to Randall’s loss? “I would have immediately gone out and gotten a 22-year old…”
6th place (4 points): C-Lees luck ran out with his face-card pocket pairs… he had queens and after an A-2-8 flop, Matt K. bet 100 and C-Lees went all-in. Ketaineck called with A-2 and the rest of the cards came up empty for the newly minted R-3.
5th place (5 points): Next to the rail was 52 Irving resident Matty Willis who was shortstacked and pushed all-in with pocket 2’s… Clutch looked down at pocket queens and made an easy call. No help came and Willis was gone.
4th place (6 points): Former poker player Paul Carr made a return to 52 Irving and showed no signs of rust from his long, graveyard-shift-induced layoff… but his luck ran out when his all-in for 842 chips with pocket queens was called by Ketaineck’s A-8… it wasn’t the Ace that did it, but a 6 on the turn gave Matty the straight to knock Paul out in a very respectable return to the table.
3rd place (7 points + 1 for cash): 3 players cashed in this nine-man event, and 3-handed poker lasted for a while, but soon Clutch found himself the shorter stack and he pushed all-in with 8-9 and was called by Ketaineck’s A-9. The flop brought a 9 and the river an ace, giving Matty aces up and giving Clutch the 8 points and $20.
2nd place (8 points + 1 for cash): On the first hand of heads up, J-Mac was dealt pocket aces and he checked them pre-flop. The flop was 10-J-2 and when J-Mac checked, Ketaineck went all-in with J-Q. A quick call and no improvement on the turn or river gave J-Mac the 2-1 chip lead. A lot of chips moved around for about 45 minutes, but finally J-Mac caught A-K of hearts and Matty made an all-in move with 10-2 and was called. An ace on the flop gave J-Mac a commanding chip lead, and when he was dealt A-K of hearts on the very next hand, it was over when he caught 3 more hearts to win the event, his first win in well over 2 months.
1 point - Dang
2 points - Greg
3 points - Randall
4 points - Lees
5 points - Willis
6 points - Carr
8 points - Clutch
9 points - Matt K.
11 points - J-Mac
The David Lee Roth Experience - October 10
The first of what we hope to be many Friday night editions of the 52 Irving Poker League (still seeking sponsorship for the 2009 season) took place with the long-waited return of the first SC Live segment producer to sit at the felt, David Rose.
Unfortunately, D-Rose's night wouldn't last too long. First he lost about half of his stack when his ace-high flush ran into the full house (5's full) of Matt Ketaineck. Not long after, with the blinds still at 2-4, with a board of A-5-A, Kevin "All-Yinz" Conlon bet, D-Rose went all in, prompting a fold from Jason McCallum. D-Rose made the call with A-10 for a set, but Yinz showed pocket 5's for the flopped boat. The second edition of 5's full was enough to send D-Rose home in 6th place.
D-Rose stuck around, the jokes were flying, but the chips remained somewhat stationary at this point. The storyline at this point was split between Matty K not remembering the name of the Dog on the Jetson (Rover, seriously?) and the what-could've-beens for Brett Edgerton.
Edge got a walk in the big blind, and per table rules, flipped over 4-5 of diamonds. Edge would've turned a straight flush on the hand. Later, Edge had Matty K all-in and dominated with K-Q against K-4 of hearts. However, a straight on the board gave Matty K a new chance at life.
Yinz was the second player to be eliminated from the tournament, as his A-Q couldn't catch up to Matt Willis's cowboys. The two denied rumors that their fantasy sports relationship was in trouble, but in the end it was Willis eliminating the other half of Iranian Hercules in 5th.
The blinds got up to 40-80 with 4 players still remaining. Ketaineck pushed all-in, and it was only 69 more for J-Mac to make the call. He did so sheepishly with 8-6 of hearts, but had live ones against A-10. The flop (9-5-8) gave J-Mac the lead, and the turn (6) gave him two pair, but left Matty K with 4 outs to a straight. But the miracle straight couldn't come again, and Ketaineck went home in 4th.
