HEAT ONE...

32 players turned-up, which is great for a Thursday night, and contested a £930 pot (even after the £200 was held aside for the final table in November).

The first ten players to put points on the leaderboard towards that £1000 table are:

Jason Harrison - 10 points

Ashton De Carteret - 9 points

Jamie Sullivan - 8 points

Stefan Craven - 7 points

Nick Boyd - 6 points

Glen Le Moignan - 5 points

Michael Le Guillou - 4 points

Alan Beadle - 3 points

Mike Mulhern - 2 points

Craig Hartley - 1 point

Well done, gentlemen!

I didn't get the cards at all in Heat One, and even during the re-buys when I could push with pairs or big Aces, I'd get called by worse hands and still lose. I was out two levels after the re-buy period when my suited Ace, King got called by King, Jack off and 7, 8, 9, 10 came out on the board to bust me.

We fired up a cash game, and the Market Shark had an incredible run of luck, winning the biggest pots of the night from waaaaaaaay behind. He called my Ace, King with Ace, 9 and spiked a 9 on the river. Then up against Cowboys O'Brien, who had flopped two pair, the Shark calls with the nut flush draw only to get runner, runner two pair (no flush!) It was insane...

Great night and can't wait until the next heat.

I made a bad call in terms of a decision I made at one of the tables (as tournament director) at the expense of the Klansman. The Klansman was all-in and a player flipped over his cards not realizing that someone else was still in the hand. The third player folded and I let the player's call stand... unfortunately for the Klansman, his opponent's pocket Kings won him the pot and eliminated the Klansman from the tournament.

I later learned that the player holding the pocket Kings had not verbally stated his decision to call when he showed his hand. Had I known that at the time, his hand would have been dead when he flipped it over. 

Soz, Klansman, we'll sort something out...

jT