Canadian Heads-Up Championship
I caught a replay of the 2006 canadian heads up championship on tv last nite and was wondering if anyone knows more about this. They never said where it was held or anything, how many the field is etc. all the mentioned was that it was a $5k buy-in, 2nd place takes 125k and 1st takes 250k. Other then that, it was pretty empty in its information. Anyone know more? would love to hear about it. Specially when it is.
Thanks
Thanks
Comments
One forumer mentioned they were running sattelites on Party Poker.
PIRANHA will probably be willing to host rake-free satellites as usual. With very little forum support, non-forumers have been winning all the seats, including the March tournaments at GBH and Point Edward Casino. IF there is enough interest, there is a possibility that an almost-free flight to Calgary will be included as a +EV overlay bonus to the satellite winner.
I need a lot of practice with heads-up, so I'd love to play a heads-up match with any of the people I see live (or online otherwise).
Shoot me a PM with dates/times for the satellites. If I am free I will play. As long as I get the red batphone in calgary when I have to make any major chop/money decisions
Since there's not yet enough interest for a live rake-free satellite, one of the home game hosts was forced to register for the raked online satellite and we ended up heads-up.
Is there any better way of signing up with Cake Poker than through PokerSource's 33% rakeback and 100% $500 bonus? It's going to be a challenge grinding through 5,000 PokerStars FPPs, whatever number of FPPs required to clear Cake's $500 bonus within 90 days, plus hundreds of videos with PokerXFactor within 3 months, plus my usual Party games.
Live CPT satellites have started at the Stampede Casino.
Does anybody know a better way to sign up with Cake Poker than ThisIsTheNuts.com?
By using someone's referral....
And Cake's satellites to live events always have a guarantee for a seat
Do you mean signing up through a TITN (or other rakeback site) referrer who will then get 2.5%-5% extra lifetime commission from TITN? Which rakeback sites don't deduct the 5% from the new member's 33% rakeback?
i know one site that gives a referrer 2% of the player's total rake. nothing is taken away from the player, they still get the original 33%. i'll send you a pm about it but feel free to use someone else as a referrer if you want.
If someone that was there can clarify those details??? If not..I will get the details early next week from my buddy that was there with Brad.
They didnt have enough players to make a full bracket or 128 or 64. So they had two options, either give byes to a bunch of people or create another preliminary round for half the price in order to knockout enough players to create a nice 64 man bracket.
So they randomly drew names to see who would have to play a prelim round but pay only half price.
The thing that made some eyebrows raise was the fact that Brad Booth was picked to play a prelim round but because of the fact he wouldnt be in town in time till later in the evening, and the prelims were playing in the afternoon, the tournament director asked someone to volunteer to play a prelim round so brad could pay full price and skip the prelim because his flight wouldnt get in on time.
In the defence of the Pros, LeBlonde ran like GOD. In the quarter finals during the rubber match with close stacks, Phil hellmuth got him to put it all in with 66. Phil had 99. The river was a 6.
In the semi's, I was hanging with the Big Slick Crew and we all wanted to see Brad win this. Brad finished 4th in a capped event of 128 players in 2006. In 2008, the next event he played Huck Seed for the title in the finals. Huck won.
This year Brad would have traded his left nut for the title and given him the cash (almost). Brad played super solid and in the rubber match had Ben put all his chips in with Ace rag. Brad held KK and the river kept Ben in the competiton. Similar hands happened everythime Brad had him down for the kill. Brad never paniced on the ropes and chipped up again and again. The worst beat he took he again had Ben all in for the match with a flopped straight. Heads UP. All these hands should be monsters! Ben goes runnere runner flush.
Lablonde did lay a nice trap with Aces in the final hand, which Brad floped a big King. That much credit I will give and hey, he is now the champ so who am I to talk shit. I am bias, huge fan of Brad's.
In the final match Jeff Madsen was a huge favorite, some prop bets where laying 4-1.
During the rubber match and by far the hand that was most talked about and will surely give Jeff nightmares.....
Jeff has 19, 200 chips of 20k in play. Leblonde has 800 and the blind is 1k. Madsen wakes up with a huge hand, think it was QQ. Leblonde is all in with 23 off. He flops trip 3's.......
He didn't lose momentem after that. A little luck doesn't hurt. Except the other guy, but hey thats what we love and hate about this sick game
In all 94 players from across the planet came to compete in the main. In the end, a Quebec Canadian Internet player took it all down. Benjamin LeBlonde. Towards the end, he had to get through Phil H, then Brad Booth, then Jeff Madsen in the final match up. Lady Luck was on his side and I will post a few of the crazy things that happened in my next post. Good for him, last year Huck Seed won this thing, so it isn't easy. Joe Hachem and Phil Laak also attended in 2008 and most pros say they preffer our event to the NBC Invitational because of the structure. Best 2 out of 3, 10k starting stacks.
Myself,I played Event 5, a $550 Freezeout. I missed the money by 19 spots, 7 hrs in, finishing 40th in a starting field of 209. It was alot of fun, Herb Van Dyke, owner of the World Poker Showdown and a WSOP HORSE final tablist was in seat 1 with me in seat ten. I managed to trap a very good high stakes PLO player early on and my 5k starting stack hit 16k. But Herb would have none of it and owned myself and the rest of the table. When his aggression got the better of him and he was railed, I had only 7k left after failing to complete an earlier draw.
Many SC players have played with me before, so what kind of hand do you think I chose to move all in with?
Mid Position, blinds 800/1600, antes 50. SB and BB have about 10 and 11k. If I told you I am practising "M" zones, does that help narrow my range?
It was a great experience, I have only played one other medium stakes tourney, last month in Regina. It to was a $550. I finished 130th out of 378, but am the first to admit I played a little to passively. Scared money probably.
After those two, I am putting it all in alot quicker and without batting an eye.
The next tourney I played was a $60. I used the "M" zones to make decisions and finished 8th out of 104. I will admit to get lucky a bit, but the math was on my side too. With blinds 5/10k and the average stack 42k. I called a players 23k all in with pocket 10s. I had 39k. His KJ hit on the turn and it was pretty much game over for me.
Anyway you look at it, a little luck doesn't hurt.
Ask Benjamin.