SATURDAY 13 DECEMBER 2008 - 12pm
PLANET POOL POKER OPEN (PPPO)
A very exciting bracelet event for tournament poker players in Jersey.
£200 + £10 Buy-In
FREEZEOUT
1 HOUR BLIND LEVELS (Starting level 50/100)
STARTING STACKS - 20,000 CHIPS
STRICTLY LIMITED TO 40 PLAYERS
DAY ONE - PLAY DOWN TO THE FINAL TABLE (9 PLAYERS)
DAY TWO - FINALISTS PLAY FOR THE £8000 AND THE PPPO BRACELET
REGISTRATION: 12PM SATURDAY 13 DECEMBER
FINAL TABLE: 12PM SUNDAY 14 DECEMBER
BAR AND BAR FOOD AVAILABLE ON BOTH DAYS
RUN BY FHP IN ASSOCIATION WITH LEIGH RUDERHAM & SPONSORED BY PLANET POOL
EMAIL ME TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE...
jT
Monday, 24 November 2008
Sunday, 23 November 2008
We have our final table...
The ten players gunning for the £1000 jackpot on Friday are as follows:
1. Jason Harrison
2. Ashton De Carteret
3. Alan Beadle
4. Craig Hartley
5. Craig Le Gallais
6. Ewan Le Marquand
7. Michael Le Guillou
8. Dave Elliot
9. Kevin Hodkinson
10. Nick Caunce
Congratulations gentlemen!
The rest of us will be collecting scalps in the BOUNTY HUNTER TOURNAMENT!
See you on Friday...
jT
Monday, 17 November 2008
Happy Sunday at The Pomme...
The £30 + £30 tournament was going well for me. I hit the final table with 30,000 chips and unusually, the whole table (albeit some begrudgingly) decided to chop the £3000+ pot between all 10 players, so it was £300 in the bag and we played on for the points and the remaining £120.
Of course we all played differently when the money was all but gone, and I called two all-ins with 5, 6 suited to hit two pair and take down the pot. I then pushed again with Ace, 8 and rivered a full house making me 2nd in chips. I was keen to improve on my previous 5th place finishes and this boat put me into at least 4th place, so I was happy.
Eventually, I find myself heads-up with the chip lead and we agree to chop the remaining £120 too. I then bluff off most of my chips and go all-in blind to a (not surprisingly) 2nd place finish... my best placing yet, although I accept that if we hadn't chopped the money with 10 players left, I probably wouldn't have made it so deep... I certainly wouldn't have pushed with 5, 6 suited!
Onto the cash game, I'm steaming (and felted) pretty early on when I'm re-raised after popping the pot with pocket Jacks. A third player calls (unbelievably bad call) for all his chips with Queen, 9 suited and flops his Queen. The Re-Raiser had Ace, 10 off but fails to find his Ace from Space! The winner loves being Suited and Booted my boy (apparently)!
I re-load and get my revenge on the very same player when he bets at me all the way to the river with his Ace, Queen only to run into my Ace, King (an Ace came on the flop and the board paired on the river). Shame.
I'm card dead for three hours, missing nut flush draws and open-ended straight draws but I'm happy with a HUGE laydown I make pre-flop. I very rarely lay down Ace, King pre-flop but the other player just seemed so strong and I felt he must have been holding pocket Kings or Aces. I popped the pot and he re-raises me for £120+. I hate throwing away £50 when I'm holding Big Slick, especially when a player throws another £100 into the pot. I ask him "Are those Aces or Kings?" and he says "Aces". I tell him I believe him and show my Ace, King as it hits the muck. He is gracious enough to show the table his pocket Aces.
I'm card dead for another hour and we hit the final three hands of the night. The first hand is my Big Blind and as per the rest of the night, it's a raggedy piece of crap and I fold.