Now 3-handed, the action was hot despite playing on the money bubble. Finally, Willis raised from the button, J-Mac folded, and Edge called for less. Willis had A-2 of hearts, Edge, thinking he had at least 2 live ones, disappointedly turned over 10-2 suited. Even Doyle Brunson couldn't have helped Edge, though, as the board failed to give him spades or a 10, and he went out in 3rd.
The tournament was a lengthy one, especially for 6 players, but heads-up definitely trimmed that time down. Perhaps feeling the revenge of Mr. Gurgles, J-Mac pushed all-in on the first hand into the monster chip stack of Willis. Willis immediately called with pocket jacks, but had a coin flip against J-Mac's K-Q of hearts.
A non-threatening flop of 2-A-9 kept Willis out front. A jack on the turn gave Willis a set, but only trimmed J-Mac's outs from 6 to 4. But the 3 gave Willis his 4th 52 Irving Poker title of the season.
52 Irving Poker League
Oct. 10 Results
6th - David Rose (1 pt)
5th - Kevin Conlon (2 pts)
4th - Matt Ketaineck (3 pts)
3rd - Brett Edgerton (4 pts)
2nd - Jason McCallum (6 pts)
1st - Matt Willis (8 pts)
Unfortunately, D-Rose's night wouldn't last too long. First he lost about half of his stack when his ace-high flush ran into the full house (5's full) of Matt Ketaineck. Not long after, with the blinds still at 2-4, with a board of A-5-A, Kevin "All-Yinz" Conlon bet, D-Rose went all in, prompting a fold from Jason McCallum. D-Rose made the call with A-10 for a set, but Yinz showed pocket 5's for the flopped boat. The second edition of 5's full was enough to send D-Rose home in 6th place.
D-Rose stuck around, the jokes were flying, but the chips remained somewhat stationary at this point. The storyline at this point was split between Matty K not remembering the name of the Dog on the Jetson (Rover, seriously?) and the what-could've-beens for Brett Edgerton.
Edge got a walk in the big blind, and per table rules, flipped over 4-5 of diamonds. Edge would've turned a straight flush on the hand. Later, Edge had Matty K all-in and dominated with K-Q against K-4 of hearts. However, a straight on the board gave Matty K a new chance at life.
Yinz was the second player to be eliminated from the tournament, as his A-Q couldn't catch up to Matt Willis's cowboys. The two denied rumors that their fantasy sports relationship was in trouble, but in the end it was Willis eliminating the other half of Iranian Hercules in 5th.
The blinds got up to 40-80 with 4 players still remaining. Ketaineck pushed all-in, and it was only 69 more for J-Mac to make the call. He did so sheepishly with 8-6 of hearts, but had live ones against A-10. The flop (9-5-8) gave J-Mac the lead, and the turn (6) gave him two pair, but left Matty K with 4 outs to a straight. But the miracle straight couldn't come again, and Ketaineck went home in 4th.
Now 3-handed, the action was hot despite playing on the money bubble. Finally, Willis raised from the button, J-Mac folded, and Edge called for less. Willis had A-2 of hearts, Edge, thinking he had at least 2 live ones, disappointedly turned over 10-2 suited. Even Doyle Brunson couldn't have helped Edge, though, as the board failed to give him spades or a 10, and he went out in 3rd.
The tournament was a lengthy one, especially for 6 players, but heads-up definitely trimmed that time down. Perhaps feeling the revenge of Mr. Gurgles, J-Mac pushed all-in on the first hand into the monster chip stack of Willis. Willis immediately called with pocket jacks, but had a coin flip against J-Mac's K-Q of hearts.
A non-threatening flop of 2-A-9 kept Willis out front. A jack on the turn gave Willis a set, but only trimmed J-Mac's outs from 6 to 4. But the 3 gave Willis his 4th 52 Irving Poker title of the season.
52 Irving Poker League
Oct. 10 Results
6th - David Rose (1 pt)
5th - Kevin Conlon (2 pts)
4th - Matt Ketaineck (3 pts)
3rd - Brett Edgerton (4 pts)
2nd - Jason McCallum (6 pts)
1st - Matt Willis (8 pts)
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