Congratulations to The Beast for winning the Pomme Xmas Tournament. He took home the impressive trophy, not to mention the lion's share of the £6000 pot!
Cat Thrasher was runner-up and secured his place as the overall tournament champion at the Pomme. The guy ALWAYS seems to be sitting on the final table!
It was actually the Beast who eliminated me from the final table in 10th place. Ace, King proved to be a dog for me TWICE in the big game.
The first time it pumped me, I was chipleader on my table just before the break and flopped a King on a relatively harmless board... except for the fact my opponent was sat on pocket Kings!
Still in good shape after the break (40,000 chips) I went card dead for an hour or so and skulked onto the final table as the shortstack (£32,000) with monster blinds of 4000/8000.
I pushed with King, Queen suited and picked-up the blinds so at least I could wait for a good hand for another 10 hands or so.
I looked down at Big Slick and decided it was another pushing hand in my chip situation (and chose to ignore how it had taken a slice from me earlier in the tournament). One of the chipleaders, ClaireBear, raised it up to pretty much all my chips and then The Beast came over the top. I was happy to be in a situation where I could trebble-up so pushed them all in. I was even happy with their hands - ClaireBear had Ace, Queen and The Beast had pocket 10s.
I'd make that move a thousand times against those hands, but I couldn't find an Ace or a King so the 10s held and put the Beasty Boy in a healthy chip position.
My one consolation is that I eliminated Rocky earlier in the tournament, who pushed all his chips in with pocket Kings, the Donk... and of course the Cowboys were no match for my Jacks, especially when the set came on the flop! Ouch, sorry Rocky! They are called Hooks for a reason you big gilled, bottom feeder! Of course I am kidding, that was very unlucky and everyone at the table felt genuince sadness at the loss of such a poker personality from the tournament. That beat was bad for The Rock, but consider BeataBlock for a moment... his Kings were cracked by the Beast's pocket 9s, when the Grinch flopped QUADS!!! YEOWCH!!!
My new favorite seat in the cash game is seat one... you get the button when the game kicks off and the dealer insisted on dealing me pocket Aces twice and pocket Kings twice, so at least I ended the day 300% up!
More details coming on the FHP Online League at Uncover Poker today...
PLUS the WINTER SERIES dates have been confirmed and I will be releasing details of that league shortly too...
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