Penultimate hand and I'm dealt pocket 10s. A few callers limp in and then Shaky pops the pot. I call and we're heads-up. The flop is a peach, 9, 10, 3 rainbow and I check my trips. Shaky bets the pot again and I Hollywood the call. He even comments on my Bond-esque acting skills! The turn is a 6, still a rainbow board, so nothing is beating my set. I check again and amazingly, Shaky pops the pot for £300+, which puts me all-in. I can't call quick enough and show my trips and he turns over Ace, Queen - drawing dead.
Beautiful...
Up £1000 on the day give or take a few quid.
Friday is HEAT 5 of the FHP Autumn Series and the week after that, it's the £1000 final table and more interestingly, The BOUNTY HUNTER TOURNAMENT... see below.
jT
Of course we all played differently when the money was all but gone, and I called two all-ins with 5, 6 suited to hit two pair and take down the pot. I then pushed again with Ace, 8 and rivered a full house making me 2nd in chips. I was keen to improve on my previous 5th place finishes and this boat put me into at least 4th place, so I was happy.
Eventually, I find myself heads-up with the chip lead and we agree to chop the remaining £120 too. I then bluff off most of my chips and go all-in blind to a (not surprisingly) 2nd place finish... my best placing yet, although I accept that if we hadn't chopped the money with 10 players left, I probably wouldn't have made it so deep... I certainly wouldn't have pushed with 5, 6 suited!
Onto the cash game, I'm steaming (and felted) pretty early on when I'm re-raised after popping the pot with pocket Jacks. A third player calls (unbelievably bad call) for all his chips with Queen, 9 suited and flops his Queen. The Re-Raiser had Ace, 10 off but fails to find his Ace from Space! The winner loves being Suited and Booted my boy (apparently)!
I re-load and get my revenge on the very same player when he bets at me all the way to the river with his Ace, Queen only to run into my Ace, King (an Ace came on the flop and the board paired on the river). Shame.
I'm card dead for three hours, missing nut flush draws and open-ended straight draws but I'm happy with a HUGE laydown I make pre-flop. I very rarely lay down Ace, King pre-flop but the other player just seemed so strong and I felt he must have been holding pocket Kings or Aces. I popped the pot and he re-raises me for £120+. I hate throwing away £50 when I'm holding Big Slick, especially when a player throws another £100 into the pot. I ask him "Are those Aces or Kings?" and he says "Aces". I tell him I believe him and show my Ace, King as it hits the muck. He is gracious enough to show the table his pocket Aces.
I'm card dead for another hour and we hit the final three hands of the night. The first hand is my Big Blind and as per the rest of the night, it's a raggedy piece of crap and I fold.
Penultimate hand and I'm dealt pocket 10s. A few callers limp in and then Shaky pops the pot. I call and we're heads-up. The flop is a peach, 9, 10, 3 rainbow and I check my trips. Shaky bets the pot again and I Hollywood the call. He even comments on my Bond-esque acting skills! The turn is a 6, still a rainbow board, so nothing is beating my set. I check again and amazingly, Shaky pops the pot for £300+, which puts me all-in. I can't call quick enough and show my trips and he turns over Ace, Queen - drawing dead.
Beautiful...
Up £1000 on the day give or take a few quid.
Friday is HEAT 5 of the FHP Autumn Series and the week after that, it's the £1000 final table and more interestingly, The BOUNTY HUNTER TOURNAMENT... see below.
jT
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Monday, 10 November 2008
Big Pomme Cash...
Luck isn't about hitting big hands... we all get big hands.
Real luck is hitting big hands when other players are hitting monsters too, only not as strong as yours.
I went out of the tournament on Sunday one before the final table. I thought that was unlucky.
The first hand I play in the cash game I get Ace, 6 suited and flop top pair (6) and four to the flush.
A guy bets, I call and another player calls. The turn is a blank for me. The original bettor puts all his chips in and I call, as does the other player. The bettor flopped two pair and the other player in the hand was chasing the flush, so clearly he was drawing dead. I hit my Ace on the river for a stronger two pair and trebble-up... nice one.
