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