Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Tue. 3/18 Recap

Hey Folks -
As always, before we begin I will announce the next tournament. We will play next Wednesday, March 26th at 7:30 PM. It's the best day that works for the most amount of people, incredibly DROSE has another night shift that will not allow him to play (sorry bud!). We might even see a new addition to the 52 Irving Poker League (yes that's right Paul Carr, I'm looking at you while I say that!)


Speaking of new additions, we added a 15th player to the Poker League this evening as Jeremy Lundblad joined the fray for the first time this season. He was among 6 players who braved the sleet to hop into the tournament joining Bearman, Fallica, Masic, Edge and Clutch. Unfortunately for Lundblad, he suffered a similar fate to many a player who have joined the league for the first time. After about an hour of play, Lundblad was pretty chip dead and went all-in Q8, Fallica was pretty much forced to call him because of the odds and he did with K7. When Fallica caught a straight on the turn, Lundblad was done but hopefully he'll be back soon!


Clutch, who was the chip leader throughout much of the tournament's first 90 minutes, suffered a race loss to a Fallica all-in (Q10 vs 88) that gave Fallica over 300 more chips and the tournament was never the same for Clutch or the rest of the field. As the blinds climbed higher, Clutch tried a few all-ins that kept him afloat but when he went all-in with AJ vs Masi's 77, he was forced to the rail when Vince hit a 7 on the flop.


That left the field 4-handed but the worst beat of the night would soon end Edge's night. With the blinds at 40/80, Edge went all-in with his last 325 chips and Fallica in the big blind called him with JQ of spades. Edge calmly flipped over KK and had Fallica dominated. However when two spades hit on the flop, things got worrisome for the Edge. When another spade hit on the turn, the proverbial check showed up in Fallica's column and Edge's night was over and he was left to contemplate how Rutgers could be placed in the same region with Uconn?


That left Bearman, Fallica and Masi with Fallica holding a decent chip lead on his two pursuers. Bearman, starting to get chip dead went all-in on the big blind and Vince called him. Bearman flipped over A4 and Vince showed K10. A king hit on the flop and when a ten spiked on the river, Bearman was sent to the rail and the tournament was heads up and Fallica was guaranteed his first cash of the season.


It was very quiet heads up for a little while as Masi and Fallica felt each other out. There were a few raises but no big hands until we came to the finale. Masi called the big blind of 100, Fallica raised to 300 total. Vince moved all-in and Fallica hemmed a small second before calling. Masi flipped over A10 and in what seemed to be the theme of the evening, Fallica showed 44. The flop came 922 and the turn and river with 6 and 7 respectively as Vince failed to improve and Fallica had his first win at 52 Irving.


Here are final results from Mar. 18:
6th place - Jeremy Lundblad - 1 point
5th place - Clutch - 2 points
4th place - Brett Edgerton - 3 points
3rd place - Bearman - 4 points
2nd place - Vince Masi - 6 points (5 points for 2nd, 1 bonus for cashing)
1st place - Chris Fallica - 8 points (6 points for 1st, 1 bonus for cashing, 1 bonus for winning)


52 Irving Poker League
Current Poker Batting Averages Thru 3/18


BA H/AB Wins Total Cashes
1) David Rose 1.100 22/20 2 2
2) Scott Randall 1.000 14/14 0 2
3) Dennis "Clutch" Renno .842 48/57 2 4
4) Jason McCallum .773 34/44 3 3
5) Ryan McCrystal .750 15/20 0 1
5) Vince Masi .750 24/32 1 2
7) Chris Fallica .692 9/13 1 1
8) David Bearman .634 26/41 1 1
9) Brett Edgerton .558 24/43 0 1
10) Matt Ketaineck .553 21/38 0 2
11) Matt Willis .531 17/32 0 1
12) Kevin Conlon .350 7/20 0 0
13) Nick Loucks .250 5/20 0 0
14) Jeremy Lundblad .166 1/6 0 0
15) Stu Mitchell .143 2/14 0 0

**Poker Bonanza pot stands at $128


Reminder.. Next Tourney at 52 Irving on Wednesday, March 18th at 7:30 PM

Clutch

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