I then take Scallops chips when my King, 10 hits a 10 on the flop and the nut flush draw. I don't like the Ace, but I don't think Scallop has it so I call his all-in. He turns over pocket 9s and I river the straight.
I then have an insane run hitting full house after full house. I felted The Beast when I rivered a house beating his own weaker house. That's the real luck, he knew he was beat but it's one of those hands you can't lay down.
I'm then in a monster pot with another player. I raise it up with pocket Queens and get three callers. I flop a house when Q, 6, 6 comes out on the board. I check, another player checks and someone takes a stab for £40. The player to my right raises to £100 and I call. The original bettor folds as does the other original caller. The turn is a blank and the guy bets another £200. I call. On the river, it's a blank for both of the flush draws on the board and the player bets £200. I raise £400 and he calls with his trip 6s. MASSIVE POT.
And my luck goes on and on and on. In another big pot, a player flops a King with his Ace, King and pushes all his chips in. I call with pocket Kings!!!
I cash in £1550 up on my £150 original buy-in.
Not bad...
jT
Sunday, 9 November 2008
Another Uncover Poker final table... and IT'S NEARLY HERE!!!
I still haven't beaten a 3rd place finish at UP, but last night I managed to scoop just over $400 for 6th place in a $10,000 Re-Buy tournament. I was chip leader for the bulk of the latter stages when I got pocket Aces three times during one blind level and they paid twice and stole the blinds the other time! I then got really lucky with pocket Kings and was sat on about 25% of the chips in play as we hit the final table.
I then saw the eventual winner win a MASSIVE pot with his own Cowboys to sit on over a million chips!
I got unlucky as the final table battled it out, losing a couple of races where I was ahead.
Below is my final hand and I can't complain, I was behind going in but when I hit my King the guy was dead to an Ace, and yep, the frickin' river!!! I will be buying one of our 'F***in River' FHP t-shirts and wearing it proudly!
So, I push my 65K into the middle and the chip leader isolates me by raising and flips over Ace, Queen. I hit my King on the Flop... I don't like the 10 on the turn as a Jack will give me two pair but will fill his Straight so I'm chanting 'No Ace, No Jack' and BAM... on the River. Out with $420.
I WILL WIN one of these things this month...
FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER
Yesssss... it's the £1000 final table of the FHP Autumn Series, but what will the rest of us do whilst the ten finalists battle it out?
The FHP BOUNTY HUNTER that's what...
£0 Buy-in... You pay the player who busts you £25. You can then re-load for £5 during the first 90 minutes.
Starting stacks 2000 chips.
AWESOME!!!
Saturday, 8 November 2008
HEAT 4 - RESULTS
Above: The final four players of Heat 4 (Dave Elliott, Michael Le Guillou, Kevin Hodkinson & Richard Hansford) came top in a record field of 50 players and chopped a record pot (£1530).
The final positions were:
1st - Dave Elliott
2nd - Kevin Hodkinson
3rd - Michael Le Guillou
4th - Richard Hansford
The Autumn Series Leaderboard looks as follows:
Jason Harrison - 27 Points
Ashton De Carteret - 22 Points
Craig Hartley - 19 Points
Alan Beadle - 12 Points
Michael Le Guillou - 12 Points
Dave Elliott - 10 Points
Kevin Hodkinson - 9 Points
Jamie Sullivan - 8 Points
Alan Cadoret - 8 Points
Seb Perez - 8 Points
The top seven players above are guaranteed to make the £1000 final table at the end of the month and those with 8 Points and the rest of the players with less than 8 points on the board have it all to play for at HEAT 5 in a fortnight!
HEAT 5 - FRIDAY 21st NOVEMBER
£1000 FINAL TABLE & BOUNTY HUNTER TOURNAMENT - FRIDAY 28th NOVEMBER
jT
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